List of London School of Economics people
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The list of London School of Economics people includes notable alumni, non-graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science. This includes 34 past or present heads of state, as well as 18 Nobel laureates.
Founders and professors:
Non-alumni
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Heads of state or government
| State | Leader | Affiliation | Office |
 Barbados |
Errol Walton Barrow (1920–1987) | BSc (Econ) 1950 | Prime minister 1962-1966; 1966–1976; 1986–1987 |
 Canada |
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) | Research Fee Student 1947-1948 | Prime minister 1968-1979; 1980–1984 |
| Canada |
Kim Campbell (b. 1947) | PhD student 1973 | Prime minister June–November 1993 |
 Colombia |
Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo | Occasional Registration 1932-1933 | President 1934-1938, 1942–1945 |
| Colombia |
Juan Manuel Santos | MSc Economics 1975 | President 2010- |
 Denmark |
HM Queen Margrethe II (b. 1940) | Occasional student 1965 | Queen 1972- |
 Dominica |
Dame Eugenia Charles | LLM 1949 | Prime minister 1980-1995 |
 European Union |
Professor Romano Prodi (b. 1939) | Research Fee Student 1962-1963 | President of the European Commission 1999-2004; |
 Fiji |
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) | Diploma Econ & Social Admin 1962 | Prime minister 1970-1992; President 1994-2000 |
 Germany |
Heinrich Brüning | BSc Economics Student 1911-1913 | Chancellor 1930-32 |
 Ghana |
Dr Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) | PhD 1946 | First president 1960-1966 |
| Ghana |
Hon Dr Hilla Limann (1934–1998) | BSc (Econ) 1960 | President 1979-1981 |
| Ghana |
John Atta Mills (b. 1944) | LLM 1967-68 | President 2009 |
 Greece |
George Papandreou (b.1952) | MSc Sociology 1977 | Prime minister 2009-2011 |
| Greece |
Dr Constantine Simitis (b. 1936) | Research Fee Student 1961-1963 | Prime minister 1996-2004 |
 India |
Shri KR Narayanan (1921–2005) | BSc (Econ) 1945-1948 | President 1997-2002 |
 Israel |
Moshe Sharett (1894–1965) | BSc (Econ) 1924 | Prime minister 1953-1955 |
 Italy |
Professor Romano Prodi (b. 1939) | Research Fee Student 1962-1963 | Prime minister 1996-1998; 2006–2008 |
 Jamaica |
Michael Manley (1924–1997) | BSc (Econ) 1949 | Prime minister 1972-1980; 1989–1992 |
| Jamaica |
P J Patterson | LLB 1963 | Premier 1992-2006 |
 Japan |
Taro Aso (b.1940) | Occasional Student 1966 | Prime minister 2008- |
 Kenya |
Jomo Kenyatta (1891–1978) | ADA 1936 | First president 1964-1978 |
| Kenya |
Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931) | BSc Economics 1959 | President 2002- |
 Kiribati |
Anote Tong (b.1952) | MSc Sea-Use Group 1988 | President 2003- |
 Libya |
Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi (b 1972) | PhD 2006 | Effectively Prime Minister, 2007- 2011 |
 Mauritius |
Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo (1920–2000) | LLB 1948 | First president of Mauritius March–June 1992 |
| Mauritius |
Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam (b. 1947) | LLB 1990 | Prime minister 1995-2000; 2005- |
 Nepal |
Sher Bahadur Deuba (b. 1943) | Research Student International Relations 1988-1989 | Prime minister 1995-1997; 2001–2003; 2004–2005 |
 Panama |
Harmodio Arias (1886–1962) | Occasional Student, 1909–1911 | President 1932-1936 |
 Peru |
Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto (1897–1979) | BSc (Econ) 1918 | Prime minister 1959-1961 |
| Peru |
Beatriz Merino (b.1947) | LLM 1972 | Prime minister 2003 |
 Poland |
Marek Belka (b.1952) | Summer School 1990 | Prime minister 2004-05 |
 Singapore |
Goh Keng Swee (1918–2010) | BSc Economics 1951; PhD Economics 1956 | Deputy prime minister 1959-84 |
 Saint Lucia |
John Compton (b. 1926) | LLB 1952 | Premier 1964-1979; Prime minister Feb-Jul 1979 & 1982-1996 |
 Republic of China |
Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914–2000) | Composition fee student 1947-1949 | Premier 1984-1989 |
| Republic of China |
Tsai Ing-wen (b.1956) | PhD Law 1984 | Vice-premier 2006- |
 Thailand |
Tanin Kraivixien Tanin Kraivixien Tanin Kraivixien or Thanin Kraivixien was the prime minister of Thailand between 1976 and 1977. Tanin is a son of Hae and Pa-ob Kraivixien, and is of Chinese-Thai descent. Tanin studied law at Thammasat University, graduating in 1948. He then went to the London School of Economics to continue with... (b. 1927) |
LLB 1953 | Prime minister 1976-1977 |
 United Kingdom |
Lord Attlee (1883–1967) | Lecturer in social science and administration, 1912–1923 | Prime minister, 1945–1951 |
 United States |
John F Kennedy (1917–1963) | General Course student 1935 | President 1961-1963 |
- Óscar AriasÓscar AriasÓscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican politician who was President of Costa Rica from 2006 to 2010. He previously served as President from 1986 to 1990 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several other Central American countries.He is also a...
(b. 1941) - President of Costa RicaCosta RicaCosta Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
, 1986–1990, 2006–present and Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner - Maurice BishopMaurice BishopMaurice Rupert Bishop was a Grenadian politician and revolutionary who seized power in a coup in 1979 from Eric Gairy and served as Prime Minister of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown in another coup by Bernard Coard, a member of his own...
(1944–1983) - Prime Minister of GrenadaGrenadaGrenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...
(1979–1983) - Heinrich BrüningHeinrich BrüningHeinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and remains a controversial figure in German politics....
(1885–1970) - Chancellor of GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, 1930–1932 - Joe BossanoJoe BossanoJoseph "Joe" John Bossano is a Gibraltarian politician, and the former leader of the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party. He was Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 25 March 1988 to 17 May 1996. He served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Gibraltar Parliament from its founding in 1978 until April...
(b.1939) - Chief MinisterChief Minister of GibraltarThe Chief Minister of Gibraltar is the leader of the largest party elected to the Gibraltar Parliament, and is formally appointed by the Governor of Gibraltar, representative of the British Crown.-List of Chief Ministers:...
of GibraltarGibraltarGibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...
, 1988-1996 - Forbes BurnhamForbes BurnhamLinden Forbes Sampson Burnham was the leader of Guyana from 1964 until his death, first as Premier from 1964 to 1966, then as the Prime Minister from 1966 to 1980 and finally as President from 1980 to 1985....
- (1923–1985) - President of GuyanaGuyanaGuyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British... - Tuanku JaafarTuanku JaafarDuli Yang Maha Mulia Almarhum Tuanku Ja'afar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, GCB was the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia from 26 April 1994 until 25 April 1999 and the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Besar of modern Negeri Sembilan.-Early life and education:The second son of Tuanku Abdul Rahman...
