Previous Events & Leaders

The Africare Bishop Walker Dinner was first held in October 1990. The following are some of the national and international leaders involved with the event over the years.

 

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Past Award Recipients

First presented in 1992, the Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award has gone to the following people:

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - 2007
Former President William J. Clinton - 2006
The Honorable Colin L. Powell - 2005
Sen. Richard G. Lugar and Rep. Donald M. Payne ("honoring bipartisan
      Congressional engagement with Africa") - 2004
Bill and Melinda Gates - 2003
Harry Belafonte - 2002
The Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. - 2001
James D. Wolfensohn - 2000
Graca Machel - 1999
The Honorable Andrew Young - 1998
Dorothy I. Height - 1997
Former President Jimmy Carter - 1996
The Reverend Leon H. Sullivan (now deceased) - 1995
President Nelson R. Mandela - 1994
The Honorable Sargent Shriver - 1993
Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu - 1992

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Past National Chairs

Robert L. Johnson • RLJ Companies - 2007  
Michael L. Eskew • United Parcel Service - 2006
Jeroen van der Veer • Royal Dutch Shell, plc - 2005
David J. O'Reilly • ChevronTexaco Corporation - 2004
The Hon. Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. - 2003
G. Allen Andreas • Archer Daniels Midland Company - 2002
The Hon. James A. Harmon • Harmon & Co. - 2001
George M. Fisher • Eastman Kodak Company - 2000
Edward E. Whiteacre, Jr. • SBC Communications, Inc. - 1999
Kenneth Derr • Chevron Corporation - 1998
Judith A. McHale • Discovery Communications, Inc. - 1997
Jan Leschly • SmithKlineBeecham - 1996
Richard M. Oster • Cookson Group plc - 1995
William B. Marx, Jr. • AT&T - 1994
Richard M. Oster • Cookson Group plc - 1993
Gerald Mossinghoff • Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association - 1992
John Akers • IBM Corporation - 1991
E. Neville Isdell • The Coca-Cola Company - 1990

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Past Speakers

Selected speakers: In addition to award recipients and national chairs:

Then President Nicephore Soglo of Benin
Former President George H.W. Bush
Then President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria
Then OAU/African Union Chairman, Prime Minister Zenawi of Ethiopia
Then Vice President Al Gore, Jr.
Then HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson
Then Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson
Former Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D.
Then Senator Bill Frist, M.D.
Then Senator Nancy Kassebaum
Former Rep. Ronald V. Dellums
Rep. Barbara Lee
Then Rep. William H. Gray, III
First Lady Laura Bush
Then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Former Mayor David N. Dinkins (New York City)
Then Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele (Md.)
Bill Gates, Sr.
Ann Curry
Joni Sledge
Bono
Youssou N'Dour

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Other Past Participants • Leadership Level

Then U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan
Then President Masire of Botswana
H.M. King Mswati III of Swaziland
Then President Patasse of the CAR
President Muluzi of Malawi
Then President Bizimungu of Rwanda
Then President Vieira of Guinea-Bissau
Omar Kabbaj (African Development Bank)
Lennart Bage (International Fund for Agricultural Development)
Jacques Diouf (Food and Agriculture Organization)
Mora McLean (Africa America Institute)
Then First Lady Barbara Bush
Then Senator Tom Daschle
Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Senator Claiborne Pell (now deceased)
Rep. Nancy Pelosi
Rep. Tom Lantos
Rep. Charles Rangel
Rep. Ed Royce
Rep. Elijah Cummings
Then Rep. Benjamin Gilman
Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
Then Labor Secretary Alexis Herman
Then Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater
Julian Bond
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Coretta Scott King (now deceased)
Mark Malloch Brown
The Honorable Kweisi Mfume
Hugh B. Price (National Urban League)
Marian Wright Edelman (Children's Defense Fund)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D.
Eddie Williams (Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies)

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Major Financial Supporters

Selected corporate donors from over the years:

Abbott Laboratories
American Express Company
Anheuser-Busch Companies
AOL Time Warner
Archer Daniels Midland Company
AT&T
BBC Worldwide
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
BP Amoco
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chevron Corporation
Citigroup
The Coca-Cola Company
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Comcast Cable Communications
Cookson Group, plc
Corporate Council on Africa
Cox Communications
DaimlerChrysler Corporation
DeBeers Group
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Delta Air Lines
Discovery Communications, Inc.
Eastman Kodak Company
ExxonMobil Corporation
Ford Motor Company
General Electric
General Motors Corporation
GlaxoSmithKline
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
GoodWorks International
IBM Corporation
International Paper Company
Johnson & Johnson
Limited Brands
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Mars Incorporated
Merck & Co., Inc.
Merrill Lynch
Microsoft Corporation
Monsanto Company
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
Norfolk Southern Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Pfizer Inc.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The Procter & Gamble Company
Sara Lee Corporation
SBC Communications Inc.
Shell International Limited
Sony Corporation of America
Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI)
TRW
United Parcel Service, Inc.
World Cocoa Foundation
WorldSpace Corporation
Xerox Corporation

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(Updated, Jan. 11, 2008)