This list of people associated with the London School of Economics includes notable alumni, non-graduates, academics and administrators affiliated with the

London School of Economics and Political Science , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. This includes 55 past or present heads of state, as well as 18 Nobel laureates. LSE started awarding its own degrees in its own name in 2008, prior to which it awarded degrees of the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

. This page does not include people whose only connection with the university consists in the award of an honorary degree. The list has been divided into categories indicating the field of activity in which people have become well known. Many of the university's alumni have attained a level of distinction in more than one field, however these appear only in the category which they are most often associated.

Government and politics

Heads of state or government

United Kingdom

Current members of the House of Commons

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Dan Carden Daniel Joseph Carden (born 28 October 1986) is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton since 2017. Carden served as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development from 2018 to 20 ...

, British MP * Richard Bacon, British MP *

Karen Buck Karen Patricia Buck (born 30 August 1958) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Westminster North, previously Regent's Park and Kensington North, since 1997. A member of the Labour Party, she was Parliamentary Unde ...

, British MP *

Greg Clark Gregory David Clark (born 28 August 1967) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from 7 July 2022 to 6 September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as Member of Pa ...

, British MP, former

Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities The secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities, also referred to as the levelling up secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for the overall leadership and strategic direction o ...

; former

Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy The secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The incumbent is a memb ...

Yvette Cooper Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department, Shadow Home Secretary since 2021, and previously from 2011 to 2015. She served in Gordon Brown's Brown ministry, Cabinet as ...

, British MP, former

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions The secretary of state for work and pensions, also referred to as the work and pensions secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the business of the Department for Work and P ...

Mary Creagh Mary Helen Creagh (born 2 December 1967) is a British politician who served as chair of the Environmental Audit Select Committee from 2016 to 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield from 2005 to 201 ...

, British MP *

Stella Creasy Stella Judith Creasy (born 5 April 1977) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for the London constituency of Walthamstow since 2010. She served in the frontbench teams of Ed Miliband and Harriet ...

, British MP *

Margaret Hodge Dame Margaret Eve Hodge, Lady Hodge, (née Oppenheimer, formerly Watson; born 8 September 1944) is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barking since 1994. A member of the Labour Party, she previously served as ...

, British MP *

Margot James Margot Cathleen James (born 28 August 1957) is a British politician who served as Minister of State for Digital and Creative Industries from 2018 to 2019. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Stourbridge from 2010 to 2019. Elected as a Conserva ...

, British MP, former Minister of State for Digital and Creative Industries *

Ranil Jayawardena Ranil Malcolm Jayawardena (born 3 September 1986) is a British politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Hampshire since 2015. A member of the Conservative Party, he served under Prime Minister Liz Truss as Secretary of ...

, British MP *

Ed Miliband Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband ...

, British MP, former Leader of the Labour Party and former

Leader of the Opposition The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government. The leader of the opposition is typically se ...

Maria Miller Dame Maria Frances Miller'MILLER, Rt Hon. Maria (Frances Lewis)', Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edn, November 2012 ...

, British MP, former

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport The secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, also referred to as the culture secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department f ...

Bob Neill Sir Robert James MacGillivray Neill (born 24 June 1952) is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromley and Chislehurst since a by-election on 29 June 2006, following the ...

, British MP *

Christopher Pincher Christopher John Pincher (born 24 September 1969) is a British independent politician and a Conservative Party member, who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamworth since 2010. Pincher previously served as Government Deputy Chief Wh ...

, British MP *

Stephen Pound Stephen Pelham Pound (born 3 July 1948) is a British former Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing North from 1997 to 2019. Background His father, Pelham Pendennis Pound (1922–1999) was a BBC sub-editor and ...

, British MP *

Rachel Reeves Rachel Jane Reeves (born 13 February 1979) is a British politician and economist serving as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament for Leeds West since 2010. Born in Lewis ...

, British MP *

David Rutley David Henry Rutley (born 7 March 1961) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Macclesfield since 2010. A member of the Conservative Party, has been Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Americas and Car ...

, British MP *

Andrew Selous Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous (; born 27 April 1962) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Bedfordshire since the 2001 general election. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Ministe ...

, British MP *

Virendra Sharma Virendra Kumar Sharma (Hindi: , Punjabi: ; born 5 April 1947) is a British-Indian Labour Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Southall since winning the seat at a by-election in 2007. Early life and backgrou ...

, British MP *

Barry Sheerman Barry John Sheerman (born 17 August 1940) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Huddersfield, previously Huddersfield East, since 1979. He is also Labour's longest continuously servi ...

, British MP

Current members of the House of Lords

Waheed Alli, Baron Alli Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born 16 November 1964) is a British media entrepreneur and politician. He is the co-creator of the television series '' Survivor'' and has held executive positions at several television production companies including the ...

, media mogul * Ros Altmann, Baroness Altmann, former Minister of State for Pensions *

Virginia Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, (née Garnett, born 12 March 1948) is a British Conservative Party politician, and headhunter. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1984 ...

, former

Secretary of State for National Heritage The secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, also referred to as the culture secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the Department f ...

; former

Secretary of State for Health The secretary of state for health and social care, also referred to as the health secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for the work of the Department of Health and Social Care. The incumbent ...

Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai (born 10 July 1940) is a India-born naturalised British economist and former Labour politician. He stood unsuccessfully for the position of Lord Speaker in the House of Lords in 2011. He has been aw ...

, development economist *

Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine (; born 9 March 1955) is a British politician and life peer who is a non-aligned member of the House of Lords. She was the Chairman of the EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee in the House of Lords fr ...

Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is t ...

, sociologist *

David Gold, Baron Gold David Laurence Gold, Baron Gold (born 1 March 1951)The Lord Gold

*
Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner Anthony Stephen Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, KC (born 21 March 1945) is a British barrister, academic administrator, and life peer. He is head of chambers at One Essex Court, a leading set of commercial barristers in the Temple, and was the Trea ...
, current Deputy High Court Judge *
Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, (born 23 June 1940), known as Derry Irvine, is a Scottish lawyer, judge and political figure who served as Lord Chancellor under his former pupil barrister, Tony Blair. Education Irvine wa ...
, former
Lord Chancellor The lord chancellor, formally the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. The ...
*
Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury Mervyn Allister King, Baron King of Lothbury (born 30 March 1948) is a British economist and public servant who served as the Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013. He is a School Professor of Economics at the London School of Econ ...
, School Professor of Economics at the LSE; former Governor of the Bank of England *
Richard Layard, Baron Layard Peter Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard FBA (born 15 March 1934) is a British labour economist, currently working as programme director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Layard was Senior Research ...
, economist *
Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore Spencer Elliot Livermore, Baron Livermore (born 12 June 1975) is a strategy and communications professional. He currently works in the European Banking Practice at the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company, as a Proposal Strategist. He was p ...
, former director of political strategy to British prime minister
Gordon Brown James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He previously served as Chance ...
*
Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett Peter Robert Henry Mond, 4th Baron Melchett (24 February 1948 – 29 August 2018), also known as Peter Melchett, was an English jurist and politician. He succeeded to the title of Baron Melchett in 1973. Background The son of the British Steel ...
*
Nick Markham, Baron Markham Nicholas Francis Markham, Baron Markham, (born 13 February 1968) is chair of London & Continental Railways. He is the co-founder of COVID-19 testing company Cignpost Diagnostics & ExpressTest, a non-executive director of Inchora Limited, and the ...
* Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh, political theorist * Dave Prentis, Baron Prentis of Leeds, trade unionist *
Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Baroness Quin, (born 26 November 1944) is a British Labour Party politician. She served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Gateshead East and Washington West and for its predecessor Gateshead East from 1987 to 2005. Ear ...
, Labour Party politician *
Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings Patricia Elizabeth Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings (born 27 January 1939) is a Conservative Party politician and former frontbencher in the House of Lords. She was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1989 to 1994. She was Chairman of ...
, British MEP, former Chairman of the Council of
King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
*
Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi Maurice Nathan Saatchi, Baron Saatchi ( ar, موريس ساعتجي ; born 21 June 1946) is a British-Iraqi businessman, and with his brother, Charles, co-founder of the advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi. Early life Mauric ...
, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi * Aamer Sarfraz, Baron Sarfraz, Conservative politician and businessman *
Peter Smith, Baron Smith of Leigh Peter Richard Charles Smith, Baron Smith of Leigh (24 July 1945 – 2 August 2021) was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour local politician and life peer. Career Peter Smith was educated at Bolton School before going up to London School of Ec ...
, former Executive Leader of
Wigan Council The Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in the United Kingdom. It consists of 75 Councillors with one-third being elected every three years in four. The borough is separated into 25 war ...
*
Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton Dorothea Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton (born 16 October 1952), known as Glenys Thornton, is a Labour and Co-operative politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 1998. She was a Government Whip in 2008 to 2010 and a Parliament ...
, former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health * Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, former Chairman of the
Financial Services Authority The Financial Services Authority (FSA) was a quasi-judicial body accountable for the financial regulation, regulation of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2013. It was founded as the Securities and Investmen ...
* Guglielmo Verdirame, Baron Verdirame * William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, former Deputy
Leader of the Liberal Democrats The Liberal Democrats are a political party in the United Kingdom. Party members elect the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the head and highest-ranking member of the party. Liberal Democrat members of Parliament also elect a deputy leader of ...
in the House of Lords * Minouche Shafik, Baroness Shafik of Camden and Alexandria, Director of the LSE (2017–present); former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England for markets and banking

Former members of Parliament
*
Leo Abse Leopold Abse (22 April 1917 – 19 August 2008) was a Welsh lawyer and politician. He was a Welsh Labour MP for nearly 30 years, noted for promoting private member's bills to decriminalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce la ...
, British MP, famous for legalisation of male homosexuality *
Douglas Allen, Baron Croham Douglas Albert Vivian Allen, Baron Croham (15 December 1917 – 11 September 2011) was a British politician and civil servant. Life The son of Albert John Allen, Douglas Allen was aged only one when his father was killed in action during the Fi ...
, former Head of the Home Civil Service * Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, former Solicitor General for England and Wales *
Charlotte Atkins Charlotte Jean Scott Atkins (born 24 September 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands from 1997 until 2010. Early life Atkins is the daughter of Ron Atkins, the left wing ...
, former Junior Minister * Jackie Ballard, British MP, journalist and director general of the RSPCA *
Tony Banks, Baron Stratford Anthony Louis Banks, Baron Stratford (8 April 1942 – 8 January 2006) was a British politician who served as Minister for Sport from 1997 to 1999. A member of the Labour Party, he was a member of Parliament from 1983 to 2005 and subsequentl ...
, British MP and British Peer * Sir
Rhodes Boyson Sir Rhodes Boyson (11 May 192528 August 2012) was an English educator, author and Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Brent North. He was knighted and made a member of the Privy Council in 1987. Early life Born ...
, British MP *
Annette Brooke Dame Annette Lesley Brooke, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, DBE (''née'' Kelly; born 7 June 1947) is a British Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat politician. She was the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parlia ...
, British MP *
Nick Clegg Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British media executive and former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who has been president for global affairs at Meta Platforms since 2022, having previously been vicepr ...
, British MP, former
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom is a minister of the Crown and a member of the British Cabinet. The office is not always in use, and prime ministers may use other offices, such as First Secretary of State, to indicate the seni ...
and former
Leader of the Liberal Democrats The Liberal Democrats are a political party in the United Kingdom. Party members elect the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the head and highest-ranking member of the party. Liberal Democrat members of Parliament also elect a deputy leader of ...
*
Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield Francis Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, PC (surname pronounced "Co-feeld"; 28 September 1916 – 8 January 2007), was by turns a civil servant, a company director, a Conservative Party politician, and a European Commissioner. He served as Mi ...
, British Peer, former Cabinet Minister; former Vice-President of the European Commission * Tim Collins, British MP * Maureen Colquhoun, Britain's first openly lesbian MP *
Jim Cousins James Mackay Cousins (born 23 February 1944) is an English Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central from 1987 to 2010. Early life Cousins was educated at the City of London School, New Colle ...
, British MP *
Jo Cox Helen Joanne Cox ( Leadbeater; 22 June 1974 – 16 June 2016) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Party. Born in B ...
, British MP *
Edwina Currie Edwina Currie (' Cohen; born 13 October 1946) is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997. She was a Junior Health Minister for two year ...
, British MP, former Junior Minister *
Hugh Dalton Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton, (16 August 1887 – 13 February 1962) was a British Labour Party economist and politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947. He shaped Labour Party foreign policy in the 1 ...
, former
Chancellor of the Exchequer The chancellor of the Exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the Chancellor is ...
*
Andrew Dismore Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived ...
, British MP * Dick Douglas, British MP * Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy, British MP, former Cabinet Minister; former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly *
Frank Dobson Frank Gordon Dobson (15 March 1940 – 11 November 2019) was a British Labour Party politician. As Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St. Pancras from 1979 to 2015, he served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 ...
, British MP, former Cabinet Minister * Helen Eadie, MSP * Matthew Elliott, CEO of Vote Leave * Barbara Follett, British MP *
Steve Gilbert Stephen David John Gilbert (born 6 November 1976) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was elected at the 2010 general election the Member of Parliament (MP) for the new constituency of St Austell and Newquay, but lost his seat at the ...
, British MP *
Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood (30 March 1950 – 6 November 2011) was a British political consultant, and former advertising executive, who worked for the Labour Party. Appointed by Director of Communications Peter Mandelson, h ...
, political advisor *
Tom Greatrex Thomas James Greatrex (born 30 September 1974) is a British Labour and Co-operative, Labour Co-op politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (UK Parliament constituency), Rutherglen and Hamilton West betw ...
, British MP *
Miranda Grell Miranda Agnes Jayne Grell (born June 1978) is a barrister and former Labour Party councillor for the London Borough of Waltham Forest. She was the first person to be found guilty of making false statements under the Representation of the People A ...
, former Labour Councillor known as the first person found guilty of making false statements under the
Representation of the People Act 1983 The Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It changed the British electoral process in the following ways: * Amended the Representation of the People Act 1969. * Stated that a convicted pe ...
* Judith Hart, Baroness Hart, former Cabinet Minister *
Mark Hoban Mark Gerard Hoban (born 31 March 1964) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he is a former Member of Parliament for Fareham (2001–2015) and former Minister of State for Work and Pensions (2012–2013). Early life Hoba ...
, British MP *
Jane Hutt Jane Elizabeth Hutt MS (born 15 December 1949) is a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Minister for Social Justice since 2021. She has served as the Member of the Senedd (MS) for the Vale of Glamorgan since 1999. A member of the Parliam ...
, Minister in the
Welsh Assembly Government Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ...
*
Sydney Irving, Baron Irving of Dartford Sydney Irving, Baron Irving of Dartford PC (1 July 1918 – 18 December 1989) was a British Labour Co-operative politician. Irving was educated at Pendower School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the London School of Economics. He was a school teacher ...
, British MP * Brian Jenkins, British MP * Aubrey Jones, Minister; chairman of the
National Board for Prices and Incomes The National Board for Prices and Incomes was created by the government of Harold Wilson in 1965 in an attempt to solve the problem of inflation in the British economy by managing wages and prices. The board's chairman was Aubrey Jones, formerl ...
*
Frank Judd, Baron Judd Frank Ashcroft Judd, Baron Judd, (28 March 1935 – 17 April 2021) was a British Labour politician. He was a Senior Fellow of Saferworld NGO from 1994 to 2002, and from 2002 to 2015, a trustee. In 2007, he became a member of the Advisory Board ...
, former Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; former
Minister for Overseas Development The minister of state for development and Africa, formerly the minister of state for development and the secretary of state for international development, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom. The off ...
* Syed Kamall, British MEP * Ruth Kelly, British MP, former Cabinet Minister *
Arthur Latham Arthur Charles Latham (14 August 1930 – 3 December 2016) was a British Labour Party politician, who was the MP for Paddington North from 1969 to 1974, and its successor seat, Paddington, from that year until 1979. Early life and education La ...
, British MP * Rachel Lomax, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England for monetary policy * Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, British MP, former
Secretary of State for Defence The secretary of state for defence, also referred to as the defence secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the business of the Ministry of Defence. The incumbent is a membe ...
; former
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland A secretary, administrative professional, administrative assistant, executive assistant, administrative officer, administrative support specialist, clerk, military assistant, management assistant, office secretary, or personal assistant is a w ...
* Dame
Mavis McDonald Dame Mavis McDonald, DCB (born 23 October 1944) is a British academic and civil servant. She served as Permanent Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and was named Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (DCB) in 2004. Career In 1966, ...
, Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office *
Michael Meacher Michael Hugh Meacher (4 November 1939 – 21 October 2015) was a British politician who served as a government minister under Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ol ...
, Minister * John Mendelson, British MP * John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, former
Secretary of State for Health and Social Services The Secretary of State for Health and Social Services was a position in the UK cabinet, created on 1 November 1968 with responsibility for the Department of Health and Social Security. It continued until 25 July 1988 when Department of Health and th ...
; former
Secretary of State for Transport The Secretary of State for Transport, also referred to as the transport secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the policies of the Department for Transport. The incumbent i ...
* Merlyn Rees, former
Home Secretary The secretary of state for the Home Department, otherwise known as the home secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom. The home secretary leads the Home Office, and is responsible for all national ...
* Andrew Miller, British MP *
Doreen Miller, Baroness Miller of Hendon Doreen Miller, Baroness Miller of Hendon, MBE (née Feldman, 13 June 1933 – 21 June 2014) was a British politician (Conservative Party). Life Miller attained an LL.B. in 1957 at the London School of Economics. Miller was appointed a Member of ...
, British Peer *
Eric Ollerenshaw Eric Ollerenshaw OBE (born 26 March 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancaster and Fleetwood from 2010 to 2015. He was born and grew up in Lancashire and was educated at Hyde County Gr ...
, British MP *
Marion Phillips Marion Phillips (29 October 1881 – 23 January 1932) was a Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament in England. Early life and education Marion Philllips was born on 29 October 1881 in Melbourne, Australia. Her parents were Philli ...
, British MP * Sir Ray Powell, British MP * Reginald Prentice, Baron Prentice, Cabinet Minister *
Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear Beatrice Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear (7 August 1913 – 23 April 1997) was a British social scientist and politician. She was leader of the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party in the House of Lords from 1984 to 1988, and Deputy Leader of the Liber ...
, former Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords * Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, former Junior Minister *
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, (4 February 1902 – 10 July 2003), known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross, was an English barrister and Labour politician who served as the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Cri ...
, former Cabinet Minister * Sir Richard Shepherd, British MP *
Donald Soper, Baron Soper Donald Oliver Soper, Baron Soper (31 January 1903 – 22 December 1998) was a British Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist. He served as President of the Methodist Conference in 1953–54. After May 1965 he was a peer in the House of Lo ...
, Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist * John Stonehouse, former Minister * Jo Swinson, British MP, former
Leader of the Liberal Democrats The Liberal Democrats are a political party in the United Kingdom. Party members elect the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the head and highest-ranking member of the party. Liberal Democrat members of Parliament also elect a deputy leader of ...
* Ian Taylor, British MP * Adam Tomkins, MSP *
Rudi Vis Rudolf Jan Vis (4 April 1941 – 30 May 2010) was a Dutch-born British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley and Golders Green from 1997 to 2010. Early life Vis was born in 1941 in the town of Alkmaar, in the Ne ...
, British MP *
Malcolm Wicks Malcolm Hunt Wicks (1 July 1947 – 29 September 2012) was a British Labour Party politician and academic specialising in social policy. He was a member of parliament (MP) from 1992, first for Croydon North West and then for Croydon North, unt ...
, Minister * Jenny Willott, British MP, former Junior Minister * David Winnick, British MP * Anthony Wright, British MP * Michael Young, Baron Young, academic and author of the 1945 Labour manifesto

