List of London School of Economics people

This list of London School of Economics people includes notable alumni, non-graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science. This includes 34 past or present heads of state, as well as 18 Nobel laureates.^[1]

Heads of state or government

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State	Leader	Affiliation	Office
Barbados	Errol Walton Barrow (1920–1987)	BSc (Econ) 1950	Prime minister 1962-1966; 1966–1976; 1986–1987
Bulgaria	Sergey Stanishev (b. 1966)	Visiting Fellow International Relations 1999-2000	Prime minister 2005–2009
Canada	Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000)	Research Fee Student 1947-1948	Prime minister 1968-1979; 1980–1984
Canada	Kim Campbell (b. 1947)	PhD student 1973	Prime minister June–November 1993
Colombia	Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo	Occasional Registration 1932-1933	President 1934-1938, 1942–1945
Colombia	Juan Manuel Santos	MSc Economics 1975	President 2010-
Costa Rica	Óscar Arias (b. 1941)	Enrolled 1967	President 1986–1990, 2006–2010
Denmark	HM Queen Margrethe II (b. 1940)	Occasional student 1965	Queen 1972-
Dominica	Dame Eugenia Charles	LLM 1949	Prime minister 1980-1995
EU	Romano Prodi (b. 1939)	Research Fee Student 1962-1963	President of the European Commission 1999-2004;
Fiji	Sir Kamisese Mara (1920–2004)	Diploma Econ & Social Admin 1962	Prime minister 1970-1992; President 1994-2000
Finland	Alexander Stubb (b. 1968)	PhD International Politics 1999	Prime minister 2014-
Germany	Heinrich Brüning	BSc Economics Student 1911-1913	Chancellor 1930-32
Ghana	Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972)	PhD 1946	First president 1960-1966
Ghana	Hilla Limann (1934–1998)	BSc (Econ) 1960	President 1979-1981
Ghana	John Atta Mills (b. 1944)	LLM 1967-68	President 2009
Gibraltar	Joe Bossano (b. 1939)	BSc Economics circa 1960	Chief minister 1988-1996
Greece	George Papandreou (b. 1952)	MSc Sociology 1977	Prime minister 2009-2011
Greece	Constantine Simitis (b. 1936)	Research Fee Student 1961-1963	Prime minister 1996-2004
Grenada	Maurice Bishop (1943–1983)	LLB circa 1967/1968	Prime minister 1979-1983
Guyana	Forbes Burnham (1923–1985)	LLB 1948	Prime minister 1964-1980, President 1980-1985
India	K.R. Narayanan (1921–2005)	BSc (Econ) 1945-1948	President 1997-2002
Israel	Moshe Sharett (1894–1965)	BSc (Econ) 1924	Prime minister 1953-1955
Italy	Romano Prodi (b. 1939)	Research Fee Student 1962-1963	Prime minister 1996-1998; 2006–2008
Jamaica	Michael Manley (1924–1997)	BSc (Econ) 1949	Prime minister 1972-1980; 1989–1992
Jamaica	P J Patterson	LLB 1963	Premier 1992-2006
Japan	Takahashi Korekiyo (1854–1936)	Course unknown	Prime minister 1920-22; 1932
Japan	Tsutomu Hata (b. 1935)	Course unknown	Prime Minister 1994
Japan	Taro Aso (b. 1940)	Occasional Student 1966	Prime minister 2008-2009
Kenya	Jomo Kenyatta (1891–1978)	ADA 1936	First president 1964-1978
Kenya	Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931)	BSc Economics 1959	President 2002-2013
Kiribati	Anote Tong (b. 1952)	MSc Sea-Use Group 1988	President 2003-
Libya	Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (b 1972)	PhD 2006	Effective Prime Minister, 2007–2011
Malaysia	Tuanku Jaafar (1922–2008)	Course unknown	Yang di-Pertuan Agong (elected monarch) 1994–1999
Mauritius	Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900–1985)	Attended lectures whilst studying at University College London	Chief Minister 1961-1968, Prime minister 1968-1982, Governor-General 1983-1985
Mauritius	Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo (1920–2000)	LLB 1948	First President of Mauritius March–June 1992
Mauritius	Navinchandra Ramgoolam (b. 1947)	LLB 1990	Prime minister 1995-2000; 2005-
Nepal	Sher Bahadur Deuba (b. 1943)	Research Student International Relations 1988-1989	Prime minister 1995-1997; 2001–2003; 2004–2005
Panama	Harmodio Arias (1886–1962)	Occasional Student, 1909–1911	President 1932-1936
Peru	Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto (1897–1979)	BSc (Econ) 1918	Prime minister 1959-1961
Peru	Beatriz Merino (b. 1947)	LLM 1972	Prime minister 2003
Poland	Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005)	MSc Economics 1953	Prime minister of government in exile 1986–1990
Poland	Marek Belka (b. 1952)	Summer School 1990	Prime minister 2004-05
Quebec	Jacques Parizeau (b. 1966)	PhD before circa 1960	Premier of province 1994-1995
Rwanda	Paul Kagame (b. 1957)	Course unknown	President 2000-
Sierra Leone	Banja Tejan-Sie (1917–2000)	LLB circa 1950	Governor-General 1968-1971
Singapore	Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015)	Occasional student after circa 1945	Prime minister 1959-1990
Singapore	Goh Keng Swee (1918–2010)	BSc Economics 1951; PhD Economics 1956	Deputy prime minister 1959-84
Saint Lucia	John Compton (b. 1926)	LLB 1952	Premier 1964-1979; Prime minister February–July 1979 & 1982-1996
Taiwan	Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914–2000)	Composition fee student 1947-1949	Premier 1984-1989
Taiwan	Tsai Ing-wen (b. 1956)	PhD Law 1984	Vice-premier 2006-
Thailand	Tanin Kraivixien (b. 1927)	LLB 1953	Prime minister 1976-1977
Togo	Sylvanus Olympio (b. 1902–1963)	BSc Economics	Prime minister of Togo 1958–1961, first President 1961–1963
United Kingdom	Clement Attlee (1883–1967)	Lecturer in social science and administration, 1912–1923	Prime minister 1945–1951
United States	John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)	General Course student 1935	President 1961-1963

