The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the

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and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public administration, and

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, four doctoral degrees, and many executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to politics, government, international affairs, and economics. As of 2021, HKS had an endowment of $1.7 billion. The School is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a global consortium of schools that trains leaders in international affairs. The School's primary campus is located on John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge. The main buildings overlook the Charles River and are southwest of Harvard Yard and

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, on the site of a former MBTA Red Line trainyard. The School is adjacent to the public riverfront John F. Kennedy Memorial Park. Harvard Kennedy School alumni include 17 heads of state or government, the most of any graduate institution in the world. Alumni also include

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, and legislators. In independent rankings, Harvard Kennedy School routinely ranks at the top of the world's graduate schools in public policy, social policy, international affairs, and government.

History

Harvard Kennedy School Littauer Building

Founding

The Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration was founded in 1936 with a $2 million gift (equivalent to roughly $30 million in 2010) from Lucius Littauer, an 1878 Harvard College alumnus, businessman, former U.S. Congressman, and the first coach of Harvard Crimson football. Harvard Kennedy School's shield was designed to express the national purpose of the school and was modeled after the U.S. shield. The School drew its initial faculty from Harvard's existing government and economics departments, and welcomed its first students in 1937. The School's original home was in the Littauer Center, north of Harvard Yard, which is now home to Harvard University's Economics Department. The first students at the Graduate School were called Littauer Fellows, participating in a one-year course listing which later developed into the school's mid-career

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program. In the 1960s, the School began to develop its current public policy degree and course curriculum associated with its Master in Public Policy program.

Renaming and move

In 1966, three years following the assassination of U.S. President and 1940 Harvard College alumnus John F. Kennedy, the school was renamed in his honor. By 1978, the faculty, including presidential scholar and adviser Richard Neustadt, foreign policy scholar and later dean of the School Graham Allison, Richard Zeckhauser, and Edith Stokey, consolidated the School's programs and research centers at the present Harvard Kennedy School campus. The first new building opened on the southern half of the former Eliot Shops site in October 1978. Under the terms of Littauer's original grant, the current campus also features a building called Littauer. In 1966, at the same time as the school was renamed, the Harvard Institute of Politics was created with Neustadt as its founding director. Harvard Institute of Politics has been housed on the school campus since 1978, and today sponsors and hosts a series of programs, speeches and study groups for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students. Along with major Harvard Kennedy School events, the Institute of Politics holds its events are held at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, named in honor of the late John F. Kennedy Jr. in Harvard Kennedy School's Littauer Building.

Rebranding and campus expansion

In late 2007, the Kennedy School of Government announced that it while its official name was not being altered, it was rebranding itself as the Harvard Kennedy School, with the change to be rolled out during the first part of 2008. The goal was to make clearer the school's connection with Harvard. It was also thought that the new branding would reduce confusion with other entities named after Kennedy, such as the Kennedy Center and the Kennedy Library. The rebranding had the support of Senator

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, as well as of Caroline Kennedy. In 2012, Harvard Kennedy School announced a $500 million fundraising campaign, $120 million of which was to be used to significantly expand the Harvard Kennedy School campus, adding 91,000 square feet of space including six new classrooms, a new kitchen, and dining facility, offices and meeting spaces, a new student lounge and study space, more collaboration and active learning spaces and a redesigned central courtyard. Groundbreaking commenced on May 7, 2015, and the project was completed in late 2017. The new Harvard Kenedy School campus was opened in December 2017. From 2004 to 2015, Harvard Kennedy School's dean was David T. Ellwood, a

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official in the

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administration. In 2015,

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, a former director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, was named both dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and the school's Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy.

Academics

Degrees

Harvard Kennedy School offers four master's degree programs. The two-year Master in Public Policy (MPP) program focuses on policy analysis, economics, management, ethics, statistics and negotiations in the public sector. There are three separate

(MPA) programs: a one-year Mid-Career Program (MC/MPA) intended for professionals who are more than seven years removed from their college graduation; a two-year MPA program intended for professionals who have an additional graduate degree and are more recently out of school; and a two-year international development track (MPA/ID) focused on development studies with a strong emphasis on economics and

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. Members of the mid-career MPA class are Mason Fellows, who are public and private executives from developing countries. Mason Fellows typically constitute about 50 percent of the incoming class of Mid-Career MPA candidates. The Mason cohort is the most diverse at Harvard in terms of nationalities and ethnicities represented. It is named after

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, the former Harvard professor who, from 1947 to 1958, was dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as Harvard Kennedy School. In addition to the master's programs, Harvard Kennedy School administers four doctoral programs. Ph.D. degrees are awarded in political economy and government in conjunction with Harvard University's departments of economics and government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), in public policy and

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in conjunction with Harvard's departments of government and sociology, and in

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in conjunction with FAS and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Joint and concurrent degrees

Harvard Kennedy School has a number of joint and concurrent degree programs within Harvard and with other leading universities, which allow students to receive multiple degrees in a reduced period of time. Joint and current students spend at least one year in residence in Cambridge taking courses. Harvard Kennedy School joint degree programs are run with

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, and

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, and concurrent programs are offered with Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Medical School. Beyond Harvard, HKS has concurrent degree arrangements with other law, business, and medical schools, including the

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, the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Law School, Duke University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, New York University School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Stanford Law School, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Yale Law School, and UCSF Medical Center. Abroad, Harvard Kennedy School offers a dual degree with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

HKS courses

Harvard Kennedy School maintains six academic divisions each headed by a faculty chair. In addition to offerings in the Harvard Kennedy School course listing, students are eligible to cross-register for courses at the other graduate and professional schools at Harvard and at the MIT Sloan School of Management, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. MPP coursework is focused on one of five areas, called a Policy Area of Concentration (PAC), and includes a year-long research seminar in their second year, which includes a master's thesis called a Policy Analysis Exercise.

