List of London School of Economics people
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This is a list of noted alumni or faculty of the London School of Economics.
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[edit] Heads of State or Heads of Government
- Harmodio Arias (1886-1962) - President of Panama, 1932-1936
- Óscar Arias (b. 1941) - President of Costa Rica, 1986-1990, 2006-present and Nobel Prize winner
- Lord Clement Attlee (1883-1967) - Prime Minister of United Kingdom, 1945-1951
- Errol Walton Barrow (1920-1987) - Prime Minister of Barbados, 1962-1966, 1966-1976, 1986-1987
- Marek Belka (b. 1952) - Prime Minister of Poland, 2004-2005
- Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto (1897-1979) - Prime Minister of Peru, 1959-1961
- Maurice Bishop (1944-1983) - Prime Minister of Grenada (1979-1983)
- Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970) - Chancellor of Germany, 1930-1932
- Kim Campbell (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Canada, June-November 1993
- Eugenia Charles (b. 1919) - Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980-1995
- John Compton (b. 1926) - Premier of Saint Lucia, 1964-1979, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, February-July 1979 & 1982-1996
- Sher Bahadur Deuba (b. 1943) - Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995-1997, 2001-2002, 2004-2005
- Tuanku Jaafar (b. 1922) - Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia, 1994-1999
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) - President of the U.S.A. 1961-1963
- Jomo Kenyatta (1891-1978) - First President of Kenya, 1964-1978
- Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931) - President of Kenya, 2002-present
- Tanin Kraivixien (b. 1927) - Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976-1977
- Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914-2000) - Premier of Taiwan, 1984-1989
- Hilla Limann (1934-1998) - President of Ghana, 1979-1981
- Alfonso López Pumarejo (1886-1959) - President of Colombia, 1934-1938, 1942-1945
- Michael Manley (1924-1997) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1972-1980, 1989-1992
- Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (1920-2004) - Prime Minister of Fiji 1970-1992, President of Fiji 1994-2000
- Queen Margrethe II (b. 1940) - Queen of Denmark, 1972-present
- Beatriz Merino (b, 1947) - First female Prime Minister of Peru, 2003-2003
- Sri K. R. Narayanan (1921-2005) - President of India, 1997-2002
- Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) - First President of Ghana, 1960-1966
- Jacques Parizeau (b. 1930) - Premier of Quebec, 1994-1995
- Percival Patterson (b. 1935) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992-present
- Romano Prodi (b. 1939) - Prime Minister of Italy, 1996-1998, 2006-present and President of the European Commission, 1999-2004
- Navinchandra Ramgoolam (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Mauritius, 1995-2000
- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900-1985) - Prime Minister of Mauritius (1961-1982)
- Veerasamy Ringadoo (1920-2000) - First President of Mauritius, March-June 1992
- Moshe Sharett (1894-1965) - Prime Minister of Israel, 1953-1955
- Constantine Simitis (b. 1936) - Prime Minister of Greece, 1996-2004
- Edward Szczepanik (1915-2005) - Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile (1986 - 1990)
- Anote Tong (b. 1952) - President of Kiribati, 2003-present
- Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) - Prime Minister of Canada, 1968-1979, 1980-1984
- Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1923) - Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-1990)
- Banja Tejan-Sie, (1917-2000) - Governor-General and leader of opposition Sierra Leone People's Party in Sierra Leone
[edit] Nobel Laureates
- 1925: George Bernard Shaw (Literature)
- 1950: Bertrand Russell (Literature)
- 1950: Ralph Bunche (Peace)
- 1959: Philip Noel-Baker (Peace)
- 1972: Sir John Hicks (Economics)
- 1974: Friedrich von Hayek (Economics)
- 1977: James Meade (Economics)
- 1979: Sir William Arthur Lewis (Economics)
- 1987: Óscar Arias (Peace)
- 1990: Merton Miller (Economics)
- 1991: Ronald Coase (Economics)
- 1998: Amartya Sen (Economics)
- 1999: Robert Mundell (Economics)
- 2001: George Akerlof (Economics)
[edit] Academics
