HONORS AND AWARDS

First Youth Emissary for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

World Economic Forum - Young Global Leader

Wilt Chamberlain Award – Operation Smile

Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters - State University of New York College at Cortland,

NAACP Phoenix Award

The Henry Iba Citizen Athlete Award

The President’s Service Award (2000)

The J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award

The Ernie Davis Humanitarian Award

The Samuel J. Halsey Award

Dikembe Mutombo receives the Samuel J. Halsey award at
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Trailblazer Award – The Constituency for Africa

NBA ALL Star Dikembe Mutombo receives the Constituency
for Africa's Trailblazer Award on September 28, 2001.

ABC’s Person of the Week

Essence Magazine’s 2001 Achiever

Sporting News’ No. 1 Good Guy

Awarded first African-American Legacy Council Creed Medal. The award honors Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, the first African-American graduate of the Yale School of Medicine.

President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address recognizes Dikembe Mutombo – January 2007.

Awarded the Jackie Robinson Humanitarian Award from the United States Sports Academy. At the presentation, Mutombo received the Academy's Order of the Eagle Exemplar – February 2007

Board member - The George Washington University Africa Center for Health and Security.

Mutombo has been featured in Europe’s TIME magazine, Sports Illustrated for Kids, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Delta Sky Magazine and the Houston Chronicle.

Mutombo also served on the Advisory Board for the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health.

Chairman and President of the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation since 1997.