Rankings

Harvard Kennedy School has routinely ranked as the best, or among the best, of the world's public policy graduate schools. '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranks it the best graduate school for social policy, the best for health policy, and second best for public policy analysis. In 2015 rankings, Kennedy School is ranked first in the subcategory of health policy and second in the category of public policy analysis and social policy. Kennedy's School's foreign affairs programs have consistently ranked at the top or near the top of ''

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survey, which lists the world's top twenty academic international relations programs at the undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. levels. In 2012, for example, the survey ranked Kennedy School first overall for doctoral and undergraduate programs and third overall in the Master's category.

Student organizations

Harvard Kennedy School maintains a range of student activities, including interest-driven student caucuses, the student government (Kennedy School Student Government, known as KSSG), student-edited policy journals including ''Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy'', ''Kennedy School Review'', the ''Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy'', a student newspaper (''The Citizen''), and a number of student athletic groups. Students can join the Harvard Graduate Council, which is the centralized student government for the twelve graduate and professional schools of Harvard University. The Harvard Graduate Council is responsible for advocating student concerns to central administrators, including the

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, provost, deans of students, and deans for the nearly 15,000 graduate and professional students across the twelve schools, organizing large university-wide initiatives and events, administering and providing funding for university-wide student groups, and representing the Harvard graduate student population to other universities and external organizations. Harvard Graduate Council is known for spearheading the "One Harvard" movement, which aims to bring all of Harvard's graduate schools together through closer collaboration and social interaction.

Centers

Harvard Kennedy School is home to 14 centers, including: * Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation *

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* Carr Center for Human Rights Policy * Center for International Development * Center for Public Leadership * Institute of Politics * Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics * Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy * Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government *

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* Joint Center for Housing Studies *

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The majority of centers offer research and academic fellowships through which fellows can engage in research projects, lead study groups into specific topics and share their experiences with industry and government with the student body. Under Dean Elmendorf, the school has tried to focus its engagement across the political spectrum, which has caused controversy at times. Recently, the school came under criticism for offering a fellowship to Chelsea Manning on September 13, 2017. It then publicly rescinded the offer on September 15, 2017, after CIA director Mike Pompeo canceled a speaking engagement at Harvard and sent a letter condemning the university for awarding the fellowship. A 2021 investigative report by student group Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard found that many of the center's climate initiatives were funded in part by fossil fuel companies, and that some of the centers had allegedly taken several steps to cover up that fact.

Awards

The Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service is awarded to "a graduating student whose commitment, activities, and contributions to public service are extraordinary". Several other awards are also awarded on "Class Day" at the end of May each year.

Notable faculty

* Graham Allison * Alan A. Altshuler * Mary Jo Bane * David J. Barron *

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* Linda Bilmes *

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* Derek Bok *

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* Felipe Calderón * Albert Carnesale * Ashton Carter * Antonia Handler Chayes * William C. Clark * Richard Clarke *

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* David Cutler * Michael Dukakis *

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* Jeffrey Frankel * Jason Furman * Marshall Ganz * David Gergen * Edward Glaeser *

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* Stephen Goldsmith *

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* Ronald Heifetz * A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. * John P. Holdren *

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* Michael Ignatieff * Sheila Jasanoff *

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* Alex Jones * Dale Jorgenson *

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* Jennifer Lerner *

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* Joseph Newhouse * Pippa Norris * Joseph Nye *

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* George Papandreou *

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* Michael Porter * Samantha Power * Lant Pritchett * Robert Putnam *

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* Dani Rodrik *

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* Kevin Rudd * John Ruggie * Juan Manuel Santos * Frederic M. Scherer *

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* Sarah Sewall * Kathryn Sikkink * Lawrence Summers * Dennis Frank Thompson *

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* Marilyn Waring * Martin Weitzman * Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby *

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* William Julius Wilson * Richard Zeckhauser *

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* Jonathan Zittrain * Robert B. Zoellick

Notable alumni

Harvard Kennedy School has over 63,000 alumni, many of whom have gone on to notable careers in government, business, public policy, and other fields, including:

Government and politics

Heads of government and state

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(MA '45) – former prime minister of Canada *

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(MPA '65) – former president of Mexico * Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (MPA '71) –

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, Nobel Peace Prize laureate * Carlos Salinas de Gortari (MPA '73, PhD '76) – former president of Mexico * Lee Hsien Loong (MPA '80) – Prime Minister of Singapore * Juan Manuel Santos (MPA '81) – President of Colombia, Nobel Peace Prize laureate * Donald Tsang (MPA '82) – Hong Kong Chief Executive *

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(MPA '88) – former president of Bolivia * Jamil Mahuad Witt (MPA '89) – former president of Ecuador * José María Figueres Olsen (MPA '91) – former president of Costa Rica, CEO of the World Economic Forum *