(b. 1922) - Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King)Yang di-Pertuan AgongThe Yang di-Pertuan Agong is the head of state of Malaysia. The office was established in 1957 when the Federation of Malaya gained independence....
of Malaysia, 1994–1999 - Tanin KraivixienTanin KraivixienTanin Kraivixien or Thanin Kraivixien was the prime minister of Thailand between 1976 and 1977. Tanin is a son of Hae and Pa-ob Kraivixien, and is of Chinese-Thai descent. Tanin studied law at Thammasat University, graduating in 1948. He then went to the London School of Economics to continue with...
(b. 1927) - Prime Minister of ThailandPrime Minister of ThailandThe Prime Minister of Thailand is the head of government of Thailand. The Prime Minister is also the chairman of the Cabinet of Thailand. The post has existed since the Revolution of 1932, when the country became a constitutional monarchy....
, 1976–1977 - Yu Kuo-HwaYu Kuo-hwaYu Kuo-hwa was the Premier of the Republic of China from 1984 to 1989.-Biography:He was born on 10 January 1914 in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China...
(1914–2000) - PremierPremier of the Republic of ChinaThe President of the Executive Yuan , commonly known as the Premier of the Republic of China , is the head of the Executive Yuan, the executive branch of the Republic of China , which currently administers Taiwan, Matsu, and Kinmen. The premier is appointed by the President of the Republic of China...
of TaiwanRepublic of ChinaThe Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
, 1984–1989 - Sylvanus OlympioSylvanus OlympioSylvanus Epiphanio Olympio was a Togolese political figure who served as Prime Minister, and then President, of Togo from 1958 until his assassination in 1963.-Political career:...
(1902–1963) - Prime Minister of Togo, 1958–1961, and first President of Togo, 1961–1963 - Seewoosagur RamgoolamSeewoosagur RamgoolamSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam KT,GCMG,KCMG,LRCP, MRCS is the first Chief Minister, Prime Minister and sixth Governor General of Mauritius....
(1900–1985) - Prime Minister of MauritiusMauritiusMauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
(1961–1982) - Sergey StanishevSergey StanishevSergei Dmitrievich Stanishev is a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009; currently he is Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Interim President of the Party of European Socialists...
(b. 1966) - Prime Minister of Bulgaria, 2005–2009 - Edward SzczepanikEdward SzczepanikEdward Franciszek Szczepanik, was a Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile...
(1915–2005) - Prime Minister of the Polish government in exilePolish government in ExileThe Polish government-in-exile, formally known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile , was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Poland of September 1939, and the subsequent occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, which...
, 1986–1990 - Banja Tejan-SieBanja Tejan-SieSir Banja Tejan-Sie, GCMG was a politician and lawyer in Sierra Leone and one of the "founding fathers" of the Sierra Leone People's Party . Tejan-Sie was born in Moyamba District to a famous Muslim cleric and scholar from the Fulah tribe...
, (1917–2000) - Governor-GeneralGovernor-GeneralA Governor-General, is a vice-regal person of a monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial circonscription. Depending on the political arrangement of the territory, a Governor General can be a governor of high rank, or a principal governor ranking above "ordinary" governors.- Current uses...
and leader of opposition Sierra Leone People's PartySierra Leone People's PartySierra Leone People's Party is one of the two major political parties in Sierra Leone, along with the All People's Congress .-Formation:...
in Sierra Leone - Lee Kuan YewLee Kuan YewLee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH is a Singaporean statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, governing for three decades...
(b. 1923) - Prime MinisterPrime ministerA prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
of SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, 1959–1990
Nobel laureates
Alumni:- 1950: Ralph BuncheRalph BuncheRalph Johnson Bunche or 1904December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the history of the Prize...
(Peace) - 1979: Sir William Arthur LewisWilliam Arthur LewisSir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist well known for his contributions in the field of economic development...
(Economics) - 1991: Ronald CoaseRonald CoaseRonald Harry Coase is a British-born, American-based economist and the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. After studying with the University of London External Programme in 1927–29, Coase entered the London School of Economics, where he took...
(Economics) - 1999: Robert MundellRobert MundellRobert Mundell, CC is a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian economist. Currently, Mundell is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong....
(Economics) - 2007: Leonid HurwiczLeonid HurwiczLeonid "Leo" Hurwicz was a Russian-born American economist and mathematician. His nationality of origin was Polish. He was Jewish. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science...
(Economics)
Founders and professors:
- 1925: George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
(Literature) - 1950: Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
(Literature) - 1959: Philip Noel-Baker (Peace)
- 1972: Sir John HicksJohn HicksSir John Richard Hicks was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS/LM model , which...
(Economics) - 1974: Friedrich von HayekFriedrich HayekFriedrich August Hayek CH , born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek, was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought...
(Economics) - 1977: James MeadeJames MeadeJames Edward Meade CB, FBA was a British economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "Pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."Meade was born in...
(Economics) - 1990: Merton MillerMerton MillerMerton Howard Miller was the co-author of the Modigliani-Miller theorem which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe...
(Economics) - 1998: Amartya SenAmartya SenAmartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...
(Economics) - 2001: George AkerlofGeorge AkerlofGeorge Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of...
(Economics) - 2003: Robert F. Engle III (Economics)
- 2007: Leonid HurwiczLeonid HurwiczLeonid "Leo" Hurwicz was a Russian-born American economist and mathematician. His nationality of origin was Polish. He was Jewish. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science...
(Economics) - 2008: Paul KrugmanPaul KrugmanPaul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times...
(Economics) - 2010: Christopher A. PissaridesChristopher A. PissaridesChristopher Antoniou Pissarides F.B.A. is a Cypriot economist. He currently holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on several topics of macroeconomics, notably labor, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded...
(Economics)
Non-alumni
- 1987: Óscar AriasÓscar AriasÓscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican politician who was President of Costa Rica from 2006 to 2010. He previously served as President from 1986 to 1990 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several other Central American countries.He is also a...
(Peace)
Guy Medal recipients
- 1945 Sir Maurice KendallMaurice KendallSir Maurice George Kendall, FBA was a British statistician, widely known for his contribution to statistics. The Kendall tau rank correlation is named after him.-Education and early life:...
- 1976 James DurbinJames DurbinJames Durbin is a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where his contemporaries included David Cox and Denis Sargan...
(Silver) - 1978 Sir R. G. D. AllenR. G. D. AllenSir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician.Allen was born in Worcester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
(Gold) - 1982 Henry WynnHenry WynnHenry Philip Wynn is a British statistician.He gained a BA in Mathematics from Oxford and a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from Imperial College. He was appointed a Lecturer and then Reader at Imperial College before moving to City University in 1985 as Professor of Mathematical Statistics...
(Silver) - 2007 Howell TongHowell Tong-External links:*...
(Silver) - 2008 James DurbinJames DurbinJames Durbin is a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where his contemporaries included David Cox and Denis Sargan...
(Gold)
Economists
- Daron AcemogluDaron AcemogluKamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian origin. He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal. He is among the in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc...
, economist, John Bates Clark MedalJohn Bates Clark MedalThe 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"...
