User:Bnosnhoj/List of School of Foreign Service Alumni

For a list of notable graduates of Georgetown University, see List of Georgetown University alumni.

Main article: School of Foreign Service

This list of School of Foreign Service alumni includes the alumni of undergraduate and graduate programs of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C.. The school's total alumni number over 30,000.

Among its alumni count dozens of ambassadors, diplomats, politicians, and public figures including former U.S. President Bill Clinton, King Felipe VI of Spain, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, and Governor of Puerto Rico Luis Fortuño, among numerous others.

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Note: Individuals who may belong in multiple sections appear only in one, typically that of greater significance. An empty class year or school/degree box indicates that the information is unknown.
* Indicates the alumnus or alumna attended but did not graduate (includes years of attendance)

Legend:

• SFS – Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (undergraduate)

• MSFS – Master of Science in Foreign Service (graduate)
• SSP – Master of Arts (M.A.) in Security Studies (graduate)
• GHD – Master of Global Human Development (graduate)
• MAAS – M.A. in Arab Studies (graduate)
• MASIA – M.A. in Asian Studies (graduate)
• MAGES – M.A. in German and European Studies (graduate)
• MAERES – M.A. in Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (graduate)
• MALAS – M.A. in Latin American Studies (graduate)

Bill Clinton, class of 1968, ran for student council president his senior year.

Academia

Name	Class year	Program/ degree	Notability	Reference
Debora L. Spar	1984	SFS	President of Barnard College, 2008–present
B. Joseph White	1969	SFS	President of the University of Illinois, 2005–09 President of the University of Michigan, 2002 (interim)

Business

Name	Class year	Program/ degree	Notability	Reference
Dexter Goei	1993	SFS	CEO of Altice
Anne Dias-Griffin	1992	SFS	Chicago-based investor and philanthropist
Darcy Olsen	1993	SFS	CEO of the Goldwater Institute
Tony Ressler	1981	SFS	Co-founder of Apollo Global Management and Ares Management; co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks and Milwaukee Brewers.
Chris Sacca	1997	SFS	Venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist
Marcus Wallenberg	1977	SFS	International banker and industrialist

Government

Heads of state and government

Name	Class year	Program/ degree	Notability	Reference
Abdullah II bin al-Hussein	1987	MSFS	King of Jordan, 1999–present
Ricardo Arias	1935	SFS	President of Panama, 1955–56
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo	1968	SFS	President of the Philippines, 2001–10
José Manuel Barroso	1998	MSFS	President of the European Commission, 2004–2014 Prime Minister of Portugal, 2002–04
Bill Clinton	1968	SFS	President of the United States, 1993–2001
King Felipe VI	1995	MSFS	King of Spain, 2014–present
Željko Komšić	1982	SFS	Tripartite President of Bosnia, 2006–present
Dalia Grybauskaitė	1990		President of Lithuania, 2009–present
Alfonso López Michelsen		SFS	President of Colombia, 1974–78
Galo Plaza	1929	SFS	4th Secretary General of the Organization of American States, 1968–75 President of Ecuador, 1948–52

United States Government Officials

United States executive branch officials

• Steve Bannon (1983), White House Chief Strategist Counselor to the President, Trump administration.
• Philip Bilden (1986) Secretary of the Navy nominee in the Trump administration
• Matthew A. Reynolds (1986), former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (2008–2009)
• Margaret Weichert (1989) Deputy Director for Management in the Office of Management and Budget, Director of Federal Office of Personnel Management
• Paula Tufro (MSFS’06), former Director for Development and Democracy, National Security Council
• Dennis Wilder (MSFS’79), former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs, National Security Council
• David Addington (SFS’78), Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney
• Courtney Beale (SFS’02), Senior Director for Global Engagement at the National Security Council
• Victoria Espinel (SFS’89), former Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Executive Office of the President; Chief Executive of the Software Industry Trade Group BSA
• Jason Foley (MSFS’99), Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) in USAID’s Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs
• Dana Gresham (SFS’94), Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Transportation
• Julius Lloyd Horwich (SFS’86), Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs, Department of Education
• Bill Jackson (MSFS’84), Representative for Textiles, Office of US Trade Representative; former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative
• Retired General James L. Jones (USMC) (SFS’66), former National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama
• Mark Medish (SFS’84), former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on National Security Council, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
• Christopher Milligan (SFS’87), Counselor to the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID), former Acting Mission Director USAID/Madagascar
• Wendy Silberman Cutler (MSFS’83), Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative