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(MPA '93) former president of the Federated States of Micronesia * Abdiweli Gaas (MPA '99) – former prime minister of Somalia * Felipe Calderón (MPA '00) – former president of Mexico * Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (MPA '02) – former president of Mongolia * Tshering Tobgay (MPA '04) – Prime Minister of Bhutan * Morgan Tsvangirai ('02) - Prime Minister of Zimbabwe * Frederick Sumaye (MPA '07) former prime minister of Tanzania * Maia Sandu (MPA '10) former prime minister of Moldova, current president of Moldova

Others

* Rizwan Ahmed (MPA) –

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(MPA '91) – Chief Executive Director of People's Association, Singapore * Bob Anthony (MPA) – Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma * Ami Ayalon (MPA '92) – member, Israeli Knesset * Tariq Bajwa (MPA) – former Finance Secretary of Pakistan * Ed Balls (MPA '90) – former British Member of the Parliament, and Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer *

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(MPA '99) – Minister of Municipalities and Public Works of Iraq * Doug Bereuter (MPA '73) – former U.S. Congressman, Nebraska * Charles Blanchard (MPP '85) – General Counsel of the Army 1999–2001, General Counsel of the Air Force 2009-2013 *

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(MPA '08) – former U.S. Ambassador to The Bahamas *

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(MPA '05) – former leader of Parti Québécois, former Quebec Minister of Citizenship and Immigration * Nick Boles (MPP '89) – former director of Policy Exchange and former Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford (United Kingdom). *

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(MPA '86) – Secretary of the Philippine Department of Budget and Management in the Philippines * Brendan Boyle (MPP '05) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 13th District of Pennsylvania *

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for lifelong public service * Anna Escobedo Cabral (MPA '90) – former U.S. Treasurer *

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(MPA '99) – diplomat, currently serves as the 9th U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia * Robert Castelli (MPA '96) – member,

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, 89th District * Rajkumar Chellaraj (MPA '86) – former Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, United States Department of State * Frank Chikane (MPA '95) – member, African National Congress; South African adviser to the President * Aneesh Chopra (MPP '97) –

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under President Barack Obama *

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(MPA '00) – former Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations *

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(MPA '73) – former

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member of the

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, representing the 16th district since 2003 * Gerry Connolly (MPA '79) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 11th District of Virginia * Dan Crenshaw (MPA '17) - U.S. House of Representatives * David Cunliffe (MPA '95) – Leader of the Opposition, Parliament of New Zealand *

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(MPA '11) – mayor, Somerville, Massachusetts * Mark Daly (MPA, '11) – Irish

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* Božidar Đelić (MPA '91) – Vice-president of Serbia, former Minister of Finance * Stephen Donnelly (MPA '08) – Irish Teachta Dála (Member of Parliament) for the Wicklow constituency *

Shaun Donovan Shaun Lawrence Sarda Donovan (born January 24, 1966) is an American government official and housing specialist who served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2009 to 2014, and Director of the US Office of Management ...

(MPA '95) – U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development *

Theodore L. Eliot Jr. Theodore Lyman Eliot Jr. (January 24, 1928 – August 8, 2019)Lorna Sheridan"Sonoma Valley conservationist Ted Eliot dies at 91" ''Sonoma Index-Tribune'', August 9, 2019; Retrieved August 9, 2019 was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Am ...

(MPA '56) – former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan *

Benjamin Fernandes Benjamin Fernandes (born 25 November 1992) is a Tanzanian entrepreneur and former national television presenter. He worked at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the United States in their Digital Team and Financial Services team. He is the ...

(Exec. Ed'17) - Tanzanian entrepreneur * John Fetterman (MPP '99) – Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania (2019–present) *

Roy Folkman Roy Folkman ( he, רוֹעִי פוֹלְקְמָן, born 5 August 1975) is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Kulanu between 2015 and 2019. Biography During his IDF national service Folkman served as a combat medic. ...

(MPA '13) – member, Israeli Knesset *

Fernando Martín García Fernando Martín García is a Puerto Rican politician and former senator. He was a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1989 to 1993, and then from 2000 to 2004. Early years and studies Fernando Martín García finished his elementary an ...

(MPP '74) – Puerto Rican politician and former Senator * Marilinda Garcia (MPA '10) – member of the

New Hampshire House of Representatives The New Hampshire House of Representatives is the lower house in the New Hampshire General Court, the bicameral legislature of the state of New Hampshire. The House of Representatives consists of 400 members coming from 204 legislative district ...

Robert S. Gelbard Robert Sidney Gelbard (born March 6, 1944) is an American diplomat and former Ambassadors of the United States, United States Ambassador to Bolivia (1988–1991) and Indonesia (1999–2001). He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, and ...

(MPA '79) – former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and Bolivia *

Hector Gramajo In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...

(MPA '95) – former Defense Minister of Guatemala * Alan Grayson (MPP '83) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 8th District of Florida *

Katherine Harris Katherine Harris (born April 5, 1957) is a former American politician. A Republican, Harris served in the Florida Senate from 1994 to 1998, as Secretary of State of Florida from 1999 to 2002, and as a member of the United States House of Represe ...

(MPA '97) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 13th District of Florida; former Florida Secretary of State * Yoshimasa Hayashi (MPA '94) – former Minister of Defense, former Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, Japan * Liu He (MPA '95) – Vice Premier of China * Teo Chee Hean (MPA '86) – Senior Minister, Co-ordinating Minister for National Security of Singapore *

Keith Hennessey Keith Hennessey is an American economist and former political advisor who served as the Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council. He was appointed to the position in November 2007 by Presi ...

