THE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER MEDAL
FOR DISTINGUISHED LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
The Eisenhower Medal was initiated in 1988 to recognize business leaders, statespersons, and other leaders
who have publicly reflected President Eisenhower's commitment to peace and productivity by working through
direct personal contacts across boundaries; who have thus advanced people-to-people diplomacy and
international understanding; and/or who have demonstrated Eisenhower's values in their own lives in other
ways.
1988
Walter H. Annenberg
(Founding Trustee, and Ambassador to the Court of St. James under President Nixon)
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
(Founding Trustee, former Chairman of IBM, and Ambassador to the Soviet Union under President
Carter)
1989
Robert O. Anderson
(Former CEO, ARCO; former Chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships)
1990
C. Douglas Dillon
(Ambassador to France and Undersecretary of State under Pres. Eisenhower; Secretary of the Treasury
for Pres. Kennedy)
1991
Mark O. Hatfield
(Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations)
1992
Suleyman Demirel
(Eisenhower Fellow, 1954-55; former Prime Minister and President of Turkey)
1993
Donald Rumsfeld
(Former Secretary of Defense, former Chairman, Eisenhower Fellowships)
1994
No Award
1995
Pat Roberts
(Representative of the First Congressional District, Kansas)
1996
Gerald R. Ford
(38th President of the United States; former Chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships)
1997
Theodore W. Friend, III
(President Emeritus of Eisenhower Fellowships; former President of Swarthmore College)
1998
Brent Scowcroft
(National Security Affairs Director for Presidents Ford and Bush)
1999
Colin L. Powell
(Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1989-93; 65th U.S. Secretary of State; Chairman, Eisenhower
Fellowships )
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2000
Amartya Sen
(Nobel Prize in Economics 1998)
2001
George P. Shultz
(60th U.S. Secretary of State)
2002
Katherine Graham
(Pulitzer Prize winning author; publisher, Chairman and CEO of The Washington Post)
2003
George H. W. Bush
(41st President of the United States; former Chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships)
2004
Alan Greenspan
(Chairman, Federal Reserve System)
2005
John C. Whitehead
(Former Chairman, Goldman, Sachs and former Deputy Secretary of State)
2006
Henry A. Kissinger
(56th U.S. Secretary of State; former Chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships)
2007
Lee H. Hamilton
(Former Congressman; President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
2008
George Mitchell
(Former Senator from Maine)
2009
Muhammad Yunus
(Founder, Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize 2006)
2010
James A. Baker
(61st U.S. Secretary of State)
2011
International Crisis Group
2012
Michelle Bachelet
(Former President of Chile)
2013
Senators Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn
2014
Mo Ibrahim
(Founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation | Entrepreneur)
2015
International Rescue Committee