List of people associated with the London School of Economics

This is a list of noted alumni or faculty of the London School of Economics.

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

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)

Academics

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, economist
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
Baron Maurice Peston, economist and politican
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
John Van Reenen, economist, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics
Sir Alan Walters, monetary economist
Basil Yamey, industrial economist
Allyn Abbott Young, economist

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 Habsburg 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
Juliette Levy, historian and Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
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.

Economic Historians

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

Employment Relations/Management

Adam Seth Litwin, assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University
David Metcalf, professor at LSE from 1982 to present

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

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 (Montague Burton Chair), to 2008
Kimberly Hutchings, 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
Sir Charles Webster, Professor of International Relations; founder of the United Nations
Margot Light, Professor of International Relations
Martin Wight, Reader in International Relations, 1949-1960

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

Philosophers

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Paul Feyerabend

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
Horace Romano Harré, 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

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

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

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
Meyer Fortes, anthropologist
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

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
Howard Gardner, an American psychologist, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences

Social Workers

Augustus Nuwagaba, Associate Professor Makerere University

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

Government and politics

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

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 Director, National Economic Council, 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

Canada

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Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

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

Latin America

Fidel Herrera Beltrán, Governor of Veracruz, Mexico
Mario Adolfo Cuevas, Director, National Center for Economic Research (CIEN), Guatemala
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
Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian politician, currently serving as Minister of National Defense

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

Africa

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, political activist and elder son of Libyan President Muammar al-Gaddafi
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

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
Alex Quaison-Sackey, former foreign minister of Ghana
Winston Tubman, Liberian diplomat and politician
Shamsudeen Usman Nigerian economist, technocrat and banker. Current Nigeria's minister of finance.
Samuel G Ikoku notable Nigerian economist and politician; senior adviser of Dr Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
Samuel Aluko famous Nigeria professor of Economics

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
Nani Lal Barua, Banker, Central Bank of India, Calcutta, India

Australia

Ameer Ali, President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
William Macmahon Ball, Australian diplomat
Peter Coleman, Journalist and conservative politician
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

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

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

Arts and media

Film and music

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Sir Mick Jagger

Greg Barker, documentary filmmaker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda
Sir Mick Jagger, rock star, left LSE for music
Peter Lawlor, producer/songwriter 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.

Television and radio

Martin Durkin TV director
Loyd Grossman, TV Chef/Presenter
Robert Kilroy-Silk, TV Presenter, politician and Eurosceptic MEP
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

Authors and journalists

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Edith Abbott

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

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

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David Rockefeller, billionaire

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

Lawyers and judges

Cherie Booth QC, wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair

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

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

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

Founders of LSE

(Some are depicted in the Fabian Window)

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

References

^ Elsey, B. (1987) "R. H. Tawney – Patron saint of adult education", in P. Jarvis (ed.) “Twentieth Century Thinkers in Adult Education”, Beckenham: Croom Helm

[1] Elsey, B. (1987) "R. H. Tawney – Patron saint of adult education", in P. Jarvis (ed.) “Twentieth Century Thinkers in Adult Education”, Beckenham: Croom Helm

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