(MPP '94) – former director, White House National Economic Council * Paul Heroux, (MPA '11) Mayor, Attleboro, Massachusetts; former State Representative from Massachusetts * Brian Higgins (MPA '96) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 27th District of New York *

Stephen Horn John Stephen Horn (May 31, 1931 – February 17, 2011) was President of California State University, Long Beach and later a five-term Republican United States Congressman from California from 1993 to 2003. Early life Horn was born on May 31, 193 ...

(MPA '55) – former U.S. Congressman, California * Rafael Hui (MPA '83) – former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong *

Muhammad bin Ibrahim Muhammad bin Ibrahim (born 1956) was the 8th Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia. He assumed the office of Governor on 1 May 2016, succeeding Zeti Akhtar Aziz. He tendered his resignation on 6 June 2018. Education Muhammad graduated from th ...

(MPA '93) – 8th Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia * Natalie Jaresko (MPP '89) – former Minister of Finance in Ukraine * Vuk Jeremić (MPA '03) – 2012

President of the United Nations General Assembly The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The president is the chair and presiding officer of the General Assembly. Election ...

; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia *

Ajay Narayan Jha Ajay Narayan Jha (born 15 January 1959; IAST: ) is a 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Manipur cadre. He was the Finance Secretary of India for three months. He was appointed as the member of Fifteenth Finance Commissio ...

— IAS officer and Expenditure Secretary of India. *

Daniel J. Jones Daniel J. Jones is an American former United States Senate investigator who served as the senior staff lead in the investigation into the CIA's use of torture in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Jones is the founder and president of Advanc ...

, lead investigator for " The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program," which is better known as "The Torture Report." Jones is portrayed by Adam Driver in the film '' The Report''. * Shane Jones (MPA '91) – member, Parliament of New Zealand, and chair of finance committee *

Mitzi Johnson Mitzi Johnson (born November 18, 1970) is an American Democratic politician who was the Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives from 2017 to 2021. She represented the Grand Isle- Chittenden (GI-CHI) district (seat number 1), before lo ...

(MPA '13) - Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives * Lim Hng Kiang (MPA '85) – Minister for Trade and Industry of Singapore; member of the Cabinet of Singapore *

Ban Ki-moon Ban Ki-moon (; ; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was his country's Minister ...

(MPA '84) – United Nations Secretary General *

Raymond W. Kelly Raymond Walter Kelly (born September 4, 1941) is the longest serving Commissioner in the history of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the first man to hold the post for two non-consecutive tenures. According to its website, Kelly � ...

(MPA '84) – New York City Police Commissioner *

Rajive Kumar Rajive Kumar (born 28 June 1958) is a retired 1981 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. Kumar is currently serving as the chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority and p ...

(MPA) – IAS officer and Chief Secretary of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. * Jim Langevin (MPA '94) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd District of Rhode Island *

Andrew Leigh Andrew Keith Leigh (born 3 August 1972) is an Australian politician, author, lawyer and former professor of economics at the Australian National University. He currently serves as the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury. ...

(PhD '04) – member, Australian House of Representatives *

Mark D. Levine Mark D. Levine (born April 30, 1969) is an American politician and educator serving as the 28th Borough President of Manhattan since 2022. Previously, he served as member of the New York City Council from 2014 to 2021, where he represented the ...

(MPP '95) – member, New York City Council, 7th District *

Stephen F. Lynch Stephen Francis Lynch (born March 31, 1955) is an American businessman, attorney and politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. He is a Democrat representing Massachusetts's 8th co ...

(MPA '99) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 9th District of Massachusetts * Dan Maffei (MPP '95) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 25th District of New York * Nabiel Makarim (MPA '84) – former Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Indonesia *

Mark McClellan Mark Barr McClellan (born June 26, 1963) is the director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University. Formerly, he was a senior fellow and director of the ...

(MPA '91) – former Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration * Sanjay Mitra (MPA) – IAS officer and Defence Secretary of India. * Nripendra Misra (MPA) – Retired IAS officer and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. * Jim Moody (MPA '67) – former U.S. Congressman, Wisconsin * Toshimitsu Motegi (MPP '83) – Financial Services Minister of Japan * Elias Mudzuri (MPA ) – former Mayor of Harare *

George Muñoz George Muñoz is an American businessman, CPA and attorney. He is the president and co-founder of Muñoz Investment Banking Group which is primarily focused on financing and investments in the Emerging Markets Countries as well as in the U.S. H ...

(MPP '78) – former CFO of the

U.S. Department of Treasury The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and ...

; former president and CEO of OPIC *

Charles A. Murphy Charles A. "Charley" Murphy (born August 11, 1965) is the former representative of the 21st Middlesex District to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Massachusetts House Committee on Ways and Means. Biography ...

, (MPA '02) – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee * Andrew Natsios (MPA '79) former U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, and administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development * Naheed Nenshi (MPP '98) mayor of Calgary since 2010 * Amon Nikoi (MPA '56) – former Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, Governor of the Bank of Ghana and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations * Patrick Nip (MPA '01) - Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs of Hong Kong * Christine Nixon (MPA '85) – Chief Commissioner of Victoria, Australia Police * Herbert S. Okun (MPA '59) – former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations * Nóirín O'Sullivan (Exec '07) – Police Commissioner of

Garda Síochána (; meaning "the Guardian(s) of the Peace"), more commonly referred to as the Gardaí (; "Guardians") or "the Guards", is the national police service of Ireland. The service is headed by the Garda Commissioner who is appointed by the Irish Gover ...