U.S. cabinet secretaries

Name	Class year	Program/ degree	Cabinet Position	Administration	Other Positions	Reference
Paul Clement	1988	SFS	Attorney General, 2007 (acting)	George W. Bush	Solicitor General, 2005–2008
Alexander Haig	1961	MSFS	Secretary of State, 1981–1982	Ronald Reagan	Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, 1974–1979
James L. Jones	1966	SFS	National Security Advisor, 2009–2010	Barack Obama	Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, 2003–2006
John F. Kelly	1984	SSP	Chief of Staff, 2018–2019 Secretary of Homeland Security, 2017	Donald Trump
Denis McDonough	1996	MSFS	Chief of Staff, 2013–2017	Barack Obama	Deputy National Security Advisor, 2010–2013
Mick Mulvaney	1989	SFS	Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 2017–present Chief of Staff, 2019–present (acting)	Donald Trump	U.S. Representative from South Carolina, 2011–2017
Kirstjen Nielsen	1994	SFS	Secretary of Homeland Security, 2017–2019	Donald Trump
George Tenet	1976	SFS	Director of Central Intelligence, 1996–2004	Bill Clinton George W. Bush

U.S. ambassadors

Name	Class year	Program/ degree	Ambassadorship(s)	Other Notability	Reference
Craig B. Allen	1985	MSFS	Brunai, 2014–present	President of the United States-China Business Council, 2018–present
Alexander Arvizu	1980	SFS	Albania, 2010–2014
Diego C. Asencio	1952	SFS	Brazil, 1983–1986 Colombia, 1977–1980	Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, 1980–1983
Christopher C. Ashby	1968	SFS	Uruguay, 1997–2001
Vincent Battle	1962	SFS	Lebanon, 2001–2004; 1994 (As Chargé d'affaires ad interim)
Marcia Bernicat	1980	MSFS	Bangladesh, 2015–2018 Senegal, 2008–2011
John Blaney	1975	MSFS	Liberia, 2002–2005
Richard J. Bloomfield	1950	SFS	Portugal, 1978–1982 Ecuador, 1976–1978
Michele Thoren Bond	1977	MSFS	Lesotho, 2010–2012	Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, 2015–2017
Donald E. Booth	1976	SFS	Ethiopia, 2010–2013 Zambia, 2008–2010 Liberia, 2005–2008	U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, 2013–present
Natalie E. Brown	1989	SFS	Eritrea, 2016–present (As Chargé d'affaires ad interim)
Piper Campbell	1988	SFS	Mongolia, 2012–2015
Robert Cekuta	1980	SFS	Azerbaijan, 2015–2018
Maura Connelly	1981	SFS	Lebanon, 2010–2015 Syria, 2008–2009 (As Chargé d'affaires ad interim)
Ivo Daalder	1982	MSFS	NATO, 2009–2013
Glyn T. Davies	1979	SFS	Thailand, 2015–2018 U.N. Agencies in Vienna, 2009–2011
Jeffrey DeLaurentis	1976	SFS	Cuba, 2015–2017 (As Chargé d'affaires ad interim)
John Desrocher	1986	SFS	Algeria, 2017–present
Edward Djerejian	1960	SFS	Israel, 1993–1994 Syria, 1988–1991	Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, 1991–1993
James Dobbins	1963	SFS	European Union, 1991–1993	Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, 2001
Thomas Dodd	1957	SFS	Costa Rica, 1997–2001 Uruguay, 1993–1997
Michael Dodman	1983	SFS	Mauritania, 2018–present
Joseph R. Donovan Jr.	1973	SFS	Indonesia, 2016–present
Cynthia Efird	1971	SFS	Angola, 2004–2007
John D. Feeley	1983	SFS	Panama, 2015–2018
Judith G. Garber	1983	SFS	Latvia, 2015–2018	Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 2014–present acting
Janet E. Garvey	1979	MSFS	Cameroon, 2007–2010
Tatiana C. Gfoeller	1983 1982	MSFS SFS	Kyrgyzstan, 2008–2011
J. Scott Gration	1988	SSP	Kenya, 2011–2012
David Hale	1983	SFS	Pakistan, 2015–2018 Lebanon, 2013–2015 Jordan, 2004–2008	Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 2018–present
Michael Hammer	1985	SFS	D.R. Congo, 2018–present Chile, 2014–2016	Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 2011–2013
S. Fitzgerald Haney	1991 1990	MSFS SFS	Costa Rica, 2015–2017

