Edward Greenspon, MSc Government 1985, editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail
Gordon Thiesson, PhD Economics 1972, governor of the Bank of Canada
François Des Rosiers, Ph.D. 1984, Urban & Regional Planning Studies, fellow of the Academy for Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada

Chile

Francisco Orrego Vicuna, ambassador, MPhil Law 1998
Hernan Larrain Fernandez, senator and former president of the senate, LLM 1972
Daniel Yarur Elsaca, former chairman of the Chilean Securities and Exchange Commission, BSc Accounting and Finance 1987
Rodrigo Manubens Moltedo, director Banco de Chile, MSc 1985
Enrique Ostale Cambiaso, director D & SSA, MSc 1986
Eugenio Pies, CEO SAP, MSc 1991

China

Wenzhong Zhou, Chinese ambassador to the US, General Course, 1965
Guangya Wang, permanent representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations, General Course, 1975

Ecuador

Alvaro Dahik, MSc Geography 2000, ex-minister of environment and now head of the regional Fundacion Natura
Pablo Terán, Diploma Business Studies 1987, ex-minister of energy
Luis F Torres, MSc Government 1988, former mayor of Ambato and current MP

Finland

Jorma Ollila, CEO of Nokia, MSc Economics 1978

France

Delphine Arnault-Gancia, Director Christian Dior, LVHM Group, Diploma Business Studies 1998
Edward Bannerman, First Secretary (economics and finance), British Embassy, Paris, BSc Econ 1991, MSc Econ 1994.

Germany

Johannes Huth, BSc Industry & Trade 1984

Greece

Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder EasyGroup companies, BSc Industry & Trade 1987

India

Nayantara Palchoudhuri, MPhil Government 1988- Article 1, 2

Ireland

Professor Ivana Bacik, Trinity College, Dublin, LLM 1991
Prof Patrick Flood, University of Limerick Dermot Egan, PhD 1988
WP Toner, bursar general, Jesuits in Ireland, MSc 1984, PhD 1987

Nigeria

Professor Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq, LLM 1982, Research Fee 1987 Tax Partner, Ernst&Young. Formerly: Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Nigeria and former Registrar/CEO ,Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria
Bayo Ojo, LLM 1982, federal attorney general and minister of justice
Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, Minister of Finance, MSc Economics 1976, PhD 1980

Pakistan

Mohsin Khan, director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund, BSc Economics, 1969; PhD Economics, 1975
Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtyar, minister of state for foreign affairs, LLB
Ms Kashmala Tariq, chairperson for the Parliamentary Commission for Human Rights, LLM 1993

Singapore

Goh Keng Swee, class of 1951, minister of interior and defence
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, minister of education, BSc 1981
Pr Saw Swee Hock, statistician, PhD
Pr You Poh Seng, Emeritus Professor NUS, PhD 1949

Switzerland

Nicolas De Torrenté, executive director of Doctors without Borders, PhD International Relations, 2001

Turkey

Kemal Derviş, Member of Turkish Parliament 2001-2005, Head of the United Nations Development Program since 2005, BSc Econ 1969, MSc 1970.

UK

Pat Barker, author, BSc International History 1965
Cherie Booth QC, barrister, LLB 1975
The Right Honorable Virginia Bottomley MP, former health secretary, MSc Social Policy & Planning 1975
Hedley Bull, class of 1963, scholar in international relations
Clara Furse, CEO, London Stock Exchange, BSc Economics 1979
Ernest Gellner, philosopher, PhD Anthropology 1962
Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, MA Sociology 1961, former LSE Director and sociology scholar
WD Hamilton, grandfather of socio-biology, PhD 1963
Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, registered for BSc Economics 1961 - 63
Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules), DJ, LLB 1987
Matt Osman, bass player for Suede, BSc Economics 1989
Dirk Robertson, actor and author, BSc Sociology 1987
Barry Sheerman MP, chair Education and Skills Select Committee, BSc Government 1965, MSc Government 1966
Gerard Woodward, author, BSc Anthropology 1991