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)
• 1990: Merton Miller (Economics)
• 1998: Amartya Sen (Economics)
• 2001: George Akerlof (Economics)
• 2007: Leonid Hurwicz (Economics)
• 2008: Paul Krugman (Economics)
• 2010: Christopher A. Pissarides (Economics)

Non-alumni

• 1987: Óscar Arias (Peace)

Guy Medal recipients

• 1945 Sir Maurice Kendall
• 1976 James Durbin (Silver)
• 1978 Sir R. G. D. Allen (Gold)
• 1982 Henry Wynn (Silver)
• 2007 Howell Tong (Silver)
• 2008 James Durbin (Gold)
• 2008 Fiona Steele (Bronze)
• 2013 Piotr Fryzlewicz (Bronze)

Academics

Economists

• Daron Acemoglu, economist, John Bates Clark Medal Winner 2005
• Sir Roy Allen, economist and mathematician
• Heinz Wolfgang Arndt, economist
• Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist of the World Bank
• 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
• Sir Richard Blundell, economist and econometrician
• Sir 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
• Thomas Piketty, economist, author of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" Affairs
• Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, development economist
• Ian Goldin, development economist, Director of Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
• Charles Goodhart, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee
• W. M. Gorman, economist
• Frank Hahn, economist
• Friedrich von Hayek, Nobel Prize–winning economist
• 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
• Eliot Janeway, American economist, economic advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson
• Harry Johnson, economist
• Lewis Webster Jones, economist, fifteenth President of Rutgers University
• Nicholas Kaldor, economist
• Peter Kenen, economist
• Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, Nobel Prize winner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
• Maurice Kugler, development economist
• Ludwig Lachmann, economist
• David Laidler, economist
• Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist
• Peter Leeson, George Mason Economist
• Sir William Arthur Lewis, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• 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
• Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End, economist and politician
• Peter C. B. Phillips, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at Yale University
• William Phillips, economist
• Arnold Plant, 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
• Tibor Scitovsky, economist
• Arthur Seldon, free market ideologue
• Andrew Sentance, member of Monetary Policy Committee
• G.L.S. Shackle, economist
• Neil Shephard, econometrician
• Alasdair Smith, economist, former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex
• Piero Sraffa, economist
• Nicholas Stern, economist
• Prajapati Trivedi, economist, First Secretary Performance Management to Government of India
• Sho-Chieh Tsiang, economist
• Lord Turner, businessman, academic, chair of the UK Financial Services Authority
• Ralph Turvey, economist at the London School of Economics, HM Treasury, the Electricity Council and the National Board for Prices and Incomes^[3][4]
• John Van Reenen, economist, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics
• Sushil Wadhwani, economist
• Sir Alan Walters, monetary economist
• Basil Yamey, industrial economist
• Allyn Abbott Young, economist

Economic historians

• Edwin Cannan, historian of economic thought, professor at LSE from 1895 to 1926
• Nick Crafts, professor of economic history at LSE between 1995 and 2005
• Kent Deng, East Asian economic historian
• Niall Ferguson, Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs
• Mary S. Morgan, historian of economics
• R. H. Tawney, an English writer and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism.^[5]

Employment relations & management

• Chrisanthi Avgerou, Professor of Information Systems
• Claudio Ciborra (1951–2005) Professor of Information Systems

Historians

• Janet Coleman FRHS, historian of political thought
• Martin van Creveld, Israeli military historian and theorist
• Niall Ferguson, prominent economic and international historian
• James Joll, leading World War One historian
• Paul Kennedy, British historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy
• David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, prominent historian on African Americans
• Alfred Marshall, historian and sociologist
• Desmond Morton, historian
• Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, historian
• Ben Pimlott, Fabian President, modern historian, former president of Nottingham University
• A. L. Rowse, historian
• Sir Anthony Seldon, historian, biographer of Tony Blair and headmaster of Wellington College
• Avi Shlaim, historian specialising in the Middle East
• Alan Sked, leading Habsburg historian and founder of the United Kingdom Independence Party
• David Starkey, historian specialising in Tudor England
• G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, historian
• David Stevenson, World War One historian
• John Stubbs, historian, former president of Trent University and Simon Fraser University
• Jacob Talmon, historian
• Arnold Joseph Toynbee, historian
• Sir Charles Webster, Stevenson Professor of International History; diplomat and founder of the United Nations
• 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

Human geography

• Harold Brookfield (PhD 1950). Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
• 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