Winner 2005 - Sir Roy AllenR. G. D. AllenSir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician.Allen was born in Worcester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
, economist and mathematician - Tony Antoniou, former Dean of Durham Business School and Professor of Finance
- Heinz Wolfgang ArndtHeinz Wolfgang Arndt-Biography:Heinz Wolfgang Arndt was born in Germany in 1915, gained two degrees at Oxford and taught at the London School of Economics and Manchester University before settling in Australia in 1946. In 1950, he took up a chairmanship in economics at the then Canberra University College...
, economist - Peter Thomas BauerPeter Thomas BauerPeter Thomas Bauer, Baron Bauer was a developmental economist. Bauer is best remembered for his opposition to the widely-held notion that the most effective manner to help developing countries advance is through state-controlled foreign aid.- Life :Bauer was born as Péter Tamás Bauer in Budapest,...
, development economist - William BaumolWilliam BaumolWilliam Jack Baumol is an American economist. He is a professor of economics at New York University and is also affiliated with Princeton University. Baumol has written extensively about labor market and other economic factors that affect the economy. He also made valuable contributions to the...
, Professor of Economics and Director, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University - Charles BeanCharlie BeanCharles Richard "Charlie" Bean is Deputy Governor at the Bank of England.Bean attended Brentwood School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was a contemporary of the comedian Griff Rhys Jones at both and the writer Douglas Adams at Brentwood School. He worked at Her Majesty's Treasury. He gained...
, economist, member of Monetary Policy CommitteeMonetary Policy CommitteeThe Monetary Policy Committee is a committee of the Bank of England, which meets for two and a half days every month to decide the official interest rate in the United Kingdom . It is also responsible for directing other aspects of the government's monetary policy framework, such as quantitative... - Timothy BesleyTim BesleyTimothy John Besley, CBE served on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from September 2006 to August 2009 and is Kuwait professor of economics and political science at the London School of Economics, Director of the Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related...
, economics professor and member of Monetary Policy CommitteeMonetary Policy CommitteeThe Monetary Policy Committee is a committee of the Bank of England, which meets for two and a half days every month to decide the official interest rate in the United Kingdom . It is also responsible for directing other aspects of the government's monetary policy framework, such as quantitative... - Kenneth BinmoreKenneth BinmoreKenneth George "Ken" Binmore, is a British mathematician, economist and game theorist. He is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of London and a Visiting Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol ....
, economist - Alan BuddAlan BuddSir Alan Peter Budd is a prominent British economist, who was a founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee in 1997....
, British economist, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford - Willem BuiterWillem BuiterWillem Hendrik Buiter Willem Hendrik Buiter Willem Hendrik Buiter (born September 26, 1949]] was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1997-May 2000. He joined the London School of Economics as a chair in the European Institute in September 2005....
, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy CommitteeMonetary Policy CommitteeThe Monetary Policy Committee is a committee of the Bank of England, which meets for two and a half days every month to decide the official interest rate in the United Kingdom . It is also responsible for directing other aspects of the government's monetary policy framework, such as quantitative... - Ronald CoaseRonald CoaseRonald Harry Coase is a British-born, American-based economist and the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. After studying with the University of London External Programme in 1927–29, Coase entered the London School of Economics, where he took...
, economist, Nobel Prize winner - Richard N. CooperRichard N. CooperRichard Newell Cooper is an American economist, policy adviser, and academic.Cooper graduated from Oberlin College in 1956 and received a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Marshall Scholar in 1958. He received his Ph.D...
, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University; Previously Chairman, National Intelligence Council and; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs - Hugh DaltonHugh DaltonEdward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton PC was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947, when he was implicated in a political scandal involving budget leaks....
, former LSE student, lecturer and Chancellor of the ExchequerChancellor of the ExchequerThe Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters. Often simply called the Chancellor, the office-holder controls HM Treasury and plays a role akin to the posts of Minister of Finance or Secretary of the... - Lord DesaiMeghnad Desai, Baron DesaiMeghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai is an Indian-born British economist and Labour politician. He unsuccessfully stood for the Speaker in the British House of Lords , the first ever non-UK born candidate to do so.-Early life:...
, development economist - Ian GoldinIan GoldinIan Andrew Goldin took up his most recent position as Director of Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, in September 2006. He is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development, and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford....
, development economist, Director of The James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford - Charles GoodhartCharles GoodhartCharles Albert Eric Goodhart, CBE, FBA is an economist. He was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1997-May 2000 and a professor at the London School of Economics . He is the developer of Goodhart's law, an economic law named after him...
, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy CommitteeMonetary Policy CommitteeThe Monetary Policy Committee is a committee of the Bank of England, which meets for two and a half days every month to decide the official interest rate in the United Kingdom . It is also responsible for directing other aspects of the government's monetary policy framework, such as quantitative... - David Forbes HendryDavid Forbes HendrySir David Forbes Hendry, FBA is a British econometrician, currently a professor of economics and from 2001-2007 was Head of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford...
, British economist, currently Professor of Economics and Head of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford - J.A. Hobson, economist and writer
- Samuel HollanderSamuel HollanderSamuel Hollander, OC, FRSC 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 University...
, British/Canadian/Israeli economist - Eliot JanewayEliot JanewayEliot Janeway , born Eliot Jacobstein, was an influential American economist, journalist and author whose career spanned seven decades. He was an economic advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. His eclectic approach focused on the interaction between political...
, American economist, economic advisor to Presidents Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
and Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States... - Harry JohnsonHarry Gordon JohnsonHarry Gordon Johnson was a Canadian economist who studied topics such as International trade and International finance.He was born on 26 May 1923 in Toronto, Canada, the elder son of two children of Henry Herbert Johnson, newspaperman and later secretary of the Liberal Party of Ontario, and his...
, economist - Lewis Webster JonesLewis Webster JonesLewis Webster Jones was an economist, and the President of the University of Arkansas from 1947 to 1951 and of Rutgers University from 1951 to 1958.-Biography:...
, economist, fifteenth President of Rutgers University - Nicholas KaldorNicholas KaldorNicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor was one of the foremost Cambridge economists in the post-war period...
, economist - Paul KrugmanPaul KrugmanPaul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times...
, New York Times columnist, Nobel Prize winner, Pultizer Prize winning journalist - Maurice KuglerMaurice KuglerMaurice Kugler is a Colombian economist born in 1967. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2000, as well as a M.Sc. and a B.Sc. both from the London School of Economics. He was named in 2007 to the inaugural CIGI Chair in International Public Policy by the Laurier School of...
, development economist - Ludwig LachmannLudwig LachmannLudwig Lachmann was a German economist who became a member of and important contributor to the Austrian School.-Education and career:...
, economist - David LaidlerDavid LaidlerDavid Ernest William Laidler has been one of the foremost scholars of monetarism. He published major economics journal articles on the topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
, economist - David Alexander Reisman, economist, Professor, Nanyang Technological University
- Lord Layard, economist
- Peter LeesonPeter LeesonPeter T. Leeson is BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University He authored The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, a book in which he uses rational choice theory to examine the economic conditions and incentives that influenced pirate...
, George MasonGeorge Mason UniversityGeorge Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...