, Ireland's national police service *

Taku Otsuka is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the National Diet (national legislature of Japan). He is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi. Personal and corporate backgrounds ...

(MPP '05) – a member of the House of Representatives of Japan * Francis Pangilinan (MPA '98) – Senator and the Majority Leader of the Senate of the Philippines * Marcus Peacock (MPP '86) – former Deputy Administrator, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...

* Robert E. Perez - former Deputy Commissioner of U. S. Customs and Border Protection *

Yohanan Plesner Yohanan Plesner ( he, יוחנן פלסנר; born January 17, 1972) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima between 2007 and 2013. Life and career Plesner was born in London, the son of Danish architect Ulrik P ...

(MPA '04) – member, Israeli Knesset *

Brune Poirson Brune Poirson (born 1 September 1982) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as Secretary of State to the Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2 ...

- Secretary of State, France - Macron Government * Larry Pressler (MPA '66) – former U.S. Senator from South Dakota * William Proxmire (MPA '48) – former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin * Jack Reed (MPP '73) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island * Angelo Reyes (MPA '90) – Secretary of Energy of the Philippines; former Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines *

Jesse Robredo Jesse Manalastas Robredo (born Jesus Manalastas Robredo; ; May 27, 1958 – August 18, 2012) was a Filipino politician who served as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government in the administration of President Benigno Aquino III from 201 ...

(MPA '99) – Secretary of Interior and Local Government of the Philippines; received the Quezon Service Cross (the highest Philippine honor) * Henry Rotich (MPA ') – Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury, 2013-date Kenya * Pete Rouse (MPA '77) – White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama * Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai - Executive Governor of Kaduna State in Nigeria; former Minister of FCT, Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises both under Obasanjo Administration *

T. N. Seshan Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan (15 December 1932 – 10 November 2019) was an Indian civil servant and bureaucrat who served with the Indian Administrative Service. After serving in various positions in Madras and in various ministries of the ...

(MPA '68) – retired IAS officer and former Chief Election Commissioner and Cabinet Secretary of India * Joe Sestak (MPA '80, PhD '84) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 7th District of Pennsylvania * Tharman Shanmugaratnam (MPA) – Senior Minister, Co-ordinating Minister for Social Policies of Singapore *

Yasuhisa Shiozaki is a Japanese politician who served as Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shinzō Abe until August 2007. __FORCETOC__ Early career Born in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, he was an AFS exchange student in high school, graduated with a l ...

(MPA '82) – former Chief Cabinet Secretary, Japan * Rob Simmons (MPA '79) – former U.S. Congressman, Connecticut * Barry Smitherman (MPA) – member of the Texas Railroad Commission * Corazon Soliman (MPA '98) – former Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development of the Philippines *

Ralf Stegner Ralf Stegner (born 2 October 1959) is a political scientist and a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag for the constituency of Pinneberg since the 2021 elections. Stegn ...

(MPA '89) – former Leader of the SPD in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany *

T. S. R. Subramanian Thirumanilaiyur Sitapati Ramana Subramanian (11 December 1938 – 26 February 2018) was an Indian bureaucrat who served as the cabinet secretary of India from August 1996 to March 1998. He was a 1961 batch Indian Administrative Service officer ...

(MPA) – retired IAS officer and former Cabinet Secretary of India * Sardar Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera (MPA) – Commerce Secretary of Pakistan * Nancy Sutley (MPP '86) – Director of White House Council on Environmental Quality *

Syahrir Sjahrir (24 February 1945 – 28 July 2008) was a prominent Indonesian political economist. He was officially appointed by President of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as Economic Adviser in the Council of Presidential Advisers ...

(MPA '80, PhD '83) – Economic Adviser in the

Republic of Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Ind ...

's Council of Presidential Advisors * Mark E. Talisman (1972) – congressional aide and lobbyist * William B. Taylor Jr. (MPP '77) – U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine * Conrad Tillard (born 1964) - Baptist minister, radio host, author, civil rights activist, and politician *

Peter G. Torkildsen Peter Gerard Torkildsen (born January 28, 1958) is an American Republican Party politician from Massachusetts. He represented the 13th Essex district, including his hometown of Danvers, in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 ...

(MPA '90) – former U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts; former chair of Massachusetts

Republican Party Republican Party is a name used by many political parties around the world, though the term most commonly refers to the United States' Republican Party. Republican Party may also refer to: Africa *Republican Party (Liberia) * Republican Part ...

* Robert Torricelli (MPA '80) – former U.S. Senator from New Jersey * John Tsang (MPA '82) – Financial Secretary of Hong Kong * Chris Van Hollen (MPP '85) – member, U.S. Senate, Maryland * Paul Volcker (MA '51, GSPA) – former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve; economic advisor to President Barack Obama *

Solomon Areda Waktolla Solomon Areda Waktolla (, ) is an Ethiopian lawyer who had served the Deputy Chief Justice/Vice President of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia from 2018 to 2023. Solomon is a prominent Ethiopian lawyer with 23 years of experience in the pra ...