International relations

• Daniele Archibugi, former Visiting Professor of International Relations
• Hedley Bull, Professor of International Relations
• Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations
• Michael Cox, Professor of International Relations
• David Held, Professor of International Relations
• Fred Halliday, Professor of International Relations (Montague Burton Chair), to 2008
• Kimberly Hutchings, Professor of International Relations
• Mary Kaldor, Professor of International Relations
• Parag Khanna, author and current PhD candidate
• F. S. Northedge, former Professor of International Relations
• Richard W. Lyman, former Provost and President of Stanford University; Founder Stanford Institute for International Studies
• Susan Strange, Professor of International Relations (Montague Burton Chair), 1978 to 1988.
• 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

Law

• Andrew Ashworth CBE QC, Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford
• 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
• Talbot "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
• Sir Christopher Greenwood QC, esteemed international lawyer; advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the 2003 Iraq war, member of the ICJ
• Joseph Grundfest, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School
• Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, professor of comparative law, University of Oxford, and a scholar in labour law
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of politician Robert F Kennedy, law professor at Pace University School of Law
• Makhdoom Ali Khan, Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln's Inn and Attorney General of Pakistan
• Philip Noel-Baker, professor of international law, politician, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Sir David Hughes Parry, Professor of English law (1930-1959),
• Adam Tomkins, John Millar Professor of Public Law at the University of Glasgow
• Michael Zander QC, Professor Emeritus and the Legal Correspondent of The Guardian newspaper between 1963 and 1988

Linguists

• Geoffrey Sampson, linguist

Philosophers

• Joseph Agassi, philosopher
• Brian Barry, moral and political philosopher
• William Warren Bartley, philosopher
• John Lane Bell, mathematical logician
• Kenneth Binmore, philosopher, economist and mathematician
• Nick Bostrom, philosopher
• Luc Bovens, philosopher
• Craig Callender, philosopher
• Nancy Cartwright, philosopher
• Sir Bernard Crick, political philosopher
• Helena Cronin, Darwinist philosopher
• Gregory Currie, philosopher
• Daniel Dennett, philosopher

• Paul Feyerabend, philosopher
• Peter S. Fosl, philosopher
• Ernest Gellner, philosopher
• John Gray, political philosopher
• Horace Romano Harré, philosopher
• Colin Howson, philosopher
• Imre Lakatos, philosopher
• Shirley Robin Letwin, political philosopher
• Nicholas Maxwell, philosopher
• David Miller, philosopher
• Alan Musgrave, philosopher
• Michael Oakeshott, philosopher
• Michael Otsuka, philosopher
• Sir Karl Popper, philosopher
• Graham Priest, philosopher
• Bertrand Russell, philosopher, Nobel Prize winner
• Jeremy Shearmur, philosopher
• Elliott Sober, philosopher of biology
• Jeremy Stangroom, philosopher
• John Worrall, philosopher

Political scientists

• Benjamin Barber, professor of political science, University of Maryland, College Park
• Sir Ernest Barker, political scientist, Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927
• Scott Barrett, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University
• Sarah Gibson Blanding, Vassar College's sixth president and first female president
• 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
• Sir Bernard Crick, political theorist
• Amy Gutmann, political scientist, President of the University of Pennsylvania
• 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 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
• Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh, political theorist
• Louis Pauly, political scientist
• Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, political scientist, diplomat and author
• Jill Vickers, political scientist

Sociologists

• Peter Abell, founding Director of Interdisciplinary Institute of Management
• Helmut Anheier, founder of the Centre for Civil Society and Dean of the Hertie School of Governance
• 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, sociologist renowned for his theory of structuration, and former Director of the School
• Paul Gilroy, sociologist
• W.D. Hamilton, grandfather of sociobiology and the 'selfish gene' theory popularised by Richard Dawkins
• Michael Mann, sociologist
• Karl Mannheim, sociologist
• Robert McKenzie, sociologist and psephologist
• Andrew Milner, sociologist of literature
• Talcott Parsons, sociologist
• John Porter, sociologist
• Nikolas Rose, sociologist
• Saskia Sassen, sociologist and economist
• Richard Sennett, sociologist
• Hilary Wainwright, sociologist

Social anthropology

• Maurice Bloch, marxist and cognitive anthropologist
• Fredrik Barth, anthropologist
• Jean Comaroff, anthropologist
• John Comaroff, anthropologist
• Maria Czaplicka, Polish cultural anthropologist
• Jack Herbert Driberg, anthropologist^[6]
• E.E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist
• Sir Raymond Firth, ethnologist, founder of economic anthropology
• Rosemary Firth, ethnologist
• Meyer Fortes, anthropologist
• Alfred Gell, anthropologist
• David Graeber, anthropologist, anarchist and activist
• Phyllis Kaberry, anthropologist
• Adam Kuper, anthropologist
• David Lan, anthropologist and film maker
• Edmund Leach, anthropologist
• Charles Stafford, anthropologist
• Alan Macfarlane, social anthropologist and historian
• Lucy Mair, anthropologist
• Harvey Whitehouse, cognitive anthropologist
• Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologist
• Z.K. Mathews, prominent Apartheid-era South African academic
• Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
• Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist and ethnographer
• Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, anthropologist
• Audrey Richards, anthropologist, nutritional anthropologist
• Charles Gabriel Seligman, ethnographer
• Isaac Schapera, anthropologist
• Dan Sperber, anthropologist
• Michael Taussig, prominent 'postmodern' anthropologist
• Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University
• Edward Westermarck, anthropologist
• Fei Xiaotong, anthropologist

