The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of

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. The school offers

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, and

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, four

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, and many executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to

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, and

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. As of 2021, HKS had an endowment of $1.7 billion. The School is a member of the

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(APSIA), a global consortium of schools that trains leaders in international affairs. The School's primary campus is located on John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge. The main buildings overlook the

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and are southwest of

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and Harvard Square, on the site of a former

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trainyard. The School is adjacent to the public riverfront John F. Kennedy Memorial Park. Harvard Kennedy School alumni include 17

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, the most of any graduate institution in the world. Alumni also include

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officials, military leaders, heads of

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, and

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

History

Harvard Kennedy School Littauer Building

Founding

The Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration was founded in 1936 with a $2 million gift (equivalent to roughly $30 million in 2010) from

Lucius Littauer Lucius Nathan Littauer (January 20, 1859 – March 2, 1944) was an American politician, businessman, and college football coach. He served in the United States House of Representatives from New York for five terms between 1897 and 1907. Littauer ...

, an 1878

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alumnus, businessman, former U.S. Congressman, and the first coach of

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. Harvard Kennedy School's shield was designed to express the national purpose of the school and was modeled after the U.S. shield. The School drew its initial faculty from Harvard's existing government and economics departments, and welcomed its first students in 1937. The School's original home was in the Littauer Center, north of

, which is now home to

's Economics Department. The first students at the Graduate School were called Littauer Fellows, participating in a one-year course listing which later developed into the school's mid-career

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

Renaming and move

In 1966, three years following the assassination of U.S. President and 1940

alumnus

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination ...

, the school was renamed in his honor. By 1978, the faculty, including presidential scholar and adviser

Richard Neustadt Richard Elliott Neustadt (June 26, 1919 – October 31, 2003) was an American political scientist specializing in the United States presidency. He also served as adviser to several presidents. He was the author of the books ''Presidential Power' ...

, foreign policy scholar and later dean of the School

Graham Allison Graham Tillett Allison Jr. (born March 23, 1940) is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is renowned for his contribution in the late ...

Richard Zeckhauser Richard Jay Zeckhauser (born 1940) is an American economist and the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He holds a BA (''summa cum laude'') and a PhD in economics from Harvard ...

, and Edith Stokey, consolidated the School's programs and research centers at the present Harvard Kennedy School campus. The first new building opened on the southern half of the former Eliot Shops site in October 1978. Under the terms of Littauer's original grant, the current campus also features a building called Littauer. In 1966, at the same time as the school was renamed, the

Harvard Institute of Politics The Institute of Politics (IOP) is an institute of Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University that was created to serve as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy, as well as to inspire Harvard undergraduates to consider careers in politi ...

was created with Neustadt as its founding director. Harvard Institute of Politics has been housed on the school campus since 1978, and today sponsors and hosts a series of programs, speeches and study groups for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students. Along with major Harvard Kennedy School events, the Institute of Politics holds its events are held at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, named in honor of the late

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in Harvard Kennedy School's Littauer Building.

Rebranding and campus expansion

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

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and the

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. The rebranding had the support of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, as well as of

Caroline Kennedy Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author, attorney, and diplomat serving in the Biden administration as the United States Ambassador to Australia since 2022. She previously served in the Obama administration as th ...

. In 2012, Harvard Kennedy School announced a $500 million fundraising campaign, $120 million of which was to be used to significantly expand the Harvard Kennedy School campus, adding 91,000 square feet of space including six new classrooms, a new kitchen, and dining facility, offices and meeting spaces, a new student lounge and study space, more collaboration and active learning spaces and a redesigned central courtyard. Groundbreaking commenced on May 7, 2015, and the project was completed in late 2017. The new Harvard Kenedy School campus was opened in December 2017. From 2004 to 2015, Harvard Kennedy School's dean was

David T. Ellwood David T. Ellwood is an American economist and university administrator. He served as the dean of Harvard Kennedy School and as the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. Early life Ellwood grew up Minnesota. His fathe ...

, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official in the Clinton administration. In 2015, Douglas Elmendorf, a former director of the U.S.

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, was named both dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and the school's Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy.

Academics

Degrees

Harvard Kennedy School offers four master's degree programs. The two-year Master in Public Policy (MPP) program focuses on

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, ethics, statistics and negotiations in the public sector. There are three separate

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

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studies with a strong emphasis on

and quantitative analysis. Members of the mid-career MPA class are Mason Fellows, who are public and private executives from developing countries. Mason Fellows typically constitute about 50 percent of the incoming class of Mid-Career MPA candidates. The Mason cohort is the most diverse at Harvard in terms of nationalities and ethnicities represented. It is named after Edward Sagendorph Mason, the former Harvard professor who, from 1947 to 1958, was dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as Harvard Kennedy School. In addition to the master's programs, Harvard Kennedy School administers four doctoral programs.

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degrees are awarded in

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and government in conjunction with Harvard University's departments of economics and government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), in

and

social policy Social policy is a plan or action of government or institutional agencies which aim to improve or reform society. Some professionals and universities consider social policy a subset of public policy, while other practitioners characterize soci ...

in conjunction with Harvard's departments of government and

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, and in health policy in conjunction with FAS and the

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Joint and concurrent degrees

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

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, and

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban ...

, and concurrent programs are offered with

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and

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

. Beyond Harvard, HKS has concurrent degree arrangements with other law, business, and medical schools, including the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the

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, the

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of the

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, and

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. Abroad, Harvard Kennedy School offers a dual degree with the

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HKS courses

Harvard Kennedy School maintains six academic divisions each headed by a faculty chair. In addition to offerings in the Harvard Kennedy School course listing, students are eligible to cross-register for courses at the other graduate and professional schools at Harvard and at the

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, and the

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. MPP coursework is focused on one of five areas, called a Policy Area of Concentration (PAC), and includes a year-long research seminar in their second year, which includes a master's thesis called a Policy Analysis Exercise.