Civil servants
* Sir
John Beddington Sir John Rex Beddington HonFREng (born 13 October 1945) is a British population biologist and Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, and was previously Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College London, and the UK Govern ...
, UK
Government Chief Scientific Adviser The UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) is the personal adviser on science and technology-related activities and policies to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet; and head of the Government Office for Science. The Chief Scientific Advi ...
* Sir
Kenneth Berrill Sir Kenneth Berrill (28 August 1920 – 30 April 2009) was an English economist and public servant. Early life and education Born at Stoke Newington, London, Berrill was the son Stanley Ernest Berrill (1896–1984), a clerk at a men's outf ...
, chief economic adviser to the Treasury; Head of the Central Policy Review Staff *
John Bourn Sir John Bryant Bourn (21 February 1934 – 22 November 2022) was a British auditor who was the Comptroller and Auditor General and therefore a head of the National Audit Office. Early life and education Bourn was born in Hornsey, London, on ...
, former Comptroller and Auditor General * Sir John Burgh, director-general of the British Council * Sir
Sydney Caine Sir Sydney Caine KCMG (27 June 1902 – 2 January 1991) was an educator and economist. Early life On 27 June 1902, Caine was born. Caine's father was Harry Caine, a railway clerk. Caine's mother was Jane. Caine attended Harrow County Scho ...
, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, director of the LSE * Paul Corrigan, director of strategy and commissioning of the NHS London Strategic Health Authority * Sir
Jeremy Heywood Jeremy John Heywood, Baron Heywood of Whitehall, (31 December 1961 – 4 November 2018) was a British civil servant who served as Cabinet Secretary to David Cameron and Theresa May from 2012 to 2018 and Head of the Home Civil Service from 2014 ...
, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service *
Claus Moser, Baron Moser Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, (24 November 1922 – 4 September 2015) was a British statistician who made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. He prided himself rather on being a non-mathematical statistician, and said t ...
, director of the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom * Dame
Una O'Brien Dame Una O'Brien DCB is a British former civil servant, who served as the Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health. She became a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the New Year honours list 2011, and a Dame Commander of the Ord ...
, Permanent Secretary Department of Health *
Vicky Pryce Vasiliki "Vicky" Pryce (' Kourmouzi ( el, Βασιλική Κουρμούζη); born 15 July 1952) is a Greek-born British economist and a former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service. She is currently the Chief Econom ...
former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service * Sir David Ramsden, MSc Economics 1990, chief economic adviser to HM Treasury *
Tom Scholar Sir Thomas Whinfield Scholar (born 17 December 1968) is a British civil servant who served as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury until 8 September 2022. Scholar was previously the Prime Minister's Adviser on European and Global Issues in the ...
, Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury *
Josiah Stamp Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, (21 June 1880 – 16 April 1941) was an English industrialist, economist, civil servant, statistician, writer, and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London, Midland and Scot ...
, former Governor of the Bank of England

United States
*
Elliott Abrams Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer, who has served in foreign policy positions for presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Abrams is considered to be a neoconservative. He is currently ...
, Assistant Secretary of State in Reagan Administration; senior director of the
National Security Council A national security council (NSC) is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security. An NSC is often headed by a na ...
in Bush Administration * Donald Baer, White House Director of Communications and Strategic Planning in
Clinton Administration Bill Clinton's tenure as the 42nd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1993, and ended on January 20, 2001. Clinton, a Democrat from Arkansas, took office following a decisive election victory over Re ...
* Valerie Lynn Baldwin, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), Bush Administration * Michael Chertoff,
United States Secretary of Homeland Security The United States secretary of homeland security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the federal department tasked with ensuring public safety in the United States. The secretary is a member of the Cabinet of the U ...
, Bush Administration; US Attorney, Bush Sr. and Clinton Administrations *
Colm Connolly Colm Felix Connolly (born October 18, 1964) is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. He formerly served as United States Attorney for the District of Delaware. Biography and ...
,
United States Attorney United States attorneys are officials of the U.S. Department of Justice who serve as the chief federal law enforcement officers in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts. Each U.S. attorney serves as the United States' chief federal c ...
, Bush Administration *
Lauchlin Currie Lauchlin Bernard Currie (October 8, 1902 – December 23, 1993) worked as White House economic adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II (1939–45). From 1949 to 1953, he directed a major World Bank mission to Colombia and re ...
, White House Economic Adviser to President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
* Rosa DeLauro, Democratic Member of the US House of Representatives *
Leandra English Leandra English is an American political advisor serving as an advisor to the Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services. She formerly was the Deputy Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from 2017 ...
, deputy director of the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. CFPB's jurisdiction includes banks, credit unions, securities firms, payday lenders, mortg ...
*
Edwin Feulner Edwin John Feulner Jr. (born August 12, 1941) is a former think tank executive who founded the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and served as its president from 1977 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2018. Feulner's positions have in ...
, President of the Heritage Foundation Think Tank * William Gale, Council of Economic Advisers, Bush Administration *
Eric Garcetti Eric Michael Garcetti (born February 4, 1971) is an American politician who served as the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles from 2013 until 2022. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he was first elected in the 2013 Los An ...
, Mayor of Los Angeles *
Marc Grossman Marc Isaiah Grossman (born September 23, 1951) is an American former diplomat and government official. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and Under Secretary of State for Politica ...
, U.S. 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 Orval Howard Hansen (August 3, 1926 – November 2, 2017) was an American politician who served as a congressman from Idaho. He served three terms as a Republican in the House from 1969 to 1975, representing the state's 2nd district. Early year ...
, Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives * Alice Stone Ilchman, Assistant Secretary of Education and Cultural Affairs under US President Jimmy Carter * Bruce Jentleson, International Affairs Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice President
Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic Part ...
*
Bruce Katz Bruce Katz (born August 19, 1952) is an American musician, playing piano, organ and bass guitar. From 1996 to 2010, he was on the faculty at the Berklee College of Music in Boston as an associate professor. He founded his own musical group, the ...
, former Chief of Staff,
US Department of Housing and Urban Development The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It administers federal housing and urban development laws. It is headed by the Secretary of Housing and Urb ...
; Vice President,
Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as simply Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916. Located on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C., the organization conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in ec ...
*
Vanessa Kerry Vanessa Bradford Kerry (born December 31, 1976) is an American physician, health care administrator, and doctor. She is a founder of the non-profit Seed Global Health. Her father is John Kerry, who served as the 68th United States Secretary of ...
, Democratic activist and daughter of Senator
John Kerry John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party (Unite ...
(D-MA) * Ron Kind, Democratic Member of U.S. House of Representatives *
Mark Kirk Mark Steven Kirk (born September 15, 1959) is a retired American politician and attorney who served as a United States senator from Illinois from 2010 to 2017, and as the United States representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district fr ...
, Republican Member of the U.S. Senate *
Monica Lewinsky Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American activist and writer. President Bill Clinton admitted to having an affair with Lewinsky while she worked at the White House as an intern in 1995 and 1996. The affair, and its repercus ...
, former White House intern involved in a sex scandal with former President
Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
*
Susan Lindauer Susan Lindauer (born July 17, 1963) is an American journalist and former U.S. Congressional staffer who was charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government" and violating U.S. financial sanctions during the run-up to the 20 ...
, ex-Congressional aide accused of assisting Iraqi intelligence prior to the 2003 invasion *
Edward Luttwak Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born 4 November 1942) is an American author known for his works on grand strategy, military strategy, geoeconomics, military history, and international relations. He is best known for being the author of '' Coup d'État: ...
, consultant to the US
National Security Council A national security council (NSC) is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security. An NSC is often headed by a na ...
, State Department and Defence Department; economist; historian; Senior Fellow at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. CSIS was founded as the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown University in 1962. The center conducts polic ...
*
James McGreevey James Edward McGreevey (born August 6, 1957) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004 following the revelation of his extramarital affair w ...
, former
governor of New Jersey The governor of New Jersey is the head of government of New Jersey. The office of governor is an elected position with a four-year term. There is a two consecutive term term limit, with no limitation on non-consecutive terms. The official res ...
* Brad Miller, Member of the US House of Representatives *
Richard H. Moore Richard Hancock Moore (born Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina, August 30, 1960) was the North Carolina State Treasurer from 2001–2009. He was first elected to that post in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. Career Moore earned both his under ...
, North Carolina state treasurer *
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Daniel Patrick Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, diplomat and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 and served as an ...
,
US Senator The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and powe ...
*
Ethan Nadelmann Ethan A. Nadelmann (born March 13, 1957) is the founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs. He is a supporter of the legalization of marijuana in America. Early life Nadelma ...
, founder and executive director of the
Drug Policy Alliance The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is a New York City–based nonprofit organization that seeks to advance policies that “reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and b ...
*
Peter R. Orszag Peter Richard Orszag (born December 16, 1968) is the CEO of Financial Advisory at Lazard. Before June 2019, he was the firm's Head of North American M&A and Global Co-Head of Healthcare. Orszag previously served as a Vice Chairman of Corporate ...
, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Senior Economist,
Council of Economic Advisors The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United States on economic policy. The CEA provides much of the empirical resea ...
, Clinton Administration; Fellow of the
Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as simply Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916. Located on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C., the organization conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in ec ...
; Professor,
Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
, Congressional Budget Office director, director designate
Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, but it also examines agency programs, pol ...
* Jon Ossoff, US Senator for Georgia (elected 2021), MSc International Political Economy 2013 *
Tan Parker Nathaniel Willis "Tan" Parker IV (born May 22, 1971) is a businessman and Republican politician who has served in the Texas Senate, representing the 12th district since 2023. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2023. H ...
, member of the Texas House of Representatives *
Alice Paul Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ...
, American suffragist * Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Reagan Administration; Chairman of Defense Department Advisory Committee, Bush Administration; fellow, American Enterprise Institute *
F. Whitten Peters Frederick Whitten Peters (born August 20, 1946 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a District of Columbia lawyer and senior level public official. His law practice specializes in civil and criminal litigation including contract fraud, antitrust, tax and secu ...
, Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. * David Rockefeller, former chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Trilateral Commission, son of financer
John D. Rockefeller Jr. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist, and the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in ...
and grandson of
Standard Oil Standard Oil Company, Inc., was an American oil production, transportation, refining, and marketing company that operated from 1870 to 1911. At its height, Standard Oil was the largest petroleum company in the world, and its success made its co-f ...
co-founder
John D. Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He has been widely considered the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history. Rockefeller was ...
*
Max Rose Max N. Rose (born November 28, 1986) is an American military officer and politician who served as a United States representative from New York for a single term from 2019 to 2021. A moderate Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, he served ...
(born 1986), US Congressman from New York's 11th congressional district, and US Army
Bronze Star The Bronze Star Medal (BSM) is a United States Armed Forces decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone. Wh ...
recipient. * Pete Rouse, White House Chief of Staff,
Obama Administration Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican ...
*
James Rubin James Phillip Rubin (born March 28, 1960) is an American former diplomat and journalist who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Clinton Administration from 1997–2000. He wrote a regular column on foreign aff ...
, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; lead foreign policy adviser to John Kerry campaign *
Robert Rubin Robert Edward Rubin (born August 29, 1938) is an American retired banking executive, lawyer, and former government official. He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton administration. Before his government s ...
, U.S. Treasury Secretary and director, National Economic Council, Clinton Administration; director of
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 ...
* Rajiv Shah,
USAID The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 bi ...
Administrator, Obama Administration * Robert Shapiro,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs The Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, or USC-EA, is a high-ranking official in the United States Department of Commerce that serves as the principal adviser to the United States Secretary of Commerce on economic analysis. The Unde ...
, Clinton Administration; Fellow of
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
; Fellow of National Bureau of Economic Research *
Mona Sutphen Mona K. Sutphen (born November 10, 1967) was the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. She is currently a partner and Head of Investment Strategies at The Vistria Group, a Chicago-based private ...
, current
White House Deputy Chief of Staff The White House deputy chief of staff is officially the top aide to the White House chief of staff, who is the senior aide to the president of the United States. The deputy chief of staff usually has an office in the West Wing and is responsible ...
for Policy *
John Tower John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 – April 5, 1991) was an American politician, serving as a Republican United States Senator from Texas from 1961 to 1985. He was the first Republican Senator elected from Texas since Reconstruction. Tower ...
, U.S. Senator * Sanford J. Ungar, President emeritus of Goucher College; director of
Voice of America Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is the state-owned news network and international radio broadcaster of the United States of America. It is the largest and oldest U.S.-funded international broadcaster. VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content ...
; member of
Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, mi ...
* Paul Volcker, chairman of
Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a ...
, Carter and Reagan Administrations; US Treasury Under-Secretary, Nixon Administration; President of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is one of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States. It is responsible for the Second District of the Federal Reserve System, which encompasses the State of New York, the 12 northern counties of New ...
* David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; US Ambassador to Egypt, Bush Administration *
Kimba Wood Kimba Maureen Wood (born January 21, 1944) is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Wood has presided over many high-profile cases involving such figures as "Junk Bond Kin ...
, U.S. Federal Judge; Attorney General nominee *
Dov Zakheim Dov S. Zakheim (born December 18, 1948) is an American businessman, writer, and former official of the United States government. In the Reagan administration, he held various Department of Defense positions. Early life and education Zakheim was ...
, Under-Secretary of Defense, Bush and Reagan administrations