[edit] Economists
- Daron Acemoglu (economist, John Bates Clark Medal Winner 2005)
- Sir Roy Allen (Economist and Mathematician)
- Professor Lord Peter Thomas Bauer (Development Economist)
- William Baumol (Professor of Economics and Director, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University)
- Charles Bean (economist, member of Monetary Policy Committee)
- Timothy Besley (economics professor and member of Monetary Policy Committee)
- Kenneth Binmore (economist)
- Ronald Coase (economist, Nobel Prize winner)
- Robert N. Cooper (Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University; Previously Chairman, National Intelligence Council and; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs)
- Lord Meghnad Desai (development economist)
- Charles Goodhart (economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee)
- Friedrich von Hayek (economist and political philosopher, Nobel Prize winner)
- Paul Krugman (New York Times columnist, Pultizer Prize winning journalist)
- Ludwig Lachmann (economist)
- Lord Richard Layard (economist)
- Sir William Arthur Lewis (economist, Nobel Prize winner)
- James Meade (economist, Nobel Prize winner)
- Merton Miller (economist, Nobel Prize winner)
- Robert Mundell (economist, Nobel Prize winner)
- Steve Nickell (economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee)
- Andrew Oswald (economist)
- William Phillips (economist)
- Lionel Robbins (economist)
- Professor Anthony Saunders (Chairman, Department of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University)
- Arthur Seldon (free market ideologue)
- Andrew Sentance (member of Monetary Policy Committee)
- G.L.S. Shackle (economist)
- Piero Sraffa (economist)
- Nicholas Stern (economist)
- Lord Adair Turner, (businessman, academic, chair of the Pensions Commission and the UK Low Pay Commission)
- Basil Yamey (industrial economics)
- Allyn Abbott Young (economist)
[edit] Historians
- Lewis Bernstein Namier (historian)
- Janet Coleman FRHS (historian of political thought)
- David Levering Lewis (Pulitzer Prize winning author, prominent historian on African Americans)
- Desmond Morton (historian)
- Alan Sked (historian and founder of the United Kingdom Independence Party)
- David Starkey, (historian specialising in Tudor England)
- David Stevenson (WW1 historian), (World War One historian)
- Jacob Talmon (historian)
- Odd Arne Westad (historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history; currently Convenor of the LSE International History Department)
[edit] Human geography
- Halford MacKinder (geographer and LSE director, 1903-1908)
- George Jonas (founder of social geography; Professor of Geography at LSE, 1958-1983)
[edit] International Relations
- Chris Brown (Professor of International Relations; Departmental Head)
- Hedley Bull (Professor of International Relations)
- Barry Buzan (Professor of International Relations)
- Christopher Coker (Professor of International Relations)
- Michael Cox (Professor of International Relations)
- Fred Halliday (Professor of International Relations)
- Richard W. Lyman (Former Provost & President of Stanford University; Founder Stanford Institute for International Studies)
- Leonard Suransky (Winner of Des Lee Visiting Lectureship in Global Awareness at Webster University)
- William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire (Professor of International Relations; deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords)
- Martin Wight (Reader in International Relations, 1949-1960)
[edit] Law
- Albert Venn Dicey (English jurist)
- Sir Morris Finer (Barrister, Judge, Chairman of the Finer Report on One Parent Families & the Royal Commission on the Press, Vice Chairman of Governors of LSE)
- Christopher Greenwood QC (esteemed international lawyer; advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the 2003 Iraq war)
- Joseph Grundfest (W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School)
- Philip Noel-Baker (professor of international law, politician, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner)
- Michael Zander QC (Professor Emeritus. A distinguished professor of law at LSE between 1977 and 1998, member of the Runciman Royal Commission on Criminal Justice (1991-1993) and the Legal Correspondent of The Guardian newspaper between 1963 and 1988.