• Ambassador Dennis Hankins (SFS’81), Ambassador to Guinea
• Ambassador Parker T. Hart (SFS’40), former Ambassador to Yemen, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey
• Ambassador Maura Harty (SFS’81), former Ambassador to Paraguay, former Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs; President & CEO of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
• Ambassador Todd Haskell (SFS’84), Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo
• Ambassador John Herbst (SFS’74), former Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Ukraine; Director of the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
• Ambassador Stuart Holliday (SFS’88), former Ambassador to the UN for Special Political Affairs; President & CEO of Meridian International Center
• Ambassador Michael S. Hoza (SFS’79), former Ambassador to Cameroon
• Ambassador Makila James (ISD Associate 2002-’03), former Ambassador to Swaziland
• Ambassador Eric G. John (SFS’82), former Ambassador to Thailand; President of Boeing Korea; Vice President of Boeing International
• Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson (SFS’32), former Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Thailand and Japan
• Ambassador Mark Johnson (SFS’68), former Ambassador to Senegal
• Ambassador Kelly Keiderling (SFS’88), Ambassador to Uruguay
• Ambassador Thomas Kelly (SFS’84, CLAS’84), former Ambassador to Djibouti
• Ambassador Lisa Kubiske (MSFS’79), former Ambassador to Honduras; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Finance and Development
• Ambassador Alphonse LaPorta (SFS’60), former Ambassador to Mongolia
• Ambassador Franklin L. Lavin (SFS’79), former Ambassador to Singapore; CEO of Export Now
• Ambassador Edward B. Lawson (SFS’24, MSFS’25), former Ambassador to Iceland and Israel
• Ambassador Hugo Llorens (SFS’77), former Ambassador to Honduras; Consul General, Sydney, Australia
• Ambassador Eileen Malloy (SFS’75), former Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan; Senior Advisor on Minsk Implementation, U.S. Embassy Kyiv
• Ambassador John Maisto (CLAS’61), former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Nicaragua, Venezuela
• Ambassador Deborah-Ann McCarthy (MSFS’79, G’79), former Ambassador to Lithuania; Executive Director of the CSIS/ICAPAA (International Career Advancement Program Alumni Association)
• Ambassador Jackson McDonald (SFS’78), former Ambassador to Gambia and Guinea
• Ambassador Jack McFall (SFS’29), former Ambassador to Finland
• Ambassador Gerald McGowan (SFS’68, L’74), former Ambassador to Portugal
• Ambassador Richard Mills, Jr. (SFS’81), former Ambassador to Armenia
• Ambassador Stephen Mull (SFS’80), former Ambassador to Poland; former U.S. Lead Coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation
• Ambassador Richard Boyce Norland (SFS’77), former Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Georgia
• Ambassador Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. (SFS’50), former Ambassador to Barbados, Guatemala, Peru and Argentina
• Ambassador Virginia Palmer (SFS’83), Ambassador to Malawi
• Ambassador Mark Robert Parris (SFS’72), former Ambassador to Turkey
• Ambassador Joan Polaschik (MSFS ’93), former Ambassador to Algeria
• Ambassador Otto Reich (CLAS’73), former Ambassador to Venezuela; former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; CEO, Otto Reich Associates
• Ambassador Eric Rubin (ISD Associate 1999-’00), Ambassador to Bulgaria
• Ambassador Todd D. Robinson (SFS’85), former Ambassador to Guatemala
• Ambassador V. Manuel Rocha (MSFS’78), former Ambassador to Bolivia; President of Barrick Gold Corp. Pueblo Viejo
• Ambassador Richard Schmierer (ISD Associate 2005-’06), former Ambassador to Oman; Chairman of the Board, Middle East Policy Council
• Ambassador Nancy Soderberg (MSFS’84), former Ambassador to the United Nations; former Deputy National Security Advisor; President & CEO of Soderberg Global Solutions
• Ambassador Mark C. Storella (ISD Associate 2002-’03), former Ambassador to Zambia
• Ambassador James C. Swan (SFS’84), former Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Djibouti
• Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz (SFS’91), Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
• Ambassador Patrick Theros (SFS’63), former Ambassador to Qatar; President of the U.S.-Qatar Business Council
• Ambassador Krishna Urs (SFS’80), Ambassador to Peru
• Ambassador Viron Vaky (SFS’47), former Ambassador to Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela
• Ambassador Richard David Vine (SFS’49), former Ambassador to Switzerland; Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs
• Ambassador C. David Welch (SFS’75), former Ambassador to Egypt; President of the Europe, Africa & Middle East division, Bechtel
• Ambassador Melissa F. Wells (SFS’56), former Ambassador to Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Estonia