Rankings

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

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'' magazine's

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survey, which lists the world's top twenty academic

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programs at the undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. levels. In 2012, for example, the survey ranked Kennedy School first overall for doctoral and undergraduate programs and third overall in the Master's category.

Student organizations

Harvard Kennedy School maintains a range of student activities, including interest-driven student caucuses, the student government (Kennedy School Student Government, known as KSSG), student-edited policy journals including ''Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy'', ''Kennedy School Review'', the ''Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy'', a student newspaper (''The Citizen''), and a number of student athletic groups. Students can join the

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, which is the centralized student government for the twelve graduate and professional schools of

. The Harvard Graduate Council is responsible for advocating student concerns to central administrators, including the

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

Centers

Harvard Kennedy School is home to 14 centers, including: *

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, formerly known as the Ash Institute, was established in 2003 and is part of the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. The Center’s mis ...

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, also known as the Belfer Center, is a research center located within the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, in the United States. From 2017 until his death in Oc ...

Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is a research center at Harvard Kennedy School founded in 1999. The center's scholars address issues related to human rights, including human security, global governance and civil society, economic justice, and ...

Center for International Development The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public ...

Center for Public Leadership The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) is an academic research center at Harvard University that provides teaching, research and training in the practical skills of leadership for people in government, nonprofits, and business. Located at Harvard ...

* Institute of Politics * Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics *

Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center that explores the intersection and impact of media, politics and public policy in theory and practice. Among other activities, the center or ...

* Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government * Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston * Taubman Center for State and Local Government * Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy *

Joint Center for Housing Studies The Joint Center for Housing Studies is a research center on housing-related issues at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Through its research, education, and public outreach programs, the center helps leade ...

* Women and Public Policy Program The majority of centers offer research and academic fellowships through which fellows can engage in research projects, lead study groups into specific topics and share their experiences with industry and government with the student body. Under Dean Elmendorf, the school has tried to focus its engagement across the political spectrum, which has caused controversy at times. Recently, the school came under criticism for offering a fellowship to

Chelsea Manning Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning; December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage A ...

on September 13, 2017. It then publicly rescinded the offer on September 15, 2017, after

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director

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canceled a speaking engagement at Harvard and sent a letter condemning the university for awarding the fellowship. A 2021 investigative report by student group Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard found that many of the center's climate initiatives were funded in part by fossil fuel companies, and that some of the centers had allegedly taken several steps to cover up that fact.

Awards

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

Notable faculty

Alan A. Altshuler Alan Anthony Altshuler (born March 9, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn) is an American educator and government official. Altshuler is the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor in Urban Policy and Planning, Emeritus, at the Harvard University Grad ...

Mary Jo Bane Mary Jo Bane is an American political scientist who focuses on children and welfare. She is currently the Thornton Bradshaw Professor at Harvard Kennedy School, and formerly the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Malco ...

David J. Barron David Jeremiah Barron (born July 7, 1967) is an American lawyer who serves as the Chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law Sc ...

* Jacqueline Bhabha *

Linda Bilmes Linda J. Bilmes (born 1960) holds the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer Chair in Public Policy and Public Finance at Harvard University. She is a full-time faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School where she teaches public policy, budge ...

* Robert Blendon *

Derek Bok Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University. Life and career Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Following his parents' divorce, he, his mother, brother and siste ...

George Borjas George Jesus Borjas ( born Jorge Jesús Borjas, October 15, 1950) is a Cuban-American economist and the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has been described as "America’s leading immigr ...

R. Nicholas Burns Robert Nicholas Burns (born January 28, 1956) is an American diplomat and academic who serves as the United States ambassador to China since 2022. Burns has had a 25 year career in the State Department, and served as United States Under Secre ...

Felipe Calderón Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 ...

Albert Carnesale Albert Carnesale (born July 2, 1936) is an American academic and a specialist in arms control and national security. He is a former chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, provost of Harvard University, and dean of the Harvard Ke ...

Ashton Carter Ashton Baldwin Carter (September 24, 1954 – October 24, 2022) was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States Secretary of Defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Be ...

Antonia Handler Chayes Antonia "Toni" Handler Chayes (born July 21, 1929) is a United States lawyer and educator who served as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) from 1977 to 1979 and as United States Under Secretary of the Air Force fr ...

William C. Clark William Cummin Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. William Clark known for his long-term efforts to promote sustainabi ...

* Richard Clarke * Susan P. Crawford *

David Cutler David Matthew Cutler (born June 22, 1965) is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University. He was given a five-year term appointment of Harvard College Professor, which recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching. H ...

Michael Dukakis Michael Stanley Dukakis (; born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history a ...

* David Ellwood *

Jeffrey Frankel Jeffrey Alexander "Jeff" Frankel (born November 5, 1952, in San Francisco, California) is an international macroeconomist. He works as the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard Kennedy School. Education Frankel gr ...

Jason Furman Jason Furman (born August 18, 1970) is an American economist and professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. On June 10, 2013, Furman was named ...

Marshall Ganz Marshall Ganz (born March 14, 1943) is the Rita T. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Introduced to organizing in Civil Rights Movement, he worked on the s ...

David Gergen David Richmond Gergen (born May 9, 1942) is an American political commentator and former presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He is currently a senior political ...

Edward Glaeser Edward Ludwig Glaeser (born May 1, 1967) is an American economist and Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is also Director for the Cities Research Programme at the International Growth Centre. He was educated ...

* Robert R. Glauber *

Stephen Goldsmith Stephen "Steve" Goldsmith (born December 12, 1946) is an American politician and writer who was the 46th mayor of Indianapolis. He also served as the deputy mayor of New York City for operations from 2010 to 2011. A member of the Republican P ...

Ricardo Hausmann Ricardo Hausmann (born 1956) is the former Director of the Center for International Development currently leading the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab and is a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the John F. ...

* J. Bryan Hehir *

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

A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Aloysius Leon Higginbotham Jr. (February 25, 1928 – December 14, 1998) was an American civil rights advocate, historian, presidential adviser, and federal court judge. From 1990 to 1991, he served as chief judge of the United States Court of ...