- David van Zandt (Dean and Professor, Northwestern University Law School)
[edit] Philosophers
- Joseph Agassi (philosopher)
- William Warren Bartley (philosopher)
- Nick Bostrom (philosopher)
- Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)
- Helena Cronin (Darwinist philosopher)
- Daniel Dennett (philosopher)
- Paul Feyerabend (philosopher)
- Ernest Gellner (philosopher)
- John Gray (political philosopher)
- Imre Lakatos (philosopher)
- David Miller (philosopher)
- Alan Musgrave (philosopher)
- Michael Oakeshott (philosopher)
- Sir Karl Popper (philosopher)
- Graham Priest (philosopher)
- Bertrand Russell (philosopher, Nobel Prize winner)
- Jeremy Shearmur (philosopher)
- Elliott Sober (philosopher)
[edit] Political scientists
- Benjamin Barber (Professor of political science, University of Maryland, College Park)
- Ralph Bunche (political scientist and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner)
- Amy Gutmann (political scientist, President of the University of Pennsylvania)
- David Held (Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance)
- James Jupp AM (British/Australian political scientist and author)
- Harold Laski (political scientist and economist)
- Steven Lukes (political and social theorist)
- Ralph Miliband (political scientist)
- Louis Pauly (political scientist)
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri (political scientist, diplomat and author)
- Jill Vickers (political scientist)
[edit] Sociologists
- Eileen Barker, (sociology of religion)
- Ulrich Beck (sociologist)
- Stanley Cohen (sociologist)
- Peter Davis (sociologist)
- Lord Anthony Giddens (a former Director of the School, who is the most cited contemporary sociologist in the world and is widely regarded as the field's foremost scholar)
- Paul Gilroy (sociologist)
- W.D. Hamilton (grandfather of sociobiology and the 'selfish gene' theory popularised by Dawkins)
- Richard "Dick" Hobbs (sociologist)
- Karl Mannheim (sociologist)
- Talcott Parsons (sociologist)
- John Porter (sociologist)
- Saskia Sassen (sociologist and economist)
- Richard Sennett (sociologist)
- Richard Titmuss, (social administrator)
- Fran Tonkiss, (sociologist)
[edit] Social anthropology
- Raymond Firth (ethnologist)
- Bronisław Malinowski (anthropologist)
- Z.K. Mathews (prominent Apartheid-era South African academic)
- Audrey Richards social anthropologist, nutritional anthropologist
- Lionel Tiger (Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University)
- Fei Xiaotong (social anthropologist)
[edit] Social psychology
- J. Philippe Rushton (psychologist)
- Graham Wallas (social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society)
[edit] Statisticians
- Sir Arthur Bowley (statistician)
- W. Edwards Deming (statistician, economist)
[edit] Government and politics
[edit] United Kingdom
- Leo Abse (British politician, Welsh MP)
- Lord Waheed Alli (House of Lords, media mogul, only openly gay Muslim businessman)
- Charlotte Atkins (politician, British MP)
- Richard Bacon (politician, British MP)
- Jackie Ballard (Former MP, journalist, Director General of the RSPCA)
- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (politician, British MP)
- Baroness Virginia Bottomley (Secretary of State in PM John Major's Government)
- Annette Brooke (British MP)
- Karen Buck (British MP)
- Munir Butt (Former High Commissioner to Pakistan)
- Shami Chakrabarti (Director of Liberty)
- Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield (Cabinet Minster under Thatcher; Vice-President of the European Commission)
- Yvette Cooper (British MP, Minister for Housing and Planning)
- James Cousins (British MP)
- Edwina Currie (politician, author, radio presenter)
- Hugh Dalton (former Chancellor of the Exchequer)
- Andrew Dismore (British MP)
- Frank Dobson (former Health Secretary)
- Barbara Follett (British MP)
- Mark Hoban (British MP)
- Margaret Hodge (British MP, Minister for Children)
- Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg (former Lord Chancellor)
- Brian Jenkins (British MP)
- Ruth Kelly (UK Secretary of State for Education)
- Mervyn King (Governor of the Bank of England)
- Michael Meacher (British MP)
- Baron Merlyn-Rees (former Home Secretary)
- Andrew Miller (British MP)
- Ed Miliband (British MP)
- Maria Miller (British MP)
- Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett (British politician)
- Baron Moore of Lower Marsh (Cabinet Minister under Thatcher)
- Marion Phillips (former MP)
- Stephen Pound (British MP)
- Baron Reginald Prentice (UK politician)
- Baroness Joyce Quin (UK politician)
- Baroness Rawlings (frontbencher in the House of Lords, former MEP, former Chairman of the Council of King's College London)
- Andrew Selous (British MP)
- Barry Sheerman (British MP)
- John Stonehouse (British politician and minister)
- Jo Swinson (British MP)
- Ian Taylor (British MP)
- Rudi Vis (British MP)
- Malcolm Wicks (British MP)
- Jennifer Willott (British MP)
- David Winnick (British MP)
- Anthony Wright (British MP)
- Baron Michael Young (UK politician)
[edit] United States
- Elliott Abrams (Assistant Secretary of State in Reagan Administration; Senior Director of the National Security Council in Bush Administration)