Canada
* Ed Broadbent, leader of the
New Democratic Party of Canada The New Democratic Party (NDP; french: Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a federal political party in Canada. Widely described as social democratic,The party is widely described as social democratic: * * * * * * * * * * * * th ...
, 1975–1989 *
John Crosbie John Carnell Crosbie, (January 30, 1931 – January 10, 2020) was a Canadian provincial and federal politician who served as the 12th lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Prior to being lieutenant governor, he served as a pr ...
,
Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador The lieutenant governor of Newfoundland and Labrador () is the viceregal representative in Newfoundland and Labrador of the , who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, as w ...
, former Cabinet minister * Jean-Yves Duclos, Canadian Liberal MP, Canada's Minister of Families, Children and Social Development * Brian Greenspan, barrister *
Hal Jackman Henry Newton Rowell Jackman (born June 10, 1932) is a Canadian billionaire businessman who served as the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1991 to 1997. He is the son of former Member of Parliament Harry Jackman and philanthropist Mary R ...
, former
Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario The lieutenant governor of Ontario (, in French: ''Lieutenant-gouverneur'' (if male) or ''Lieutenante-gouverneure'' (if female) ''de l'Ontario'') is the viceregal representative in Ontario of the , who operates distinctly within the province but ...
* Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party, 2008–2011 * Joy MacPhail, former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia *
Marc Mayrand Marc Mayrand is a Canadian public servant who served as the sixth chief electoral officer of Canada from 2007 to 2016, where he oversaw Elections Canada. Career Mayrand studied law at the University of Ottawa and the London School of Economics ...
, chief electoral officer of Elections Canada, 2007–present *
David McGuinty David Joseph McGuinty (born February 25, 1960) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Ottawa South since 2004. He currently chairs the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians ...
, Member of Parliament, Liberal Party * Catherine McKenna, Canadian Liberal MP, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change *
Bill Morneau William Francis Morneau Jr. (born October 7, 1962) is a Canadian businessman and former Liberal Party politician who served as minister of finance and member of Parliament (MP) for Toronto Centre from 2015 to 2020. Morneau was executive chair ...
, Canadian MP, Canada's Minister of Finance, 2015–present *
Jacques Parizeau Jacques Parizeau (; August 9, 1930June 1, 2015) was a Canadian politician and Québécois economist who was a noted Quebec sovereigntist and the 26th premier of Quebec from September 26, 1994, to January 29, 1996. Early life and career Pariz ...
,
Premier of Quebec The premier of Quebec ( French: ''premier ministre du Québec'' (masculine) or ''première ministre du Québec'' (feminine)) is the head of government of the Canadian province of Quebec. The current premier of Quebec is François Legault of the ...
, 1994–1996 * Svend Robinson, former Canadian MP; first openly gay Canadian politician in major political party *
Gregory Selinger Gregory Francis Selinger (born February 16, 1951) is a Canadian former politician who served as the 21st premier of Manitoba from 2009 until 2016, leading an NDP government. From 1999 to 2009 he was the Minister of Finance in the government of ...
, Premier of Manitoba, 2009–2016 *
Mitchell Sharp Mitchell William Sharp (May 11, 1911 – March 19, 2004) was a Canadian politician and a Companion of the Order of Canada, most noted for his service as a Liberal Cabinet minister. He did, however, serve in both private and public sectors dur ...
, former Canadian Minister of Finance * Paul Zed, Member of Parliament for Saint John, New Brunswick

Latin America and the Caribbean
*
Eduardo Bhatia Eduardo Bhatia Gautier (born May 16, 1964) is a Puerto Rican attorney and politician. Bhatia is a former 15th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico and executive director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration. Early life and educa ...
, President of the Senate of Puerto Rico * Winston Dookeran, Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist *
Christiana Figueres Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born 7 August 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations. She was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFC ...
, current head of the UNFCCC *
Martin Lousteau Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austral ...
, Minister of economy and production, Argentina * Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa, former minister of foreign affairs and public works, Colombia. *
Shridath Ramphal Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal (born 3 October 1928), often known as Sir Sonny Ramphal, is a Guyanese politician who was the second Commonwealth Secretary-General, holding the position from 1975 to 1990. He was also the foreign minister of ...
, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth *
Kamina Johnson Smith Kamina Johnson Smith is a Jamaican attorney and politician. A member of the Jamaica Labour Party, Johnson Smith is currently the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in the second Holness cabinet. Since 2009 Johnson Smith has been a me ...
, current Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Jamaica * Edith Clarke (anthropologist)

Europe
* Georgios Alogoskoufis, former Minister for Economy and Finance, Greece * Prince Amedeo of Belgium * Annalena Baerbock, German politician, Co-Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany *
Rubina Berardo Rubina Everlien Berardo (born 11 November 1982) is a Madeiran and Portuguese politician and pundit who was a Social Democratic Party (PSD) Member of the Assembly of the Republic for the constituency of Madeira between 2015 and 2019. Since Fe ...
, Member of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic * Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner *
Joe Bossano Sir Joseph John Bossano (born 10 June 1939) is a Gibraltarian politician who served as Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 1988 to 1996 and Leader of the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party from 1978 to 2011. He served as Leader of the Opposition ...
, Chief Minister of Gibraltar * Lykke Friis, Minister for Climate and Energy, Denmark * Prince Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway *
Patrick Janssens Patrick Janssens (born 19 September 1956) is a Belgian former politician. He was a member of the SP.a and the former mayor of the port city Antwerp. Career Janssens studied "Political and Social Sciences" and "Applied Economic Sciences" (bot ...
, Mayor of Antwerp (2003–2012); MP Flemish Parliament, chairman Flemish social democrats (SP) (1999–2003), Belgian MP Chamber of Representatives (2003–2004) *
Jan Kavan Jan Kavan (born 17 October 1946 in London) is a former Czech politician and diplomat. Biography Kavan was born in London as the son of a Czechoslovak diplomat, Pavel Kavan, and a British teacher, Rosemary Kavanová. Kavan moved back to Czecho ...
, former President of the
United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; french: link=no, Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. Curr ...
, member of the Czech Parliament, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic *
Memli Krasniqi Memli Krasniqi (born 25 January 1980) is a Kosovar Albanian politician who has been the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Kosovo The Democratic Party of Kosovo ( sq, Partia Demokratike e Kosovës; abbr. ''PDK'') is one of the largest politic ...
, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development of the Republic of Kosovo *
Ursula von der Leyen Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (; Albrecht, born 8 October 1958) is a German politician who has been serving as the president of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the Cabinet of Germany, German federal government between 2005 an ...
, former Minister of Defence, Germany, current President of the European Commission *
Jana Maláčová Jana Maláčová (born 24 June 1981) is a Czech politician and member of the Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD). In July 2018 she took up the post as the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (Czech Republic), Minister of Labour and Social Af ...
, former Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic *
Ivan Mikloš Ivan Mikloš (born 2 June 1960) is a Slovak politician and the former Minister of Finance of Slovakia (2010–2012). He previously served as Slovakia's Minister of Finance from 2002 to 2006, and Deputy Prime Minister for Economy between 1998 and 2 ...
, Minister of Finance of Slovakia * Franz Neumann, first Chief of Research of the
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany invaded ...
*
Érik Orsenna Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult (born 22 March 1947) a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po"), Orsenna specialized in economic ...
, former economist and advisor to
François Mitterrand François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was President of France, serving under that position from 1981 to 1995, the longest time in office in the history of France. As First Secretary of the Socialist Party, he ...
, member of the Conseil d'État and of the
Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
, 1988
Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...
*
Giorgos Papakonstantinou Giórgos Papakonstantínou ( el, Γιώργος Παπακωνσταντίνου; born 30 October 1961) in Athens, Greece, is a Greek economist and politician and former Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Greece and former ...
, former Minister for Finance of Greece *
Jacek Rostowski Jan Anthony Vincent-Rostowski, also known as Jacek Rostowski (; born 30 April 1951, London), is a Polish-British economist and politician who served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. He was a candidate ...
, Minister of Finance, Poland * Jonas Gahr Støre, Leader of the Norwegian Labour Party and former Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs *
Zdeněk Tůma Zdeněk Tůma (born 19 October 1960) is a Czech economist, who was the Governor of the Czech National Bank from 1 December 2000 to 30 June 2010. He had previously served as Vice Governor of the Bank from 13 February 1999 to 30 November 2000. Care ...
, Governor of Czech National Bank *
Kai Whittaker Kai Whittaker (born 10 April 1985) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and member of the Bundestag since 2013. Education and early career Born in Baden-Baden to a British father and German mother, Whittaker completed h ...
, member of the German Parliament *
August Zaleski August Zaleski (13 September 1883 – 7 April 1972) was a Polish economist, freemason, politician, and diplomat. Twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, he served as President of Poland- in-exile. Life and career Aug ...
, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland * Victor Habert-Dassault, Member of the French Parliament * Markus Gstöttner, former deputy Chief of Staff and economic advisor to Sebastian Kurz, current Chief of Staff to Karl Nehammer

Africa
*
Augustus Akinloye Chief Augustus Meredith Adisa Akinloye (August 19, 1916 – September 18, 2007), popularly known as A.M.A, was a Nigerian lawyer, politician and the Seriki of Ibadanland, thus making him a Yoruba tribal aristocrat. Legal career Akinloye read la ...
, Nigerian lawyer and politician, Chairman of defunct National Party of Nigeria *
Kader Asmal Abdul Kader Asmal (8 October 1934 – 22 June 2011) was a South African politician. He was a professor of human rights at the University of the Western Cape, chairman of the council of the University of the North and vice-president of the A ...
, South African politician and member of the
African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a Social democracy, social-democratic political party in Republic of South Africa, South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when ...
' Executive Committee *
Obafemi Awolowo Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo (; 6 March 1909 – 9 May 1987) was a Yoruba nationalist and Nigerian statesman who played a key role in Nigeria's independence movement (1957-1960). Awolowo founded the Yoruba nationalist group Egbe Om ...
, Nigerian independence leader, Fabian lawyer, human rights advocate *
Ibrahim Gambari Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, (born 24 November 1944), is a Nigerian academic and diplomat who is currently serving as Chief of Staff to the President of Nigeria. Early life and education Ibrahim Agboola Gambari was born on 24 November 1944 in Ilo ...
, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations * Jeanne Hoban, Anglo-Sri Lankan journalist,
Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a rev ...
political activist and trade-unionist *
Aguinaldo Jaime Aguinaldo Jaime (born January 15, 1954) is an Angolan political figure and economist. He served as Minister of Finance from June 1990 to April 1992,Michael Wamalwa Kijana Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa (25 November 1944 – 23 August 2003) was a renowned Kenyan politician who at the time of his death was serving as the eighth Vice-President of Kenya. Early life Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa was born in S ...
, former vice-president of Kenya *
Josina Z. Machel Josina Ziyaya Machel (April 1976) is a human rights activist from Mozambique, who was listed on the BBC's 100 Women list for 2020. Her parents were Samora Machel, the first independent president of Mozambique, and humanitarian and politician Gr ...
, women's rights activist * Mac Maharaj, South African ANC politician, former Minister of Transport *
Bayo Ojo Christopher Adebayo Ojo, SAN is a former Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As such, he is also a past head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice. He is a legal practitioner and is licensed to practise in Nigeria, Englan ...
, past head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice *
Babatunji Olowofoyeku Babatunji Olowofoyeku (21 May 1917 – 26 March 2003), OFR, SAN, was a Nigerian politician, educationist, lawyer and leader, a Yoruba and native of Ilesha in Osun State of Nigeria, whose political career started in the mid-1950s. Early life ...
, Nigerian politician * Yemi Osinbajo, vice-president of Nigeria *
Alex Quaison-Sackey Alex Quaison-Sackey (9 August 1924 – 21 December 1992) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served during the first and third republics. He was the first black African to serve as president of the United Nations General Assembly. Early life and edu ...
, former foreign minister of Ghana * Winston Tubman, Liberian diplomat and politician *
Shamsudeen Usman Shamsuddeen Usman, , (born 18 September 1949) is a Nigerian economist, banker and public servant. He is currently the CEO oSUSMAN & Associates an economic, financial and management consulting firm headquartered in Nigeria. He was the Finance M ...
, Nigerian economist, technocrat and banker; Minister of National Planning and past Minister of Finance of Nigeria