Senior Officials at U.S. Department of State

• Paula Dobriansky (SFS’77), former Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs; former Special Envoy to Northern Ireland
• Patrick F. Kennedy (SFS’71), former Under Secretary for Management, State Department
• A. Wess Mitchell (MAGES’04), Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Co-Founder and former President, Center for European Political Analysis (CEPA)
• Matthew Reynolds (SFS’82), former Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
• Anne C. Richard (SFS’82), former Assistant Secretary of Population, Refugees and Migration, State Department
• Ambassador Philip Verveer (SFS’66), former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy
• Kenneth D. Ward (SFS’79), U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

U.S. governors

Name	Class year	Program/ degree	Governorship	Other Notability	Reference
Toney Anaya	1963	SFS	Governor of New Mexico, 1983–1987	Attorney General of New Mexico, 1975–1978
Luis Fortuño	1982	SFS	Governor of Puerto Rico, 2009–2013
Pat Quinn	1971	SFS	Governor of Illinois, 2009–2015	Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, 2009–2015 Treasurer of Illinois, 1991–1995

U.S. senators

Name	Class year	Program/ degree	Office	Other Notability	Reference
Dick Durbin	1966	SFS	U.S. Senator, Illinois, 2015–present	Senate Democratic Whip, 2005–present U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1983–1997
Dan Sullivan	1993	MSFS	U.S. Senator, Alaska, 1997–present	Attorney General of Alaska, 2009–2010 Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, 2006–2009

