Eisenhower Medal For Leadership And Service
Established by the Eisenhower Fellowships’ Board of Trustees in 1988, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service is awarded annually to a distinguished states person, business leader or other public figure who has achieved, through direct person-to-person international dialogue, widely-recognized advances toward President Eisenhower’s vision of a world more peaceful, prosperous and just. The recipient must be present to accept this award from the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Eisenhower Fellowships Annual Awards Dinner.
The list of Fellows awarded with the Distinguished Fellow Award can be viewed separately.
Melinda French Gates
2023
Founder, Pivotal Ventures, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Madeleine Albright
2022 (posthumously)
Former U.S. Secretary of State, longtime Trustee of
Eisenhower Fellowships
Jamie Dimon
2021
Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase, and global philanthropist
Senator
John McCain
2019 (posthumously)
Longtime Chair, Senate Armed Services Committee
David Eisenhower
2018 (joint)
Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Chairman of the FPRI’s History Institute and host of PBS’ public affairs show, The Whole Truth
Susan Eisenhower
2018 (joint)
Chairman and CEO of the Eisenhower Group and Chairman Emeritus of the Eisenhower Institute
The Honorable
Christine Todd Whitman
2017
Former Governor of New Jersey and head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Medicins Sans Frontiers
2016
A global medical relief organization that toils in the world’s most dangerous and conflicted areas
International Rescue Committee
2015
A global humanitarian aid, relief and development
non-governmental organization
Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim
2014
Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Senator Richard Lugar
2013 (joint)
Former Chair, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senator Sam Nunn
2013 (joint)
Co-chair and CEO, the Nuclear Threat Initiative
President
Michelle Bachelet
2012
Executive Director, UN Women; twice elected President, Chile
International Crisis Group
2011
An independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict
James A. Baker III
2010
Senior Partner, Baker Botts; Honorary Chairman, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Professor
Muhammad Yunus
2009
Founding and Managing Director, Grameen Bank
Senator
George J. Mitchell
2008
Chairman of the Global Board, DLA Piper; Chancellor, Queen's University, Northern Ireland
Honorable
Lee H. Hamilton
2007
President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Honorable
Henry A. Kissinger
2006
Former Secretary of State; former Chairman, Eisenhower Fellowships
Honorable
John C. Whitehead
2005
Chairman, AEA Investors; former Chairman, Goldman, Sachs; former Deputy Secretary of State
Dr. Alan Greenspan
2004
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
President
George H.W. Bush
2003
Former Chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships
Katherine Graham
2002
Chairman of the Executive Committee, The Washington Post;
Pulitzer Prize winning author
Honorable
George P. Shultz
2001
Former U.S. Secretary of State
Dr. Amartya Sen
2000
Economist; 1998 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics
General
Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.)
1999
Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff;
Former Secretary of State
General
Brent Scowcroft
1998
Former National Security Affairs Advisor
Theodore W. Friend III
1997
President Emeritus of Eisenhower Fellowships; former President, Swarthmore College
President
Gerald R. Ford
1996
Former Chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships
Honorable
Pat Roberts
1995
Representative of the First Congressional District, Kansas;
Chairman, House Committee on Agriculture
Honorable
Donald Rumsfeld
1993
Former Secretary of Defense; former CEO of G.D. Searle and General Instrument Co.; former Chairman, Eisenhower Fellowships
President Suleyman Demirel of Turkey
1992
1955 Eisenhower Fellow
Senator
Mark O. Hatfield
1991
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations;
Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Ambassador
C. Douglas Dillon
1990
Ambassador to France and Undersecretary of State under President Eisenhower; former Secretary of the Treasury
Robert O. Anderson
1989
Former Chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships; former CEO, ARCO
Ambassador
Walter H. Annenberg
1988 (joint)
Founding Trustee of Eisenhower Fellowships and Ambassador to the Court of St. James
Ambassador
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
1988 (joint)
Founding Trustee of Eisenhower Fellowships, former Chairman, IBM and Ambassador to the Soviet Union