Asia
*
B. R. Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served a ...
, First Law Minister of India, political leader who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution * Lakshmi Kant Jha, Governor of
Reserve Bank of India The Reserve Bank of India, chiefly known as RBI, is India's central bank and regulatory body responsible for regulation of the Indian banking system. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It is responsible for ...
, Member of Parliament, Indian Ambassador to
United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
, Governor of Kashmir *
Leslie Goonewardene Leslie Simon Goonewardene ( si, ලෙස්ලි සයිමන් ගුනවර්ධන, ta, லெஸ்லி சைமன் குணவர்தன; 31 October 190911 April 1983) was a prominent Sri Lankan statesman. He founded ...
, Statesman, Trotskyist independence activist and founder of Sri Lanka's first political party, the
Lanka Sama Samaja Party The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, often abbreviated as LSSP (Literal translation, literally: Lanka Socialist Party, Sinhalese language, Sinhala: ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය, Tamil language, Tamil: லங்கா சமசமா� ...
. *
Piyasvasti Amranand Piyasvasti Amranand ( th, ปิยสวัสดิ์ อัมระนันทน์; Royal Thai General System of Transcription, RTGS: ''Piyasawat Ammaranan''), born 11 July 1953) was Thailand's Ministry of Energy (Thailand), Energy Ministe ...
, Thailand's Energy Minister * Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Araneta Marcos III - Congressman of the 1st district of Ilocos Norte, eldest son of President
Bongbong Marcos Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. ( , , ; born September 13, 1957), commonly referred to by the initials PBBM or BBM, is a Filipino politician who is the 17th and current president of the Philippines. He previously served as a senat ...
and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, grandson of former President
Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. ( , , ; September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who was the 10th president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial ...
and former First Lady Imelda Marcos. * Sonny Angara, Senator of the Philippines * Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Defence Minister of Pakistan * Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, former Dy. Foreign Minister of Pakistan * Jyoti Basu, 2nd longest serving Indian chief minister, Indian politician, Kolkata, West Bengal, India * Audrey Eu, chairman of the Civic Party and former member of the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kong ...
* Feroze Gandhi, Indian- Parsi politician and journalist, former 'First Gentleman of India' (husband of PM
Indira Gandhi Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; Given name, ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 ...
) *
Hishammuddin Hussein Hishammuddin bin Hussein ( Jawi: هشام الدين بن حسين; born 5 August 1961) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who served as Senior Minister of the Security Cluster and Minister of Defence from 2021 to 2022. A member of the Unite ...
, Malaysia's Minister of Defence *
Yang Jiechi Yang Jiechi (; born 1 May 1950) is a high-ranking Chinese politician and diplomat, who served as a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party between 2017 and 2022. Yang spent much of his professional life in the United States, wh ...
, current member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, former Foreign Minister * Sir
Yuet Keung Kan Sir Yuet-keung Kan (, 26 July 1913 – 14 September 2012) was a Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer who was successively appointed Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in the 1960s and 1970s. He ...
, Hong Kong politician, banker and lawyer * Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan, President of Pakistan Muslim League, 1st Chief Minister of N.W.F.P. Pakistan, former Industry Trade and Interior Minister of Pakistan * Emily Lau, Hong Kong politician, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong * Marvi Memon, Member National Assembly Pakistan * Krishna Menon, former Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, Minister of Defence, and leading proponent of India's emancipation * Ghazali Shafie, former Foreign Minister of Malaysia * Marty Natalegawa, former Foreign Minister of Indonesia *
C. R. Pattabhiraman Chetput Ramaswami Iyer Pattabhiraman ( ta, சேத்துப்பட்டு ராமசவாமி ஐயர் பட்டாபிராமன்) (11 November 1906 – 19 June 2001) was an Indian lawyer and politician from the I ...
, Indian member of Parliament and Union Minister *
Emília Pires Emília Pires was East Timor's Minister of Finance from April 2007 until 16 February 2015. Ms. Pires was sworn in as the Minister of Finance of the V Constitutional Government of East Timor on August 8, 2012 under the leadership of Prime Minis ...
, former Minister of Finance of Timor-Leste * Sajith Premadasa,
Leader of the Opposition The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government. The leader of the opposition is typically se ...
of Sri Lanka,
Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
for
Colombo District Colombo District ( si, කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික්කය ''kol̠am̆ba distrikkaya''; ta, கொழும்பு மாவட்டம் ''Koḻumpu Māvaṭṭam'') is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka, the second level ...
, Leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, former Minister of Housing and Construction, former Minister of Samurudi Affairs and former Deputy Minister of Health *
Pramod Ranjan Sengupta Pramod Ranjan Sengupta (1907 - 1974) was a Marxist intellectual and Bengali revolutionary, attached with of Indian National Army led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Early life Sengupta was born in British India at Dumka, presently in the state of ...
, Marxist intellectual and member of
Indian National Army The Indian National Army (INA; ''Azad Hind Fauj'' ; 'Free Indian Army') was a collaborationist armed force formed by Indian collaborators and Imperial Japan on 1 September 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. Its aim was to secure In ...
*
Tharman Shanmugaratnam Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Tamil: தர்மன் சண்முகரத்தினம்; born 25 February 1957) is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been serving as Senior Minister of Singapore since 2019 and has also been Co ...
, Singapore's Finance Minister * Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesian Minister of Defence * Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959–1984 * Tan Chuan-Jin, Singapore's Minister for Social and Family Development *
Kashmala Tariq Kashmala Tariq ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who is the current Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplaces, in office since February 2018. Previously, she was a member of the National Assembly of Pakis ...
, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan *
Josephine Teo Josephine Teo Li Min (née Yong; zh, s=杨莉明, t=楊莉明, poj=Iôⁿ Lī-bêng, p=Yáng Lìmíng; born 1968) is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of the Cyb ...
, Singapore's Minister in the Prime Minister's Office *
Fadli Zon Fadli Zon (born 1 June 1971) is an Indonesian politician, presently serving as a member of the People's Representative Council, where he was previously Deputy Speaker from 2014 to 2019. He was one of the founders of Prabowo Subianto's Great Indone ...
, Former deputy speaker of the Indonesian
People's Representative Council The People's Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia ( id, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Republik Indonesia, DPR-RI), also known as the House of Representatives, is one of two elected chambers of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), ...
* Melvyn Ong, Singaporean army general and the current Chief of Defence Force of the
Singapore Armed Forces The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) are the military services of the Republic of Singapore, responsible for protecting and defending the security interests and the sovereignty of the country. A military component of the Ministry of Defence (MINDE ...
* Raghav Chadha, Member of Parliament,
Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...
from Punjab, India *
Jayant Chaudhary Chaudhary Jayant Singh (born 27 December 1978) is an Indian politician and a current member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. He also served as member in 15th Lok Sabha from Mathura. He is the National Chairman of The Rashtriya Lok Dal Party ...
, Member of Parliament,
Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...
from Uttar Pradesh, India

Australia and New Zealand
* Tim Barnett, Member of the Parliament of New Zealand * Peter Coleman, journalist and conservative politician * Bill Hastings, Chief Censor of New Zealand, judge * Robert Hill, Defence Minister *
Christian Porter Charles Christian Porter (born 11 July 1970) is an Australian former politician and lawyer who served as the 37th Attorney-General of Australia from 2017 to 2021 in the Turnbull government and the subsequent Morrison government. He was a Mem ...
, Treasurer and Attorney-General of Western Australia * Gordon Reid, Governor of Western Australia and Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...
*
Peter Shergold Peter Roger Shergold is an Australian academic, company director, and former public servant. Shergold was the Chancellor (education)#Australia, Chancellor of Western Sydney University from 2011 through 2022. Between February 2003 and February ...
, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet * Stephen Smith, Foreign and Defence Minister * Tim Watts, Labour MP

Middle East
* Sheikh
Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (; born 14 November 1982) has been Crown Prince of Dubai since 2008. He previously served as Deputy Ruler of Dubai from 2006 to 2008. He is popularly known as Fazza ( ar, فزاع), the name under ...
, Crown Prince of Dubai * Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan, member of royal family of Jordan * Yishai Be'er, General in the
Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...
and currently the President of the Israeli Military Court of Appeals *
Maxime Chaya Maxime Chaya ( ar, مكسيم شعيا) (born December 16, 1961) is a Lebanese sportsman, mountaineer and explorer. On May 15, 2006, he was the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest, completing the Seven Summits challenge. On December 28, 2007, ...
, Lebanese sportsman, mountaineer, and explorer *
Kemal Derviş Kemal Derviş (; born 10 January 1949) is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development ass ...
, former
UNDP The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...
Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey *
Rafi Eitan Rafael Eitan ( he, רפי איתן; 23 November 1926 – 23 March 2019) was an Israeli politician and intelligence officer. He also led Gil and served as Minister of Senior Citizens. He was in charge of the Mossad operation that led to the ar ...
, leader of the Gil Party in Israeli Politics, lawmaker, former security *
Emre Gönensay Emre Gönensay (born 1937) is a Turkish people, Turkish politician. He served as List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996 and is a member of the True Path Party. Biography He was born in 1937. ...
, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996 * Moshe Levi, Lieutenant General, was the 12th Chief of Staff of the
Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...
(IDF) * Yitzhak Moda'i, Israeli politician who served as an MP for over 20 years *
Amnon Rubinstein Amnon Rubinstein ( he, אמנון רובינשטיין, born 5 September 1931) is an Israeli legal scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002, he served in several ministerial positions. He is currently dean ...
, 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 Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...
* Jon Allen, Canadian Ambassador to Israel, 2006–present * Shlomo Argov, prominent Israeli diplomat, former Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom *
Kader Asmal Abdul Kader Asmal (8 October 1934 – 22 June 2011) was a South African politician. He was a professor of human rights at the University of the Western Cape, chairman of the council of the University of the North and vice-president of the A ...
, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee *
William Macmahon Ball William Macmahon Ball, AC (29 August 1901 – 26 December 1986) was an Australian academic and diplomat. Born in Casterton, Victoria, he was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, where he received a Bachelor of ...
, Australian diplomat *
Rosemary Banks Rosemary Banks (born 1951) is a New Zealand diplomat who served as the Ambassador of New Zealand to the United States between 2018 and 2022. She is the first woman to hold the position. Education Banks graduated with an MA in Russian from ...
, New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations *
Philip Barton Sir Philip Robert Barton (born 18 August 1963) is a British diplomat, currently the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He was previously British High Commissioner to India; he was High Commissioner ...
, British High Commissioner to Pakistan *
Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield Francis Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, PC (surname pronounced "Co-feeld"; 28 September 1916 – 8 January 2007), was by turns a civil servant, a company director, a Conservative Party politician, and a European Commissioner. He served as Mi ...
, Cabinet Minister under Thatcher; Vice-President of the
European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...
*
Andrei Dapkiunas Andrei Dapkiunas ( be, Андрэй Дапкюнас, born 11 April 1963, Minsk) is a Belarusian diplomat who is currently Ambassador-designate of Belarus to Austria and Slovenia, Permanent Representative of Belarus to the international organisat ...
, Belarusian Ambassador to
Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the UN *
Nitin Desai Nitin Desai is an Indian economist and international civil servant. He was Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations from 1992 to 2003. Early life and academic career He was born to Dayalji M. and Shantab ...
, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs *
Abul Fateh Abul Fateh (16 May 1924 – 4 December 2010) was a Bangladeshi diplomat, statesman and Sufi who was one of the founding fathers of South Asian diplomacy after the Second World War, having been the founder and inaugural Director of Pakistan' ...
, Bangladesh diplomat *
Ibrahim Gambari Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, (born 24 November 1944), is a Nigerian academic and diplomat who is currently serving as Chief of Staff to the President of Nigeria. Early life and education Ibrahim Agboola Gambari was born on 24 November 1944 in Ilo ...
, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations * Ian Goldin, former Vice President of External Affairs, World Bank * Jeffrey Goldstein, managing director, World Bank * Wang Guangya, permanent representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations * Robert Murray Hill, Australian Ambassador to the United Nations *
Genta H. Holmes Genta Hawkins Holmes (born September 3, 1940) is an American foreign service officer who served as ambassador to Namibia and Australia. In addition, she has served as a "Diplomat-in-Residence" at the University of California, Davis. Early life a ...
, United States Ambassador to Australia, Clinton Administration;
United States Ambassador to Namibia The United States ambassador to Namibia is the representative of the government of the United States in Namibia. The position was created the day Namibia became independent, which was also the day that Namibia-United States relations were estab ...
; Chief of Mission to Haiti and Malawi * Robert E. Hunter, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO * Clete Donald Johnson, Jr., former Member of Congress and US Ambassador, LL.M 1978 * Manoj Juneja, deputy director-general for operations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations * Ahmad Kamal, Pakistani Ambassador to the UN *
Jan Kavan Jan Kavan (born 17 October 1946 in London) is a former Czech politician and diplomat. Biography Kavan was born in London as the son of a Czechoslovak diplomat, Pavel Kavan, and a British teacher, Rosemary Kavanová. Kavan moved back to Czecho ...
, former President of the United Nations General Assembly, member of the Czech Parliament, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic * Maliha Lodhi, Pakistan's High Commissioner to United Kingdom and former Ambassador to USA * John J. Maresca, former US Ambassador to the OSCE in the George H.W. Bush Administration * Sir
Goolam Hoosen Kader Meeran Sir Goolam Hoosen Kader Meeran (born 12 April 1943) is a judge of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal. Goolam Meeran grew up in South Africa during the apartheid regime. He graduated from the University of Manchester in 1969 and graduated with a ...
, President of the UK Employment Tribunals; Judge of the
United Nations Dispute Tribunal The United Nations Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) is the court of first instance in the internal justice system of the United Nations. It became operational on 1 July 2009. The UNDT "hears and decides cases" filed by current and former staff members "app ...
* Braj Kumar Nehru, Ambassador of India to the United States and Indian High Commissioner to Britain * Michael O'Neill, director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy in the
United Nations Development Programme The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...
(UNDP) *
William Peters William, Willie, Willy, or Bill Peters may refer to: Arts and entertainment * William Peters (painter) (1742–1814), British painter * William Theodore Peters (1862–1904), American poet and actor *William Wesley Peters (1912–1991), American ar ...
, High Commissioner in Malawi *
Karen Pierce Dame Karen Elizabeth Pierce, Lady Roxburgh, (born 23 September 1959) is a British diplomat who is currently British Ambassador to the United States at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and was previously the Permanent Represent ...
, current
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations The Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the United Nations, and in charge of the ''United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations'' (UKMIS). UK permanen ...
*
Romano Prodi Romano Antonio Prodi (; born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician, economist, academic, senior civil servant, and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Prim ...
, President of the European Commission, 1999–2004 *
Bertrand Ramcharan Bertrand G. Ramcharan of Guyana, a former United Nations official who once held functional diplomatic status, was from 2011 to 2015 President of UPR Info, an NGO working to promote and strengthen the Universal Periodic Review. He is also former ...
, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights *
Shridath Ramphal Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal (born 3 October 1928), often known as Sir Sonny Ramphal, is a Guyanese politician who was the second Commonwealth Secretary-General, holding the position from 1975 to 1990. He was also the foreign minister of ...
, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth *
Shaha Riza Shaha Riza ( ar, شاها علي رضا; born 1953 or 1954), is a Libyan former World Bank employee. Her external assignment at the Foundation for the Future, a "semi-independent foundation to promote democracy" is both in the Middle East and in N ...
, World Bank * Pierre Sane,
UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...
's assistant director-general for Social and Human Sciences *
Michele J. Sison Michele Jeanne Sison (born May 27, 1959, in Arlington, Virginia) is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service serving as the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. She has previously serve ...
, US Ambassador to Lebanon in the Bush Administration * Lachezara Stoeva, Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council *
Walter Tarnopolsky Walter Surma Tarnopolsky (1 August 193215 September 1993) was a Canadian judge, legal scholar, and pioneer in the development of human rights law and civil liberties in Canada. Background and education Walter Surma Tarnopolsky was born on 1 August ...
, Canadian judge and member of
United Nations Human Rights Committee The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Committee meets for three four-week sessions per y ...
* Arne Roy Walther, Norwegian ambassador to Japan * Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006–present