John P. Holdren John Paul Holdren (born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1944) is an American scientist who served as the senior advisor to President Barack Obama on science and technology issues through his roles as Assistant to the President for Science and ...

* Swanee Hunt *

Michael Ignatieff Michael Grant Ignatieff (; born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a histo ...

Sheila Jasanoff Sheila Sen Jasanoff is an Indian American academic and significant contributor to the field of Science and Technology Studies. In 2021 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Her research has been recognized with many awards, includ ...

* Christopher Jencks *

Alex Jones Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right and alt-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. He hosts ''The Alex Jones Show'' from Austin, Texas, which the Genesis Communications Network broadcas ...

Dale Jorgenson Dale Weldeau Jorgenson (May 7, 1933 – June 8, 2022) was the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, teaching in the department of economics and John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served as chairman of the departmen ...

* Juliette Kayyem * Alexander Keyssar * Robert Z. Lawrence *

Jennifer Lerner Jennifer S. Lerner is an American experimental social psychologist known for her research in emotion and decision theory. She is the first psychologist at the Harvard Kennedy School to receive tenure. At Harvard, her titles include Professor of P ...

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (born 1966) is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He conducts research into the network economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard's ...

Joseph Newhouse Joseph P. Newhouse (born February 24, 1942) is an American economist and the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University, as well as the Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and of the Inter ...

Pippa Norris Pippa Norris (born 10 July 1953) is a political scientist specializing in comparative politics. She is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and she has served as the Australian ...

Joseph Nye Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. (born January 19, 1937) is an American political scientist. He and Robert Keohane co-founded the international relations theory of neoliberalism, which they developed in their 1977 book ''Power and Interdependence''. Togethe ...

* Rafael O'Ferrall *

Meghan O'Sullivan Meghan L. O'Sullivan (born September 13, 1969) is a former deputy national security adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan. She is Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School and a board member of the Be ...

George Papandreou George Andreas Papandreou ( el, Γεώργιος Ανδρέας Παπανδρέου, , shortened to ''Giorgos'' () to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from ...

* Roger B. Porter *

Michael Porter Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947) is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and he was one of t ...

Samantha Power Samantha Jane Power (born September 21, 1970) is an American journalist, diplomat and government official who is currently serving as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. She previously served as the 28th ...

Lant Pritchett Lant Pritchett (born 1959) is an American development economist. He is the RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He was born in Utah in 1959 and raised in Boise, Idaho. He graduated from Brigham You ...

Robert Putnam Robert David Putnam (born 1941) is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Putnam devel ...

Carmen M. Reinhart Carmen M. Reinhart (née Castellanos, born October 7, 1955) is a Cuban-American economist and the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fe ...

Dani Rodrik Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957) is a Turkish economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was formerly the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of th ...

* Todd Rogers (behavioral scientist) *

Kevin Rudd Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian former politician and diplomat who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and again from June 2013 to September 2013, holding office as the leader of the ...

John Ruggie John Gerard Ruggie (18 October 1944 – 16 September 2021) was the Berthold Beitz Research Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University and an affiliated professor in international legal studie ...

Juan Manuel Santos Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. An economist by profession and a journalist by trade, ...

Frederic M. Scherer Frederic Michael Scherer (born 1932 in Ottawa, Illinois) is an United States of America, American economist and expert on industrial organization. Since 2006, he continues as a professor of economics at the JFK School of Government at Harvard Unive ...

Jeffrey L. Seglin Jeffrey L. Seglin (born December 26, 1956) is an American columnist, author, and teacher. Since 2011, he has been a faculty member and director of the communications program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His w ...

Sarah Sewall Sarah Sewall (born August 21, 1961) is Executive Vice President for Policy at In-Q-Tel, a strategic investor for the national security community. A national security expert whose career spans government service and academia, she most recently serv ...

Kathryn Sikkink Kathryn Sikkink (born 1955) is an author, human rights academic, and scholar of international relations working primarily through the theoretical strain of constructivism. She is currently at professor at Harvard Kennedy School. Academic career Ka ...

Lawrence Summers Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as the 71st United States secretary of the treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as pre ...

Dennis Frank Thompson Dennis Frank Thompson (born 12 May 1940, in Hamilton, Ohio) is a political science, political scientist and professor at Harvard University, where he founded the university-wide Center for Ethics and the Professions (now the Edmond J. Safra Center ...

* Stephen Walt *

Marilyn Waring Dame Marilyn Joy Waring (born 7 October 1952) is a New Zealand public policy scholar, international development consultant, former politician, environmentalist, feminist and a principal founder of feminist economics. In 1975, aged 23, she beca ...

Martin Weitzman Martin Lawrence Weitzman (April 1, 1942 – August 27, 2019) was an economist and a professor of economics at Harvard University. He was among the most influential economists in the world according to Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). His late ...

Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, (' Catlin; 27 July 1930 – 12 April 2021) was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the Labour cabinet from ...

* John P. White *

William Julius Wilson William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist. He is a professor at Harvard University and author of works on urban sociology, race and class issues. Laureate of the National Medal of Science, he served as the 80th P ...

* Dorothy Zinberg *

Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan L. Zittrain (born December 24, 1969) is an American professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, a professor of computer sc ...

Robert B. Zoellick Robert Bruce Zoellick (; ; born July 25, 1953) is an American public official and lawyer who was the eleventh president of the World Bank, a position he held from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2012. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sach ...

Notable alumni

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

Government and politics

Heads of government and state

* Pierre Trudeau (MA '45) – former

prime minister of Canada The prime minister of Canada (french: premier ministre du Canada, link=no) is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the Confidence and supply, confidence of a majority the elected Hou ...

Miguel de la Madrid Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (; 12 December 1934 – 1 April 2012) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 59th president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988. Inheriting a severe economic an ...

