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.

Contents 1 Heads of State or Heads of Government 2 Nobel Laureates 3 Academics 3.1 Economists 3.2 Historians 3.3 Economic Historians 3.4 Human geography 3.5 International Relations 3.6 Law 3.7 Philosophers 3.8 Political scientists 3.9 Sociologists 3.10 Social anthropology 3.11 Social psychology 3.12 Statisticians 4 Government and politics 4.1 United Kingdom 4.2 United States 4.3 Canada 4.4 Latin America 4.5 Europe 4.6 Africa 4.7 Asia 4.8 Australia 4.9 Middle East 4.10 International organisations and ambassadors 5 Arts and media 5.1 Film and music 5.2 Television and radio 5.3 Authors and journalists 6 Business and finance 7 Lawyers and judges 8 Others 9 Fictional 10 Founders of LSE 11 The School's Directors 12 References

[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
• Forbes Burnham - (1923-1985) - President of Guyana
• Kim Campbell (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Canada, June-November 1993
• Eugenia Charles (1919-2005) - 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 United States 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
• Sylvanus Olympio (1902-1963) - Prime Minister of Togo, 1958-1961, and first President of Togo, 1961-1963
• Percival Patterson (b. 1935) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992-2006
• 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
• Sergey Stanishev (b. 1966) - Prime Minister of Bulgaria, 2005-present
• Edward Szczepanik (1915-2005) - Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, 1986 - 1990
• Banja Tejan-Sie, (1917-2000) - Governor-General and leader of opposition Sierra Leone People's Party in Sierra Leone
• 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

[edit] Nobel Laureates

Alumni

• 1950: Ralph Bunche (Peace)
• 1979: Sir William Arthur Lewis (Economics)
• 1991: Ronald Coase (Economics)
• 1999: Robert Mundell (Economics)
• 2007: Leonid Hurwicz (Economics)

Founders and Professors

• 1925: George Bernard Shaw (Literature)
• 1950: Bertrand Russell (Literature)
• 1959: Philip Noel-Baker (Peace)
• 1972: Sir John Hicks (Economics)
• 1974: Friedrich von Hayek (Economics)
• 1977: James Meade (Economics)
• 1987: Óscar Arias (Peace)
• 1990: Merton Miller (Economics)
• 1998: Amartya Sen (Economics)
• 2001: George Akerlof (Economics)
• 2007: Leonid Hurwicz (Economics)

[edit] Academics

[edit] Economists

• Daron Acemoglu, economist, John Bates Clark Medal Winner 2005
• Sir Roy Allen, economist and mathematician
• Tony Antoniou, Dean of Durham Business School and Professor of Finance
• 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
• Alan Budd, British economist, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford
• Willem Buiter, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee
• Ronald Coase, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University; Previously Chairman, National Intelligence Council and; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
• Peter Cornelius, former Group Chief Economist of Royal Dutch Shell, Former Chief Economist of the World Economic Forum
• Lord Desai, development economist
• Roderick D. Fraser, economist, President of the University of Alberta, 1995-2005
• Charles Goodhart, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee
• David Forbes Hendry, British economist, currently Professor of Economics and Head of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford
• J.A. Hobson, economist and writer
• Samuel Hollander, British/Canadian/Israeli economist
• Anothony Hopwood, Former dean of Oxford Said Business School
• Eliot Janeway, American economist, economic advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson
• Lewis Webster Jones, economist, fifteenth President of Rutgers University
• Nicholas Kaldor, economists
• Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, Pultizer Prize winning journalist
• Maurice Kugler, development economist
• Ludwig Lachmann, economist
• David Laidler, economist
• Lord Layard, economist
• Julian Le Grand, economist
• Sir William Arthur Lewis, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Lisa M. Lynch, William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs and former Academic Dean at the Fletcher School at Tufts University
• James Meade, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Merton Miller, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Michio Morishima, Japanese economist
• Robert Mundell, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Stephen Nickell, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee
• Andrew Oswald, economist
• Peter C. B. Phillips, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at Yale University
• William Phillips, economist
• Christopher A. Pissarides, Cypriot-born British economist, member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Cyprus
• Mihir Rakshit, economist
• Lionel Robbins, economist
• Tadeusz Rybczynski, Polish-born English economist, known for the development of the Rybczynski theorem
• 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
• Alasdair Smith, economist, former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex
• Piero Sraffa, economist
• Nicholas Stern, economist
• Lord Turner, businessman, academic, chair of the Pensions Commission and the UK Low Pay Commission
• Basil Yamey, industrial economics
• Allyn Abbott Young, economist

