The year 2023 marks the Centennial of the
Cleveland Council on World Affairs (CCWA), and the 10th anniversary
of CCWA’s Global Impact Award. The Global Impact Award “recognizes
an individual or organization whose actions have had positive impact
and created greater understanding and cooperation among people and
countries around the world.”
For its Centennial, CCWA decided to honor the U.S. Diplomatic Corps
– American diplomats, past and present – for their service to our
country.
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CCWA’s connection to the U.S. Diplomatic Corps is longstanding.
CCWA has hosted current and former Foreign Service Officers as
speakers, including ambassadors and former Secretaries and Deputy
Secretaries of State. We have consistently worked with the State
Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs on
international exchange programs, and several of the individuals who
have led CCWA over the years have also had significant ties to the
Foreign Service. Notably, the current President and
Ambassador-in-Residence is Heather Hodges, who served as the U.S.
Ambassador to Moldova from 2003 to 2006 and to Ecuador from 2008 to
2011.
CCWA presented its 2023 Global Impact Award to the U.S. Diplomatic
Corps during its Centennial Gala event on October 19, 2023, to
recognize and appreciate the work of the Foreign Service in the past
100 years.
At the event, Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, a four-time chief of
mission, two-time assistant secretary of State, who had remarkable
43-year Foreign Service career and holds the rank of Career
Ambassador, received this recognition on the collective behalf of
the U.S. Diplomatic Corps. The award is being transmitted to the
office of the Director General of the Foreign Service.
Past receipients of CCWA’s Global Impact Award were: Richard
Celeste, former Ambassador to India, former Director of the Peace
Corps, and former Governor of Ohio (2013); Strobe Talbott, former
Deputy Secretary of State (2014); Richard Lugar, former Chairman of
the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (2015); James A. Baker
III, former Secretary of State (2016); Condoleezza Rice, former
Secretary of State (2017); George Mitchell, fomer Senator, former
Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, and former Chairman of the
Northern Ireland Peace Talks (2018); Richard Haass, President of the
Council on Foreign Relations (2019); Robert Gates, former Secretary
of Defense (2021); the National Geographic Society – award presented
to CEO Jill Tiefenthaler (2022).
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