(MPA '13 and LLM'14) – Deputy Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia, Member of the Court of the Permanent Court of Arbitration * Kevin White (MA '57, GSPA) – former Mayor of Boston * David Wilhelm (MPP '90) – campaign manager, Clinton/Gore '92; former chair,

Democratic National Committee The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the governing body of the United States Democratic Party. The committee coordinates strategy to support Democratic Party candidates throughout the country for local, state, and national office, as well a ...

Anthony A. Williams Anthony Allen Williams (born July 28, 1951) is an American politician who was the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia, for two terms, from 1999 to 2007. His predecessor had served twice, as the second and fourth mayor. Williams had previously ...

(MPP '87) – former

Mayor of Washington, D.C. The mayor of the District of Columbia is the head of the executive branch of the government of the District of Columbia, in the United States. The mayor has the duty to enforce district laws, and the power to either approve or veto bills passed ...

* Yin Yong (MPA) – Mayor of Beijing *

Adolfo Aguilar Zínser Adolfo Aguilar Zínser ( – ) was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to President Vicente Fox and as a UN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq. Born in Mexico Cit ...

(MPA '78) – former Mexican National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the United Nations

Non-profit

Ayisha Osori Ayisha Osori is a Nigerian lawyer, author, international development consultant, journalist and politician known for her work on good governance, gender equality, women economic and political participation and ending violence against women in Nig ...

– former CEO,

Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund The Nigerian Women's Trust Fund is a women's political action committee dedicated to increasing women's representation and addressing gender equality in line with the National Gender Policy (NGP) of 2006. The Nigerian Women's Trust Fund conducts m ...

Lester R. Brown Lester Russel Brown (born March 28, 1934) is an American environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and former president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BB ...

(MPA '62) – founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute * Rick Doblin (PhD '01) – Founder and Executive Director, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) * Robert Kagan (MPP '91) – co-founder, Project for a New American Century * Nancy LeaMond (MPP '74) – Executive Vice President,

AARP AARP (formerly called the American Association of Retired Persons) is an interest group in the United States focusing on issues affecting those over the age of fifty. The organization said it had more than 38 million members in 2018. The magazin ...

Giovanna Negretti Giovanna Negretti is an Americans, American activist. Negretti is the co-founder and former executive director of ¿Oiste?, a Latino political organization that works to increase the participation of Latinos in politics and public policy making ...

(MPA '05) – co-founder and executive director of ¿Oiste? * Michelle Rhee (MPP '97) – founder of

The New Teacher Project TNTP, formerly known as The New Teacher Project, is an organization in the United States with a mission of ensuring that poor and minority students get equal access to effective teachers. It helps urban school districts and states recruit and t ...

; Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system * Bryan Stevenson (MPP '85) – founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and author of ''Just Mercy'' *

Ramaswami Balasubramaniam Dr. Ramaswami Balasubramaniam (Dr R Balu) is a development scholar, author, public policy advocate, leadership trainer known for his pioneering development work with rural and tribal people in Saragur and Heggadadevana kote Taluks of Mysuru in K ...

(MPA'10) – Founder & President,

Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) is a development organization founded by a group of medicos led by Dr R Balasubramaniam based in Saragur near Mysore in the Indian state of Karnataka. The organization is engaged in building a new civi ...

Military

John C. Acton John C. Acton is a retired United States Coast Guard rear admiral who served as the Director of Operations Coordination for DHS. Acton formerly served as Director of the DHS Presidential Transition Team. Background and education Born in Portsmo ...

(Exec '05) – retired United States Coast Guard

rear admiral Rear admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to a major general and air vice marshal and above that of a commodore and captain, but below that of a vice admiral. It is regarded as a two star "admiral" rank. It is often regarde ...

who serves as the Director of Operations Coordination for DHS *

John R. Allen Jr. John R. Allen Jr. (born 1935) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) brigadier general. Allen served on active duty for 31 years, until his retirement in 1990. He is a highly decorated command pilot with over 6,000 flying hours on B-47 Stra ...

(Exec '85) – retired United States Air Force brigadier general and highly decorated command pilot * William J. Begert (Exec '95) – served as commander, Pacific Air Forces, and Air Component Commander for the Commander, United States Pacific Command *

Franklin J. Blaisdell Franklin J. Blaisdell (born September 15, 1949) is a retired major general in the United States Air Force. Education He is a graduate of Syracuse University, South Dakota State University, and did his post-graduate studies at John F. Kennedy Sch ...

(Exec) – U.S. Air Force Major General *

Sally Brice-O'Hara Vice Admiral Sally Brice-O'Hara (born c. 1953) is an American woman who was the 27th Vice-Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. Education Brice-O'Hara attended Annapolis High School where one of her classmates was Bill Belichick. She graduat ...

(MPA '93) – 27th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard * Dan Crenshaw (MPA '17) – medically retired United States Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander *

Peter V. Neffenger Peter Vance Neffenger (born 1955) is a United States Coast Guard Admiral and public servant who served as Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration from July 2015 to January 20, 2017. Education Neffenger earned a B.A. from Bald ...

(MPA '95) – 29th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard and former Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration * Michael E. Fortney (Exec '11) – U.S. Air Force Brigadier General *

Jeffrey Fowler Jeffrey L. Fowler (born May 25, 1956) is a United States Navy vice admiral who served as the 60th Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy until his retirement in August 2010. Early life and career Born in May 1956 and raised in Bisma ...