[edit] Historians

• Janet Coleman FRHS, historian of political thought
• Martin van Creveld, Israeli military historian and theorist
• Paul Kennedy, British historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy
• David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize winning author, prominent historian on African Americans
• Desmond Morton, historian
• Lewis Bernstein Namier, historian
• Ben Pimlott, Fabian President, modern historian, former president of Nottingham University
• Arthur Seldon, head of the Institute of Economic Affairs
• Anthony Seldon, historian, biographer of Tony Blair and headmaster of Wellington College
• Avi Shlaim, historian specialising in the Middle East
• Alan Sked, leading Hapsburg historian and founder of the United Kingdom Independence Party
• David Starkey, historian specialising in Tudor England
• David Stevenson (WW1 historian), World War One historian
• John Stubbs, historian, former president of Trent University and Simon Fraser University
• Jacob Talmon, historian
• Arnold Joseph Toynbee, historian
• Odd Arne Westad, leading historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history; currently Convenor of the LSE International History Department and Cold War Studies Centre
• Charles Webster, British historian and diplomat
• R. H. Tawney, an English writer, economist, historian, social critic and university professor and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism. Richard Tawney has been called "the patron saint of adult education". ^[1]
• Edwin Cannan, historian of economic thought, professor at LSE from 1895 to 1926.
• Alfred Marshall, historian and sociologist
• Tim Leunig, leading economic historian and head of the Economic History Dept.

[edit] Economic Historians

• Kent Deng, East Asian economic historian
• Rob Van Oorthuysen-Dunne, historian of British railway development.
• Mary S. Morgan, historian of economics

[edit] Human geography

• George Jonas, founder of social geography; Professor of Geography at LSE, 1958-1983
• Halford MacKinder, geographer and LSE director, 1903-1908
• Laurence Dudley Stamp, geographer

[edit] International Relations

• Chris Brown, Professor of International Relations
• Hedley Bull, Professor of International Relations
• Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations
• Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations, Department Head
• Michael Cox, Professor of International Relations
• Fred Halliday, Professor of International Relations
• Richard W. Lyman, former Provost and 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
• Sir Charles Webster, Professor of International Relations; founder of the United Nations
• Martin Wight, Reader in International Relations, 1949-1960

[edit] Law

• Janice R. Bellace, Samuel A. Blank Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania, founding president of the Singapore Management University
• Paul Davies, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics, Honorary QC
• Sandy D'Alemberte, former president of the American Bar Association, and former president of the Florida State University
• 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
• Osagie Imasogie, Grant Irey Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
• Makhdoom Ali Khan, Barrister-at-Law from Lincolns Inn and Attorney General of Pakistan
• 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
• Brian Barry, moral and political philosopher
• William Warren Bartley, philosopher
• Nick Bostrom, philosopher
• Nancy Cartwright, philosopher
• Helena Cronin, Darwinist philosopher
• Gregory Currie, philosopher
• Daniel Dennett, philosopher
• Paul Feyerabend, philosopher
• Ernest Gellner, philosopher
• John Gray, political philosopher
• Friedrich von Hayek, political philosopher and economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Colin Howson, 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
• John Worrall, philosopher

[edit] Political scientists

• Benjamin Barber, professor of political science, University of Maryland, College Park
• Scott Barrett, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University
• Sarah Gibson Blanding, Vassar College's sixth president and first female president
• Ralph Bunche, political scientist and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Verity Burgmann, professor of political science, University of Melbourne
• William Christian, political scientist at the University of Guelph
• Ivor Martin Crewe, political scientist, Vice-Chancellor of University of Essex
• 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, colleague of Albert Einstein
• Jim Leach, John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University
• Steven Lukes, political and social theorist
• Shireen M. Mazari, political scientist from Pakistan
• Ralph Miliband, political scientist
• Brendan O'Leary, Irish political scientist, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania
• Louis Pauly, political scientist
• Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, political scientist, diplomat and author
• Jill Vickers, political scientist

