Distinguished Service Awards

World Council's Distinguished Service Award is the highest honor paid to individuals and institutions by the worldwide credit union movement. Created to recognize outstanding contributions to international credit union development, Distinguished Service Awards are presented each year at World Council's World Credit Union Conference.

2011 Distinguished Service Awardee

• Jim McMahon - Ireland

2010 Distinguished Service Awardees

• Lech Kaczyński - Poland
• Harriet May - USA
• Credit Union Executives Society (CUES)
  

2009 Distinguished Service Awardees

• David Chatfield - USA
• Wayne Nygren - Canada

2008 Distinguished Service Awardees

• Chris Baker - USA
• Karen Schwartz - USA
• Credit Union Foundation of Australia (CUFA)

2007 Distinguished Service Awardees

• L.R. Bobby McVeigh - Canada
• Foundation for Polish Credit Unions - Poland
  

2006 Distinguished Service Awardee

• John Hume - Ireland

2005 Distinguished Service Awardees

• Gerry Foley - Ireland
• Roman Catholic Church - Vatican City

2003 Distinguished Service Awardees

• Henry Cruz - USA
• Joseph Cugini - USA
• Dennis Cutter - USA
• John Nicholson - Canada
• Alan Parry - Australia
• Reverend James Oswald Thorbourne - Jamaica
• Herb Wegner - USA, posthumous
• U.S. Peace Corps - USA

2000 Distinguished Service Awardees

• Angel Castro - Panama
• Al Charbonneau - Canada & U.S.
• Rose Dorman - Great Britain
• Renford Douglas - Jamaica
• Michael Sang-Ho Lee - Korea
• Tod Manrell - Canada
• Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch - Germany
• Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen - Germany
• Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins - Canada
• Edward A. Filene - U.S.
• Roy Frederick Bergengren - U.S.

1997 Distinguished Service Awardees

• Everard Dean (posthumous) - Trinidad and Tobago
• Augustine Kang - Asia
• Augustine "Gus" Murray (posthumous) - Ireland
• Joe Perkowski - United States
• O.W.A. Baron von Verschuer - Netherlands
• Albert E. Williams (posthumous) - United States
• Canadian Co-operative Association - Canada

1994 Distinguished Service Awardees

• Florencio Eguía Villaseñor - México
• Henry William (Bill) Howe - Australia
• William A. Atkins - United States
• Richard M. Heins, Ph.D. - United States
• Alex Gracie - Canada
• Robert L. Wermuth - United States
• ILCU International Development Foundation, Ltd. - Ireland
• Credit Union Foundation - United States

1991 Distinguished Service Awardees

• Armando Terán - Panamá
• Colin Smith (posthumous) - New Zealand
• R.C. Robertson - United States
• R.C. Morgan (posthumous) - United States
• Paul Hebert - United States
• Jack Dublin - United States
• United States Agency for International Development
• Canadian International Development Agency

1988 Distinguished Service Awardees

• Bartholomew Quainoo - Ghana
• Kenneth Miller - Australia
• Robert Ingram - Canada
• Lorrell S. Bruce - Jamaica
• Konrad Adenauer Foundation - Federal Republic of Germany
• CUNA Mutual Insurance Group - United States

1986 Distinguished Service Awardees

• A. A. Bailey - Jamaica & United States
• Marion Ganey - United States & Fiji
• A. Rod Glen - Canada
• MISEREOR - Federal Republic of Germany
• Coady International Institute - Canada