(MPA '90) – United States Navy, Vice Admiral; Superintendent, United States Naval Academy *

John C. Harvey John Collins Harvey Jr. (born December 17, 1951) is a former United States Navy four-star admiral who last served as the 31st Commander, United States Fleet Forces Command from July 24, 2009 to September 14, 2012. He previously served as Director, ...

(MPA '88) – United States Navy, Admiral; Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command *

Robert C. Hinson Robert C. Hinson is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. Career Hinson originally enlisted in the Air Force before being commissioned an officer in 1971. From 1973 to 1977, he served as a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress co-pil ...

(Exec) – U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General * William E. Ingram Jr. (Exec '02) – U.S. Army Lieutenant General and Director of the

Army National Guard The Army National Guard (ARNG), in conjunction with the Air National Guard, is an organized Militia (United States), militia force and a Reserve components of the United States Armed Forces, federal military reserve force of the United States A ...

Richard C. Johnston Richard C. Johnston is a retired major general in the United States Air Force. Career Johnston was commissioned an officer in 1982. He was given command of the 317th Airlift Group and the 320th Air Expeditionary Wing during the Iraq War before b ...

(Exec) – U.S. Air Force Brigadier General * Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. (MPA '80) – United States Army, Lt. Col.; author of ''The Army and Vietnam'' *

Rick Linnehan Richard Michael Linnehan (born September 19, 1957) is a United States Army veterinarian and a NASA astronaut. Personal Linnehan was born September 19, 1957, in Lowell, Massachusetts, and was raised by his paternal grandparents, Henry and Mae Linne ...

(MPA '09) – astronaut *

Christopher Loria Christopher Joseph "Gus" Loria (born July 9, 1960, in Newton, Massachusetts) is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and a medically retired NASA astronaut. He was originally scheduled to fly on STS-113 as pilot; however, he was grounded ...

(MPA '04) – astronaut * Robert W. Parker (Exec '91) – U.S. Air Force Major General *

Timothy S. Sullivan Timothy Shawn Sullivan is a retired rear admiral in the United States Coast Guard who served as the Deputy Commander, Pacific Area Coast Guard Defense Forces West. He was assigned as Commander of the Pacific Maintenance and Logistics Command, b ...

(Exec) – U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral *

Guy C. Swan III Lieutenant General Guy Carleton Swan III (born January 28, 1954) is a retired United States Army officer. His final assignment was Commanding General United States Army North at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Swan grew up in the Pines Lake neighborho ...

(MPA '86) – U.S. Army Major General, Commanding General of the Military District of Washington * Jack Weinstein (Exec '06) – U.S. Air Force Major General

Academia

* William Alonso (MPP '56) – economist, former director of Harvard Center for Population Studies *

Lawrence S. Bacow Lawrence Seldon Bacow (; born August 24, 1951) is an American lawyer, economist, author and university administrator, and the current and 29th president of Harvard University. He took office on July 1, 2018, succeeding Drew Gilpin Faust. Before ...

(MPP '76, PhD '76) – president, Harvard University, President of Tufts University, and Chancellor of MIT * Steve Charnovitz (MPP '83) – associate professor, George Washington University *

Ronald A. Heifetz Ronald Heifetz (born February 7, 1951) is the King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership, Founding Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and co-founder of ...

(MPA '83) – co-founder, Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University *

(MPA '55) – former president of

California State University, Long Beach California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is a public research university in Long Beach, California. The 322-acre campus is the second largest of the 23-school California State University system (CSU) and one of the largest universities i ...

Ira Jackson Ira A. Jackson was the director of the Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. Earlier, he was senior associate dean of Harvard's Kennedy School during its formative growth years. Jackson was also exe ...

(MPA '86) – dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at

Claremont Graduate University The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California. Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges which includes five undergraduate (Pomona College, Claremont McKenna Co ...

* Nancy Koehn (MPP) – historian; professor,

; author * Mark Lilla (MPP '80) – professor, Columbia University *

Hollis Robbins Hollis Robbins (born 1963) is an American academic and essayist; Robbins currently serves as Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. Her scholarship focuses on African-American literature. Education and early career Robbins was born and raised ...

(MPP '90) – dean, University of Utah *

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (born December 14, 1937) was the 15th President of the George Washington University, serving from 1988 to 2007. On August 1, 2007, he retired from the presidency and became GW's President Emeritus and University Professo ...

(MPA '66) – former president, George Washington University * William E. Trueheart (MPA '73) – former president,

Bryant University Bryant University is a private university in Smithfield, Rhode Island. It has two colleges, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Business, and is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. History Butler Exc ...

* Jonathan Zittrain (MPA '95) – professor,

; co-founder Berkman Center at Harvard * Mark Schuster (MPP '88) – dean and founding CEO, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

Journalism

* Komla Dumor (MPA,'03) – television news presenter, BBC World News and Africa Business Report *

Mark A. R. Kleiman Mark Albert Robert Kleiman (May 18, 1951 – July 21, 2019) was an American professor, author, and blogger who dealt with issues of drug and criminal justice policy. A professor of public policy at New York University, in 2015, Kleiman became th ...

(MPP, PhD '85) – author *

Kevin Corke Kevin Corke is an American journalist and is presently a White House Correspondents' Association for Fox News in Washington D.C. Corke has covered four U.S. administrations (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden). Previously, he was a national news corres ...