[edit] Sociologists

• Eileen Barker, sociology of religion
• Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist
• Ulrich Beck, sociologist
• Robin Blackburn, sociologist
• Tessa Blackstone, educationalist
• Stanley Cohen, sociologist
• Peter Davis, sociologist
• Norbert Elias, leading sociologist
• Lord Anthony Giddens, 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
• Michael Mann, sociologist
• Karl Mannheim, sociologist
• Andrew Milner, sociologist of literature
• Talcott Parsons, sociologist
• John Porter, sociologist
• Saskia Sassen, sociologist and economist
• Richard Sennett, sociologist
• Richard Titmuss, social administrator
• Fran Tonkiss, sociologist
• Hilary Wainwright, sociologist

[edit] Social anthropology

• Maurice Bloch, marxist and cognitive anthropologist
• Jean Comaroff, anthropologist
• John Comaroff, anthropologist
• Maria Czaplicka, Polish cultural anthropologist
• E.E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist
• Sir Raymond Firth, ethnologist, founder of economic anthropology
• Rosemary Firth, ethnologist
• Maurice Freedman, anthropologist
• Alfred Gell, social anthropologist
• Phyllis Kaberry, anthropologist
• David Lan, social anthropologist and film maker
• Edmund Leach, anthropologist
• Alan Macfarlane, social anthropologist and historian
• Lucy Mair, anthropologist
• Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologist and often considered to be the founder of the modern British school of social anthropology and pioneer of functionalism
• Z.K. Mathews, prominent Apartheid-era South African academic
• Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
• Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist and ethnographer
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, anthropologist
• Audrey Richards, social anthropologist, nutritional anthropologist
• Charles Gabriel Seligman, ethnographer
• Michael Taussig, prominent 'postmodern' anthropologist
• Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University
• Edward Westermarck, anthropologist
• Fei Xiaotong, social anthropologist

[edit] Social psychology

• Nicholas Humphrey, psychologist
• J. Philippe Rushton, psychologist
• Satoshi Kanazawa (evolutionary psychologist)
• Graham Wallas, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society
• Paul Webley, Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

[edit] Statisticians

• Sir Arthur Bowley, statistician
• D. G. Champernowne, Professor of Statistical Economics
• W. Edwards Deming, statistician, economist
• James Durbin, statistician, econometrician
• Sir Maurice George Kendall, statistician
• Leslie Kish, American statistician
• Claus Moser, Baron Moser, British statistician, Chancellor, Open University of Israel, 1994–2004
• Maurice Henry Quenouille, statistician
• John Denis Sargan, statistician

[edit] Government and politics

[edit] United Kingdom

• Leo Abse, British MP, famous for legalisation of male homosexuality
• Lord Waheed Alli, media mogul, openly gay Muslim businessman
• Charlotte Atkins, Minister
• Richard Bacon, British MP
• Jackie Ballard, British MP, journalist, Director General of the RSPCA
• Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, former MP and British Peer
• Baroness Virginia Bottomley, former Cabinet Minister
• John Bourn, Officer, British House of Commons
• Annette Brooke, British MP
• Karen Buck, British MP
• Munir Butt, High Commissioner to Pakistan
• Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
• Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minster, Vice-President of the European Commission
• Yvette Cooper, Cabinet Minister
• Jim Cousins, British MP
• Edwina Currie, former British Conservative MP, author, radio presenter
• Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Andrew Dismore, British MP
• Frank Dobson, Cabinet Minister
• Michael Ellam, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Director of Communications
• Daniel Finkelstein, Conservative Party strategist and Comment Editor of The Times
• Barbara Follett, British MP
• Lisa Harker, government child poverty tsar
• Mark Hoban, British MP
• Margaret Hodge, Minister
• Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Cabinet Minister
• Brian Jenkins, British MP
• Dr. Syed Kamall, British MP
• Ruth Kelly, Cabinet Minister
• Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England
• Julian Le Grand, senior advisor to the Prime Minister
• Spencer Livermore, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Director of Political Strategy
• Rachel Lomax, British economist and government official
• Michael Meacher, Minister
• Baron Merlyn-Rees, former Home Secretary
• Ed Miliband, Cabinet Minister
• Andrew Miller, British MP
• Maria Miller, British MP
• Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett
• Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, Cabinet Minister
• Marion Phillips, British MP
• Stephen Pound, British MP
• Baron Reginald Prentice
• Baroness Joyce Quin
• Baroness Rawlings, British MEP, former Chairman of the Council of King's College London
• Tom Scholar, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gordon Brown
• Andrew Selous, British MP
• Barry Sheerman, British MP
• Josiah Stamp, former Governor of the Bank of England
• John Stonehouse, Minister
• Jo Swinson, British MP
• Ian Taylor, British MP
• Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, Junior Minister
• Rudi Vis, British MP
• Malcolm Wicks, Minister
• Jennifer Willott, British MP
• David Winnick, British MP
• Anthony Wright, British MP
• Baron Michael Young, academic and author of the 1945 Labour manifesto