- Eric Alterman (Professor at Brooklyn College; political columnist for The Nation; Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and the World Policy Institute)
- Donald Baer (White House Director of Communications and Strategic Planning in Clinton Administration)
- Valerie Lynn Baldwin (Assistant Secretary of Defence, Bush Administration)
- Thomas O. Barnett (Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice)
- Lisa Belzberg (Founder and Director, PENCIL)
- Karan Bhatia (Deputy United States Trade Representative; Assistant Secretary of Transportation, Bush Administration)
- Anne Bingaman (Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice; Former associate professor of law at University of New Mexico)
- Alan Blinder (Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisors under Bill Clinton; economic advisor to John Kerry; vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Professor of Economics, Princeton University)
- John A. Bohn (President and Chairman at the Export-Import Bank of the United States)
- Clifford Bond (US Ambassador to Bosnia Herzegovina, Bush Administration)
- Michael Chertoff (United States Secretary for Homeland Security, Bush Administration; US Attorney, Bush Sr. and Clinton Administrations)
- Colm Connolly (United States Attorney, Bush Administration)
- Lauchlin Currie (White House Economic Adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
- Rosa DeLauro (high-ranking Democratic Member of the US House of Representatives)
- Edwin Feulner (President of the Heritage Foundation Think Tank)
- George T. Frampton Jr. (Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Clinton Administration; Chairman of the Council of Environmental Quality, Clinton Administration)
- Eric Garcetti (President, Los Angeles City Council)
- Jeffrey Goldstein (Managing Director, World Bank)
- Marc Grossman (US Under-Secretary of State, Bush Administration; US Ambassador to Turkey, Clinton Administration; Special Advisor to the President on Near East Affairs, Carter Administration)
- Orval H. Hansen (Republican Member of the US House of Representatives)
- Stuart Holliday (US Representative to the United Nations; Assistant Secretary of State)
- Frank S. Holleman (Deputy Secretary of Education, Clinton Administration)
- Genta Hawkins Holme (US Ambassador to Australia, Clinton Administration; US Ambassador to Namibia; Chief of Mission to Haiti and Malawi)
- Alice Stone Ilchman (Assistant Secretary of Education and Cultural Affairs under US President Jimmy Carter)
- Dr Bruce Jentleson (International Affairs Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore)
- Anthony Kennedy (United States Supreme Court, Associate Justice)
- John F. Kennedy (President of the United States 1961-1963)
- Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (first son of Joseph Kennedy and elder brother of John F. Kennedy)
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (environmental activist, son of slain Senator Robert Kennedy)
- Vanessa Kerry (Democratic activist and daughter of Senator John Kerry (D-MA))
- Ron Kind (Democratic Member of US House of Representatives)
- Mark Kirk (Republican Member of the US House of Representatives)
- James A. Leach (Republican Member of the US House of Representatives)
- Deborah Lehr (Lead negotiator for China's WTO Accession; Former partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw)
- Susan Lindauer (Ex-Congressional aide accused of assisting Iraqi intelligence prior to the 2003 invasion)
- Clay Lowery (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Bush Administration)
- Edward Luttwak (Consultant to the US National Security Council, State Department and Defence Department; Economist; Historian; Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies)
- John W. McCarter (President and CEO of The Field Museum; White House Fellow during Lyndon B. Johnson Administration)
- James McGreevey, former Governor of New Jersey
- Elisabeth Millard (Senior Director of the National Security Council, Bush Administration; Deputy Chief of US Mission to Nepal)
- Brad Miller (Member of the US House of Representatives)
- Chris Moore (Assistant Secretary of State, Bush Administration)
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (US Senator)
- Ethan Nadelmann (founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance)
- Peter R. Orszag (Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Senior Economist, Council of Economics Advisors, Clinton Administration; Fellow of the Brookings Institution; Professor, Georgetown University)
- Max Pappas (Director of Policy at FreedomWorks)
- Alice Paul (American suffragist)
- Richard Perle (Assistant Secretary of Defense, Reagan Administration; Chairman of Defense Department Advsory Committee, Bush Administration; fellow, American Enterprise Institute)
- Victoria Radd (White House Deputy Director of Communications, Clinton Administration; senior policy advisor to Bentsen, Dukakis and Mondale campaigns)
- David Rockefeller (Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Trilateral Commission)
- James Rubin (Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; lead foreign policy adviser to John Kerry campaign)
- Robert Rubin (US Treasury Secretary and Council of Economic Advisors, Clinton Administration; Director of Goldman Sachs)