U.S. representatives

Name	Class year	Program/ degree	Office	Other Notability	Reference
Robert Bauman	1959	SFS	U.S. Representative, Maryland, 1973–1981
Henry Cuellar	1978	SFS	U.S. Representative, Texas, 2005–present	Secretary of State of Texas, 2001–2002
Debbie Dingell	1977	SFS	U.S. Representative, Michigan, 2015–present	Former president of the General Motors Foundation
Mike Gallagher	2012	SSP	U.S. Representative, Wisconsin, 2017–present
Stephanie Murphy	2004	MSFS	U.S. Representative, Florida, 2017–present
Glenn Nye	1996	SFS	U.S. Representative, Virginia, 2009–2011
Stacey Plaskett	1988	SFS	Delegate, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2015–present
Phillip Sharp	1964	SFS	U.S. Representative, Indiana, 1975–1995	President of Resources for the Future, 1995–2005
Xochitl Torres Small	2007	SFS	U.S. Representative, New Mexico, 2019–present
Lori Trahan	1995	SFS	U.S. Representative, Massachusetts, 2019–present

Other United States political figures, civil servants, and activists

• Bill Bryant, Seattle Port Commissioner from 2008 to 2015
• Jon Ossoff, SFS '09, 2017 Democratic nominee for representative from Georgia
• Nancy Soderberg, American foreign policy strategist, member of National Security Council during Clinton Administration
• Corey Stewart, 2018 Republican nominee for senator from Virginia

Other government officials outside of the United States

Name	Class year	Program/ degree	Notability	Reference
Adel al-Jubeir	1984	MSFS	Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, 2015–2018
Eugen Jurzyca			Minister of Education of Slovakia, 2010–2012
Tarō Kōno	1985	SFS	Foreign Minister of Japan, 2017–present
Mushahid Hussain	1985	SFS	Minister of Information and Broadcasting of Pakistan, 1997–1999 Minister of Communications of Pakistan, 1993
Wang Yi	1998	*	Foreign Minister of China, 2013–present

Journalism and Media

• Tania Bryer (SFS '84), CNBC Executive Producer and Host
• Lulu Garcia-Navarro (SFS '94), host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday.
• Kayleigh McEnany (2010), CNN Commentator
• Daniel Henninger, columnist, Wall Street Journal
• Carl Reiner (1943), actor, film producer, film director, Emmy Award winner
• Shéhérazade Semsar de Boisséson (SFS '89, MSFS '90), CEO of Politico Europe

Law

• Gurbir Grewal (SFS ’95), New Jersey Attorney General
• Bill Schuette, Michigan Attorney General, 2011—2019; Rep from Michigan 1985-1991

Military

• John R. Allen, former Commander of International Coalition in Afghanistan, Brookings Institution President
• George Casey (1970), U.S. Army Chief of Staff

Royalty (not head of state)

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece	1995	MSFS	First son of Constantine II of Greece and Crown Prince
Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg	1987	SFS	Third son and youngest child of Grand Duke Jean and Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte of Luxembourg
Prince Turki Al Faisal	1968	SFS	Son of King Faisal; Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States, 2005–07; Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom and Ireland, 2002–05; Director of General Intelligence of Saudi Arabia, 1979–2001
Prince Mohammed bin Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz	1981	SFS	Member of the House of Saud; Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom and Ireland, 2005–present; Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Italy and Malta, 1995–2005
Prince Hashim bin Hussein	2005	SFS	The younger of the two sons of King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan, and half-brother of the reigning King Abdullah II of Jordan
Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan	2016	SFS	First son and heir apparent of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan
Prince Talal bin Muhammad	1989	SFS	The eldest son of Prince Muhammad bin Talal, the younger brother of King Hussein of Jordan, and the grandson of King Talal of Jordan
Princess Ghida al-Talal	1986	SFS	Member of the House of Hashemites; Chairperson of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation
Philippos, Prince of Greece and Denmark	2008	SFS	Third son of Constantine II of Greece and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.

Other

• Stephane Dujarric (1988), Spokesman for UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon and Antonio Guterres
• Arjun Singh Sethi (2003), civil rights writer and lawyer
• Courtney Stadd (1981), NASA Chief of Staff from 2001–2003, sentenced to 41 months in federal prison
• Matthew VanDyke, freedom fighter and Prisoner of War (POW) in the 2011 Libyan Civil War

External links

• Official site

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