USA

Elliott Abrams, policy director on the National Security Council in the George W Bush administration, MSc taught grad, 1970
Daron Acemoglu, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics at MIT, awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, MSc Economics 1990, PhD Economics 1992.
Eric Alterman, professor of English at Brooklyn College; political columnist for The Nation; senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the World Policy Institute, 1981
Anne Applebaum, journalist and author, MSc International Relations
Donald Baer, former White House director of strategic planning and communications under Bill Clinton, MSc International Relations, 1978
Rosemary Banks, New Zealand's ambassador to the United Nations, MSc Industrial Relations, 1985
Benjamin Barber, professor of political science, University of Maryland, College Park, MSc Economics, 1968
Thomas Barnett, assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice, MSc Economics, 1986
William Baumol, professor of economics and director, CV Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University, PhD Government, 1949
Geoffrey Bell, banker, and Group of Thirty founder, BSc Economics, 1961
Lisa Belzberg, founder and director PENCIL, MSc Government & Economics, 1985
Warren Bennis, lecturer, University of South Carolina, Economics, 1952
Anne Bingaman, former assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division; former associate professor of law at University of New Mexico, 1965
Alan Blinder, economist, Princeton University, economic advisor to John Kerry and Bill Clinton, MSc Economics, 1968
John A Bohn, former president and chairman at the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Research Fee Law, taught grad, 1961
Dennis Chookaszian, director at Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc, MSc Economics, 1968
Richard N Cooper, professor in international economics, Harvard; former undersecretary of state, MSc Economics, 1958
Congresswoman Rosa L DeLauro, high-ranking Democratic member of the US House of Representatives, General Course, 1963
Curtis Doebbler, international human rights lawyer, representing Saddam Hussein, PhD Law, 1998
Jessica Einhorn, dean, Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, General Course, 1966
Ed Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation Think Tank, Economics, 1965
Eric Garcetti, president, Los Angeles City Council, MPhil European Studies, 2000
Ibrahim Gambari, undersecretary general for political affairs at the United Nations, BSc Economics, 1968
Jeffrey Goldstein, managing director, World Bank, General Course, 1976
David S Gordon, director and CEO, Milwaukee Art Museum, MSc Economics, 1965
Marc Grossman, US under-secretary of state, International Relations, 1974
Joseph Grundfest, WA Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School, General Course, 1972
Amy Gutman, president of the University of Pennsylvania, 2004 – present, Government, 1972
Orval Hansen, former Republican congressman, Idaho, International Relations, 1955
David Heleniak, vice-chairman, Morgan Stanley, MSc Economics, 1969
Robert E Hunter, former US ambassador to NATO, International
Samuel Isaly, manager Eaton Vance Worldwide Health Sciences Fund, MSc Economics, 1968
Michael Jeffries, CEO Abercrombie & Fitch Co, General Cource, 1965
C Donald Johnson, former member of congress and US ambassador, Law, 1978
Richard Kahan, chairman, Riverside South Planning Corporation, Donald Trump’s building, General Course, 1966
Robert Kaiser, author and journalist, MSc (Econ) International Relations, 1967
Anthony Kennedy, US Supreme Court associate justice, General Course, 1958
Ron Kind, Democratic member of US House of Representatives, MA International History, 1986
Mark S Kirk, prominent Republican member of the US House of Representatives, MSc International Relations, 1982
Robert L Kuttner, journalist and economics writer, General Course, 1964
James A Leach, prominent Republican member of the US House of Representatives, PhD Government, 1968
Deborah Lehr, lead negotiator for China's WTO accession; former partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, General Course, Government, 1985
David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize winning author, prominent historian on African Americans, PhD taught grad, 1962
Michael M Lewis, number one New York Times best selling author and journalist, MSc Economics, 1985
Edward Luttwak, economist, historian; senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, BSc(Econ), 1964
Richard W Lyman, former provost and president of Stanford University; founder Stanford Institute for International Studies, General Course, 1952
Alan MacDonald, vice-chairman of Citibank, COO of global banking, MSc Economics, 1968
John W McCarter, president and CEO of The Field Museum; White House fellow during LBJ administration, Research Fee, Taught Grad, 1961
Thomas Mesereau, lawyer, represented Michael Jackson, MSc International Relations, 1976
J Patrick Michaels Jr, CEO of Communications Equity Associates, General Course, 1965
Robert Murley, vice chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston and chairman of investment banking for the Americas, MSc International Relations, 1976
Kathleen Newland, director and co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute, MPhil International Relations, 1992
Carol O'Cleaireacain, associate professor, New York University; previously economist for New York City, PhD Taught Grad, 1977
Peter R Orszag, former special assistant to the president for economic policy, Clinton, MSc Economics, 1992; PhD Economics, 1997
Sheila Penrose, chairman, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; president of Penrose Group; director of McDonalds, BSc Economics 1974; MSc Economics 1972
Richard N Perle, US political advisor, General Course, 1963
Gary Perlin, CFO Capital One Financial Corporation; former CFO World Bank, MSc Economics, 1974
Edward Pressman, film producer, Philosophy, 1966
Philip Purcell, former CEO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, MSc Economics, 1966
Stephen Robert, chancellor of Brown University, Taught Grad, 1963
David Rockefeller, business tycoon, General Course, 1938
Barr Rosenberg, chairman and director of research, AXA Rosenberg Investment Management LLC, MSc Economics, 1965
Donald C Roth, former vice president and treasurer of the World Bank, MSc International Monetary Economics, 1970
Robert Rubin, former US treasury secretary; former director of Goldman Sachs, General Course, 1961
Professor Anthony Saunders, chairman, Department of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University, BSc Econ 1971, MSc Econ 1972, PhD Econ 1981
Peter Steinlauf, CEO Edmunds.com, BSc (Econ) Accounting & Finance, 1971
Dr David Sternlight, PhD 1962, Chief Economist, Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), Deputy Director, US Secretary of Commerce's Office of Policy Development and U.S. Presidential Interchange Executive
Sally Susman, executive vice president for global communications at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc, General Course Government, 1983
Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, PhD Taught Grad, 1963
Leo Van Houtven, former secretary of the IMF, MSc Economics, 1958
Sander Vanocur, journalist, NBC, 1951
Stuart Varney, Peabody-award winning economic journalist, Fox; previously CNN, BSc Sociology, 1970
David Vise, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The Washington Post, author of The Google Story, 1981
Paul Volcker, former chairman of Federal Reserve, Taught Grad, 1952
Maureen White, Democratic Party national finance chair, MSc International Relations, 1977; MPhil Social Policy & Admin 1982
Kimba Wood, United States federal judge; attorney general nominee, MSc Taught Grad, 1967
Alan Wurtzel, former CEO of Circuit City Stores Inc, General Course, 1956
Frederick Zollo, Academy Award nominated producer, General Course, 1976

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