(MPA '65) – former

president of Mexico The president of Mexico ( es, link=no, Presidente de México), officially the president of the United Mexican States ( es, link=no, Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the head of state and head of government of Mexico. Under the Co ...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born Ellen Eugenia Johnson, 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa. Sirleaf was born in Monro ...

(MPA '71) –

President of Liberia The president of the Republic of Liberia is the head of state and government of Liberia. The president serves as the leader of the executive branch and as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Liberia. Prior to the independence of Liberia ...

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemi ...

laureate *

Carlos Salinas de Gortari Carlos Salinas de Gortari CYC DMN (; born 3 April 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician who served as 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), earlier in his career he wor ...

(MPA '73, PhD '76) – former

Lee Hsien Loong Lee Hsien Loong (; born 10 February 1952) is a Singaporean politician and former brigadier-general who has been serving as Prime Minister of Singapore and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party since 2004. He has been the Member of Par ...

(MPA '80) –

Prime Minister of Singapore The prime minister of Singapore is the head of government of the Republic of Singapore. The president appoints the prime minister, a Member of Parliament (MP) who in their opinion, is most likely to command the confidence of the majority of ...

(MPA '81) –

President of Colombia The president of Colombia ( es, Presidente de Colombia), officially known as the president of the Republic of Colombia ( es, Presidente de la República de Colombia) or president of the nation ( es, Presidente de la Nacion) is the head of stat ...

laureate *

Donald Tsang Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen (; born 7 October 1944) is a former Hong Kong civil servant who served as the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012. Tsang joined the colonial civil service as an Executive Officer in 1967, occupyi ...

(MPA '82) – Hong Kong

Chief Executive A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé (born 2 March 1956) is a Bolivian judge who briefly served as the 64th president of Bolivia from 2005 to 2006 on an interim basis following the resignation of President Carlos Mesa during the 2005 political crisis. P ...

(MPA '88) – former

president of Bolivia The president of Bolivia ( es, Presidente de Bolivia), officially known as the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia ( es, Presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia and the ca ...

* Jamil Mahuad Witt (MPA '89) – former

president of Ecuador The president of Ecuador ( es, Presidente del Ecuador), officially called the Constitutional President of the Republic of Ecuador ( es, Presidente Constitucional de la República del Ecuador), serves as both the head of state and head of govern ...

José María Figueres Olsen José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

(MPA '91) – former

president of Costa Rica The president of the Republic of Costa Rica is the head of state and head of government of Costa Rica. The president is currently elected in direct elections for a period of four years, which is not immediately renewable. Two Vice President of C ...

, CEO of the

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, ...

* John Haglelgam (MPA '93) former

president of the Federated States of Micronesia The president of the Federated States of Micronesia is the head of state and government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The FSM president, by virtue of his or her office, is the head of the FSM Cabinet and is in charge of the admin ...

Abdiweli Gaas Abdiweli Mohamed Ali GaasBriefi ...

(MPA '99) – former

prime minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

(MPA '00) – former

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (, ''Cahiagín Elbegdorj'' ; also referred to as Mongolyin Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj and Tsakhia Elbegdorj; born 30 March 1963) is a Mongolian politician who served as President of Mongolia from 2009 to 2017. He previously ser ...

(MPA '02) – former

president of Mongolia The president of Mongolia ( mn, Монгол Улсын Ерөнхийлөгч, ''Mongol Ulsyn Yerönkhiilögch'') is the executive head of state of Mongolia.Montsame News Agency. ''Mongolia''. 2006, , p. 42 The current president is Ukhnaagiin ...

Tshering Tobgay Tshering Tobgay ( dz, ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས།; born 19 September 1965) is a Bhutanese politician, environmentalist, and cultural advocate who was the List of Prime Ministers of Bhutan, Prime Minister of Bhutan from J ...

(MPA '04) – Prime Minister of Bhutan *

Morgan Tsvangirai Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (; ; 10 March 1952 – 14 February 2018) was a Zimbabwean politician who was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He was President of the Movement for Democratic Change, and later the Movement for Democratic ...

('02) -

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

Frederick Sumaye Frederick Tluway Sumaye (born 29 May 1950) is a Tanzanian politician who was Prime Minister of Tanzania from 28 November 1995 to 30 December 2005. Life and career As a member of the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), Sumaye was a Member o ...

(MPA '07) former

prime minister of Tanzania The prime minister of Tanzania is the head in the National Assembly of the United Republic of Tanzania. The position is subordinated to the president, who is the actual head of government. The functions and powers of the prime minister are desc ...

Maia Sandu Maia Sandu (; born 24 May 1972) is a Moldovan politician who has been the President of Moldova since 24 December 2020. She is the former leader of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) and former Prime Minister of Moldova from 8 June 2019 un ...

(MPA '10) former

prime minister of Moldova The Prime Minister of Moldova ( ro, Prim-ministrul Republicii Moldova) is Moldova's head of government. The Prime Minister is formally appointed by the President of Moldova and exercises executive power along with the cabinet, subject to parliam ...

, current

president of Moldova The President of the Republic of Moldova () is the head of state of Moldova. The current president is Maia Sandu, who assumed office on 24 December 2020. Duties and functions The office of the presidency in Moldova is largely ceremonial, w ...

Others

* Rizwan Ahmed (MPA) –

Maritime Secretary of Pakistan The Maritime Secretary of Pakistan, also referred to as Ports and Shipping Secretary, is the Federal Secretary for the Ministry of Maritime Affairs. The position holder is a BPS-22 grade officer, usually belonging to the Pakistan Administrati ...

* Yam Ah Mee (MPA '91) – Chief Executive Director of

People's Association The People's Association (PA) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) of the Government of Singapore that oversees neighbourhood grassroots communities and social organisations. Established in 1960, it wa ...

, Singapore *

Bob Anthony Robert Anthony (born May 15, 1948) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Anthony is serving his fifth consecutive six-year term on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, where he has served since 1989. He was an unsuccessful ...

