Annenberg Award for Excellence in Diplomacy
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.
| Name | Year | Award Description |
| William Joseph Burns | 2015 | Former Under Secretary of State |
| Carla A. Hills | 2014 | Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
| George P. 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 Lacy Swing | 2009 | Director General, International Organization for Migration |
| Ryan C. Crocker | 2008 | Ambassador to Iraq |
| Christopher R. Hill | 2007 | Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs |
| Max M. 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 | 1994 | President Emissary to Hanoi for missing American servicemen |
| Robert 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 |