Zimbabwean Ambassadors Receives Awards
The Diplomat of the Year Awards were scooped by outstanding Diplomats from Africa, Europe, Asia, America and the Middle East. Her Excellency Sophia Calltorp, the Ambassador of Sweden to Zimbabwe,won the Diplomat of the Year Award of the 8th edition of the Diplomat of the Year Awards. The following winners were unmasked;
Diplomat of the Year Winner
Her Excellency Sophia Calltorp, Ambassador of Sweden
1st Runner Up;His Excellency Thorsten Hutter, Ambassador of German
Africa
Her Excellency Balbina Daes Piennar, Ambassador of Namibia
His Excellency Mawampanga Mwanananga, Ambassador of D.R.C
Europe
His Excellency Thorsten Hutter, Ambassador of German
Her Excellency Sophia Calltorp, Ambassador of Sweden
Her Excellency Barbara Van Hellemond, Ambassador of Netherlands
Asia
His Excellency Amarjit Singh, Ambassador of Malaysia
His Excellency Rungsung Masakui, Ambassador of India
His Excellency Cho Jai Chel,Ambassador of South Korea
Americas, Atlantic and Pacific
His Excellency Anna M. P Morales, Ambassador of Brazil
His Excellency Rene M. Cremonese, Ambassador of Canada
Middle East and Pacific/ Oceanic
His Excellency Hakan Kivanc, Ambassador of Turkey
Her Excellency Taghrid Senour, Ambassador of the State of Palestine
The Inaugural Diplomat of the Year Award
The late Spanish Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Her Excellency Pillar Feragut.
Her runner-ups were the former Chinese and Kuwait ambassadors to Zimbabwe, His Excellency Xin Shunkang and Abudalla respectively
Outstanding Contribution to the Diplomacy by Non- Diplomats Awards.
Dr Oliver Mtukudzi and Africa Albida Chief Executive, Mr Ross Kennedy.