Social policy analysts and workers

• Lord William Beveridge, former Director of LSE
• Julian Le Grand, social economist
• Martin Knapp, Chair of LSE Health and Social Care
• Tim Newburn, professor of criminology and current president of the British Society of Criminology
• Augustus Nuwagaba, Associate Professor at Makerere University
• Peter Townsend, professor of social policy
• Richard Titmuss, founder of the academic discipline of social policy

Social psychology

• Martin Bauer, psychologist
• Howard Gardner, an American psychologist, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences
• Nicholas Humphrey, psychologist
• Satoshi Kanazawa, evolutionary psychologist
• J. Philippe Rushton, psychologist
• Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist
• Andrew Samuels, 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

Statisticians

• Sir R. G. D. Allen, President of the Royal Statistical Society,
• D. J. Bartholomew, Professor of Statistics and President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1993–1995
• Sir Arthur Bowley, statistician
• D. G. Champernowne, Professor of Statistical Economics
• W. Edwards Deming, statistician, economist
• James Durbin, statistician, econometrician
• John Hajnal, statistician
• Sir Maurice George Kendall, statistician
• Leslie Kish, American statistician
• Maurice Quenouille, inventor of Jackknife resampling
• John Denis Sargan, statistician
• Nate Silver, American statistician
• Howell Tong, statistician
• Henry Wynn, President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1977

Government and politics

United Kingdom

• Leo Abse, British MP, famous for legalisation of male homosexuality
• Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, Head of the Home Civil Service
• Lord Waheed Alli, media mogul, openly gay Muslim businessman
• Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, Solicitor General for England and Wales
• 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
• Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
• Sir Kenneth Berrill, chief economic adviser to the Treasury; Head of the Central Policy Review Staff
• Marcial Boo, Chief Executive of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
• Baroness Virginia Bottomley, former Cabinet Minister
• John Bourn, Officer, British House of Commons
• Sir Rhodes Boyson, British MP
• Annette Brooke, British MP
• Karen Buck, British MP
• Sir John Burgh, Director-General of the British Council
• Munir Butt, High Commissioner to Pakistan
• Sir Sydney Caine, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
• Greg Clark, British MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury
• Nick Clegg, British MP, Leader of Lib Dems and Deputy PM
• Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minister, Vice-President of the European Commission
• Tim Collins, British MP
• Maureen Colquhoun, Britain's first openly lesbian MP
• Yvette Cooper, Cabinet Minister
• Paul Corrigan, Director of Strategy and Commissioning of the NHS London Strategic Health Authority
• Jim Cousins, British MP
• Mary Creagh, British MP
• Stella Creasy, British MP
• Edwina Currie, former British Conservative MP, author, radio presenter
• Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Vladimir Derer, Campaign for Labour Party Democracy co-founder
• Andrew Dismore, British MP
• Dick Douglas, British MP
• Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy, British Member of Parliament, Minister of the Navy, and President of the NATO Assembly
• Frank Dobson, Cabinet Minister
• Helen Eadie, MSP^[7]
• Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine
• Daniel Finkelstein, Conservative Party strategist and Comment Editor of The Times
• Barbara Follett, British MP
• Dame Janet Gaymer QC, Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments
• Steve Gilbert, British MP
• David Gold, Baron Gold
• Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, political advisor
• Tom Greatrex, British MP
• Miranda Grell, Labour Councillor and first person found guilty of making false statements under the Representation of the People Act 1983
• Judith Hart, Baroness Hart, Cabinet Minister
• Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
• Mark Hoban, British MP
• Margaret Hodge, Minister
• Jane Hutt, Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government
• Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Cabinet Minister
• Sydney Irving, Baron Irving of Dartford, British MP
• Margot James, British MP
• Brian Jenkins, British MP
• Aubrey Jones, Minister; chairman of the National Board for Prices and Incomes
• Frank Judd, Baron Judd, Minister
• Syed Kamall, British MEP
• Ruth Kelly, Cabinet Minister
• Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England
• David Kingsley, adviser to Prime Minister Harold Wilson
• Arthur Latham, British MP
• Julian Le Grand, senior advisor to the Prime Minister
• Sir Michael Lickiss, Chairman South West of England Regional Development Agency; Chairman VisitBritain^[8]
• Spencer Livermore, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Director of Political Strategy
• Rachel Lomax, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport, Department for Work and Pensions, and the Welsh Office
• Dame Mavis McDonald, Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office
• Ramsay MacDonald, first Labour Prime Minister
• Michael Meacher, Minister
• John Mendelson, British MP
• Baron Merlyn-Rees, former Home Secretary
• Ed Miliband, current leader of the Labour Party
• Andrew Miller, British MP
• Doreen Miller, Baroness Miller of Hendon, British politician
• Maria Miller, British MP, Cabinet Minister
• Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett
• Jeremy Moore, Director General of strategy, policy and analysis at the Department of Work and Pensions
• John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, Cabinet Minister
• Claus Moser, Baron Moser, Director of the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom
• Bob Neill, British MP
• Nigel Newcomen, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
• Peter Nurse, chairman of the Co-operative Party
• Una O'Brien, Permanent Secretary Department of Health
• Eric Ollerenshaw, British MP
• Marion Phillips, British MP
• Christopher Pincher, British MP
• Stephen Pound, British MP
• Sir Ray Powell, British MP
• Reginald Prentice, Baron Prentice, Cabinet Minister
• Vicky Pryce former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service
• Baroness Joyce Quin
• Baroness Rawlings, British MEP, former Chairman of the Council of King's College London
• Rachel Reeves, British MP
• David Rutley, British MP
• Tom Scholar, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gordon Brown
• Andrew Selous, British MP
• Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear, leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords
• Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, Junior Minister, first Local Government Ombudsman
• Virendra Sharma, British MP
• Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, Cabinet Minister
• Barry Sheerman, British MP
• Sir Richard Shepherd, British MP
• Donald Soper, Baron Soper, Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist.
• Sir John Sparrow, Director-general Central Policy Review Staff; Chairman Horserace Betting Levy Board^[9]
• Josiah Stamp, former Governor of the Bank of England
• John Stonehouse, former Minister
• Jo Swinson, British MP, Junior Minister
• Ian Taylor, British MP
• Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, Junior Minister
• Rudi Vis, British MP
• Malcolm Wicks, Minister
• Jennifer Willott, British MP, Junior Minister
• David Winnick, British MP
• Anthony Wright, Former British MP
• Michael Young, Baron Young, academic and author of the 1945 Labour manifesto