[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
• Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Walter Berns, Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
• 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
• Rebecca Birget Certa, Democratic Member of US House of Representatives
• 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
• William Gale, Council of Economic Advisers, Bush Administration
• Eric Garcetti, President, Los Angeles City Council
• 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 H. Holmes, 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
• Deborah Lehr, lead negotiator for China's WTO Accession; former partner at Mayer Brown
• 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
• Richard H. Moore, North Carolina State Treasurer
• 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
• F. Whitten Peters, Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.
• 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] Canada

• Jon Allen, Canadian Ambassador to Israel, 2006-present
• Ed Broadbent, Canadian socialist opposition leader
• Hal Jackman, former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
• Michael Ignatieff, current deputy leader of the Liberal Party
• Joy MacPhail, former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia
• Marc Mayrand, Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada
• David McGuinty, Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party
• Jacques Parizeau (b. 1930) - Premier of Quebec, 1994-1995
• Louis Rasminsky, Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973
• Svend Robinson, former Canadian MP; first openly gay Canadian politician in major 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
• Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006-present
• Paul Zed, Member of Parliament for Saint John, New Brunswick

[edit] Latin America

• Fidel Herrera Beltrán, Governor of Veracruz, Mexico
• Winston Dookeran, Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist
• Eduardo Lizano, President of the Central Bank of Costa Rica from 1984 to 1990
• Martin Lousteau, Minister of economy and production, Argentina
• Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian politician, currently serving as Minister of National Defense

[edit] Europe

• Georgios Alogoskoufis, Minister for Economy and Finance, Greece
• Prince Amedeo of Belgium
• Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner
• Nikos Garganas, Governor of the Bank of Greece
• Ian 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
• Ivan Mikloš, Minister of Finance of Slovakia
• 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
• Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance, Poland
• Michalis Sarris, Cypriot Minister for Finance
• Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Alexander Stubb, Finish Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Zdeněk Tůma, Governor of Czech National Bank
• Leo Van Houtven, former secretary of the IMF
• Michiel van Hulten, Dutch politician, former MEP
• August Zaleski, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

[edit] Africa

• Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, political activist and elder son of Libyan President Muammar al-Gaddafi
• Augustus Akinloye, Nigerian politician
• 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
• Pallo Jordan, Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa
• Michael Wamalwa Kijana, former Vice-President of Kenya
• Mac Maharaj, South African ANC politician, former Minister of Transport
• Mawere Mugabe, son of Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe
• Bayo Ojo, past head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice
• Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
• Alex Quaison-Sackey, former foreign minister of Ghana
• Winston Tubman, Liberian diplomat and politician

[edit] Asia

• B. R. Ambedkar, Buddhist revivalist, Indian jurist, scholar and Bahujan political leader who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution
• Piyasvasti Amranand, Thailand's Energy Minister
• Taro Aso, Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Government of Japan
• Choowong Chayabutra, former Thailand's Secretary of Ministry of Interior, Senator and a member of parliament
• Tam Yiu Chung, current councillor from 1998 in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and a member of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB)
• Audrey Eu, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and currently the party leader of the Civic Party
• Abul Fateh, Bangladesh diplomat
• 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
• Tsai Ing-wen, former Vice Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Amarananda Somasiri Jayawardene, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
• Yang Jiechi, current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
• Emily Lau, Hong Kong politician
• Dr. Maliha Lodhi, Pakistan's High Commissioner to United Kingdom and former Ambassador to USA
• Kashmala Tariq, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
• Makhdoom Ali Khan, Ex-Attorney General of Pakistan and chief lawyer of President Pervez Musharraf
• Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiyar, Former Dy. Foreign Minister of Pakistan
• Krishna Menon, former Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, Minister of Defence, and leading proponent of India's emancipation
• Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's Minister of Education, and the Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore
• Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
• Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesian Minister of Defence
• Puey Ungpakorn, Governor of the (Central) Bank of Thailand
• Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore

[edit] Australia

• Ameer Ali, President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
• William Macmahon Ball, Australian diplomat
• Nugget Coombs, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Robert Hill, Defence Minister
• Gordon Reid, Governor of Western Australia and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia

[edit] Middle East

• Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan, member of royal family of Jordan
• Shlomo Argov, prominent Israeli diplomat, former Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Yishai Be'er, General in the Israel Defense Forces and currently the President of the Israeli Military Court of Appeals
• 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
• Emre Gönensay, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996
• Amnon Rubinstein, Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist, Education Minister of Israel, 1993-1996

[edit] International organisations and ambassadors

• James Allan, British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique
• Kader Asmal, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
• Rosemary Banks, New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations
• 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
• Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
• Ian 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 Murray Hill, Australian Ambassador to the United Nations
• John Huges, British Ambassador to Argentina
• Robert E. Hunter, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
• Rajmah Hussain, Ambassador of the Malaysia to the United States
• Clete Donald Johnson, Jr., former Member of Congress and US Ambassador, LL.M 1978
• 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 Maliha 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
• Marty Natalegawa, Indonesian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Marty M. Natalegawa, Indonesian Ambassador to the UK and Ireland, and Representative of ASEAN Ambassadors to the UK
• Franz Neumann, First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
• Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
• Shaha Riza, World Bank
• Pierre Sane, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences
• 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
• Peter Lawlor, producer/songwrighter of UK number 1 "Inside" for Stiltskin, and prolific composer, eg BBC1 main theme, English Premier League Theme
• Arif Mardin, music producer
• Jaime Murray, actress
• Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules), Radio 1 DJ
• Mat Osman, bass player for Suede
• Edward R. Pressman, film producer
• Sophie Solomon, British violinist, songwriter and composer
• Robin Spry, filmmaker
• Frank Turner, musician, in the band Million Dead, now a solo artist
• Oliver Weindling, jazz promoter and founder of the Babel jazz record label
• Frederick M. Zollo, Academy Award nominated producer
• Poj Masta,(aka George Proudfoot) dj and bootlegger.

[edit] Television and radio

• Martin Durkin TV director
• Loyd Grossman, TV Chef/Presenter
• Robert Kilroy-Silk, TV Presenter and politician
• Kirsty Lang, broadcaster and journalist
• Martin Lewis, TV presenter and Money Saving Expert, born 1972
• James O'Brien, radio journalist
• Mark Urban, Newsnight Diplomatic Editor

[edit] Authors and journalists

• Edith Abbott, author and social worker, Carnegie Postgraduate Fellowship 1906
• 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 and author
• Pat Barker, author, historian
• Peter Bart, journalist and film producer
• Melissa Benn, journalist and feminist
• Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC World Service journalist
• John Bersia, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• Simon Garfield, Observer journalist and author of "Mauve" and "Our Hidden Lives"
• Josh Chetwynd, baseball presenter, player and writer
• Andrew Coyne, national editor for Maclean's
• Edwina Currie, politician, author, radio presenter
• Robert Elms, radio presenter, music journalist
• Ekow Eshun, BBC Newsnight broadcaster, and TV host
• Daniel Finkelstein, Comment Editor of The Times
• Edward Greenspon, editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail newspaper
• Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, journalist and author
• John Honderich, former Publisher of the Toronto Star
• Robert Kaiser, American author and journalist
• Oliver Kamm journalist
• Parag Khanna, author
• To Kit (real name: Chip Tsao), Hong Kong-based columnist-broadcaster
• Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
• Nick Kotz, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• Robert Kuttner, journalist and economics author
• Kirsty Lang, broadcaster and journalist
• Philippe Legrain, British journalist and writer
• Bernard Levin, journalist, author and broadcaster
• 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, TV presenter, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme
• Edward Lucas, journalist
• Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, Norwegian publisher of Aftenposten and Verdens Gang
• China Miéville, writer, PhD International Relations 2001
• 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 [1]
• 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, former editor and co-owner of The Guardian
• 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
• Mark Urban, BBC Newsnight Diplomatic Editor
• Sander Vanocur, journalist, NBC
• Siddharth Varadarajan, journalist and editor
• Sangeeth Varghese, columnist and author
• 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
• Xu Zhimo, early 20th century Chinese poet