Central bankers
Janet Yellen official Federal Reserve portrait.jpg,
Janet Yellen Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist serving as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26, 2021. She previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. Yellen is t ...
, Chair of the US Federal Reserve, 2014–2018 Stanley Fischer.jpg,
Stanley Fischer Stanley Fischer ( he, סטנלי פישר; born October 15, 1943) is an Israeli American economist who served as the 20th Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017. Fisher previously served as the 8th governor of the Bank of Israel fro ...
, Vice president of the US Federal Reserve, 2014–2017; Governor of the Bank of Israel, 2005–2013 Mervyn King.jpg, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, 2003–2013 Paulvolcker.jpg, Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979–1987 Puey.gif,
Puey Ungpakorn Puey Ungphakorn, MBE ( th, ป๋วย อึ๊งภากรณ์; ; IPA:; ; 9 March 1916 – 28 July 1999), was a Thai economist who served as Governor of the Bank of Thailand and Rector of Thammasat University. He was the author of ''Fr ...
, Governor of the Central Bank of Thailand *
Tim Besley Sir Timothy John Besley, (born 14 September 1960) is a British academic economist who is the School Professor of Economics and Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE ...
, economics professor and member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee * Charlie Bean, economist, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee *
Willem Buiter Willem Hendrik Buiter CBE (born 26 September 1949) is an American-British economist. He spent most of his career as an academic, teaching at various universities. More recently, he was Chief Economist at Citigroup. Early life and education Buit ...
, economist, ex-member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee * Nugget Coombs, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia *
Stanley Fischer Stanley Fischer ( he, סטנלי פישר; born October 15, 1943) is an Israeli American economist who served as the 20th Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017. Fisher previously served as the 8th governor of the Bank of Israel fro ...
, Governor of the
Bank of Israel The Bank of Israel ( he, בנק ישראל, ar, بنك إسرائيل) is the central bank of Israel. The bank's headquarters is located in Kiryat HaMemshala in Jerusalem with a branch office in Tel Aviv. The current governor is Amir Yaron. T ...
; former World Bank Chief Economist * Neville Ubeysin-gha Jayawardena, Sri Lankan Sinhala economist, entrepreneur, and Senator; first indigenous governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka * Stephen Nickell, economist, ex-member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee * Amarananda Somasiri Jayawardene, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka *
Louis Rasminsky Louis Rasminsky, (February 1, 1908 – September 15, 1998) was the third Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973, succeeding James Coyne. He was succeeded by Gerald Bouey. Born in Montreal, he was raised in Toronto, graduated at ...
, Governor of the
Bank of Canada The Bank of Canada (BoC; french: Banque du Canada) is a Crown corporation and Canada's central bank. Chartered in 1934 under the ''Bank of Canada Act'', it is responsible for formulating Canada's monetary policy,OECD. OECD Economic Surveys: Ca ...
, 1961–1973

Nobel laureates

Guy Medal (statistics) recipients
*1945 Sir
Maurice Kendall Sir Maurice George Kendall, FBA (6 September 1907 – 29 March 1983) was a prominent British statistician. The Kendall tau rank correlation is named after him. Education and early life Maurice Kendall was born in Kettering, Northampton ...
(Gold) *1976
James Durbin __NOTOC__ James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation. Education The son of a greengrocer, Durbin was born in W ...
(Silver) *1978 Sir
R. G. D. Allen Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA (3 June 1906 – 29 September 1983) was an English economist, mathematician and statistician, also member of the International Statistical Institute. Life Allen was born in Worcester and educated at t ...
(Gold) *1982
Henry Wynn Henry Philip Wynn (born 19 February 1945) is a British statistician who has been a President of the Royal Statistical Society. He gained a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Oxford and a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in Mathematical Statistics ...
(Silver) *2007
Howell Tong Howell Tong (; born in 1944 in Hong Kong) is a statistician who has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear time series analysis, semi-parametric statistics, non-parametric statistics, dimension reduction, model selection, likelihood-free s ...
(Silver) *2008
James Durbin __NOTOC__ James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation. Education The son of a greengrocer, Durbin was born in W ...
(Gold)

Academics
Thomas Piketty 2015.jpg,
Thomas Piketty Thomas Piketty (; born 7 May 1971) is a French economist who is Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the Int ...
, author of ''Capital in the 21st Century'' Meghnad Desai.jpg,
Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai (born 10 July 1940) is a India-born naturalised British economist and former Labour politician. He stood unsuccessfully for the position of Lord Speaker in the House of Lords in 2011. He has been aw ...
, British-Indian economist and
Labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...
politician Michael Oakeshott.jpg,
Michael Oakeshott Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (; 11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of law.F ...
, philosopher and conservative thinker

Economists
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Daron Acemoglu Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-born American economist who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1993. He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. H ...
, economist,
John Bates Clark Medal The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...
Winner 2005 * Sir Roy Allen, economist and mathematician * Thomas Armbrüster, economist *
Heinz Wolfgang Arndt Heinz Wolfgang Arndt (26 February 1915 – 6 May 2002) was a German-born Australian economist. Biography Heinz Wolfgang Arndt was born in Breslau, Germany, in 1915, the eldest son of Fritz Georg Arndt (1885–1969) and Julia (née Heimann). A ...
, economist * Kaushik Basu, chief economist of the
World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...
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Peter Thomas Bauer Peter Thomas Bauer, Baron Bauer, FBA (6 November 1915 – 2 May 2002) was a Hungarian-born British development economist. Bauer is best remembered for his opposition to the then widely-held notion that the most effective manner to help develop ...
, development economist *
William Baumol William Jack Baumol (February 26, 1922 – May 4, 2017) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at New York University, Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Professor Emeritus at Prin ...
, professor of economics and director, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics,
New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...
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Jo Beall Jo Beall, (born 1952) is a British economist and academic, specialising in development studies, economic development and economic history. Early life and education Beall was born in 1952 in London, England. She was educated at La Sagesse School ...
, professor of development studies *
Walter Berns Walter Berns (May 3, 1919 – January 10, 2015) was an American constitutional law and political philosophy professor. He was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor emeritus at Georgetown University. Early life an ...
, scholar, American Enterprise Institute * Sir
Tim Besley Sir Timothy John Besley, (born 14 September 1960) is a British academic economist who is the School Professor of Economics and Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE ...
, economist *
Kenneth Binmore Kenneth George "Ken" Binmore, (born 27 September 1940) is an English mathematician, economist, and game theorist, a Professor Emeritus of Economics at University College London (UCL) and a Visiting Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Univer ...
, economist * Sir
Richard Blundell Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA (born 1 May 1952, Shoreham-by-Sea) is a British economist and econometrician. Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics of University College London and t ...
, economist and econometrician * Sir Alan Budd, British economist, provost of
The Queen's College, Oxford The Queen's College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault. It is distinguished by its pred ...
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Richard N. Cooper Richard Newell Cooper (June 14, 1934 – December 23, 2020) was an American economist, policy adviser, and academic. Born in Seattle, Cooper graduated from Oberlin College in 1956 and received a master's degree in economics from the London Sch ...
, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics,
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
; previously chairman, National Intelligence Council and; Under Secretary of State for Economic *
Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai (born 10 July 1940) is a India-born naturalised British economist and former Labour politician. He stood unsuccessfully for the position of Lord Speaker in the House of Lords in 2011. He has been aw ...
, development economist * Ian Goldin, development economist, director of
Oxford Martin School The Oxford Martin School is a research and policy unit based in the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford. It was founded in June 2005 as the James Martin 21st Century School and is located in the original building of the Indian I ...
, University of Oxford * Charles Goodhart, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee *
W. M. Gorman William Moore "Terence" Gorman (17 June 1923 – 12 January 2003) was an Irish economist and academic. He was predominantly a theorist and is most famous for his work on aggregation and separability of goods, and in this context he developed h ...
, economist * Sir
Theodore Gregory Sir Theodore Emmanuel Gugenheim Gregory (10 September 1890 – 24 December 1970) was a British economist. Theodore Gregory was born in London on 10 September 1890. Gregory was educated at Dame Alice Owen's School in Islington. He attended the ...
, British economist, economic adviser to the Government of India from 1938 to 1946 *
Frank Hahn Frank Horace Hahn FBA (26 April 1925 – 29 January 2013) was a British economist whose work focused on general equilibrium theory, monetary theory, Keynesian economics and critique of monetarism. A famous problem of economic theory, the condi ...
, economist *
David Forbes Hendry Sir David Forbes Hendry, FBA CStat (born 6 March 1944) is a British econometrician, currently a professor of economics and from 2001 to 2007 was head of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford. He is also a professorial fellow at ...
, British economist, currently professor of economics and head of the Economics Department at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
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J.A. Hobson John Atkinson Hobson (6 July 1858 – 1 April 1940) was an English economist and social science, social scientist. Hobson is best known for his writing on imperialism, which influenced Vladimir Lenin, and his theory of underconsumption. His ...
, economist and writer *
Samuel Hollander Samuel Hollander, (born April 6, 1937) is a British/Canadian/Israeli economist. Born in London, he received a B.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics in 1959. In 1961 he received an AM and a Ph.D. in 1963 from Princeton Universit ...
, British/Canadian/Israeli economist *
Eliot Janeway Eliot Janeway (January 1, 1913—February 8, 1993), born Eliot Jacobstein, was an American economist, journalist and author, widely quoted during his lifetime, whose career spanned seven decades. For a time his ideas gained some influence w ...
, American economist, economic advisor to Presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
and Lyndon B. Johnson * Harry Johnson, Canadian economist * Lewis Webster Jones, economist, fifteenth
President of Rutgers University The President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (informally called Rutgers University) is the chief administrator of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Rutgers was founded by clergymen affiliated with the Dutch Reformed ...
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Nicholas Kaldor Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (12 May 1908 – 30 September 1986), born Káldor Miklós, was a Cambridge economist in the post-war period. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939), d ...
, economist *
Peter Kenen Peter Bain Kenen (November 30, 1932 – December 17, 2012) was an American economist, who was the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University, and senior fellow in international economics at the Council on For ...
, economist *
Maurice Kugler Maurice Kugler is a Colombian American economist born in 1967. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 2000, as well as an M.Sc. (Econ) and a B.Sc. (Econ) both from the London School of Economics. Kugler is professor of public polic ...
, development economist *
Ludwig Lachmann Ludwig Maurits Lachmann (; ; 1 February 1906 – 17 December 1990) was a German economist who was a theorist and important contributor to the Austrian School of Economics. Lachmann himself, Israel Kirzner, and Murray Rothbard were the three primar ...
, economist * David Laidler, economist *
Richard Layard, Baron Layard Peter Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard FBA (born 15 March 1934) is a British labour economist, currently working as programme director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Layard was Senior Research ...
, economist * Peter Leeson, George Mason Economist *
Patrick Minford Anthony Patrick Leslie Minford (born 17 May 1943) is a British macroeconomist who is professor of applied economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, a position he has held since 1997. He was Edward Gonner Professor of Applied E ...
, economist * Michio Morishima, Japanese economist *
Abhinay Muthoo Abhinay Muthoo is an economist specializing in negotiations, game theory and public policy. Abhinay has 37 years of teaching and research experience, across several universities including Bristol, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick and the LSE. He has b ...
, economist *
Andrew Oswald Andrew Oswald (born 1953) is a British Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick, England. He is an ISI highly cited researcher and has been a professorial fellow of the ESRC. He is currently a member of the b ...
, economist *
Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End Maurice Harry Peston, Baron Peston (19 March 1931 – 23 April 2016) was a British economist and Labour Party (UK), Labour life peer. His research interests included macroeconomic policy and the economics of education. Personal Peston was born ...
, economist and politician *
Peter C. B. Phillips Peter Charles Bonest Phillips (born 23 March 1948) is an econometrician. Since 1979 he has been Professor of Economics and Statistics at Yale University. He also holds positions at the University of Auckland, Singapore Management University and t ...
, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at
Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
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William Phillips William Phillips may refer to: Entertainment * William Phillips (editor) (1907–2002), American editor and co-founder of ''Partisan Review'' * William T. Phillips (1863–1937), American author * William Phillips (director), Canadian film-maker ...
, economist, inventor of the Phillip's Curve * Arnold Plant, economist *
Thomas Piketty Thomas Piketty (; born 7 May 1971) is a French economist who is Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the Int ...
, economist, author of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" Affairs * Mihir Rakshit, economist *
Lionel Robbins Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, (22 November 1898 – 15 May 1984) was a British economist, and prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is known for his leadership at LSE, his proposed def ...
, economist * Tadeusz Rybczynski, Polish-born English economist, known for the development of the
Rybczynski theorem The Rybczynski theorem was developed in 1955 by the Polish-born English economist Tadeusz Rybczynski (1923–1998). It states that at constant relative goods prices, a rise in the endowment of one factor will lead to a more than proportional expans ...
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Anthony Saunders Anthony Saunders is the John M. Schiff Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business and is currently on the Executive Committee of the Salomon Center of the Study of Financial Institutions. Saunders has taught both undergr ...
, chairman, Department of Finance,
Stern School of Business The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business (commonly referred to as NYU Stern, The Stern School of Business, or simply Stern) is the business school of New York University, a private research university based in New York City. I ...
,
New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...
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Tibor Scitovsky Tibor de Scitovsky, also known as Tibor Scitovsky (November 3, 1910 – June 1, 2002), was a Hungarian born, American economist who was best known for his writing on the nature of people's happiness in relation to consumption. He was Associa ...
, economist * Arthur Seldon, free market ideologue *
Andrew Sentance Andrew Sentance CBE (born 1958) is a British business economist. He is currently Senior Adviser to Cambridge Econometrics. From November 2011 until October 2018, he was Senior Economic Adviser to PwC. He was an external member of the Monetary Pol ...
, member of Monetary Policy Committee * G.L.S. Shackle, economist *
Neil Shephard Neil Shephard (born 8 October 1964), FBA, is an econometrician, currently Frank B. Baird Jr., Professor of Science in the Department of Economics and the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. His most well known contributions are ...
, econometrician * Alasdair Smith, economist, former Vice-Chancellor at the
University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...
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Piero Sraffa Piero Sraffa (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book ''Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities'' is taken as founding the neo- ...
, economist *
Nicholas Stern Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, (born 22 April 1946 in Hammersmith) is a British economist, banker, and academic. He is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Cli ...
, economist *
Paul Sweezy Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 – February 27, 2004) was a Marxist economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine ''Monthly Review''. He is best remembered for his contributions to economic theory ...
, Marxist economist * Prajapati Trivedi, economist, First Secretary Performance Management to Government of India *
Sho-Chieh Tsiang Sho-Chieh Tsiang (; August 25, 1918 – October 21, 1993) was a Chinese-American economist. He was born in China but resided primarily in the United States from 1949 until his death. He also resided in Taiwan in 1948 and in the 1980s. He was th ...
, economist * Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, businessman, academic, chair of the UK
Financial Services Authority The Financial Services Authority (FSA) was a quasi-judicial body accountable for the financial regulation, regulation of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2013. It was founded as the Securities and Investmen ...
* Ralph Turvey, economist at the London School of Economics,
HM Treasury His Majesty's Treasury (HM Treasury), occasionally referred to as the Exchequer, or more informally the Treasury, is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance policy and ec ...
, the Electricity Council and the
National Board for Prices and Incomes The National Board for Prices and Incomes was created by the government of Harold Wilson in 1965 in an attempt to solve the problem of inflation in the British economy by managing wages and prices. The board's chairman was Aubrey Jones, formerl ...
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John Van Reenen John van Reenen (26 March 1947 – 21 August 2018) was a South African graphic artist and discus thrower, who was best known for setting the world record in the men's discus event in 1975. He was drafted in the 14th round of the 1972 NFL Draft ...
, economist, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics * Sushil Wadhwani, economist * Sir Alan Walters, monetary economist *
Basil Yamey Basil Selig Yamey CBE (4 May 1919 – 9 November 2020) was a South African economist and expert in the history of accounting. Career He was born in Cape Town in South Africa in May 1919, and educated at the University of Cape Town. For many yea ...
, industrial economist *
Allyn Abbott Young Allyn Abbott Young (September 19, 1876 – March 7, 1929) was an American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio. He died aged 52 in London, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at t ...
, economist *
Francesco Caselli Francesco Caselli (born 14 October 1966) is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics and the Head of the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). His work includes contributions to the understanding convergence and cross-c ...
, economist *
Richard Werner Richard Andreas Werner (born 5 January 1967) is a German banking and development economist who is a university professor at De Montfort University. He has proposed the "Quantity Theory of Credit", or "Quantity Theory of Disaggregated Credit", whi ...
, banking economist *
Ricardo Reis Ricardo A. M. R. Reis (born 1 September 1978) is a Portuguese economist and the A. W. Phillips professor of economics at the London School of Economics. In a 2013 ranking of young economists by Glenn Ellison, Reis was considered the top economi ...
, economist *
Friedrich August von Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Hayek ...
, CH, FBA, winner of the 1974
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...
with Gunnar Myrdal for their work on money and economic fluctuations, and the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomen * Sir John Richards Hicks - winner of the 1972
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...
with
Kenneth J. Arrow Kenneth Joseph Arrow (23 August 1921 – 21 February 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist. He was the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks in 1972. In economics ...
for their pioneering contributions to
general equilibrium theory In economics, general equilibrium theory attempts to explain the behavior of supply, demand, and prices in a whole economy with several or many interacting markets, by seeking to prove that the interaction of demand and supply will result in an ov ...
and welfare theory