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 the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), Bush Administration
• Walter Berns, Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
• 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
• Bill Blythe, former Republican state representative from Harris County, Texas, 1971 to 1983
• Michael Chertoff, United States Secretary of 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
• William Gale, Council of Economic Advisers, Bush Administration
• Eric Garcetti, Mayor, Los Angeles
• 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
• Genta H. Holmes, United States Ambassador to Australia, Clinton Administration; United States 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
• Bruce Jentleson, International Affairs Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore
• Bruce Katz, former Chief of Staff, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; Vice President, Brookings Institution
• 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 Senate
• Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern involved in a sex scandal with former President Bill Clinton
• Susan Lindauer, ex-Congressional aide accused of assisting Iraqi intelligence prior to the 2003 invasion
• 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
• James McGreevey, former governor of New Jersey
• Brad Miller, Member of the US House of Representatives
• 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 Economic Advisors, Clinton Administration; Fellow of the Brookings Institution; Professor, Georgetown University, Congressional Budget Office Director, Director designate Office of Management and Budget
• Tan Parker, member of the Texas House of Representatives
• 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.
• David Rockefeller, former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Trilateral Commission
• Pete Rouse, White House Chief of Staff, Obama Administration
• James Rubin, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; lead foreign policy adviser to John Kerry campaign
• Robert Rubin, US Treasury Secretary and Director, National Economic Council, Clinton Administration; Director of Goldman Sachs
• Rajiv Shah, USAID Administrator, Obama Administration
• Robert Shapiro, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, Clinton Administration; Fellow of Harvard University; Fellow of National Bureau of Economic Research
• Mona Sutphen, current White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
• 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
• Kimba Wood, United States Federal Judge; Attorney General Nominee
• Janet Yellen, Chair, Federal Reserve, formerly Council of Economic Advisers, Clinton Administration; Vice-President, American Economic Association; President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Dov Zakheim, Under-Secretary of Defense, Bush and Reagan administrations

Canada

• Jon Allen, Canadian Ambassador to Israel, 2006–present
• Ed Broadbent, Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, 1975-1989
• Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada
• John Crosbie, Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, former Cabinet minister
• Hal Jackman, former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
• Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party 2008-2011
• Joy MacPhail, former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia
• Marc Mayrand, Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada, 2007–present
• David McGuinty, Member of Parliament, Liberal Party
• Jacques Parizeau, Premier of Quebec, 1994–1996
• Louis Rasminsky, Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1961 to 1973
• Svend Robinson, former Canadian MP; first openly gay Canadian politician in major political party
• Gregory Selinger, Premier of Manitoba, 2009–present
• Mitchell Sharp, former Canadian Minister of Finance
• Walter Tarnopolsky, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee
• Gordon Thiessen, Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1994-2001
• Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, 1968-1979 and 1980-1984
• Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006–present
• Paul Zed, Member of Parliament for Saint John, New Brunswick

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Fidel Herrera Beltrán, Governor of Veracruz, Mexico
• Eduardo Bhatia, President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
• Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica
• Winston Dookeran, Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist
• Christiana Figueres, current head of the UNFCCC
• Martin Lousteau, Minister of economy and production, Argentina
• Corinne Avril Baptiste-McKnight, Trinidad and Tobago Senator^[10]
• Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
• Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, formerly Minister of Foreign Trade, Minister of Finance and Minister of National Defense.

