In February, 2002, the NFTC Foundation created the annual World Trade Award in the tradition of the Captain Robert Dollar Memorial Award, for lifetime achievement in advancing open world trade and investment, awarded annually at the NFTC Foundation World Trade Dinner and Awards Ceremony.
Since 2019, the NFTC Foundation has also awarded an International Tax Award to individuals who have demonstrated exemplary efforts in advancing international tax rules.
In 2014, the NFTC Foundation’s Global Innovation Forum awarded the first Trade Leadership for the Digital Trade Award in recognition of the leadership and contributions of political and business leaders for advancing frameworks beneficial to the conduct of global business in the Internet age and raising awareness of the ways technology democratizes access to the global marketplace for the benefit of the people and the planet.
Recipients of the NFTC Foundation World Trade Award
- Donald Evans, U.S. Secretary of Commerce – 2002
- Lee Raymond, Chairman & CEO ExxonMobil – 2003
- Raymond V. Gilmartin, Chairman & CEO, Merck & Company – 2004
- Michael Jordan, Chairman & CEO, EDS Corporation – 2005
- Charles O. Holliday, Jr., Chairman and CEO, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. – 2006
- James W. Owens, Chairman and CEO, Caterpillar, Inc. – 2007
- Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, U.S. House of Representatives – 2008
- Herbert L. Henkel, Chairman & CEO, Ingersoll Rand – 2009
- Congressman Dave Camp, U.S. House of Representatives – 2010
- Congressman David Dreier, U.S. House of Representatives – 2012
- Dr. C. Fred Bergsten, Peterson Institute for International Economics – 2013
- Senator Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senate – 2014
- Ambassador Michael Froman, U.S. Trade Representative – 2015
- Congressman Kevin Brady, U.S. House of Representatives – 2016
- Congressman Ron Kind, U.S. House of Representatives – 2017
- Roberto Azevedo, WTO Director General – 2018
- Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy, U.S. House of Representatives – 2019
- Senator Ron Wyden, U.S. Senate – 2021
- Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, WTO Director General – 2022
- Senator Chris Coons – 2023
- Congresswoman Carol Miller – 2024
Recipients of the Trade Leadership for the Digital Age Award
- Jeffrey Immelt, CEO, General Electric – 2014
- Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Commerce – 2015
- Congressman Jared Polis, U.S. House of Representatives – 2016
- Congresswoman Suzan Del Bene and Congressman Erik Paulsen, U.S. House of Representatives – 2017
- Office of Services and Investment Digital Trade Team, United States Trade Representative – 2018
- Congressman Darin LaHood, U.S. House of Representatives – 2019
- Maxeme Tuchman, CEO and Co-Founder, Caribu and Sasibai Kimis, Founder & CEO, Earth Heir – 2021
- Senator Todd Young – 2023
- Congressman Adrien Smith – 2024
Recipients of the International Tax Award
- Senator Rob Portman, U.S. Senate – 2019
- Senator Pat Toomey, U.S. Senate – 2022
- Grace Perez-Navarro, Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy Administration – 2023
- Congressmen Kevin Hern and Brad Schneider – 2024