(MPA) –

Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...

politician from the

U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...

of Oklahoma *

Ami Ayalon Ami Ayalon ( he, עמיחי "עמי" איילון, born 27 June 1945) is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. He was previously head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, and commander-in-chief of the ...

(MPA '92) – member,

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...

Tariq Bajwa Tariq Bajwa is a retired Pakistani civil servant who served in BPS-22 grade as the Finance Secretary and Economic Affairs Secretary of Pakistan. Bajwa also served as the 19th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and the 20th Chairman of th ...

(MPA) – former

Finance Secretary of Pakistan The finance secretary of Pakistan (Urdu: ) is the federal secretary for the Ministry of Finance. The federal finance secretary is one of the most powerful bureaucrats in the country. Being the boss of the Finance Division, the secretary plays ...

Ed Balls Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British broadcaster, writer, economist, professor and former politician who served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from 2007 to 2010, and as Shadow Chancellor of the Ex ...

(MPA '90) – former British

Member of the 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 often ...

, and

Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families The Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for the work of the Department for Children, Schools and Families. The post was created on 28 June 2007 afte ...

and

Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer The Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the British Parliamentary system is the member of the Shadow Cabinet who is responsible for shadowing the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The title is given at the gift of the Leader of the Opposition and ...

* Nisrin Barwari (MPA '99) – Minister of Municipalities and Public Works of Iraq *

Doug Bereuter Douglas Kent Bereuter (born October 6, 1939) is an American retired politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 until 2004. He also served as the presi ...

(MPA '73) – former U.S. Congressman, Nebraska *

Charles Blanchard Charles Blanchard may refer to: * Charles Blanchard, UFC fighter in '' The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs. Team Ortiz'' * Charles A. Blanchard (academic administrator) (1848–1925), second President of Wheaton College * Émile Blanchard (Charle ...

(MPP '85) –

General Counsel of the Army The General Counsel of the Army (also known as the Army General Counsel, abbreviated AGC) is the chief legal officer of the U.S. Department of the Army and senior legal advisor to the Secretary of the Army. U.S. law provides that the General Co ...

1999–2001,

General Counsel of the Air Force The General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (acronym SAF/GC) is the chief legal officer of the U.S. Department of the Air Force. By U.S. law, the General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force is appointed from civilian life by th ...

2009-2013 *

J. Richard Blankenship James Richard Blankenship (born 1959) is a former politician that served as United States Ambassador to the Bahamas from 2001 to 2003. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in the spring of 200 Early life and education Blakenship was born ...

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

André Boisclair André Boisclair (; born April 14, 1966) is a former Canadian politician and convicted sex offender in Quebec, Canada. He was the leader of the Parti Québécois, a social democratic and sovereigntist party in Quebec. Between January 1996 and M ...

(MPA '05) – former leader of

Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois (; ; PQ) is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishin ...

, former Quebec Minister of Citizenship and Immigration *

Nick Boles Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (born 2 November 1965) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham and Stamford from 2010 to 2019. He was a member of the Conservative Party until 2019. Before entering Parliament ...

(MPP '89) – former director of

Policy Exchange Policy Exchange is a British conservatism in the United Kingdom, conservative think tank based in London. In 2007 it was described in ''The Daily Telegraph'' as "the largest, but also the most influential think tank on the right". ''The Washing ...

and former Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford (United Kingdom). * Emilia Boncodin (MPA '86) – Secretary of the Philippine Department of Budget and Management in the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

Brendan Boyle Brendan Francis Boyle (born February 6, 1977) is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing a district in the Philadelphia area since 2015. He represented the 13th district ...

(MPP '05) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 13th District of

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

David A. Bray The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction ...

(Exec '11) – recipient of the Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership for lifelong public service *

Anna Escobedo Cabral Anna Escobedo Cabral (born October 12, 1959) is an American politician who serves as the Unit Chief for Strategic Communications in the External Relations Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Prior to joining the bank, Cabral ...

(MPA '90) – former U.S. Treasurer *

Piper Campbell Piper Anne Wind Campbell (born 1965) is an adjunct professor and former American diplomat. She was the 9th U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked count ...

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

Robert Castelli Robert J. Castelli (born December 16, 1949) is an American security consultant, professor and media personality from Goldens Bridge, New York. He served two terms as a member of the New York State Assembly, representing northeastern Westcheste ...

(MPA '96) – member,

New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Assem ...

, 89th District *

Rajkumar Chellaraj Raj Chellaraj is the CFO and administrative dean at the Stanford Business School, Stanford University. Concurrently, he was also the chief operating officer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford Seed program with primary focus in ...

(MPA '86) – former

Assistant Secretary of State for Administration The Assistant Secretary of State for Administration is the head of the Bureau of Administration in the United States Department of State. The Assistant Secretary of State for Administration reports to the Under Secretary of State for Management ...

United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other n ...

Frank Chikane Frank Chikane (born 3 January 1951 in Bushbuckridge, Transvaal) is a South African civil servant, writer and cleric. He is a member of the African National Congress and moderator of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs for th ...

(MPA '95) – member,

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 ...

; South African adviser to the President *

Aneesh Chopra Aneesh Paul Chopra (born July 13, 1972) is an American executive who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He was appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama and was at the White House through 2012. Chopra previously ...

(MPP '97) – U.S. Chief Technology Officer under President

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...

* Albert Chua (MPA '00) – former Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations * Henry Cisneros (MPA '73) – former

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development The United States secretary of housing and urban development (or HUD secretary) is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a member of the president's Cabinet, and thirteenth in the presidential line of succ ...

Jacqueline Y. Collins Jacqueline Y. Collins is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 16th district from 2003 until 2023. Early life and education Born in McComb, Mississippi,Democratic member of the

Illinois Senate The Illinois Senate is the Upper house, upper chamber of the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state, State of Illinois in the United States. The body was created by the first state constitution adop ...

, representing the 16th district since 2003 *

Gerry Connolly Gerald Edward Connolly (born March 30, 1950) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 11th congressional district, first elected in 2008. The district is anchored in Fairfax County, an affluent suburban coun ...