Europe

• Georgios Alogoskoufis, former Minister for Economy and Finance, Greece
• Prince Amedeo of Belgium
• Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner
• Joe Bossano, Chief Minister of Gibraltar
• Lykke Friis, Minister for Climate and Energy, Denmark
• Wilfried Guth, Chairman of Deutsche Bank
• Prince Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
• Rainer Hable, Member of Austrian Parliament
• Patrick Janssens, Mayor of Antwerp (2003-2012); MP Flemish Parliament, Chairman Flemish social democrats (SP) (1999-2003), Belgian MP Chamber of Representatives (2003-2004)
• 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
• Ursula von der Leyen, Minister for Labour and Social Affairs, Germany
• Ivan Mikloš, Minister of Finance of Slovakia
• Franz Neumann, first Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
• Elias Mossialos, Minister of State and Government Spokesman, Greece
• Érik Orsenna, former economist and advisor to François Mitterrand, member of the Conseil d'État and of the Académie française, 1988 Prix Goncourt
• Giorgos Papakonstantinou, former Minister for Finance of Greece
• George Papandreou, Foreign Minister of Greece from 1999 to 2004 and from 2009 to present, Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011
• Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance, Poland
• Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Alexander Stubb, Prime Minister of Finland
• Zdeněk Tůma, Governor of Czech National Bank
• August Zaleski, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

Africa

• Augustus Akinloye, Nigerian lawyer and politician, Chairman of defunct National Party of Nigeria
• Kader Asmal, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
• Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, effectively Prime Minister of Libya (2007–2011), son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi^[11]
• 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
• Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
• Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa and freedom fighter
• Michael Wamalwa Kijana, former Vice-President of Kenya
• Mac Maharaj, South African ANC politician, former Minister of Transport
• Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe
• Bayo Ojo, past head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice
• Babatunji Olowofoyeku, Nigerian politician
• Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian independence leader, Fabian lawyer, human rights advocate
• Alex Quaison-Sackey, former foreign minister of Ghana
• Winston Tubman, Liberian diplomat and politician
• Shamsudeen Usman, Nigerian economist, technocrat and banker; current Minister of National Planning and past Minister of Finance of Nigeria.

Asia

• B. R. Ambedkar, First Law Minister of India, Bahujan political leader who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution^[12]
• Piyasvasti Amranand, Thailand's Energy Minister
• Sonny Angara, Senator of the Philippines
• Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Defence Minister of Pakistan.
• Taro Aso, former Prime Minister of Japan
• Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, Former Dy. Foreign Minister of Pakistan
• Jyoti Basu, Indian politician, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Audrey Eu, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and former party leader of the Civic Party
• Abul Fateh, Bangladesh diplomat
• Feroze Gandhi, Indian-Parsi politician and journalist, former 'First Gentleman of India' (husband of PM Indira Gandhi)
• 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
• Mustafa Kamal, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Sir Yuet Keung Kan, Hong Kong politician, banker and lawyer
• Makhdoom Ali Khan, Ex-Attorney General of Pakistan and chief lawyer of President Pervez Musharraf
• Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan, President of Pakistan Muslim League, 1st Chief Minister of N.W.F.P Pakistan, former Industry trade and Interior Minister of Pakistan
• Emily Lau, Hong Kong politician
• Maliha Lodhi, Pakistan's High Commissioner to United Kingdom and former Ambassador to USA
• Marvi Memon, Member National Assembly Pakistan
• Krishna Menon, former Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, Minister of Defence, and leading proponent of India's emancipation
• C. R. Pattabhiraman, Indian member of Parliament and Union Minister
• Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
• Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's Finance Minister
• Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesian Minister of Defence
• Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat
• Kashmala Tariq, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
• Puey Ungpakorn, former governor of the (Central) Bank of Thailand
• Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore

Australia and New Zealand

• Ameer Ali, President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
• William Macmahon Ball, Australian diplomat
• Tim Barnett, Member of the Parliament of New Zealand
• Peter Coleman, Journalist and conservative politician
• Arnold Cook, Founder of the Guide Dog movement
• Nugget Coombs, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Robert Hill, Defence Minister
• Christian Porter, Treasurer and Attorney-General of Western Australia
• Gordon Reid, Governor of Western Australia and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia
• Peter Shergold, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Stephen Smith, Foreign and Defence minister
• Tim Watts, Labour MP
• Penny Wong, Labour MP and Minister

Middle East

• Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai (attended courses; did not graduate)
• 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
• Yoram Danziger, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
• Kemal Derviş, former 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; former World Bank Chief Economist
• Emre Gönensay, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996
• Moshe Levi, Lieutenant General, was the 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
• Arnon Milchan, a Israeli independent Hollywood film producer who has been linked to Mossad
• Yitzhak Moda'i, an Israeli politician who served as an MP for over 20 years
• Amnon Rubinstein, Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist, Education Minister of Israel, 1993–1996
• Moshe Sharett, was the second Prime Minister of Israel
• Ali Tayebnia, Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance
• Adel Al-Touraifi, Saudi Minister of Culture and Information

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
• Philip Barton, British High Commissioner to Pakistan
• Ralph Bunche, political scientist and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Special Political Affairs
• Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minister under Thatcher; Vice-President of the European Commission
• Nitin Desai, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
• Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
• Ian Goldin, former 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
• Robert E. Hunter, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
• Clete Donald Johnson, Jr., former Member of Congress and US Ambassador, LL.M 1978
• Manoj Juneja, Deputy Director-General for Operations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• 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
• Catriona Laing, British Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe
• John J. Maresca, former US Ambassador to the OSCE in the George H.W. Bush Administration
• Sir Goolam Hoosen Kader Meeran, President of the UK Employment Tribunals; Judge of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal
• Sir John Morgan, Britain’s ambassador to South Korea, Poland and Mexico^[13]
• Marty Natalegawa, Foreign Minister of Indonesia
• Braj Kumar Nehru, Ambassador of India to the United States and Indian High Commissioner to Britain
• Michael O'Neill, Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
• William Peters, High Commissioner in Malawi
• Bertrand Ramcharan, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights^[14]
• Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
• Shaha Riza, World Bank
• Pierre Sane, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences
• Michele J. Sison, US Ambassador to Lebanon in the Bush Administration
• Walter Tarnopolsky, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee
• Arne Roy Walther, Norwegian ambassador to Japan
• Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006–present