- August Schumacher Jr. (Under-Secretary of Agriculture, Clinton Administration)
- Dr Robert Shapiro (Under-Secretary of Commerce, Clinton Administration; Fellow of Harvard University; Fellow of National Bureau of Economic Research)
- John Tower (US Senator)
- Paul Volcker (Chairman of Federal Reserve, Carter and Reagan Administrations; US Treasury Under-Secretary, Nixon Administration; President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
- David Welch (Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; US Ambassador to Egypt, Bush Administration)
- Maureen White (US Democratic Party National Finance Chair; US Representative to UNICEF; Human Rights Watch, board-member)
- Kimba Wood (United States Federal Judge; Attorney General Nominee)
- Janet Yellen (Council of Economic Advisers, Clinton Administration; Vice-President, American Economic Association; President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
- Dr Dov Zakheim (Under-Secretary of Defense, Bush and Reagan administrations)
[edit] Americas
- Roberto Abdenur (former Brazilian Ambassador to the US)
- Ed Broadbent (Canadian socialist opposition leader)
- Kim Campbell (Prime Minister of Canada, 1993)
- Hal Jackman - Former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
- Joy MacPhail (former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia)
- Svend Robinson (former Canadian MP; New Democratic Party)
- Gregory Selinger (Canadian politician)
- Mitchell Sharp (Canadian Minister of Finance)
- Walter Tarnopolsky (Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee)
- Gordon Thiessen (Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1994 to 2001)
- Pierre Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada, 1968-79, 1980-84)
- Michael Wilson (Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006-present)
[edit] Europe
- Prince Amedeo of Belgium
- Nikos Garganas (Governor of the Bank of Greece)
- Ian A. Goldin (Vice President of External Affairs, World Bank)
- Martin Grunditz, (Swedish Ambassador to Greece)
- Prince Haakon Magnus (Crown Prince of Norway)
- Jan Kavan (former President of the United Nations General Assembly, member of the Czech Parliament, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic)
- Franz Neumann (First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal)
- Érik Orsenna (real name: Erik Arnoult), former economist and advisor to François Mitterrand, member of the Conseil d'État and of the Académie française, 1988 Prix Goncourt
- George Andreas Papandreou (Foreign Minister of Greece from 1999 to 2004)
- Sergei Stanishev (Prime Minister of Bulgaria)
- Jonas Gahr Støre (Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs)
- Alexander Stubb (Finnish politician and MEP)
- Leo Van Houtven (Former secretary of the IMF)
- Michiel van Hulten (Dutch politician, former MEP)
[edit] Africa
- Kader Asmal (South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
- Ibrahim Gambari (Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations)
- Jeanne Hoban (Anglo-Sri Lankan journalist, Trotskyist political activist and trade-unionist)
- Aguinaldo Jaime (Deputy Prime Minister of Angola)
- Michael Wamalwa Kijana (former Vice-President of Kenya)
- Saif al-Islam Qaddafi (Political activist and elder son of Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi)
- Shridath Ramphal (former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth)
- Alex Quaison-Sackey (former foreign minister of Ghana)
- Winston Tubman (Liberian diplomat and politician)
- Mawere Mugabe (Son of President of Zimbabwe)
[edit] Asia
- Taro Aso (Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs)
- Vivienne Goonewardena (Sri Lankan Trotskyist freedom agitator, parliamentarian, trade unionist and women's activist)
- Wang Guangya (permanent representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations)
- Mohsin Khan (Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund)
- Emily Lau (Hong Kong politician)
- Maleeha Lodhi (prominent Pakistani politician; Pakistani Ambassador to the US)
- Krishna Menon (former Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, Minister of Defence, and leading proponent of India's emancipation)
- N.M. Perera, Sri Lankan (politician and trade-unionist, Mayor of Colombo, Leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, twice Minister of Finance, twice Leader of the Opposition).
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam Singapore's Minister of Education, and the Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore
- Juwono Sudarsono (Indonesian Minister of Defence)
- Goh Keng Swee (former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore)
- Wenzhong Zhou (Chinese Ambassador to the US)
[edit] Middle East
- Mohamed Al-Atrash (former Syrian Minister of Finance)
- Abdullah Dardari (Syria's Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs) *Kemal Derviş (UNDP Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey)
- Rafi Eitan (Leader of the Gil Party in Israeli Politics, law maker, former security *Stanley Fischer (Governor of the Bank of Israel; World Bank Chief Economist)
- Amnon Rubinstein (Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist)
Chief, international businessman and Johnthan Pollard Incidenter).