Economic historians
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Edwin Cannan Edwin Cannan (3 February 1861, Funchal, Madeira – 8 April 1935, Bournemouth), the son of David Cannan and artist Jane Cannan, was a British economist and historian of economic thought. He was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1 ...
, historian of economic thought, professor at LSE, 1895–1926 * Nick Crafts, professor of economic history at LSE, 1995–2005 * Kent Deng, East Asian economic historian * Niall Ferguson, Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs * Mary S. Morgan, historian of economics *
R. H. Tawney Richard Henry Tawney (30 November 1880 – 16 January 1962) was an English economic historian, social critic, ethical socialist,Noel W. Thompson. ''Political economy and the Labour Party: the economics of democratic socialism, 1884-2005''. 2nd e ...
, English writer; a leading advocate of
Christian Socialism Christian socialism is a religious and political philosophy that blends Christianity and socialism, endorsing left-wing politics and socialist economics on the basis of the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. Many Christian socialists believe capi ...
* Donald Winch, professor of the history of economics at the University of Sussex * Eileen Power, second woman to be appointed to the Chair of Economic History * Lilian Knowles, First female professor of Economic History and first female Dean of Faculty, 1920s

Employment relations and management
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Chrisanthi Avgerou Chrisanthi Avgerou FBCS FAIS ( el, Χρυσάνθη Αυγέρου; born 1954) is a Greek-born British scholar in the field of the Social Study of Information Systems, focusing on Information Technology in developing countries. She is currently ...
, chor of information systems * Claudio Ciborra (1951–2005), chor of information systems

Historians
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Janet Coleman Janet Coleman FRHistS (born 1945, New York City) is a British academic and historian of political theory. Life She is currently a Professor of Ancient and Medieval Political Thought at the London School of Economics. She was the first woman to re ...
, historian of political thought *
Martin van Creveld Martin Levi van Creveld ( he, מרטין ון קרפלד; born 5 March 1946) is an Israeli military historian and theorist. Life and career Van Creveld was born in the Netherlands in the city of Rotterdam to a Jewish family. His parents, Leon a ...
, Israeli military historian and theorist * James Joll, leading World War I historian *
Paul Kennedy Paul Michael Kennedy (born 17 June 1945) is a British historian specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and great pow ...
, British historian specialising in international relations and grand strategy *
Alfred Marshall Alfred Marshall (26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924) was an English economist, and was one of the most influential economists of his time. His book '' Principles of Economics'' (1890) was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years. I ...
, historian and sociologist * Desmond Morton, historian * Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, historian *
Rosemary O'Day Rosemary O'Day (born 29 May 1945) is professor emeritus of history at the Open University. She was co-director of the Charles Booth Centre and is currently a consultant to the Charles Booth Archive Online project at the University of London. Early ...
, historian and author, Eileen Power student, 1970 * Ben Pimlott, Fabian President, modern historian, former president of the
University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...
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A. L. Rowse Alfred Leslie Rowse (4 December 1903 – 3 October 1997) was a British historian and writer, best known for his work on Elizabethan England and books relating to Cornwall. Born in Cornwall and raised in modest circumstances, he was encourag ...
, historian * Sir Anthony Seldon, historian, biographer of
Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
and headmaster of
Wellington College Wellington College may refer to: *Wellington College, Berkshire, an independent school in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England ** Wellington College International Shanghai ** Wellington College International Tianjin *Wellington College, Wellington, New Z ...
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Avi Shlaim Avraham "Avi" Shlaim (born 31 October 1945) is an Israeli-British historian, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and fellow of the British Academy. He is one of Israel's New Historians, a group of Israeli ...
, historian specialising in the Middle East * Alan Sked, leading
Habsburg The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
historian and founder of the United Kingdom Independence Party *
David Starkey David Robert Starkey (born 3 January 1945) is an English historian and radio and television presenter, with views that he describes as conservative. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before studying at Cambr ...
, historian specialising in
Tudor England Tudor most commonly refers to: * House of Tudor, English royal house of Welsh origins ** Tudor period, a historical era in England coinciding with the rule of the Tudor dynasty Tudor may also refer to: Architecture * Tudor architecture, the fin ...
* G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, historian * David Stevenson, World War One historian *
John Stubbs John Stubbs (or Stubbe) (c. 1544 – after 25 September 1589) was an English pamphleteer, political commentator and sketch artist during the Elizabethan era. He was born in the County of Norfolk, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. ...
, historian, former president of
Trent University Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham. Trent is known for its Oxbridge college system and small class sizes.
and Simon Fraser University * Jacob Talmon, historian *
Arnold Joseph Toynbee Arnold Joseph Toynbee (; 14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's Colleg ...
, historian * Sir Charles Webster, Stevenson Professor of International History; diplomat and founder of the
United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...
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Odd Arne Westad Odd Arne Westad FBA (born 5 January 1960) is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. He is the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University, where he teaches in the Yale Histor ...
, historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history

Human geography
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Harold Brookfield Harold Chillingworth Brookfield (March 9, 1926 in England - May 22, 2022 in Canberra) was a British and Australian geographer specialising in the analysis of rural development, small-scale societies, family farming, and the relationship betwee ...
(PhD 1950), emeritus professor,
Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...
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George Jonas George Jonas, CM (June 15, 1935 – January 10, 2016) was a Hungarian-born Canadian writer, poet, and journalist. A self-described classical liberal, he authored 16 books, including the bestseller '' Vengeance'' (1984), the story of an Israeli ...
, founder of social geography; professor of geography at LSE, 1958–1983 *
Halford MacKinder Sir Halford John Mackinder (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was an English geographer, academic and politician, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy. He was the first Principal of University Ext ...
, geographer and LSE director, 1903–1908 * Laurence Dudley Stamp, geographer

International relations
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Daniele Archibugi Daniele Archibugi (born 17 July 1958 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian economic and political theorist. He works on the economics and policy of innovation and technological change, on the political theory of international relations and on political ...
, former visiting professor of international relations *
Coral Bell Coral Mary Bell (30 March 1923 – 26 September 2012) was an Australian academic, who wrote extensively about international relations and power politics. Early life and education Coral Bell was born in Gladesville, a suburb of Sydney, Australi ...
, reader in international relations, 1965–1972 * Hedley Bull, professor of international relations *
Barry Buzan Barry Gordon Buzan, FBA, FAcSS (born 28 April 1946) is a British political scientist. He is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and a honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen and Jilin ...
, professor of international relations * Michael Cox, professor of international relations *
Sara Hagemann Sara Hagemann is a Danish academic and an expert on international and European politics. She has published extensively on issues related to political processes and representation in the European Union, transparency in politics, and the role of nati ...
, assistant professor at LSE's European Institute *
David Held David Jonathan Andrew Held (27 August 1951 – 2 March 2019) was a British political scientist who specialised in political theory and international relations. He held a joint appointment as Professor of Politics and International Relations, and w ...
, professor of international relations *
Fred Halliday Simon Frederick Peter Halliday (22 February 1946 – 26 April 2010) was an Irish writer and academic specialising in International Relations and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Cold War, Iran, and the Arabian peninsula. Biogra ...
, professor of international relations (
Montague Burton Sir Montague Maurice Burton (15 August 1885 – 21 September 1952) was the founder of Burton Menswear, one of Britain's largest chains of clothes shops. Early life Born Meshe David Osinsky and a Lithuanian Jew in Kurkliai, Kaunas provinc ...
Chair), to 2008 *
Kimberly Hutchings Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. She is a leading scholar in international relations theory. She has extensively researched and published on international political the ...
, professor of international relations *
Mary Kaldor Mary Henrietta Kaldor (born 16 March 1946) is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit. She also teaches ...
, professor of international relations * Parag Khanna, specialist in geopolitics and globalisation, managing partner of FutureMap and former managing partner of Hybrid Reality as well as Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum * F. S. Northedge, former professor of international relations *
Richard W. Lyman Richard Wall Lyman (October 18, 1923 – May 27, 2012), the seventh president of Stanford University, was an American educator, historian, and professor. Biography An historian of the British Labour Party, Lyman spent two years at the London Sc ...
, former provost and president of
Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
; founder of Stanford Institute for International Studies *
Susan Strange Susan Strange (9 June 1923 – 25 October 1998) was a British scholar who was "almost single-handedly responsible for creating international political economy." Notable publications include ''Sterling and British Policy'' (1971), ''Casino ...
, professor of international relations (
Montague Burton Sir Montague Maurice Burton (15 August 1885 – 21 September 1952) was the founder of Burton Menswear, one of Britain's largest chains of clothes shops. Early life Born Meshe David Osinsky and a Lithuanian Jew in Kurkliai, Kaunas provinc ...
Chair), 1978–1988 * Leonard Suransky, winner of Des Lee Visiting Lectureship in Global Awareness at
Webster University Webster University is a private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, Missouri. It has multiple branch locations across the United States and countries across Europe, Asia, and Africa. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs ...
* Martin Wight, reader in international relations, 1949–1960