Arts and media

Film and music

• Sylvia Anderson (nee Thamm), producer, writer, voice actor
• Greg Barker, documentary filmmaker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda
• Rhian Benson, Ghanaian and Welsh soul and jazz singer-songwriter
• Sophie Choudry, Indian actress
• Mick Jagger, British musician, lead vocalist of The Rolling Stones
• Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules), Radio 1 DJ
• Soha Ali Khan, Indian actress
• Katell Keineg, Singer/songwriter
• Arif Mardin, Turkish music producer
• Ron Moody, British actor, famous for playing Fagin in Oliver!
• Jaime Murray, actress
• Scott Neustadter, Hollywood writer, 500 Days of Summer is based on a romance at LSE
• Mat Osman, bass player for Suede
• Edward R. Pressman, film producer (Wall Street, Das Boot, Thank You for Smoking)
• David Rodigan, Reggae DJ
• Allan Segal, BAFTA-winning documentary film maker
• Tara Sharma, Indian actress
• Sophie Solomon, British violinist, songwriter and composer
• Robin Spry, filmmaker
• Frank Turner, musician, in the band Million Dead, now a solo artist. He wrote his final year dissertation while on tour with Million Dead.
• Oliver Weindling, jazz promoter and founder of the Babel jazz record label
• Frederick M. Zollo, Academy Award-nominated producer
• Tom Connan, singer-songwriter, actor and director

Television and radio

• David Attenborough, BBC Presenter, naturalist and zoologist
• Zeina Awad, Reporter, Al Jazeera English
• Jana Bennett, Head of Vision, BBC
• Bidisha, broadcaster and writer
• Jon Blair, Academy Award, British Academy Award and Emmy winning producer and director
• Josh Chetwynd baseball presenter
• Martin Durkin, TV director
• Loyd Grossman, TV Chef/Presenter
• Robert Kilroy-Silk, TV Presenter, politician and former Eurosceptic MEP
• Hari Kondabolu, stand-up comedian
• Kirsty Lang, broadcaster and journalist
• Martin Lewis, TV presenter and Money Saving Expert
• Sean McGuiness, Top Gear, Producer
• James O'Brien, radio journalist
• Mark Urban, Newsnight Diplomatic Editor
• Huw Wheldon, former MD of BBC TV

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
• Peter Avis, journalist
• 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
• Josh Chetwynd, baseball presenter, player and writer
• Andrew Coyne, national editor for Maclean's
• Robert Elms, radio presenter, music journalist
• Ekow Eshun, BBC Newsnight broadcaster, and TV host
• Simon Garfield, The Observer journalist and author of "Mauve" and "Our Hidden Lives"
• Tom Happold, Editor of The Guardian
• Leslie Finer, British journalist and author
• Daniel Finkelstein, Comment Editor of The Times
• Yvonne Green, poet, writer, barrister
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Tim Lott, journalist and Whitbread Book Awards winning author
• Edward Lucas, journalist
• Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, Norwegian publisher of Aftenposten and Verdens Gang
• Hilary Mantel, writer, Man Booker Prize winner in 2009 & 2012, the first woman to receive the award twice
• China Miéville, writer, PhD International Relations 2001
• Keith Murdoch, journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch
• Nisha Pillai, BBC World presenter
• Aroon Purie, Indian media mogul; founding editor and editor in chief of India Today and chairman of TV Today Network Limited
• Nabila Ramdani, French-Algerian journalist
• Christopher Ruddy, journalist, CEO of Newsmax Media, formerly with the New York Post and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Bertrand Russell, philosopher and Nobel Literature prize-winning author
• Sadeq Saba, BBC Iranian affairs analyst
• Edward Taylor Scott, journalist, former editor and co-owner of The Guardian
• Barbara Serra, journalist and TV News Reader
• Zecharia Sitchin, ancient astronaut theorist
• Robert Slater, chairman of the Foreign Press Association in Israel
• Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member and Editor in Chief of the Jerusalem Post
• Paul Tansey, economics editor for The Irish Times
• Michael Whitney Straight, publisher and novelist
• Sander Vanocur, journalist, NBC
• 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
• Jacqueline Wheldon, novelist
• Yvonne Ndege, journalist
• Xu Zhimo, early 20th-century Chinese poet

Business and finance

• Josef Ackermann (* 1948), former CEO of Deutsche Bank (visiting professor)
• Delphine Arnault, billionaire French businesswoman
• Sir Terence Beckett, chairman of Ford and director-general of the Confederation of British Industry
• 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
• Winston Dookeran, politician and economist; former Governor of the Caribbean Development Bank and Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
• Glyn England, chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board^[15]
• Tony Fernandes, entrepreneur
• Clara Furse, former Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange
• Sir Paul Girolami, chairman Glaxo
• Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, entrepreneur, founder of EasyGroup
• Michael S. Jeffries, CEO Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
• Robert Kaplan, former Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International
• Michael Kopper, former Enron executive ^[16]
• Spiro Latsis, billionaire
• Charles Lee, former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
• David Morgan, CEO of Westpac
• 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, Chairman of Nokia Corporation, Non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell
• Zarin Patel, BBC's Chief Financial Officer
• Gary Perlin, CFO Capital One Financial Corporation; Former CFO World Bank
• Avinash Persaud, Global Head of Currency & Commodity Research at J.P. Morgan
• Vicky Pryce, former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service
• Philip J. Purcell, former CEO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
• Ruth Porat, Chief Financial Officer, Morgan Stanley
• Syed Ali Raza, President and Chairman of the National Bank of Pakistan
• David Rockefeller, American billionaire and business tycoon
• Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
• George Soros, financier; billionaire
• Peter Sutherland, BP and Goldman Sachs chairman

• Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, industrialist, Chancellor of Middlesex University
• Yevhenia Tymoshenko (Eugenia), Ukrainian entrepreneur and lobbyist on behalf of her mother, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko^[17]
• Lance Uggla, CEO of Markit Group
• Panagis Vourloumis, Managing Director and President of the OTE's Board, the national telecommunications provider of Greece
• Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock, English businessman, best known for building GEC
• Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat
• Jeff Wooller, accountant and educationalist

Lawyers and judges

• Cherie Booth QC, judge, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
• Gerald Butler, senior judge at Southwark Crown Court
• Sir Clive Callman, longest serving Judge in all jurisdictions in England and Wales^[18]
• Esau Chulu, Judge of the High Court of Zambia; Commissioner at the Electoral Commission of Zambia
• Yekini Olayiwola Adio, Justice of the Supreme Court (Nigeria)
• Dame Linda Dobbs, first coloured person to be appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales
• Anselm Eldergill, District Judge at the Court of Protection
• Courtenay Griffiths, QC
• Curtis Doebbler, lawyer, represented Saddam Hussein
• Dorab Patel, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Sir Richard Field, High Court Judge
• Sir Michael Fox, Lord Justice of Appeal
• Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, Deputy High Court Judge
• Christopher Greenwood QC, advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the Iraq War
• * Mashood Olayiwola Adio, Chief Judge of Oyo State, Nigeria; Judge of the Supreme Court of The Gambia
• Dame Rosalyn Higgins QC, judge and former president of the International Court of Justice
• Sir Robin Jacob, as Lord Justice Jacob a Lord Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales
• Sir Edwin Frank Jowitt, High Court Judge
• Makhdoom Ali Khan, former Attorney General of Pakistan
• Manfred Lachs, judge on the International Court of Justice
• Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Judge of the International Court of Justice
• Mónica Feria Tinta, international lawyer, obtained the first international human rights court decision ordering the prosecution of a former Head of State for crimes under international law; co-recipient of Gruber Justice Prize 2007
• Mustafa Kamal, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Lauretta Lamptey, Ghanaian Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice
• Thomas Mesereau, lawyer, represented Michael Jackson
• Regina Obiageli Nwodo, Judge of the Federal High Court, Nigeria; Justice of the Court of Appeal, Nigeria^[15]
• Gareth Peirce, solicitor, represented the Guildford Four
• Howard Riddle, Senior District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) and Chief Magistrate
• Robert Ribeiro, Permanent Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
• Cedric Thornberry, International lawyer and former Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Peter Whiteman, Deputy High Court Judge
• Christopher Wolf, American attorney, a pioneer in Internet law
• Kimba Wood, federal judge on senior status for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

NGOs, charities and pressure groups

• Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
• Mark Goldring, chief executive of Mencap, chief executive of Oxfam GB^[19][20]
• Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, Executive Director (1975 - 2011) of Community Service Volunteers (CSV)
• Mary Joynson, Director of Barnardo's^[21][22]
• Marion Kozak, human rights campaigner
• Sir Nicholas Partridge, Chief Executive Terrence Higgins Trust; Chairman of Involve
• Anusyabehn Sarabhai, Indian trade unionist
• Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International

Sport

• Josh Chetwynd, baseball player, presenter and author
• John Lacy, English footballer, 1975 FA Cup finalist with Fulham
• Elham Al Qasimi, first Arab woman to reach the North Pole

Law Enforcement

• Sir Ian Johnston, Chief Constable of British Transport Police
• Valerie Plame, CIA officer who was controversially identified in a newspaper column by Robert Novak in July 2003
• Barbara Wilding, Chief Constable of South Wales Police

Others

• Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal, terrorist
• Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Islamic militant

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
• Eliza Doolittle, fictional character in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
• Prime Minister Jim Hacker of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
• Jack Ryan, fictional character by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations

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 and Virginia Woolf
• Emmeline Pankhurst

(Some are depicted in the Fabian Window)

• Frank Podmore
• Edward R. Pease
• Edward Carpenter
• Henry Stephens Salt
• Ramsay MacDonald
• H. M. Hyndman
• Keir Hardie
• Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
• Henry Campbell-Bannerman
• Lytton Strachey
• E. M. Forster
• Bertrand Russell
• John Davidson
• Havelock Ellis
• R. H. Tawney
• G. D. H. Cole
• Leopold Stennett Amery, statesman and Conservative politician.
• Richard Burdon Haldane, Liberal politician, lawyer, and philosopher.
• Leopold Maxse, editor, National Review
• Alfred Milner, statesman and colonial administrator
• Henry Newbolt, author and poet.
• Carlyon Bellairs, naval commander and M.P.
• James Louis Garvin, journalist and editor
• Sir Clinton Edward Dawkins, businessman and civil servant.
• Sir Edward Grey

References

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

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