[edit] International organisations and ambassadors
- Roberto Abdenur (former Brazilian Ambassador to the US)
- Kader Asmal (South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
- William Macmahon Ball (Australian diplomat)
- Rosemary Banks (New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations)
- Johnnie Carson (US Ambassador to Zimbabwe in the Clinton Administration)
- Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield (Cabinet Minster under Thatcher; Vice-President of the European Commission)
- Kemal Derviş (UNDP Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey)
- Nicolas De Torrenté (Managing Director, Medicins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders)
- Stanley Fischer (Governor of the Bank of Israel; World Bank Chief Economist)
- Ibrahim Gambari (Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations)
- Ian A. Goldin (Vice President of External Affairs, World Bank)
- Jeffrey Goldstein (Managing Director, World Bank)
- Wang Guangya (permanent representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations)
- Robert E. Hunter (Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO)
- C. Donald Johnson (former Member of Congress and US Ambassador)
- Ahmad Kamal, (Pakistani Ambassador to the UN)
- Jan Kavan (former President of the United Nations General Assembly, member of the Czech Parliament, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic)
- Mohsin Khan (Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund)
- Dr Maleeha Lodhi (prominent Pakistani politician; Pakistani Ambassador to the US)
- John J. Maresca (former US Ambassador to the OSCE in the George H.W. Bush Administration)
- Krishna Menon (former Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, Minister of Defense, and leading proponent of India's emancipation)
- Franz Neumann (First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal)
- Shridath Ramphal (former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth)
- Shaha Riza (World Bank)
- Dr Don Russell (former Australian Ambassador to the US and adviser to Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating)
- Michelle Sison (US Ambassador to the UAE in the Bush Administration)
- Walter Tarnopolsky (Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee)
- Leo Van Houtven (Former secretary of the IMF)
- Michael Wilson (Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006-present)
- Wenzhong Zhou (Chinese Ambassador to the US)
[edit] Arts and media
[edit] Film and music
- Greg Barker (documentary filmmaker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda)
- Sir Mick Jagger (Rock star, left LSE for music)
- Arif Mardin (music producer)
- Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules) (Radio 1 DJ)
- Mat Osman (bass player for Suede)
- Edward R. Pressman (Film Producer)
- Robin Spry (filmmaker)
- Oliver Weindling (jazz promoter and founder of the Babel jazz record label)
- Frederick Zollo (Academy Award nominated producer)
[edit] Authors and journalists
- Edith Abbott (author)
- 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)
- Anne Applebaum (journalist & author)
- Pat Barker (author)
- Peter Bart (journalist and film producer)
- Owen Bennett-Jones (BBC World Service journalist) [1]
- John Bersia (Pulitzer Prize winning journalist)
- Simon Garfield (Observer journalist and author of "Mauve" and "Our Hidden Lives")
- Edwina Currie (politician, author, radio presenter)
- Robert Elms (radio presenter, music journalist)
- Ekow Eshun (BBC Newsnight broadcaster, and TV host)
- Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel (journalist and author)
- John Honderich (former Publisher of the Toronto Star)
- Robert Kaiser (American author and journalist)
- Paul Krugman (New York Times columnist, Pultizer Prize winning journalist)
- Nick Kotz (Pulitzer Prize winning journalist)
- Robert Kuttner (Journalist and economics author)
- Bernard Levin (journalist)
- David Levering Lewis (Pulitzer Prize winning author, prominent historian on African Americans)
- Martin Lewis bestselling author of the Money Diet
- Michael Lewis (#1 New York Times best selling author of Moneyball, Next, The New New Thing, Liar's Poker, Trail Fever, and The Money Culture; contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg)
- Rod Liddle (journalist)
- China Miéville (writer)
- Keith Murdoch (journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch)
- Érik Orsenna (real name: Erik Arnoult), former economist and advisor to François Mitterrand, member of the Conseil d'État and of the Académie française, 1988 Prix Goncourt
- Zarin Patel (BBC's Chief Financial Officer)
- Nisha Pillai (BBC World presenter) [2]