[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
• Sir Gordon Brunton, Chief Executive Thomson Corporation, Former Chairman Sotheby's
• Richard Caruso, Founder and Chairman of Integra LifeSciences Corporation and 2006 Ernst & Young US Entrepreneur of the Year
• 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
• Robert Kaplan, former Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International
• Michael Kopper, former Enron executive [2]
• Spiro Latsis, billionaire
• Charles Lee, Former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

• 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
• Christopher Nassetta, President and CEO of Hilton Hotels Corp.
• 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
• Sheila Penrose, Chairman, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; President of Penrose Group; Director of McDonalds
• Gary Perlin, CFO Capital One Financial Corporation; Former CFO World Bank
• Avinash Persaud, Global Head of Currency & Commodity Research at J.P. Morgan
• Philip J. Purcell, former CEO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
• Syed Ali Raza, President and Chairman of the National Bank of Pakistan
• Stephen Robert, co-chairman of CIBC Oppenheimer Holdings Corp, Chancellor of Brown University
• David Rockefeller, American billionaire and business tycoon
• Barr Rosenberg, Chairman and director of research, AXA Rosenberg Investment Management LLC
• Wieslaw Rozlucki, CEO Warsaw Stock Exchange 1991-2006, Poland
• Maurice Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi)
• George Soros, Notable Financier; Billionaire
• Bryan Sanderson CBE, Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank plc
• Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, industrialist, Chancellor of Middlesex University
• Panagis Vourloumis, Managing Director and President of the OTE's Board, the national telecommunications provider of Greece
• Arnold Weinstock, English businessman, best known for building GEC
• Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat

[edit] Lawyers and judges

• Cherie Booth QC, judge, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
• Linda Dobbs, first non-white person to be appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales
• Curtis Doebbler, lawyer, represented Saddam Hussein
• Baron Grabiner, judge
• Christopher Greenwood QC, esteemed international lawyer; advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the 2003 Iraq war
• Rosalyn Higgins QC, judge and President of the International Court of Justice
• Graham Hill, judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1989 to 2005
• Makhdoom Ali Khan, former Attorney General of Pakistan
• Manfred Lachs, judge on the International Court of Justice
• Justice Mustafa Kamal, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr., lawyer, represented Michael Jackson
• Gareth Peirce, solicitor
• Robert Ribeiro, Hong Kong judge
• Christopher Wolf, American attorney, a pioneer in Internet law

[edit] Others

• Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, humanitarian
• Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern involved in a sex scandal with former President Bill Clinton
• Valerie Plame, CIA officer who was controversially identified in a newspaper column by Robert Novak in July 2003
• Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos the Jackal, Marxist terrorist
• Omar Sheikh, Islamist terrorist
• Geoffrey Sampson, linguist
• Zecharia Sitchin, ancient astronaut theorist
• Val Venis, wrestler

[edit] Fictional

• President Josiah Bartlet, fictional President of the United States on NBC's popular TV show The West Wing
• Prime Minister Jim Hacker of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
• Andrew Bond, fictional father of James Bond, 007

[edit] Founders of LSE

• Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb
• George Bernard Shaw
• Graham Wallas
• Henry Hutchinson.
• H. G. Wells
• Annie Besant
• Hubert Bland
• Edith Nesbit
• Sydney Olivier
• Oliver Lodge
• Leonard Woolf
• Emmeline Pankhurst

(Some are depicted in the Fabian Window)

• Edward R. Pease
• Ramsay MacDonald
• Bertrand Russell
• Edward Carpenter
• John Davidson
• Havelock Ellis
• R. H. Tawney
• G. D. H. Cole

[edit] The School's Directors

• Sir Howard Davies 2003-Present
• Professor Lord Anthony Giddens 1997-2003
• Sir John Ashworth 1990-96
• I. G. 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

[edit] References

• LSE Press and Information Office - World leaders
• LSE Press and Information Office - Nobel Prize winners