(MPA '04) – White House Correspondent, Fox News * Caroline Glick (MPP '00) – deputy managing editor of '' The Jerusalem Post'' *

Kaj Larsen Kaj Larsen is an American journalist, correspondent, and producer who has worked for Vice News, CNN, NowThis News and Current TV. He worked for the ''Vanguard'' international news documentary investigative reporting show on Current TV beginn ...

(MPP '07) – former U.S. Navy SEAL, journalist for Vice News * Dambisa Moyo (MPA '07) – economist and ''New York Times'' best-selling author * Bill O'Reilly (MPA '96) – political commentator *

Malik Siraj Akbar Malik Siraj Akbar ( ur, ) is an ethnic Baloch journalist based in the United States. He is the editor-in-chief of the ''Baluch Hal'', the first online English language newspaper of Pakistan's Balochistan Province, ''Enkaar'', a liberal Urdu la ...

(MPA, '16) – editor-in-chief of ''The Baloch Hal'', exiled Pakistani journalist *

Andrew Sullivan Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is a British-American author, editor, and blogger. Sullivan is a political commentator, a former editor of ''The New Republic'', and the author or editor of six books. He started a political blog, ' ...

(MPA, PhD '90) – journalist, '' The Atlantic'' *

Wajahat Saeed Khan Wajahat Saeed Khan (born November 5, 1978), is a Pakistani journalist, currently working as an editor and correspondent at Nikkei Asia. Khan has produced, reported, and anchored for Pakistan's major cable networks, as well as leading U.S., U.K ...

– Pakistani journalist for Dunya News & NBC News

Business

* Rune Bjerke (MPA '97) – CEO, DNB ASA *

Gregory C. Carr Gregory C. Carr (born 1959) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. His main philanthropic venture is the restoration of Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, which has been ravaged by civil war and environmental destruction. He has pled ...

(MPP '86) – founder, Boston Technology * Leonard S. Coleman Jr. (MPA '75) – former president of the National League *

Debra L. Lee Debra L. Lee (born August 8, 1954) is an American businesswoman. She was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BET, the parent company for Black Entertainment Television from 2005 to May 28, 2018. Lee has sat on the board of directors for ...

(MPP '80) – President and CEO,

Black Entertainment Television Black Entertainment Television (acronym BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting African-American audiences. It is owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global via BET Networks and has offices in New York City, Los ...

Daniel Mudd Daniel H. Mudd (born 1956) is the former president and CEO of Fannie Mae, a post he held from 2005 to 2008, and more recently for years, the CEO of Fortress Investment Group. Education and early career Mudd holds a B.A. degree in American histor ...

(MPA '86) – former president and CEO of U.S. Fannie Mae *

Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg Hilda Margarita Ochoa-Brillembourg (born 1945, in Caracas) is a Venezuelan business woman and the current president and chief executive officer of Strategic Investment Group (SIG) which she founded in 1987. She is a former chief investment offic ...

(MPA '71) – founder, President, CEO of Strategic Investment Group *

Greg Rosenbaum Greg A. Rosenbaum (born August 7, 1952) is an American merchant banker based in Bethesda, Maryland. He is currently the co-principal owner and co-chair of the Dayton Dragons minor league baseball club, and a minority owner of the Mahoning Valley ...

(MPP '77) – CEO,

Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. is the largest producer of kosher poultry in the United States.Peter Sands (MPA '88) – Group CEO,

Standard Chartered Standard Chartered plc is a multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services. Despite being headquartered in the United Kingdom, it does not conduct retail banking in the UK, and around 9 ...

* Klaus Schwab (MPA '67) – founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum *

Faryar Shirzad Faryar Shirzad (in fa, فریار شیرزاد); born 1965 in London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England ...

(MPP '89) – managing director,

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor *

Chris Voss Christopher Voss is an American businessman, author, and academic. Voss is a former FBI hostage negotiator , the CEO of The Black Swan Group Ltd, a company registered in East Grinstead, England, and co-author of the book ''Never Split the Differe ...

– adjunct professor at McDonough School of Business

Arts

* William Butler (MPA '17) – musician and composer, Arcade Fire * Ashley Judd (MPA '10) – Actress, activist *

Hill Harper Francis Eugene "Hill" Harper (born May 17, 1966) is an American actor and author. He is known for his roles on ''CSI: NY'', ''Limitless (TV series), Limitless'' and ''The Good Doctor (TV series), The Good Doctor''. Early life and education Harpe ...

(MPA '92) – Actor *

Thor Steingraber Thor Steingraber is an American opera and theater director, and arts leader/manager. Career Steingraber has held three leadership positions at American performing arts centers: Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, where he was senior vice president; t ...

(MPA '09) – Opera Director *

Damian Woetzel Damian Woetzel (born May 17, 1967) is an American choreographer. Woetzel was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, where he performed from 1985 until 2008. He also frequently performed with companies like the Kirov Ballet and America ...

(MPA '07) – former Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet

Spies

Donald Heathfield Andrey Bezrukov ( rus, Андрей Безруков), often referred to by his cover name Donald Heathfield, is former KGB sleeper agent. He had served as both a KGB and SVR operative until his disclosure in the United States in 2010. His w ...

(real name: Andrey Bezrukov) (MPA '00) – KGB and SVR operative until his disclosure in the United States in 2010.

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