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
Marie Yovanovitch 2023 U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Thomas R. Pickering 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
Jimmy Carter 2020 39th President of the United States of America
John Negroponte 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
James A. Baker III 2018 13th and 19th White House Chief of Staff and 61st U.S. Secretary of State
William J. Perry 2017 19th U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert B. Zoellick 2016 Former World Bank Group President and U.S. Trade Representative
William J. Burns 2015 Former Under Secretary of State
Carla Anderson Hills 2014 Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
George Shultz 2013 Former U.S. Secretary of State
Richard Lugar 2012 Former U.S. Senator
Robert Gates 2011 Former United States Secretary of Defense
Harold H. Saunders 2010 Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation
William L. Swing 2009 Director General, International Organization for Migration
Ryan Crocker 2008 Ambassador to Iraq
Christopher R. Hill 2007 Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Max Kampelman 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
Joseph J. Sisco 2004 Former Under Secretary of State
John Danforth 2003 Former United States Senator
Colin Powell 2002 United States Secretary of State
Kofi Annan 2001 Secretary-General of the United Nations
Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn 2000 U.S. Senators, architects of the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction initiative
Stuart Eizenstat 1999 Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
George J. Mitchell 1998 Peace Negotiations on Northern Ireland
George F. Kennan 1997 Lifetime Contributions to Diplomacy
Dennis Ross 1996 Special Middle East Coordinator
Richard Holbrooke 1995 Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia
Robert Gallucci 1995 Ambassador-at-Large; North Korean Negotiations
General John Vessey (USA, ret.) 1994 President Emissary to Hanoi for missing American servicemen
Robert B. Oakley 1993 Special Envoy to Somalia
no award 1992
Vernon Walters 1991 Ambassador to Germany
Thomas R. Pickering 1990 Ambassador to the United Nations
Rozanne Ridgway 1989 Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
no award 1988
Stephen W. Bosworth 1987 Ambassador to the Philippines

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  1. ^ a b "Walter and Leonore Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy". American Academy of Diplomacy. Archived from the original on 2011-02-04. Retrieved 2010-12-08.