(MPA '79) – member,

U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...

, 11th District of Virginia *

Dan Crenshaw Daniel Reed Crenshaw (born March 14, 1984) is an American politician and former United States Navy SEAL officer serving as the United States representative for Texas's 2nd congressional district since 2019. The district includes parts of northe ...

(MPA '17) - U.S. House of Representatives *

David Cunliffe David Richard Cunliffe (born 30 April 1963) is a New Zealand management consultant and former politician who was Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from September 2013 to September 2014. He was Member of Parli ...

(MPA '95) – Leader of the Opposition,

Parliament of New Zealand The New Zealand Parliament ( mi, Pāremata Aotearoa) is the unicameral legislature of New Zealand, consisting of the King of New Zealand (King-in-Parliament) and the New Zealand House of Representatives. The King is usually represented by hi ...

Joseph Curtatone Joseph Anthony Curtatone (born June 28, 1966) is an American politician from Somerville, Massachusetts who formerly served as the city's mayor from 2004 until 2022. Early life and education Curtatone, born and raised in Somerville, Massachusetts ...

(MPA '11) – mayor,

Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a total population of 81, ...

* Mark Daly (MPA, '11) – Irish

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

Božidar Đelić Božidar Đelić ( sr-cyr, Божидар Ђелић, ; born 1 April 1965) is a Serbian economist and former politician. A longtime member of the Democratic Party, he was highly positioned in politics of Serbia after the overthrow of Slobodan ...

(MPA '91) – Vice-president of

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

, former

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Stephen Donnelly Stephen Donnelly (born 14 December 1975) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Health since June 2020. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wicklow constituency since 2011. On his election to Dáil Éireann, D ...

(MPA '08) – Irish

Teachta Dála A Teachta Dála ( , ; plural ), abbreviated as TD (plural ''TDanna'' in Irish, TDs in English), is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament). It is the equivalent of terms such as ''Member of Parli ...

(Member of Parliament) for the

Wicklow Wicklow ( ; ga, Cill Mhantáin , meaning 'church of the toothless one'; non, Víkingaló) is the county town of County Wicklow in Ireland. It is located south of Dublin on the east coast of the island. According to the 2016 census, it has ...

constituency * Shaun Donovan (MPA '95) – U.S.

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* Theodore L. Eliot Jr. (MPA '56) – former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan * Benjamin Fernandes (Exec. Ed'17) - Tanzanian entrepreneur *

John Fetterman John Karl Fetterman (born August 15, 1969) is an American politician who is the United States senator-elect from Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he has also served as the 34th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania since 2019. Fet ...

(MPP '99) – Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania (2019–present) * Roy Folkman (MPA '13) – member,

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

(MPP '74) – Puerto Rican politician and former Senator *

Marilinda Garcia Marilinda Joy Garcia (born ) is an American lobbyist and politician from the state of New Hampshire. A Republican, she served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the Rockingham 8th district from 2012 to 2014. She previousl ...

(MPA '10) – member of the

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

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

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(MPA '95) – former Defense Minister of Guatemala *

Alan Grayson Alan Mark Grayson (born March 13, 1958) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2009 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was defeated for reelection in 2010 by Republican Daniel ...

(MPP '83) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 8th District of Florida *

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

(MPA '97) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 13th District of Florida; former Florida Secretary of State *

Yoshimasa Hayashi is a Japanese politician who currently serves as Minister for Foreign Affairs since November 2021. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he also serves in the House of Representatives for the Yamaguchi 3rd district since 2021. Early life ...

(MPA '94) – former Minister of Defense, former Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, Japan * Liu He (MPA '95) – Vice Premier of China *

Teo Chee Hean Teo Chee Hean ( zh, s=张志贤, poj=Tiuⁿ Chì-hiân, p=Zhāng Zhìxián; born 27 December 1954) is a Singaporean politician and former two-star rear-admiral who has been serving as Senior Minister of Singapore since 2019 and Coordinating Mini ...

(MPA '86) – Senior Minister, Co-ordinating Minister for National Security of

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* Keith Hennessey (MPP '94) – former director,

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National Economic Council *

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, (MPA '11) Mayor, Attleboro, Massachusetts; former State Representative from Massachusetts *

Brian Higgins Brian Michael Higgins (born October 6, 1959) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for , serving since 2005. The district, numbered as the 27th district from 2005 to 2013 but as the 26th since 2013, includes Buffalo and N ...

(MPA '96) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 27th District of New York * Stephen Horn (MPA '55) – former U.S. Congressman, California *

Rafael Hui Rafael Hui Si-yan (born 8 February 1948) is a former Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong and career civil servant. Hui has been dubbed "Old Master Hui" () and "Fat Dragon" (). Hui was appointed as a Justice of the Peace on 1986 an ...

(MPA '83) – former

Chief Secretary for Administration The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Chief Secretary is head of the Governmen ...

of Hong Kong * Muhammad bin Ibrahim (MPA '93) – 8th Governor of the

Central Bank of Malaysia The Central Bank of Malaysia (BNM; ms, Bank Negara Malaysia) is the Malaysian central bank. Established on 26 January 1959 as the Central Bank of Malaya (''Bank Negara Tanah Melayu''), its main purpose is to issue currency, act as banker and ad ...

Natalie Jaresko Natalie Ann Jaresko ( uk, Наталія Енн Яресько; born 24 April 1965) also known as Natalia Ivanivna Yaresko ( uk, Наталія Іванівна Яресько) is an American-born former U.S. State Department official and Ukrain ...

(MPP '89) – former

in Ukraine *

Vuk Jeremić Vuk Jeremić ( sr-cyr, Вук Јеремић, ; born 3 July 1975) is a Serbian politician and diplomat who served as the president of the United Nations General Assembly from 2012 to 2013 and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia from 200 ...