Economist - Sir William Arthur LewisWilliam Arthur LewisSir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist well known for his contributions in the field of economic development...
, economist, Nobel Prize winner - James MeadeJames MeadeJames Edward Meade CB, FBA was a British economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "Pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."Meade was born in...
, economist, Nobel Prize winner - Merton MillerMerton MillerMerton Howard Miller was the co-author of the Modigliani-Miller theorem which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe...
, economist, Nobel Prize winner - Michio MorishimaMichio Morishimawas a Japanese economist, mathematician and econometrician, who was a faculty member at the London School of Economics from 1970-88 as the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics...
, Japanese economist - Robert MundellRobert MundellRobert Mundell, CC is a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian economist. Currently, Mundell is a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong....
, economist, Nobel Prize winner - Stephen NickellStephen NickellStephen John Nickell CBE is a British economist and currently Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.Nickell was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Pembroke College, Cambridge....
, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy CommitteeMonetary Policy CommitteeThe Monetary Policy Committee is a committee of the Bank of England, which meets for two and a half days every month to decide the official interest rate in the United Kingdom . It is also responsible for directing other aspects of the government's monetary policy framework, such as quantitative... - Andrew OswaldAndrew OswaldAndrew Oswald is a Visiting Fellow at the IZA Institute in Bonn and a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, UK. He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher and has been a Professorial Fellow of the ESRC. He is currently a member of the board of editors of Science...
, economist - Baron Maurice PestonMaurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile EndMaurice Harry Peston, Baron Peston , is an English economist and parliamentarian. His research interests include macroeconomic policy and the economics of education.-Personal:...
, economist and politician - Peter C. B. PhillipsPeter C. B. PhillipsPeter Charles Bonest Phillips is a leading econometrician. He received his PhD from London School of Economics under the supervision of John Denis Sargan in 1974. Since 1979 he has been Professor of Economics and Statistics at Yale University...
, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at Yale University - William PhillipsWilliam Phillips (economist)Alban William Housego "A. W." "Bill" Phillips, MBE was an influential New Zealand economist who spent most of his academic career at the London School of Economics . His best-known contribution to economics is the Phillips curve, which he first described in 1958...
, economist - Arnold PlantArnold PlantSir Arnold Plant was a British economist.Plant was born in Hoxton, London, the son of a municipal librarian.After attending Strand School, he worked for a mechanical engineering organisation....
, economist - Christopher A. PissaridesChristopher A. PissaridesChristopher Antoniou Pissarides F.B.A. is a Cypriot economist. He currently holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on several topics of macroeconomics, notably labor, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded...
, Cypriot-born British economist, member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Cyprus - Mihir RakshitMihir RakshitMihir Kanti Rakshit , is one of India's most prominent Keynesian macroeconomists.-Education and Teaching Career:...
, economist - Lionel RobbinsLionel RobbinsLionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins, FBA was a British economist and head of the economics department at the London School of Economics...
, economist - Tadeusz RybczynskiTadeusz RybczynskiTadeusz Rybczynski was a Polish-born English economist who is known for the development of the Rybczynski theorem .He studied at the London School of Economics. Immediately after discovering his famous theorem, he joined Lazard and spent the rest of his career there as an investment...
, Polish-born English economist, known for the development of the Rybczynski theorem - Anthony SaundersAnthony SaundersAnthony 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. He teaches "Market and Liquidity Risk" in the Risk Management Open Enrollment...
, Chairman, Department of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York UniversityNew York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan... - Tibor ScitovskyTibor ScitovskyTibor de Scitovsky, also known as Tibor Scitovsky, , was a Hungarian born, American economist who was best known for his writing on the nature of people's happiness in relation to consumption...
, economist - Arthur SeldonArthur SeldonDr Arthur Seldon CBE was joint founder president, with Ralph Harris, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, where he directed academic affairs for 30 years....
, free market ideologue - Andrew SentanceAndrew SentanceAndrew Sentance is Senior Economic Adviser to PwC, a position he took up in November 2011. He was an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England from October 2006 to May 2011.-Qualifications:...
, member of Monetary Policy CommitteeMonetary Policy CommitteeThe Monetary Policy Committee is a committee of the Bank of England, which meets for two and a half days every month to decide the official interest rate in the United Kingdom . It is also responsible for directing other aspects of the government's monetary policy framework, such as quantitative... - G.L.S. Shackle, economist
- Neil ShephardNeil ShephardNeil Shephard , FBA, is a British economist, currently Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. He is also a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and member of the Oxford-Man Institute....
, econometrician - Alasdair SmithAlasdair SmithAlasdair Smith is a professor of economics and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex and former Chair of the 1994 Group. He is a noted international economist whose studies have been used by the European Union.Smith was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland and is married to Sherry...
, economist, former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex - Piero SraffaPiero SraffaPiero Sraffa was an influential Italian economist whose book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the Neo-Ricardian school of Economics.- Early life :...
, economist - Nicholas SternNicholas SternNicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Kt, FBA is a British economist and academic. He is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics , and 2010 Professor of Collège de...
, economist - Sho-Chieh TsiangSho-Chieh TsiangSho-Chieh Tsiang is 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.-Biography:...
, economist - Lord TurnerAdair Turner, Baron Turner of EcchinswellJonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell is a British businessman, academic and chairman of both the Financial Services Authority and the Committee on Climate Change. He was formerly chairman of the Pensions Commission...
, businessman, academic, chair of the UK Financial Services AuthorityFinancial Services AuthorityThe Financial Services Authority is a quasi-judicial body responsible for the regulation of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom. Its board is appointed by the Treasury and the organisation is structured as a company limited by guarantee and owned by the UK government. Its main... - John Van ReenenJohn Van Reenen (economist)John Michael Van Reenen is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He also serves of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Industrial Economics. In 2009 he was awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award.-External links:*...
, economist, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of EconomicsLondon School of EconomicsThe London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London... - Sushil WadhwaniSushil WadhwaniSushil Wadhwani CBE was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1999 to May 2002. He is also the founder and chief executive officer of .-References:...
, economist - Sir Alan WaltersAlan WaltersProfessor Sir Alan Arthur Walters was a British economist, best known as the former Chief Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1981 to 1983 and again in 1989 after his return from the USA.- Early life :...
, monetary economist - Basil YameyBasil YameyBasil S. Yamey, CBE is a South African economist. He was born in Cape Town in South Africa, and educated at the University of Cape Town. For many years he was a Professor at the London School of Economics...
, industrial economist - Allyn Abbott YoungAllyn Abbott YoungAllyn Abbott Young was a celebrated American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio on September 19, 1876 and died aged 52 in London on March 7, 1929, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at the height of his intellectual powers and...
, economist
Historians
- Janet ColemanJanet ColemanJanet Coleman FRHistS is a British academic and historian of political theory.She is currently the Professor of Ancient and Medieval Political Thought at the London School of Economics. She was the first woman to receive a chair in the LSE government department...
FRHS, historian of political thought - Martin van CreveldMartin van CreveldMartin Levi van Creveld is an Israeli military historian and theorist.Van Creveld was born in the Netherlands in the city of Rotterdam, and has lived in Israel since shortly after his birth. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has...