Law
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Andrew Ashworth Andrew John Ashworth, CBE, KC (Hon), FBA (born 11 October 1947) was the Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2013, a Fellow of All Souls College, and was formerly Chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel ...
CBE QC,
Vinerian Professor of English Law The Vinerian Professorship of English Law, formerly Vinerian Professorship of Common Law, was established by Charles Viner who by his will, dated 29 December 1755, left about £12,000 to the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of O ...
at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
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Janice R. Bellace Janice R. Bellace is a Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School of Business. She held the Samuel Blank Chair in Legal Studies from 1996 until 2018. She is the author of numerous academic books, chapters, articles ...
, Samuel A. Blank Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics,
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
, founding president of the
Singapore Management University The Singapore Management University (SMU) is a public autonomous university in Singapore. The university is the only city campus in Singapore. It ranks third in Asia as a specialist university, behind Hong Kong University of Science and Techn ...
*
Aminullah Chaudhry Aminullah Chaudhry (urdu; امین اللہ چوہدری); 24 February 1944 - June 1, 2013) was a senior Pakistani bureaucrat and remained Principal Secretary to Prime Minister (PSPM) of Pakistan Malik Meraj Khalid and Director General (DG), Civil ...
, Pakistan bureaucrat and remained Principal Secretary to Prime Minister (PSPM) of Pakistan
Malik Meraj Khalid Malik Meraj Khalid ( ur, ; 1 February 1916 – 13 June 2003), was a Pakistani advocate, left wing politician and Marxist philosopher who served as Caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from November 1996 until February 1997. He was noted as be ...
and director general (DG),
Civil Aviation Authority A civil aviation authority (CAA) is a national or supranational statutory authority that oversees the regulation of civil aviation, including the maintenance of an aircraft register. Role Due to the inherent dangers in the use of flight vehicles, ...
(CAA) * Paul Davies, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics, Honorary QC * Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, former president of the
American Bar Association The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. Founded in 1878, the ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of acad ...
, and former president of the
Florida State University Florida State University (FSU) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the st ...
*
Albert Venn Dicey Albert Venn Dicey, (4 February 1835 – 7 April 1922), usually cited as A. V. Dicey, was a British Whig jurist and constitutional theorist. He is most widely known as the author of ''Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitutio ...
, English jurist *
Joseph Grundfest Joseph Grundfest (born 1951) is an American academic. He is the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and co-director of the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford University. He joined Stanford's facult ...
, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School *
Jeremy Horder Jeremy Christian Nicholas Horder (born 25 February 1962) is Professor of Criminal Law and former Head of Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2005 - 2010 he served as Law Commissioner for England and Wales. Hor ...
FBA, former Law Commissioner for England and Wales, professor of law at Oxford University and the London School of Economics * Sir
Otto Kahn-Freund Sir Otto Kahn-Freund QC (17 November 1900 – 16 August 1979) was a scholar of labour law and comparative law. He was a professor at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. Biography Kahn-Freund was born in Frankfurt am M ...
, professor of comparative law, University of Oxford, and a scholar in labour law *
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) is an American environmental lawyer and author known for promoting anti-vaccine propaganda and conspiracy theories. Kennedy is a son of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of President ...
, son of politician Robert F. Kennedy, law professor at Pace University School of Law *
Sir David Hughes Parry Sir David Hughes Parry (3 January 1893 – 8 January 1973) was a university administrator, Professor of Law and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nomina ...
, Professor of English law, 1930–1959 *
Michael Zander Michael Zander, KC, FBA, (born 16 November 1932 in Berlin) is a British legal scholar. He is Professor Emeritus of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the author of several books known to generations of lawyers an ...
QC, professor emeritus, Legal Correspondent of ''
The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
newspaper'', 1963–1988 *
John Hart Ely John Hart Ely ( ; December 3, 1938 – October 25, 2003) was an American legal scholar. He was a professor of law at Yale Law School from 1968 to 1973, Harvard Law School from 1973 to 1982, Stanford Law School from 1982 to 1996, and at the Uni ...
, 10th Dean of Stanford Law School * J. A. G. Griffith FBA, Welsh legal scholar, Professor of Public Law at the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
, Chancellor of the
University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
* Nicola Lacey CBE FBA, professor of law, gender and social policy at the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
, professor of criminal law and legal theory at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
* Julia Black CBE FBA, president-elect of the
British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...
, strategic director of innovation and professor of law at the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
* Hugh Collins FBA,
Vinerian Professor of English Law The Vinerian Professorship of English Law, formerly Vinerian Professorship of Common Law, was established by Charles Viner who by his will, dated 29 December 1755, left about £12,000 to the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of O ...
at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
, former Head of the Law Department at the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
and general editor of the ''
Modern Law Review The ''Modern Law Review'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of Modern Law Review Ltd. and which has traditionally maintained close academic ties with the Law Department of the London School of Economics. ...
'' *Conor Gearty, Conor A. Gearty FBA QC, Professor of Human Rights Law at the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
, founder member of the Matrix Chambers *Gerry Simpson, chair in Public International Law at the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
, professor of law at the University of Melbourne *Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill, Visiting Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute at the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
, former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom *Ewan McKendrick QC, Herbert Smith Professor of English Private Law at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
, Registrar of the University of Oxford *Neil Duxbury FBA, Professor of English Law at the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
*Sarah Worthington, Dame Sarah Elizabeth Worthington, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, DBE, Queen's Counsel Honoris Causa, QC (Hon), FBA, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, FRSA, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Director of the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
(with responsibility for research and external relations) between 2005 and 2010, Deputy High Court Judge in the Chancery division, Chancery Division *Nigel Rodley, Sir Nigel Simon Rodley, Order of the British Empire, KBE, Professor of Law and Chair of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, Member of the UN Human Rights Committee between 2001-2016 *Martti Koskenniemi, Centennial Professor at the Law Department of the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
, Professor of International Law in the University of Helsinki and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights *Antony Anghie, Antony T. Anghie, law professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law *Raymond Wacks, Emeritus, Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory and Head of Department of Law (1986-1993), University of Hong Kong

Linguists
* Geoffrey Sampson, linguist

Philosophers
* Joseph Agassi, philosopher * Brian Barry, moral and political philosopher * William Warren Bartley, philosopher * John Lane Bell, mathematical logician *
Kenneth Binmore Kenneth George "Ken" Binmore, (born 27 September 1940) is an English mathematician, economist, and game theorist, a Professor Emeritus of Economics at University College London (UCL) and a Visiting Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Univer ...
, philosopher, economist and mathematician * Nick Bostrom, philosopher * Luc Bovens, philosopher * Craig Callender, philosopher * Nancy Cartwright (philosopher), Nancy Cartwright, philosopher of science * Sir Bernard Crick, political philosopher * Helena Cronin, Darwinist philosopher * Gregory Currie, philosopher * Daniel Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist * Paul Feyerabend, philosopher * Peter S. Fosl, philosopher * Ernest Gellner, philosopher * John Gray (LSE), John Gray, political philosopher * Horace Romano Harré, philosopher * Colin Howson, philosopher * Chandran Kukathas, political theorist * Imre Lakatos, philosopher of science * Christian List, philosopher * Shirley Robin Letwin, political philosopher * David Makinson, philosopher and mathematical logician * Nicholas Maxwell, philosopher * David Miller (philosopher), David Miller, philosopher * Alan Musgrave, philosopher *
Michael Oakeshott Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (; 11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of law.F ...
, philosopher * Samir Okasha, philosopher of science * Michael Otsuka, moral and political philosopher * Sir Karl Popper, philosopher * Graham Priest, philosopher * Wlodek Rabinowicz, philosopher * Eric Scerri, philosopher of chemistry * Jeremy Shearmur, philosopher * Elliott Sober, philosopher of biology * Jeremy Stangroom, philosopher * John Worrall (philosopher), John Worrall, philosopher of science

Political scientists
* Benjamin Barber, professor of political science, University of Maryland, College Park * Sir Ernest Barker, political scientist, Principal of King's College London, 1920–1927 * Scott Barrett (professor), Scott Barrett, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University * Sarah Gibson Blanding, Vassar College's sixth president and first female president * Verity Burgmann, professor of political science, University of Melbourne * Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, political scientist, diplomat and author * William Christian (Canadian political scientist), William Christian, political scientist at the University of Guelph * Alasdair Cochrane, political theorist and Ethics, ethicist, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Sheffield * Ivor Martin Crewe, political scientist, Vice-Chancellor of University of Essex * Sir Bernard Crick, political theorist * Marianne Githens, American political scientist, feminist, author, and Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of Goucher College * Amy Gutmann, political scientist, President of the
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
* James Jupp AM, British-Australian political scientist and author * Harold Laski, political scientist and economist, colleague of Albert Einstein * Jim Leach, John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University * Steven Lukes, political and social theorist * Shireen Mazari, political scientist from Pakistan * Ralph Miliband, political scientist * Margaret Moore (academic), Margaret Moore, political theorist * Brendan O'Leary, Irish political scientist, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania * Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh, political theorist * Louis Pauly, political scientist * William A. Robson, lecturer and professor of public administration, London School of Economics * Gordon Smith (academic), Gordon Smith, professor of politics and government, London School of Economics * Jill Vickers, political scientist * Ken Young, UK public policy and politics of the early Cold War, King's College London

Sociologists
* Peter Abell, founding director of Interdisciplinary Institute of Management * Helmut Anheier, founder of the Centre for Civil Society and Dean of the Hertie School of Governance * Eileen Barker, sociology of religion * Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist * Ulrich Beck, sociologist * Robin Blackburn, sociologist * Tessa Blackstone, educationalist * Stanley Cohen (sociologist), Stanley Cohen, sociologist * Peter Davis (New Zealand), Peter Davis, sociologist * Norbert Elias, leading sociologist *
Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is t ...
, sociologist renowned for his theory of structuration, and former director of the school * Paul Gilroy, sociologist * Jocelyn Hyslop, social worker and educator * Ernest Krausz (1931-2018), Israeli professor of sociology and president at Bar Ilan University * Michael Mann (sociologist), Michael Mann, sociologist * Karl Mannheim, sociologist * Robert McKenzie (psephologist), Robert McKenzie, sociologist and psephologist * José Guilherme Merquior, sociologist and literary critic * Andrew Milner, sociologist of literature * Talcott Parsons, sociologist * John Porter (sociologist), John Porter, sociologist * Nikolas Rose, sociologist * Saskia Sassen, sociologist and economist * Michael Savage (sociologist), Mike Savage, sociologist * Richard Sennett, sociologist * France Winddance Twine, sociologist * Hilary Wainwright, sociologist

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

Social policy analysts and workers
* William Beveridge, former director of LSE * Winifred Cavenagh, Professor of Social Administration and Criminology at Birmingham University * Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, senior advisor to Prime Minister
Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
* Martin Knapp, Chair of LSE Health and Social Care * Jane Lewis (academic), Jane Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy * Tim Newburn, professor of criminology and current president of the British Society of Criminology * Augustus Nuwagaba, associate professor at Makerere University * Peter Townsend (sociologist), Peter Townsend, professor of social policy * Richard Titmuss, founder of the academic discipline of social policy * Emily Grundy, Professor of Demography * Roger Zogolovitch, architect and developer, director of the Infrastructure and Development course (1998-2003)

Social psychology
* Martin Bauer, psychologist * Howard Gardner, American psychologist, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences * Nicholas Humphrey, psychologist * Satoshi Kanazawa, evolutionary psychologist * J. Philippe Rushton, psychologist * Geoffrey Miller (psychologist), Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist * Andrew Samuels, psychologist * Graham Wallas, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society * Paul Webley, director and principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Statisticians
* Sir
R. G. D. Allen Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA (3 June 1906 – 29 September 1983) was an English economist, mathematician and statistician, also member of the International Statistical Institute. Life Allen was born in Worcester and educated at t ...
, President of the Royal Statistical Society * D. J. Bartholomew, Professor of Statistics and President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1993–1995 *Daasebre Oti Boateng, Ghanaian Government statistician and head of the Statistical Service from 1982 to 2000, first black Chairman of the United Nations Statistical Commission in 1987 * Arthur Lyon Bowley, Sir Arthur Bowley, statistician * D. G. Champernowne, Professor of Statistical Economics * W. Edwards Deming, statistician, economist * Sir Ian Diamond, statistician, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen *
James Durbin __NOTOC__ James Durbin FBA (30 June 1923 – 23 June 2012) was a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation. Education The son of a greengrocer, Durbin was born in W ...
, statistician, econometrician * John Hajnal, statistician * W.D. Hamilton, mathematical biologist and demographer * Sir Maurice George Kendall, statistician * Leslie Kish, American statistician * John Denis Sargan, statistician * Nate Silver, American statistician *
Howell Tong Howell Tong (; born in 1944 in Hong Kong) is a statistician who has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear time series analysis, semi-parametric statistics, non-parametric statistics, dimension reduction, model selection, likelihood-free s ...
, statistician *
Henry Wynn Henry Philip Wynn (born 19 February 1945) is a British statistician who has been a President of the Royal Statistical Society. He gained a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Oxford and a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in Mathematical Statistics ...
, President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1977

Arts and media

Film, music and performance
* Sylvia Anderson (''nee'' Thamm), producer, writer, voice actor * Greg Barker, documentary filmmaker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda * Rhian Benson, Ghanaian and Welsh soul and jazz singer-songwriter * Ralph Brown, actor, writer (Withnail & I, Alien3, Wayne's World 2) * Mika (singer), Mika, Beirut-born British/American singer * Sophie Choudry, Indian actress * Mick Jagger, British musician, lead vocalist of the Rolling Stones * Angelina Jolie, film actress and activist * Judge Jules, Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules), Radio 1 DJ * Soha Ali Khan, Indian actress * Katell Keineg, singer/songwriter * Arif Mardin, Turkish music producer * Metis (American musician), Metis, American musician * Arnon Milchan, Israeli independent Hollywood film producer who has been linked to Mossad * Ron Moody, British actor, famous for playing Fagin in ''Oliver!'' * Jaime Murray, actress * Scott Neustadter, Hollywood writer; ''500 Days of Summer'' is based on a romance at LSE * Mat Osman, bass player for Suede (band), Suede * Edward R. Pressman, film producer (''Wall Street'', ''Das Boot'', ''Thank You for Smoking (film), Thank You for Smoking'') * David Rodigan, reggae DJ * Allan Segal, BAFTA-winning documentary film maker * Tara Sharma, Indian actress * Sophie Solomon, British violinist, songwriter and composer * Robin Spry, filmmaker * Frank Turner, musician, in the band Million Dead, now a solo artist; wrote his final year dissertation while on tour with Million Dead * Oliver Weindling, jazz promoter and founder of the Babel jazz record label * Frederick M. Zollo, Academy Award-nominated producer

Television and radio
* David Attenborough, BBC presenter and naturalist * Zeina Awad, reporter, TRT WORLD * Jana Bennett, Head of Vision, BBC * Bidisha, broadcaster and writer * Jon Blair, Academy Award, British Academy Award and Emmy-winning producer and director * Josh Chetwynd, baseball presenter * Gary Delaney, stand-up comedian * Martin Durkin (television director), Martin Durkin, TV director * Loyd Grossman, TV chef/presenter * Robert Kilroy-Silk, TV presenter, politician and Eurosceptic former Member of the European Parliament, MEP * Hari Kondabolu, stand-up comedian * Martin Lewis (financial journalist), Martin Lewis, TV presenter and money saving expert * Sean McGuiness, ''Top Gear (2002 TV series), Top Gear'' producer * James O'Brien (radio presenter), James O'Brien, radio journalist * Mark Urban, ''Newsnight'' diplomatic editor * Huw Wheldon, former MD of BBC TV

