The American Academy of Diplomacy

Walter and Leonore Annenberg Award
for Excellence in Diplomacy

The Academy hosts an annual award luncheon to recognize an individual who has made exemplary contributions to the field of American diplomacy. The Recipients of the Academy's “Excellence in Diplomacy” award are recommended by the Executive Committee and approved by the Board of Directors.

The 2007 Annenberg Award was given to Amb. Christopher Hill. Ambassador Hill is the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Ambassador Hill is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service whose most recent assignment was as Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. He was the Head of the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. Previously he served as U.S.Ambassador to Poland (2000 - 2004), Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia (1996 - 1999), and Special Envoy to Kosovo (1998 - 1999). He also served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Southeast European Affairs in the National Security Council.

Read Amb.Christopher Hill's remarks on the Award.

Previous recipients of the Excellence in Diplomacy Award include:

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 Undersecretary R. Nicholas Burns
Joseph J. Sisco	2004	Former Undersecretary of State
John Danforth	2003	Former Senator
Colin L. Powell	2002	Secretary of State
Kofi Annan	2001	UN Secretary General
Richard Lugar & Sam Nunn	2000	Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
Stuart Eizenstat	1999	Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
George Mitchell	1998	Peace Negotiations on Northern Ireland
George F. Kennan	1997	Lifetime Contributions to Diplomacy
Dennis Ross	1996	Special Middle East Coordinator
Richard Holbrooke	1996	Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia
Robert Gallucci	1995	Ambassador-at-Large; North Korean Negotiations
General John Vessey (USA, ret'd)	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 Pickering	1990	Ambassador to the United Nations
Rozanne Ridgway	1989	Assistant, Secretary of State for European Affairs
(no award) Stephen W. Bosworth	1988 1987	Ambassador to the Philippines

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