The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy is an annual award given by the American Academy of Diplomacy in recognition of an individual or group who has made exemplary contributions to the field of American diplomacy. Recipients of the award are recommended by the Academy's Executive Committee and approved by the AAD Board of Directors.[1]
| Name | Year | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine | ||
| 2022 | Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, U.S. Ambassador to India, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan | ||
| Foreign Service & Civil Service Personnel of the U.S. Government Who Served in the Viet Nam Evacuation and All U.S. Government Personnel Engaged in the Evacuation of Afghanistan | 2021 | Accepted by Ambassador Ross Wilson | |
| 2020 | 39th President of the United States of America | ||
| 2019 | Deputy Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq | ||
| 2018 | 13th and 19th White House Chief of Staff and 61st U.S. Secretary of State | ||
| 2017 | 19th U.S. Secretary of Defense | ||
| 2016 | Former World Bank Group President and U.S. Trade Representative | ||
| 2015 | Former Under Secretary of State | ||
| 2014 | Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | ||
| 2013 | Former U.S. Secretary of State | ||
| 2012 | Former U.S. Senator | ||
| 2011 | Former United States Secretary of Defense | ||
| 2010 | Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation | ||
| 2009 | Director General, International Organization for Migration | ||
| 2008 | Ambassador to Iraq | ||
| 2007 | Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs | ||
| 2006 | Head of the United States Delegation to the Negotiations with the Soviet Union on Nuclear and Space Arms | ||
| Men and Women of the Foreign and Civil Service | 2005 | Accepted by Under Secretary R. Nicholas Burns | |
| 2004 | Former Under Secretary of State | ||
| 2003 | Former United States Senator | ||
| 2002 | United States Secretary of State | ||
| 2001 | Secretary-General of the United Nations | ||
| 2000 | U.S. Senators, architects of the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction initiative | ||
| 1999 | Deputy Secretary of the Treasury | ||
| 1998 | Peace Negotiations on Northern Ireland | ||
| 1997 | Lifetime Contributions to Diplomacy | ||
| 1996 | Special Middle East Coordinator | ||
| 1995 | Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia | ||
| 1995 | Ambassador-at-Large; North Korean Negotiations | ||
| General John Vessey (USA, ret.) | 1994 | President Emissary to Hanoi for missing American servicemen | |
| 1993 | Special Envoy to Somalia | ||
| no award | 1992 | ||
| 1991 | Ambassador to Germany | ||
| 1990 | Ambassador to the United Nations | ||
| 1989 | Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs | ||
| no award | 1988 | ||
| 1987 | Ambassador to the Philippines |