, Israeli military historian and theorist - Niall FergusonNiall FergusonNiall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His specialty is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism.....
, prominent economic and international historian - James JollJames JollJames Bysse Joll FBA was a British historian and university lecturer whose works included The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870. He also wrote on the history of anarchism and socialism.-Biography:...
, leading World War One historian - Paul KennedyPaul KennedyPaul Michael Kennedy CBE, FBA , is a British historian at Yale University 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 Power struggles...
, British historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy - David Levering LewisDavid Levering LewisDavid Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois...
, Pulitzer Prize winning author, prominent historian on African Americans - Alfred MarshallAlfred MarshallAlfred Marshall was an Englishman and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics , was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years...
, historian and sociologist - Desmond MortonDesmond Morton (historian)Desmond Dillon Paul Morton, OC, FRSC, CD is a Canadian historian who specializes in the history of the Canadian military, as well as the history of Canadian political and industrial relations....
, historian - Lewis Bernstein NamierLewis Bernstein NamierSir Lewis Bernstein Namier was an English historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is today in Poland.-Life:...
, historian - Ben PimlottBen PimlottBenjamin John Pimlott, known as Ben Pimlott , was a British historian of the post-war period in Britain...
, FabianFabian SocietyThe Fabian Society is a British socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. It is best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning late in the 19th century and continuing up to World...
President, modern historian, former president of Nottingham University - Anthony SeldonAnthony SeldonDr. Anthony F. Seldon MA, PhD, FRSA, MBA, FRHistS is a political commentator best known as Tony Blair's biographer and the Master of Wellington College...
, historian, biographer of Tony BlairTony BlairAnthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
and headmaster of Wellington CollegeWellington College, Berkshire-Former pupils:Notable former pupils include historian P. J. Marshall, architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, impressionist Rory Bremner, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, author Sebastian Faulks, language school pioneer John Haycraft, political journalist Robin Oakley, actor Sir Christopher... - Avi ShlaimAvi ShlaimAvi Shlaim FBA is a British/Israeli historian. He is a professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the British Academy.Shlaim is especially well known as a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict...
, historian specialising in the Middle East - Alan SkedAlan SkedAlan Sked is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics . He studied History at Glasgow, then Merton College, Oxford. His doctoral supervisor at Oxford was A. J. P. Taylor, who was a major influence on Sked. In particular, Sked's writings on the Habsburg Monarchy owe much...
, leading HabsburgHabsburgThe House of Habsburg , also found as Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and...
historian and founder of the United Kingdom Independence PartyUnited Kingdom Independence PartyThe United Kingdom Independence Party is a eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Whilst its primary goal is the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the party has expanded beyond its single-issue image to develop a more comprehensive party platform.UKIP... - David StarkeyDavid StarkeyDavid Starkey, CBE, FSA is a British constitutional historian, and a radio and television presenter.He was born the only child of Quaker parents, and attended Kendal Grammar School before entering Cambridge through a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King...
, historian specialising in Tudor England - G. E. M. de Ste. CroixG. E. M. de Ste. CroixGeoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix was a British historian who specialized in examining the classical era from a historical materialist perspective....
, historian - David Stevenson (WW1 historian)David Stevenson (WW1 historian)David Stevenson is a British historian specialising in World War I. He is currently Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science ....
, World War One historian - John StubbsJohn Stubbs (educator)John Stubbs is a Canadian academic. He was president of Trent University and Simon Fraser University.Stubbs began his career as a historian and political scientist, specializing in the history of 20th century British politics and media. He distinguished himself as a teacher and administrator at...
, historian, former president of Trent UniversityTrent UniversityTrent University is a liberal arts and science-oriented institution located along the Otonabee River in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.The enabling legislation is the Trent University Act, 1962-63. The University was founded through the efforts of a citizens' committee interested in creating a...
and Simon Fraser UniversitySimon Fraser UniversitySimon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000... - Jacob TalmonJacob TalmonJacob Leib Talmon was Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
, historian - Arnold Joseph Toynbee, historian
- Sir Charles Webster, Stevenson Professor of International History; diplomat and founder of the United Nations
- Odd Arne WestadOdd Arne WestadOdd Arne Westad FBA is a Norwegian historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history....
, leading historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history; currently Convenor of the LSE International History Department and Cold War Studies Centre
Economic historians
- Kent DengKent DengDr Kent Deng, FRHistS, is a Reader in Economic History Department at the London School of Economics. He is a member of the Asian Research Centre and has been Secretary of the History and Economic Development Group UK since 2000....
, East Asian economic historian - Mary S. MorganMary S. MorganMary S. Morgan FBA and FRDAAS ,is Professor of the History of Economics in the London School of Economics since 1999, of which she had earlier obtained a BSc in Economics , and her Ph.D....
, historian of economics - R. H. TawneyR. H. TawneyRichard Henry Tawney was an English economic historian, social critic, Christian socialist, and an important proponent of adult education....
, an EnglishEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
writer, economistEconomistAn economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...
, historian, social critic and university professor and a leading advocate of Christian SocialismChristian socialismChristian socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist and who see these two philosophies as being interrelated. This category can include Liberation theology and the doctrine of the social gospel...
. Richard Tawney has been called "the patron saint of adult education". - Edwin CannanEdwin CannanEdwin Cannan was a British economist and historian of economic thought. He was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1895 to 1926....
, historian of economic thought, professor at LSE from 1895 to 1926. - Nick Crafts, professor of economic history at LSE between 1995 and 2005
- Niall FergusonNiall FergusonNiall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His specialty is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism.....
, Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs
Employment relations/Management
- Chrisanthi AvgerouChrisanthi AvgerouChrisanthi Avgerou is a Greek-born British scholar in the field of the Social Study of Information Systems, focusing on Information Technology in developing countries...
, Professor of Information Systems - Claudio CiborraClaudio CiborraClaudio Ciborra was a professor of Information Systems and PWC Chair in Risk Management in the London School of Economics. Prior to the LSE, he was professor at the Theseus International Management Institute....
(1951–2005) Professor of Information Systems
Human geography
- George JonasGeorge JonasGeorge Jonas is a Hungarian-born Canadian writer and columnist. He is the author of 15 books. They include Vengeance , the story of an Israeli operation to kill the terrorists responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre...
, founder of social geography; Professor of Geography at LSE, 1958-1983 - Halford MacKinderHalford John MackinderSir Halford John Mackinder PC was an English geographer and is considered one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy.-Early life and education:...
, geographer and LSE director, 1903–1908 - Laurence Dudley StampLaurence Dudley StampSir Dudley Stamp, CBE, DSc, D. Litt, LLD, Ekon D, DSc Nat , was professor of geography at Rangoon and London, and one of the internationally best known British geographers of the 20th century....
, geographer
International relations
- Daniele ArchibugiDaniele ArchibugiDaniele Archibugi 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 and technological globalisation....
, former Visiting Professor of International Relations - Hedley BullHedley BullHedley Bull, FBA was Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford until his death from cancer in 1985...
, Professor of International Relations - Barry BuzanBarry BuzanBarry Gordon Buzan is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen and Jilin University...