Authors and journalists
* Edith Abbott, author and social worker, Carnegie Postgraduate Fellowship 1906 * Eric Alterman, Professor of English at Brooklyn College; political columnist for ''The Nation'' * Anne Applebaum, journalist and author * Pat Barker, author, historian * Peter Bart, journalist and film producer * Sally Belfrage, journalist and author * Julia Belluz, senior health correspondent for ''Vox (website), Vox'' * Melissa Benn, journalist and feminist * Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC World Service journalist * Josh Chetwynd, baseball presenter, player and writer * Andrew Coyne, national editor for ''Maclean's'' * Rhian Edwards (poet), Rhian Edwards, poet * Robert Elms, radio presenter, music journalist * Ekow Eshun, BBC ''Newsnight'' broadcaster, and TV host * Simon Garfield, ''The Observer'' journalist; author of ''Mauve'' and ''Our Hidden Lives'' * Tom Happold, editor of ''
The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'' * Maajid Nawaz, author and activist * Leslie Finer, British journalist and author * Daniel Finkelstein, Comment Editor of ''The Times'' * Yvonne Green, poet, writer, barrister * Edward Greenspon, editor-in-chief of ''The Globe and Mail'' newspaper * Tim Judah, journalist and author * Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, journalist and author * John Honderich, former publisher of the ''Toronto Star'' * Robert Blair Kaiser, Robert Kaiser, American author and journalist * Parag Khanna, author * To Kit (real name: Chip Tsao), Hong Kong-based columnist-broadcaster * Naomi Klein, author of ''No Logo'' and ''The Shock Doctrine'' * Robert Kuttner, journalist and economics author * Kirsty Lang, broadcaster and journalist * Philippe Legrain, British journalist and writer * Bernard Levin, journalist, author and broadcaster * Michael Lewis (author), Michael Lewis, best selling author; contributing writer to the ''New York Times Magazine'' and Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg * Rod Liddle, journalist, TV presenter, former editor of BBC Radio 4's ''Today'' programme * Tim Lott, journalist and Whitbread Book Awards-winning author * Edward Lucas (journalist), Edward Lucas, journalist * Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, Norwegian publisher of ''Aftenposten'' and ''Verdens Gang'' * Hilary Mantel, writer, Man Booker Prize winner in 2009 and 2012, the first woman to receive the award twice * Kingsley Martin, former editor of the ''New Statesman'' * China Miéville, writer, PhD International Relations 2001 * Keith Murdoch, journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch * Yvonne Ndege, journalist * Peter Pomerantsev, journalist * Nisha Pillai, BBC World presenter * Aroon Purie, Indian media mogul; founding editor and editor in chief of ''India Today'' and chairman of TV Today Network Limited * Nabila Ramdani, French-Algerian journalist *Christopher Ruddy, journalist, CEO of Newsmax Media, formerly with the ''New York Post'' and ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'' * Sadeq Saba, BBC Iranian affairs analyst * Edward Taylor Scott, journalist, former editor and co-owner of ''
The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'' * Barbara Serra, journalist and TV news reader * Joss Sheldon, author * Zecharia Sitchin, ancient astronaut theorist * Michael Whitney Straight, publisher and novelist * Mitchell Symons, journalist and author * Paul Tansey, economics editor for ''The Irish Times'' * Sander Vanocur, journalist, NBC * Siddharth Varadarajan, journalist and editor * Stuart Varney, Peabody Award-winning economic journalist * Justin Webb, BBC News, Washington Correspondent * Jacqueline Wheldon, novelist * Xu Zhimo, early 20th-century Chinese poet

Pulitzer Prize winners

Business and finance
* Josef Ackermann (born 1948), former CEO of Deutsche Bank (visiting professor) *Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, banker, cofounder Access Bank Plc and Founder & Chairman, Africa Initiative for Governance * Ameer Ali (academic), Ameer Ali, economist, President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils * Marco Alverà, CEO of Snam * Delphine Arnault, billionaire French businesswoman * Sir Terence Beckett, chairman of Ford of Britain, Ford and director-general of the Confederation of British Industry * Geoffrey Bell, banker, and Group of Thirty founder * Alan Blinder, chief economist of the
Council of Economic Advisors The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United States on economic policy. The CEA provides much of the empirical resea ...
under
Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
; economic advisor to
John Kerry John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party (Unite ...
; vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; professor of economics, Princeton University * Sir Gordon Brunton, Chief Executive of Thomson Corporation, former Chairman of Sotheby's * Richard Caruso, founder and Chairman of Integra LifeSciences Corporation; 2006 Ernst & Young US Entrepreneur of the Year * Glyn England, chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board * Tony Fernandes, entrepreneur * Clara Furse, former Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange * Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, entrepreneur, founder of EasyGroup * Michael S. Jeffries, CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. *Jonathan Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum (born 1959), chief operating officer of investment trust RIT Capital Partners plc, and a
Labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...
member of the House of Lords * Spiro Latsis, billionaire * Charles Lee (Hong Kong politician), Charles Lee, former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange * Catherine Maxwell Stuart, 21st Lady of Traquair, brewer, hotelier, and estate owner * David Morgan (businessman), David Morgan, CEO of Westpac * Arif Naqvi, CEO of The Abraaj Group, a private equity firm * Erling Dekke Næss, Norwegian shipowner and businessman * Richard Nesbitt, CEO, TSX Group; Toronto Stock Exchange * Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Nokia, Nokia Corporation, Non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell * Zarin Patel, BBC's Chief Financial Officer * Gary Perlin, CFO Capital One Financial Corporation; Former CFO
World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...
* Avinash Persaud, Global Head of Currency & Commodity Research at J.P. Morgan * Ruth Porat, Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet Inc, former Chief Financial Officer, Morgan Stanley *
Vicky Pryce Vasiliki "Vicky" Pryce (' Kourmouzi ( el, Βασιλική Κουρμούζη); born 15 July 1952) is a Greek-born British economist and a former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service. She is currently the Chief Econom ...
, former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service * Philip J. Purcell, former CEO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter * Syed Ali Raza, President and Chairman of the National Bank of Pakistan * David Rockefeller, former chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Trilateral Commission, son of financer
John D. Rockefeller Jr. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist, and the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in ...
and grandson of
Standard Oil Standard Oil Company, Inc., was an American oil production, transportation, refining, and marketing company that operated from 1870 to 1911. At its height, Standard Oil was the largest petroleum company in the world, and its success made its co-f ...
co-founder
John D. Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He has been widely considered the wealthiest American of all time and the richest person in modern history. Rockefeller was ...
*
Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi Maurice Nathan Saatchi, Baron Saatchi ( ar, موريس ساعتجي ; born 21 June 1946) is a British-Iraqi businessman, and with his brother, Charles, co-founder of the advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi. Early life Mauric ...
, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi * Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, industrialist, Chancellor of Middlesex University * George Soros, financier; billionaire * Peter Sutherland, BP and
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 ...
chairman * Sheikha Alanoud bint Hamad Al Thani, finance executive at the Qatar Financial Centre * Gordon Thiessen, Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1994–2001 * Yevhenia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian entrepreneur and lobbyist on behalf of her mother, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko * Lance Uggla, CEO of Markit Group * Panagis Vourloumis, managing director and President of the OTE's Board, the national telecommunications provider of Greece * Arnold Weinstock, Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock, English businessman best known for building General Electric Company plc, GEC * Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat * Jeff Wooller, accountant and educationalist * Rebekah Yeoh, Malaysian businesswoman and philanthropist

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

Lawyers and judges
Justice Dorab Patel.jpg, Dorab Patel, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan ICJ-CJI hearing 1.jpg, Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice, 2006–2009 Manfred Lachs (1974).jpg, Manfred Lachs, Judge of the International Court of Justice, 1967–1993 Anthony Kennedy official SCOTUS portrait.jpg, Anthony Kennedy, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1988–2018 Yoram Danziger 2012-1.jpg, Yoram Danziger, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, 2007–present * Kweku Etrew Amua-Sekyi, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and Justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia * Cherie Blair QC, judge, wife of former British Prime Minister
Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
* Gerald Butler, senior judge at Southwark Crown Court *
Colm Connolly Colm Felix Connolly (born October 18, 1964) is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. He formerly served as United States Attorney for the District of Delaware. Biography and ...
, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware * Yoram Danziger, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel * Dame Linda Dobbs, first non-white person to be appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales * Courtenay Griffiths, QC * Curtis Doebbler, lawyer, represented Saddam Hussein * Sir Richard Field (judge), Richard Field, High Court Judge * Sir Morris Finer, barrister, judge, Chairman of the Finer Report on One Parent Families & the Royal Commission on the Press, United Kingdom, Royal Commission on the Press, Vice Chairman of Governors of LSE * Sir Michael Fox (judge), Michael Fox, Lord Justice of Appeal * Dame Janet Gaymer QC, Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments *
Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner Anthony Stephen Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, KC (born 21 March 1945) is a British barrister, academic administrator, and life peer. He is head of chambers at One Essex Court, a leading set of commercial barristers in the Temple, and was the Trea ...
, Deputy High Court Judge * Sir Christopher Greenwood QC, advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the Iraq War, member of the International Court of Justice * Bill Hastings, Chief Censor of New Zealand * Dame Rosalyn Higgins QC, judge and former president of the International Court of Justice * Sir Robin Jacob (judge), Robin Jacob, as Lord Justice Jacob a Lord Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales * Sir Edwin Jowitt, High Court Judge * Makhdoom Ali Khan, former Attorney General of Pakistan * Salahuddin Ahmad, former Attorney General of Bangladesh * Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice * Manfred Lachs, judge on the International Court of Justice * Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Judge of the International Court of Justice * Mustafa Kamal (judge), Mustafa Kamal, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh * Lauretta Lamptey, Ghanaian Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice * D. Price Marshall Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas * Jeremy McMullen, QC, judge at the High Court, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Southwark Crown Court * Thomas Mesereau, lawyer, represented Michael Jackson * Dorab Patel, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan * Gareth Peirce, solicitor, represented the Guildford Four * Robert Ribeiro, Permanent Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal *
Walter Tarnopolsky Walter Surma Tarnopolsky (1 August 193215 September 1993) was a Canadian judge, legal scholar, and pioneer in the development of human rights law and civil liberties in Canada. Background and education Walter Surma Tarnopolsky was born on 1 August ...
, Canadian judge and member of
United Nations Human Rights Committee The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Committee meets for three four-week sessions per y ...
* Cedric Thornberry, International lawyer and former Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations * Mónica Feria Tinta, international lawyer, obtained the first international human rights court decision ordering the prosecution of a former Head of State for crimes under international law; co-recipient of Gruber Prize for Justice, Gruber Justice Prize 2007 * Peter Whiteman, Deputy High Court Judge * Christopher Wolf, American attorney, pioneer in Internet law *
Kimba Wood Kimba Maureen Wood (born January 21, 1944) is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Wood has presided over many high-profile cases involving such figures as "Junk Bond Kin ...
, federal judge on senior status for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York * John A. Woodcock Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine *Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Derry Irvine QC, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Scottish lawyer and judge, former Lord Chancellor, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, founder of the 11 King's Bench Walk Chambers

NGOs, charities and pressure groups
*Alagappa Alagappan (1925–2014), Indian-born American founder of the Hindu Temple Society of North America * Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty (pressure group), Liberty * Mark Goldring, chief executive of Mencap, chief executive of Oxfam GB * Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, executive director of Community Service Volunteers (1975–2011) * Mary Joynson, director of Barnardo's * Marion Kozak, human rights campaigner * Temi Mwale, founder of The 4Front Project * Sir Nick Partridge, Nicholas Partridge, Chief Executive Terrence Higgins Trust; Chairman of INVOLVE (UK National Advisory group), Involve * Anusyabehn Sarabhai, Indian trade unionist * Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International * Barbara Davies, former national organizer of Christian CND

Sport
* Josh Chetwynd, baseball player, presenter and author * John Lacy (footballer), John Lacy, English footballer, 1975 FA Cup Final, 1975 FA Cup finalist with Fulham F.C., Fulham * Marcus Mepstead, Men's Foil Team, Rio 2016 Olympics * Folarin Ogunsola, Gambian national swimmer * Elham Al Qasimi, first Arab woman to reach the North Pole * Andy Ripley, British Lions Rugby International * Val Venis, wrestler

Others
* Jonathan Bartley, former co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales * Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Penelope Meredith Mary Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma * Arnold Cook, founder of the Guide Dog movement * Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American naval officer and brother of US president John F. Kennedy, died in WWII * Ralph Lazar, artist * Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal, terrorist * Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Islamic militant

Fictional
* President Josiah Bartlet, fictional President of the United States on NBC's popular TV show ''The West Wing (television), The West Wing'' * Andrew Bond, fictional father of James Bond, 007 * Eliza Doolittle, fictional character in ''Pygmalion (play), Pygmalion'' by George Bernard Shaw * Prime Minister James Hacker, Jim Hacker of ''Yes Minister'' and ''Yes, Prime Minister'' * List of Mad Men characters#Gloria Massey, Guy MacKendrick, a British accounts executive in ''Mad Men'' * Jack Ryan (character), Jack Ryan, fictional character by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations *Arthur Edwards, main antagonist of the Hitman (2016 video game), Hitman (2016 - 2021) game series.

Founders of LSE
First the four generally accepted co-founders: * Sidney Webb * George Bernard Shaw * Beatrice Webb, also Governor, LSE, 1901-1928 * Graham Wallas The original governors of the LSE were, besides Beatrice Webb: * Jervoise Athelstane Baines, Governor, LSE, 1901-1926 * Hubert Bland, Governor, LSE, 1901-1914 * William Garnett, mathematical physicist and educational administrator, Governor, LSE, 1901-1932 * Robert Giffen, Governor, LSE, 1901-1910 * Courtenay Ilbert, Governor, LSE, 1901-1923 * Richard Burdon Haldane, Liberal politician, lawyer, and philosopher, Governor, LSE, 1901-1907 * Alfred Comyn Lyall, Alfred Lyall, Governor, LSE, 1901-1911 * Joseph Francis Oakeshott, Governor, LSE, 1901-1945 * Edward R. Pease, Governor, LSE, 1901-1945 * William Pember Reeves, Governor, LSE, 1901-1908 * Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Governor, LSE, 1901-1929 * Bertrand Russell, Governor, LSE, 1901-1906 * Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Herbert L Samuel, Governor, LSE, 1901-1945 * Charlotte Payne-Townshend, Charlotte Shaw, Governor, LSE, 1901-1922 * Frederick Whelan, Governor, LSE, 1901-1945 * Edward Arthur Whittuck, Governor, LSE, 1901-1924

References

Further reading

LSE Press and Information Office - World leaders

LSE Press and Information Office - Nobel Prize winners
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