- Aroon Purie, Indian media mogul; founding editor and editor in chief of India Today and chairman of TV Today Network Limited
- Edward Taylor Scott (journalist)
- Barbara Serra (journalist and TV News Reader)
- Bret Stephens (Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member and Editor in Chief of the Jerusalem Post)
- Michael Whitney Straight (publisher and novelist)
- Sander Vanocur (journalist, NBC)
- Sangeeth Varghese (Columnist and author)
- Siddharth Varadarajan (journalist and editor)
- Stuart Varney (Peabody-award winning Economic journalist, Fox; Previously CNN)
- David Vise (Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The Washington Post, author of The Google Story)
- Justin Webb (BBC News, Washington Correspondent)
[edit] Television and radio
- Edwina Currie (politician, author, radio presenter)
- Loyd Grossman (TV Chef/Presenter)
- Robert Kilroy-Silk (TV Presenter and politician)
- Martin Lewis (TV presenter and Money Saving Expert)
[edit] Business and finance
- Lord Waheed Alli (House of Lords, media mogul, only openly gay Muslim businessman)
- Delphine Arnault (Billionaire French businesswoman)
- Geoffrey Bell (Banker, and Group of Thirty founder)
- Dennis Chookaszian (Director at Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc)
- Michael Dicks (Chief Economist at Lehman Brothers)
- Tony Fernandes (entrepreneur)
- Clara Furse Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange
- Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (entrepreneur, founder of EasyGroup)
- David Heleniak (Vice-Chairman, Morgan Stanley)
- Samuel Isaly (Manager Eaton Vance Worldwide Health Sciences fund)
- Michael S. Jeffries (CEO Abercrombie & Fitch Co.)
- Richard Kahan (Chairman, Riverside South Planning Corporation, Donald Trump’s building)
- Michael Kopper, former Enron executive [3]
- Spiro Latsis (billionaire)
- Charles Lee (Former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange)
- Alan MacDonald (Vice-chairman of Citibank, COO of global banking)
- J. Patrick Michaels Jr. (CEO of Communications Equity Associates)
- David Morgan (CEO of Westpac)
- Robert Murley (Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston and Chairman of Investment Banking for the Americas)
- Arif Naqvi, CEO of Abraaj Capital, the leading private equity firm in the Middle East
- Erling Dekke Næss (Norwegian shipowner and businessman)
- Richard Nesbitt (CEO, TSX Group; Toronto Stock Exchange)
- Jorma Ollila (Former CEO of Nokia Corporation, Non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell)
- Zarin Patel (BBC's Chief Financial Officer)
- David Rockefeller (American billionaire and business tycoon)
- Barr Rosenberg (Chairman and director of research, AXA Rosenberg Investment Management LLC)
- Gary Perlin (CFO Capital One Financial Corporation; Former CFO World Bank)
- Sheila Penrose (Chairman, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; President of Penrose Group; Director of McDonalds)
- Philip J. Purcell (Former CEO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter)
- Syed Ali Raza (President and Chairman of the National Bank of Pakistan)
- Maurice Saatchi (Founder, Saatchi and Saatchi)
- George Soros (Notable Financier; Billionaire)
- Peter Steinlauf (CEO Edmunds.com)
- Sally Susman (Executive Vice President for Global Communications at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.)
- Alan Wurtzel (Former CEO of Circuit City Stores Inc.)
[edit] Lawyers and judges
- Cherie Booth QC (Judge, wife of Tony Blair)
- Curtis Doebbler (Lawyer, represented Saddam Hussein)
- Rosalyn Higgins QC (Judge, President of the International Court of Justice)
- Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr. (Lawyer, represented Michael Jackson)
- Gareth Peirce (Solicitor)
- Robert Ribeiro (Hong Kong judge)
[edit] Others
- Ameer Ali, President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
- Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, humanitarian
[edit] Fictional
- President Josiah Bartlet (fictional President of the United States on NBC's popular TV show The West Wing)
- Andrew Bond (fictional father of James Bond, 007)
- Prime Minister Jim Hacker of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
[edit] Founders of LSE
[edit] The School's Directors
- Sir Howard Davies 2003-Present
- Professor Lord Anthony Giddens 1997-2003
- Dr John Ashworth 1990-96
- Dr Indraprasad (IG) Patel 1984-90
- Professor Lord Ralf Dahrendorf 1974-84
- Sir Walter Adams 1967-74
- Sir Sydney Caine 1957-1967
- Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders 1937-57
- Sir William (later Lord) Beveridge 1919-37
- William Pember Reeves 1908-19
- Sir Halford Mackinder 1903-08
- William Hewins 1895-1903