, Professor of International Relations - Michael CoxMichael Cox (academic)Michael E. Cox is a British academic and international relations scholar. He is currently a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics , where he is Co-Director of LSE IDEAS...
, Professor of International Relations - David HeldDavid HeldDavid Held is a British political theorist active in the field of international relations. He will be chair of politics and international relations at Durham University from January 2012 and is currently Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for the Study of...
, Professor of International Relations - Fred HallidayFred HallidayFrederick Halliday, FBA 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.-Biography:Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1946 to an English father, businessman Arthur Halliday, and an...
, Professor of International Relations (Montague BurtonMontague BurtonSir Montague Maurice Burton founded Burton, one of Great Britain's largest chains of clothes shops....
Chair), to 2008 - Kimberly HutchingsKimberly HutchingsKimberly Hutchings is Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science .She is a leading scholar in international relations theory...
, Professor of International Relations - Mary KaldorMary KaldorMary Kaldor is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of its Centre for the Study of Global Governance. She has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy...
, Professor of International Relations - Parag KhannaParag KhannaDr. Parag Khanna is an Indian American author and international relations expert. He is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. and Director of...
, author and current PhDPHDPHD may refer to:*Ph.D., a doctorate of philosophy*Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*PHD finger, a protein sequence*PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company*PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
candidate - F. S. NorthedgeF. S. NorthedgeFrederick Samuel Northedge was a British Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics.The Northedge Essay Competition was established in 1986 to recognize Professor Northedge's contribution to the creation of the journal Millennium.- Selected books :* Foreign Policies of...
, former Professor of International Relations - Richard W. Lyman, former Provost and President of Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
; Founder Stanford Institute for International Studies - Susan StrangeSusan StrangeSusan Strange was a British academic who was influential in the field of International Political Economy. Her most important publications include Casino Capitalism, Mad Money, States and Markets and The Retreat of the State : The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy.For a quarter of a century,...
, Professor of International Relations (Montague BurtonMontague BurtonSir Montague Maurice Burton founded Burton, one of Great Britain's largest chains of clothes shops....
Chair), 1978 to 1988. - Leonard SuranskyLeonard SuranskyLeonard Suransky is a South African doctor of economics and the Head of the Department of International Relations at Webster University in Leiden, Netherlands.- Early life and education :Suransky was born and raised in South Africa...
, Winner of Des Lee Visiting Lectureship in Global Awareness at Webster UniversityWebster UniversityWebster University is an American non-profit private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Webster University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools... - William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, Professor of International Relations; deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of LordsHouse of LordsThe House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
- Martin WightMartin WightRobert James Martin Wight , also known as Martin Wight, was one of the foremost British scholars of International Relations in the twentieth century...
, Reader in International Relations, 1949–1960
Law
- Janice R. BellaceJanice R. BellaceJanice R. Bellace is the Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business. Her primary appointment is in the Wharton School of Business in the Legal Studies and Business Ethics department, of which she is currently Chairperson; she has a secondary appointment in the...
, Samuel A. Blank Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania, founding president of the Singapore Management UniversitySingapore Management UniversityThe Singapore Management University was officially incorporated on January 12, 2000, and was Singapore's first private university funded by the government... - Paul DaviesPaul DaviesPaul Charles William Davies, AM is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science...
, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics, Honorary QC - Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, former president of the American Bar Association, and former president of the Florida State UniversityFlorida State UniversityThe Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
- Albert Venn Dicey, English jurist
- Dame Linda DobbsLinda DobbsDame Linda Penelope Dobbs, DBE , styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Dobbs, was the first non-white person to be appointed to the senior judiciary of England and Wales, being appointed a high court judge in 2004....
, DBE, The Honourable Mrs Justice Dobbs, the first non-white person to be appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. - Sir Morris FinerMorris FinerSir Morris Finer QC was a lawyer and judge.As a young barrister Morris Finer also wrote leaders for the London Evening Standard...
, Barrister, Judge, Chairman of the Finer Report on One Parent Families & the Royal Commission on the Press, Vice Chairman of Governors of LSE - Sir Christopher GreenwoodChristopher GreenwoodSir Christopher John Greenwood CMG QC is a duly elected member of the International Court of Justice. He is a barrister and professor of international law at the London School of Economics...
QC, esteemed international lawyer; advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the 2003 Iraq war, member of the ICJ - Joseph GrundfestJoseph GrundfestJoseph Grundfest is an American academic. He is currently 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 faculty in 1990 after having served for more than four years...
, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School - Makhdoom Ali KhanMakhdoom Ali KhanMakhdoom Ali Khan , is a practising Senior Advocate Supreme Court. Makhdoom Ali Khan is a former Attorney General of Pakistan, former Chairman Pakistan Bar Council, former member of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, former Board Member of the Federal Judicial Academy of Pakistan and a...
, Barrister-at-Law from Lincolns Inn and Attorney General of PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan... - Philip Noel-Baker, professor of international law, politician, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Adam TomkinsAdam TomkinsProfessor Adam Tomkins is a British legal scholar and John Millar Professor of Public Law at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow.Tomkins was educated at the University of East Anglia and the London School of Economics...
, John Millar Professor of Public Law at the University of GlasgowUniversity of GlasgowThe University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the... - Michael ZanderMichael ZanderMichael Zander, QC, FBA, is a distinguished British legal scholar and expert on the English legal system, the legal profession, civil justice and criminal justice in particular. He is Professor Emeritus of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the author of several books...
QC, Professor Emeritus and the Legal Correspondent of The Guardian newspaper between 1963 and 1988 * Andrew AshworthAndrew AshworthAndrew Ashworth CBE QC LLB PhD was the lead patent law examiner at St Johns Chambers Manchester and is a Vinerian Professor of English Law 2011-present at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of All Souls College, and Chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel...
CBE QC, Vinerian Professor of English LawVinerian Professor of English LawThe 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 Oxford, to establish a Professorship of the Common Law...
at the University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096... - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Son of Politician Robert F Kennedy, Law professor at Pace School of Law
Philosophers
- Joseph AgassiJoseph AgassiJoseph Agassi is an Israeli academic with contributions in logic, scientific method, and philosophy. He studied under Karl Popper and taught at the London School of Economics. He later taught at the University of Hong Kong, the University of Illinois, Boston University, and York University in...
, philosopher - Brian BarryBrian BarryBrian Barry FBA was a moral and political philosopher. He was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford, obtaining the degrees of B.A. and D.Phil under the direction of H. L. A. Hart....
, moral and political philosopher - William Warren BartleyWilliam Warren BartleyWilliam Warren Bartley, III, was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.-Life:...
, philosopher - John Lane BellJohn Lane BellJohn Bell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He is an outstanding figure in mathematical logic and philosophy...
, philosopher - Nick BostromNick BostromNick Bostrom is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk and the anthropic principle. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics...
, philosopher - Mike Burke, philosopher
- Nancy CartwrightNancy Cartwright (philosopher)Nancy Cartwright FBA is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and the University of California at San Diego, and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship...
, philosopher - Sir Bernard CrickBernard CrickSir Bernard Rowland Crick was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views were often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public"...