(MPA '03) – 2012

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; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of

* Ajay Narayan Jha —

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and Expenditure Secretary of India. * Daniel J. Jones, lead investigator for " The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program," which is better known as "The Torture Report." Jones is portrayed by

Adam Driver Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award; making him one of few performers nominated ...

in the film '' The Report''. *

Shane Jones Shane Geoffrey Jones (born 3 September 1959) is a New Zealand politician. He served as a New Zealand First list MP from 2017 to 2020 and was previously a Labour list MP from 2005 to 2014. Jones was a cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Gove ...

(MPA '91) – member,

, and chair of finance committee * Mitzi Johnson (MPA '13) -

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Lim Hng Kiang Lim Hng Kiang ( zh, s=林勋强, p=Lín Xūnqiáng; born 9 April 1954) is a Singaporean former politician who served as Minister for Trade and Industry between 2004 and 2018, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office between 2003 and 2004, Mini ...

(MPA '85) – Minister for Trade and Industry of Singapore; member of the

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

(MPA '84) –

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(MPA '84) –

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* Rajive Kumar (MPA) –

and Chief Secretary of Indian state of

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. *

Jim Langevin James R. Langevin ( ; born April 22, 1964) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the first quadriplegic to serve in Congress; Langevin was appointed to be the first ...

(MPA '94) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd District of Rhode Island * Andrew Leigh (PhD '04) – member, Australian House of Representatives * Mark D. Levine (MPP '95) – member, New York City Council, 7th District * Stephen F. Lynch (MPA '99) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 9th District of Massachusetts *

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(MPP '95) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 25th District of New York *

Nabiel Makarim Nabiel Makarim (9 November 1945 – 22 October 2021) was Indonesia's State Minister of the Environment from 2001 to 2004. Early life Makarim graduated from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in 1984 where he received h ...

(MPA '84) – former Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Indonesia * Mark McClellan (MPA '91) – former Commissioner of the United States

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* Sanjay Mitra (MPA) –

and

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of India. *

Nripendra Misra Nripendra Misra (born 8March 1945) is a retired 1967 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre who served as Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. He has also served ...

(MPA) – Retired

and

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from 2014 to 2019. *

Jim Moody James Powers Moody (September 2, 1935March 22, 2019) was an American economist and Democratic politician. He served five terms as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 5th congressional district (1983–1993). At the time, the 5th congre ...

(MPA '67) – former U.S. Congressman, Wisconsin *

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(MPP '83) – Financial Services Minister of Japan *

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(MPA ) – former Mayor of Harare *

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(MPP '78) – former CFO of the U.S. Department of Treasury; former president and CEO of

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* Charles A. Murphy, (MPA '02) – member of the

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and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee *

Andrew Natsios Andrew S. Natsios (born September 22, 1949) is an American public servant and Republican politician from Massachusetts, who served in a number of positions in the administrations of Governor Paul Cellucci and President of the United States Geo ...

(MPA '79) former U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, and administrator of

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(MPP '98) mayor of Calgary since 2010 *

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(MPA '56) – former

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, Governor of the Bank of Ghana and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations * Patrick Nip (MPA '01) - Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs of Hong Kong * Christine Nixon (MPA '85) – Chief Commissioner of Victoria, Australia Police * Herbert S. Okun (MPA '59) – former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations * Nóirín O'Sullivan (Exec '07) – Police Commissioner of Garda Síochána, Ireland's national police service * Taku Otsuka (MPP '05) – a member of the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives of Japan * Francis Pangilinan (MPA '98) – Senator and the Majority Leader of the Senate of the Philippines * Marcus Peacock (MPP '86) – former Deputy Administrator, U.S. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency * Robert E. Perez - former Deputy Commissioner of U. S. Customs and Border Protection * Yohanan Plesner (MPA '04) – member, Israeli

* Brune Poirson - Secretary of State, France - Macron Government * Larry Pressler (MPA '66) – former U.S. Senator from South Dakota * William Proxmire (MPA '48) – former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin * Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician), Jack Reed (MPP '73) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island * Angelo Reyes (MPA '90) – Secretary of Energy of the Philippines; former Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines * Jesse Robredo (MPA '99) – Secretary of Interior and Local Government of the Philippines; received the Quezon Service Cross (the highest Philippine honor) * Henry Rotich (MPA ') – Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury, 2013-date Kenya * Pete Rouse (MPA '77) – White House Chief of Staff under President of the United States, President

* Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai - Executive Governor of Kaduna State in Nigeria; former Minister of FCT, Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises both under Obasanjo Administration * T. N. Seshan (MPA '68) – retired

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

* Yasuhisa Shiozaki (MPA '82) – former Chief Cabinet Secretariat (Japan), Cabinet Secretary, Japan * Rob Simmons (MPA '79) – former U.S. Congressman, Connecticut * Barry Smitherman (MPA) – member of the Texas Railroad Commission * Corazon Soliman (MPA '98) – former Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development of the Philippines * Ralf Stegner (MPA '89) – former Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany * T. S. R. Subramanian (MPA) – retired

and former Cabinet Secretary of India * Sardar Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera (MPA) – Commerce Secretary of Pakistan * Nancy Sutley (MPP '86) – Director of

Council on Environmental Quality * Syahrir (MPA '80, PhD '83) – Economic Adviser in the Republic of Indonesia's Council of Presidential Advisors * Mark E. Talisman (1972) – congressional aide and lobbyist * William B. Taylor Jr. (MPP '77) – U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine *Conrad Tillard (born 1964) - Baptist minister, radio host, author, civil rights activist, and politician * Peter G. Torkildsen (MPA '90) – former U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts; former chair of Massachusetts Republican Party (United States), Republican Party * Robert Torricelli (MPA '80) – former U.S. Senator from New Jersey * John Tsang (MPA '82) – Financial Secretary of Hong Kong * Chris Van Hollen (MPP '85) – member, United States Senate, U.S. Senate, Maryland * Paul Volcker (MA '51, GSPA) – former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve; economic advisor to President

