List of people associated with the London School of Economics
Appearance
This is a list of noted alumni or faculty of the London School of Economics.
Heads of State or Heads of Government
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Lord Waheed Alli, House of Lords, media mogul, only openly gay Muslim businessman
- Delphine Arnault, billionaire French businesswoman
- Geoffrey Bell, banker, and Group of Thirty founder
- Sir Gordon Brunton, Chief Executive Thomson Corporation, Former Chairman Sotheby's
- Richard Caruso, Founder and Chairman of Integra LifeSciences Corporation and 2006 Ernst & Young US Entrepreneur of the Year
- Tony Fernandes, entrepreneur
- Clara Furse Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange
- Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, entrepreneur, founder of EasyGroup
- David Heleniak, Vice-Chairman, Morgan Stanley
- Samuel Isaly, Manager Eaton Vance Worldwide Health Sciences fund
- Michael S. Jeffries, CEO Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
- Richard Kahan, Chairman, Riverside South Planning Corporation, Donald Trump's building
- Robert Kaplan, former Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International
- Michael Kopper, former Enron executive [2]
- Spiro Latsis, billionaire
- Charles Lee, Former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- David Morgan, CEO of Westpac
- Robert Murley, Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston and Chairman of Investment Banking for the Americas
- Arif Naqvi, CEO of Abraaj Capital, the leading private equity firm in the Middle East
- Christopher Nassetta, President and CEO of Hilton Hotels Corp.
- Erling Dekke Næss, Norwegian shipowner and businessman
- Richard Nesbitt, CEO, TSX Group; Toronto Stock Exchange
- Jorma Ollila, former CEO of Nokia Corporation, Non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell
- Zarin Patel, BBC's Chief Financial Officer
- Sheila Penrose, Chairman, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; President of Penrose Group; Director of McDonalds
- Gary Perlin, CFO Capital One Financial Corporation; Former CFO World Bank
- Avinash Persaud, Global Head of Currency & Commodity Research at J.P. Morgan
- Philip J. Purcell, former CEO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
- Syed Ali Raza, President and Chairman of the National Bank of Pakistan
- Stephen Robert, co-chairman of CIBC Oppenheimer Holdings Corp, Chancellor of Brown University
- David Rockefeller, American billionaire and business tycoon
- Barr Rosenberg, Chairman and director of research, AXA Rosenberg Investment Management LLC
- Wieslaw Rozlucki, CEO Warsaw Stock Exchange 1991-2006, Poland
- Maurice Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi)
- George Soros, Notable Financier; Billionaire
- Bryan Sanderson CBE, Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank plc
- Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, industrialist, Chancellor of Middlesex University
- Panagis Vourloumis, Managing Director and President of the OTE's Board, the national telecommunications provider of Greece
- Arnold Weinstock, English businessman, best known for building GEC
- Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat
Lawyers and judges
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- 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
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- Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb
- George Bernard Shaw
- Graham Wallas
- Henry Hutchinson
- H. G. Wells
- Annie Besant
- Hubert Bland
- Edith Nesbit
- Sydney Olivier
- Oliver Lodge
- Leonard Woolf
- Emmeline Pankhurst
(Some are depicted in the Fabian Window)
- Edward R. Pease
- Ramsay MacDonald
- Bertrand Russell
- Edward Carpenter
- John Davidson
- Havelock Ellis
- R. H. Tawney
- G. D. H. Cole
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