, political philosopher - Helena CroninHelena CroninDr. Helena Cronin is a noted Darwinian philosopher and rationalist. She is the co-director of the CPNSS and the Darwin Centre at the London School of Economics...
, Darwinist philosopher - Gregory CurrieGregory CurrieGregory Currie is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham.He was educated at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley...
, philosopher - Daniel DennettDaniel DennettDaniel Clement Dennett is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the Co-director of...
, philosopher
- Paul FeyerabendPaul FeyerabendPaul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades . He lived a peripatetic life, living at various times in England, the United States, New Zealand,...
, philosopher - Peter S. FoslPeter S. FoslPeter Stanley Fosl is Professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and the winner of a 2006 Acorn Award for outstanding professor in Kentucky.-Education and professional life:...
, philosopher - Ernest GellnerErnest GellnerErnest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, described by The Daily Telegraph when he died as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals and by The Independent as a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism."His first book, Words and Things —famously, and uniquely...
, philosopher - John GrayJohn Gray (LSE)John N. Gray is a British political philosopher and author, formerly School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics....
, political philosopher - Horace Romano Harré, philosopher
- Colin HowsonColin HowsonProfessor Colin Howson is a British philosopher who is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he joined the faculty on July 1, 2008. Previously, he was Professor of Logic at the London School of Economics. He completed a PhD on the philosophy of probability in 1981...
, philosopher - Imre LakatosImre LakatosImre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the 'research programme' in his...
, philosopher - Nicholas MaxwellNicholas MaxwellNicholas Maxwell is a philosopher who has devoted much of his working life to arguing that there is an urgent need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it seeks and promotes wisdom and does not just acquire knowledge....
, philosopher - David MillerDavid Miller (philosopher)David W. Miller is a philosopher and prominent exponent of critical rationalism. He taught in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK....
, philosopher - Alan MusgraveAlan MusgraveAlan Musgrave is an English born New Zealand philosopher. Musgrave was educated at the London School of Economics with a BA Honours Philosophy and Economics 1961. Sir Karl Popper supervised Musgrave's PhD which was completed in 1969. Musgrave worked as Popper's Research Assistant initially then...
, philosopher - Michael OakeshottMichael OakeshottMichael Joseph Oakeshott was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and philosophy of law...
, philosopher - Sir Karl PopperKarl PopperSir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics...
, philosopher - Graham PriestGraham PriestGraham Priest is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a regular visitor at St. Andrews University. Priest is a fellow in residence at Ormond College. He was educated at the University...
, philosopher - Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
, philosopher, Nobel Prize winner - Jeremy ShearmurJeremy ShearmurJeremy Shearmur is Reader in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He was educated at the London School of Economics....
, philosopher - Elliott SoberElliott SoberElliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Sober is noted for his work in philosophy of biology and general philosophy of science. Sober taught for one year at Stanford University and has...
, philosopher - Jeremy StangroomJeremy StangroomJeremy Stangroom is a British writer, editor, and website designer. He is an editor and co-founder, with Julian Baggini, of The Philosophers’ Magazine, and has written and edited several philosophy books. He is also co-founder, with Ophelia Benson of the website 'Butterflies and Wheels'.Stangroom...
, philosopher - John WorrallJohn Worrall (philosopher)John Worrall is a professor of philosophy of science at the London School of Economics. He is also associated with the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the same institution....
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Political scientists
- Benjamin BarberBenjamin BarberBenjamin R. Barber is an American political theorist and author perhaps best known for his 1996 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld.-Career:...
, professor of political science, University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Maryland, College ParkThe University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C... - Scott Barrett, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University
- Sarah Gibson BlandingSarah Gibson BlandingSarah Gibson Blanding was an American educator and academic administrator who served as Vassar’s sixth president and its first female president...
, Vassar CollegeVassar CollegeVassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...
's sixth president and first female president - Ralph BuncheRalph BuncheRalph Johnson Bunche or 1904December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the history of the Prize...
, political scientist and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner - Verity BurgmannVerity BurgmannVerity Burgmann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne.Burgmann was born in Sydney, Australia, the daughter of Victor Burgmann and Lorna Bradbury. In 1971 she ran away from home to attend the London School of Economics, where she completed a B.Sc with a major in politics...
, professor of political science, University of MelbourneUniversity of MelbourneThe University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria... - William ChristianWilliam Christian (Canadian political scientist)Professor William Christian was a Political Scientist at the University of Guelph. He retired in 2008...
, political scientist at the University of Guelph - Ivor Martin Crewe, political scientist, Vice-Chancellor of University of EssexUniversity of EssexThe University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...
- Amy GutmannAmy GutmannAmy Gutmann is the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania and the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Communications, and Philosophy...
, political scientist, President of the University of Pennsylvania - James JuppJames JuppJames Jupp AM is a British-Australian political scientist and author. He is Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and an Adjunct Professor of the RMIT University in Melbourne...
AM, British/AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n political scientist and author - Harold LaskiHarold LaskiHarold Joseph Laski was a British Marxist, political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer, who served as the chairman of the Labour Party during 1945-1946, and was a professor at the LSE from 1926 to 1950....
, political scientist and economist, colleague of Albert EinsteinAlbert EinsteinAlbert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history... - Jim LeachJim LeachJames Albert Smith "Jim" Leach is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa. In August 2009, he became Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities ....
, John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... - Steven LukesSteven LukesSteven Michael Lukes is a political and social theorist. Currently he is a professor of politics and sociology at New York University...
, political and social theorist - Shireen Mazari, political scientist from Pakistan
- Ralph MilibandRalph MilibandRalph Miliband , born Adolphe Miliband, was a Belgian-born British sociologist known as a prominent Marxist thinker...
, political scientist - Brendan O'LearyBrendan O'LearyBrendan O'Leary is an Irish political scientist, who is Lauder Professor of Political Science and Director of the Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was formerly Director of the now-closed Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict...
, Irish political scientist, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania - Bhikhu Parekh, Baron ParekhBhikhu Parekh, Baron ParekhBhikhu Chotalal Parekh, Baron Parekh is a political theorist.-Biography:Parekh was born in the village of Amalsad in the province of Gujarat, India; his father was a goldsmith with a basic education. Parekh was admitted to the University of Bombay at the age of 15, and earned a Bachelor's degree...
, political theorist - Louis PaulyLouis PaulyLouis W. Pauly is professor of political science and Director of the Centre for International Studies, at the Munk Centre for International Studies, at the University of Toronto. In October 2002, he was awarded a Canada Research Chair.-Biography:...
, political scientist - Satyabrata Rai ChowdhuriSatyabrata Rai ChowdhuriSatyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, FRAS is a Political Scientist, Political Historian and International Relations expert.He is presently a Senior Research Fellow in International Relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, U.K., and an Emeritus Professor of Political Science...
, political scientist, diplomat and author - Jill VickersJill VickersDr. Jill McCalla Vickers, Ph.D is a notable Canadian feminist political scientist and professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr...