* Solomon Areda Waktolla (MPA '13 and LLM'14) – Deputy Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia, Member of the Court of the Permanent Court of Arbitration * Kevin White (mayor), Kevin White (MA '57, GSPA) – former Mayor of Boston * David Wilhelm (MPP '90) – campaign manager, 1992 United States presidential election, Clinton/Gore '92; former chair, Democratic National Committee * Anthony A. Williams (MPP '87) – former Mayor of Washington, D.C. * Yin Yong (politician), Yin Yong (MPA) – Mayor of Beijing * Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (MPA '78) – former Mexican National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the United Nations

Non-profit

* Ayisha Osori – former CEO, Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund * Lester R. Brown (MPA '62) – founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute * Rick Doblin (PhD '01) – Founder and Executive Director, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) * Robert Kagan (MPP '91) – co-founder, Project for a New American Century * Nancy LeaMond (MPP '74) – Executive Vice President, AARP * Giovanna Negretti (MPA '05) – co-founder and executive director of ¿Oiste? * Michelle Rhee (MPP '97) – founder of The New Teacher Project; Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system * Bryan Stevenson (MPP '85) – founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and author of ''Just Mercy'' * Ramaswami Balasubramaniam (MPA'10) – Founder & President, Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement

Military

* John C. Acton (Exec '05) – retired United States Coast Guard Rear admiral (United States), rear admiral who serves as the Director of Operations Coordination for Department of Homeland Security, DHS * John R. Allen Jr. (Exec '85) – retired United States Air Force brigadier general and highly decorated command pilot * William J. Begert (Exec '95) – served as commander, Pacific Air Forces, and Air Component Commander for the Commander, United States Pacific Command * Franklin J. Blaisdell (Exec) – U.S. Air Force Major General * Sally Brice-O'Hara (MPA '93) – 27th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard *

(MPA '17) – medically retired United States Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander * Peter V. Neffenger (MPA '95) – 29th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard and former Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration * Michael E. Fortney (Exec '11) – U.S. Air Force Brigadier General * Jeffrey Fowler (MPA '90) – United States Navy, Vice Admiral; Superintendent, United States Naval Academy * John C. Harvey (MPA '88) – United States Navy, Admiral; Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command * Robert C. Hinson (Exec) – U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General * William E. Ingram Jr. (Exec '02) – U.S. Army Lieutenant General and Director of the Army National Guard * Richard C. Johnston (Exec) – U.S. Air Force Brigadier General * Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. (MPA '80) – United States Army, Lt. Col.; author of ''The Army and Vietnam'' * Rick Linnehan (MPA '09) – astronaut * Christopher Loria (MPA '04) – astronaut * Robert W. Parker (general), Robert W. Parker (Exec '91) – U.S. Air Force Major General * Timothy S. Sullivan (Exec) – U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral * Guy C. Swan III (MPA '86) – U.S. Army Major General, Commanding General of the Military District of Washington * Jack Weinstein (general), Jack Weinstein (Exec '06) – U.S. Air Force Major General

Academia

* William Alonso (MPP '56) – economist, former director of Harvard Center for Population Studies * Lawrence S. Bacow (MPP '76, PhD '76) – president,

, President of

, and Chancellor of MIT * Steve Charnovitz (MPP '83) – associate professor, George Washington University * Ronald A. Heifetz (MPA '83) – co-founder,

* Stephen Horn (MPA '55) – former president of California State University, Long Beach * Ira Jackson (MPA '86) – dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University * Nancy Koehn (MPP) – historian; professor,

; author * Mark Lilla (MPP '80) – professor, Columbia University * Hollis Robbins (MPP '90) – dean, University of Utah * Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (MPA '66) – former president, George Washington University * William E. Trueheart (MPA '73) – former president, Bryant University *

(MPA '95) – professor,

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

Journalism

* Komla Dumor (MPA,'03) – television news presenter, BBC World News and Africa Business Report * Mark A. R. Kleiman (MPP, PhD '85) – author * Kevin Corke (MPA '04) – White House Correspondent, Fox News * Caroline Glick (MPP '00) – deputy managing editor of ''The Jerusalem Post'' * Kaj Larsen (MPP '07) – former United States Navy, U.S. Navy United States Navy SEALs, SEAL, journalist for Vice News * Dambisa Moyo (MPA '07) – economist and ''New York Times'' best-selling author * Bill O'Reilly (political commentator), Bill O'Reilly (MPA '96) – political commentator * Malik Siraj Akbar (MPA, '16) – editor-in-chief of ''The Baloch Hal'', exiled Pakistani journalist * Andrew Sullivan (MPA, PhD '90) – journalist, ''The Atlantic'' * Wajahat Saeed Khan – Pakistani journalist for Dunya News & NBC News

Business

* Rune Bjerke (MPA '97) – CEO, DNB ASA * Gregory C. Carr (MPP '86) – founder, Boston Technology * Leonard S. Coleman Jr. (MPA '75) – former president of the National League * Debra L. Lee (MPP '80) – President and CEO, Black Entertainment Television * Daniel Mudd (MPA '86) – former president and CEO of U.S. Fannie Mae * Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg (MPA '71) – founder, President, CEO of Strategic Investment Group * Greg Rosenbaum (MPP '77) – CEO, Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. * Peter Sands (banker), Peter Sands (MPA '88) – Group CEO, Standard Chartered * Klaus Schwab (MPA '67) – founder and Executive Chairman,

* Faryar Shirzad (MPP '89) – managing director, Goldman Sachs, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor * Chris Voss – adjunct professor at McDonough School of Business

Arts

* William Butler (musician), William Butler (MPA '17) – musician and composer, Arcade Fire * Ashley Judd (MPA '10) – Actress, activist * Hill Harper (MPA '92) – Actor * Thor Steingraber (MPA '09) – Opera Director * Damian Woetzel (MPA '07) – former Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet

Spies

* Donald Heathfield (real name: Andrey Bezrukov) (MPA '00) – KGB and Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia), SVR operative until his Illegals Program, disclosure in the United States in 2010.

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