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Sociologists
- Helmut AnheierHelmut AnheierHelmut K. Anheier is an academic currently serving as Dean of the Hertie School of Governance. His research interests include methodological questions of sociological research with different units of analysis, organizational theory and the interaction of globalisation and civil society more...
, founder of the Centre for Civil Society and Dean of the Hertie School of Governance - Eileen BarkerEileen BarkerEileen Vartan Barker OBE, born in Edinburgh, UK, is a professor in sociology, an emeritus member of the London School of Economics , and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights...
, sociology of religion - Zygmunt BaumanZygmunt BaumanZygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign, engineered by the Communist government which he had previously supported...
, Polish-born sociologist - Ulrich BeckUlrich BeckUlrich Beck is a German sociologist who holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics.-Life:...
, sociologist - Robin BlackburnRobin BlackburnRobin Blackburn is a British socialist historian, a former editor of New Left Review , an author of essays on Marx, capitalism and socialism, and of books on the history of slavery and on social policy...
, sociologist - Tessa Blackstone, educationalist
- Stanley CohenStanley Cohen (sociologist)Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.-Life:Cohen was born in Johannesberg, South Africa in 1942. He grew up in South Africa and was an undergraduate at the University of Witwatersrand, studying Sociology and Social Work. He came to London in...
, sociologist - Peter DavisPeter Davis (New Zealand)Peter Davis is a sociologist and the husband of former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. He met Clark – then a political-science lecturer at Auckland – in 1977...
, sociologist - Norbert EliasNorbert EliasNorbert Elias was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen.-Biography:...
, leading sociologist - Lord Anthony GiddensAnthony GiddensAnthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is a British 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 contributors in the field of sociology, the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29...
, sociologisy renowned for his theory of structuration, and former Director of the School - Paul GilroyPaul Gilroy-Biography:Born in the East End of London to Guyanese and English parents , he was educated at University College School and obtained his bachelor's degree at Sussex University in 1978. He moved from there to Birmingham University where he completed his Ph.D...
, sociologist - W.D. Hamilton, grandfather of sociobiology and the 'selfish gene' theory popularised by Dawkins
- Michael MannMichael Mann (sociologist)Michael Mann is a British-born professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and Visiting Research Professor at Queen's University Belfast. Mann holds dual British and US citizenships. He received his B.A. in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1963 and his...
, sociologist - Karl MannheimKarl MannheimKarl Mannheim , or Károly Mannheim in the original writing of his name, was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology and a founder of the sociology of knowledge.-Life:Mannheim studied in Budapest,...
, sociologist - Robert McKenzie, sociologist and psephologist
- Andrew MilnerAndrew MilnerAndrew Milner , Australian cultural theorist and literary critic, is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University....
, sociologist of literature - Talcott ParsonsTalcott ParsonsTalcott Parsons was an American sociologist who served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1927 to 1973....
, sociologist - John PorterJohn Porter (sociologist)John Arthur Porter was one of Canada's most important sociologists during the period from 1950 to the late 1970s. His work in the field of social stratification opened up new areas of inquiry for many sociologists in Canada.Porter was born in Vancouver and completed his education at the London...
, sociologist - Nikolas RoseNikolas RoseNikolas Rose is a prominent British sociologist and social theorist. He is currently the James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and acting director of LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society.-Life and work:Before...
, sociologist - Saskia SassenSaskia SassenSaskia Sassen is a Dutch sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is currently Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Sassen coined the term global city...
, sociologist and economist - Richard SennettRichard SennettRichard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University...
, sociologist - Hilary WainwrightHilary WainwrightHilary Wainwright is a British socialist and feminist, best known for being editor of Red Pepper magazine.-Personal life:Hilary Wainwright's father was the Liberal MP Richard Wainwright, and her brother, Martin, is the Northern Editor of The Guardian, to which she occasionally contributes.She...
, sociologist
Social anthropology
- Maurice BlochMaurice BlochMaurice Bloch is a British anthropologist.He attended the Lycée Carnot in Paris and the Perse School in Cambridge, moving to Britain at the age of eleven. His move to the UK was because his father had been killed by the Nazis when in the French Army and his mother, a marine biologist, had...
, marxist and cognitive anthropologist - Fredrik BarthFredrik BarthThomas Fredrik Weybye Barth is a Norwegian social anthropologist who has published several ethnographic books with a clear formalistic view...
, anthropologist - Jean ComaroffJean ComaroffJean Comaroff is Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. She is an expert on the effects of colonialism on people in Southern Africa.She...
, anthropologist - John ComaroffJohn ComaroffJohn L. Comaroff is a Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He is also Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation....
, anthropologist - Maria CzaplickaMaria CzaplickaMaria Antonina Czaplicka , also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism...
, Polish cultural anthropologist - E.E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist
- Sir Raymond FirthRaymond FirthSir Raymond William Firth, CNZM, FBA, was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society...
, ethnologist, founder of economic anthropologyEconomic anthropologyEconomic anthropology is a scholarly field that attempts to explain human economic behavior using the tools of both economics and anthropology. It is practiced by anthropologists and has a complex relationship with economics... - Rosemary FirthRosemary FirthRosemary, Lady Firth was a British social anthropologist, and wife of Sir Raymond Firth. She specialised in the field of domestic economy.-Life:...
, ethnologist - Meyer FortesMeyer FortesMeyer Fortes was a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana.Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed the notion of the "person" into his structural-functional analyses of kinship, the family, and ancestor worship setting a standard...
, anthropologist - Alfred GellAlfred GellAlfred Gell was a British social anthropologist whose most influential work concerned art, language, symbolism and ritual. He was trained by Edmund Leach and Raymond Firth and did his fieldwork in Melanesia and tribal India...
, anthropologist - Phyllis KaberryPhyllis KaberryPhyllis Mary Kaberry was a social anthropologist who dedicated her work to the study of women in various societies. Particularly with her work in both Australia and Africa, she paved the way for a feminist approach in anthropological studies...
, anthropologist - Adam KuperAdam KuperAdam Kuper is an anthropologist most closely linked to the school of social anthropology. In his works, he often treats the notion of "culture" skeptically, focusing as much on how it is used as on what it means....
, anthropologist - David LanDavid LanDavid Lan is an English playwright, filmmaker and theatre director.Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1952, he emigrated to London in 1972. Since 2000 he has been artistic director of the Young Vic theatre in London's South Bank.-Career:...
, anthropologist and film maker - Edmund LeachEdmund LeachSir Edmund Ronald Leach was a British social anthropologist of whom it has been said:"It is no exaggeration to say that in sheer versatility, originality, and range of writing he was and still is difficult to match among the anthropologists of the English speaking world".-Personal and academic...
, anthropologist - Alan MacfarlaneAlan MacfarlaneAlan Donald James Macfarlane FBA FRHistS is a renowned anthropologist and historian and a Professor Emeritus of King's College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of 20 books and numerous articles on the anthropology and history of England, Nepal, Japan and China. He has focused on comparative...
, social anthropologist and historian - Lucy MairLucy MairLucy Philip Mair was a British anthropologist. She wrote on the subject of social organization, and contributed to the involvement of anthropological research in governance and politics.-Career:...
, anthropologist - Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologist
- Z.K. Mathews, prominent Apartheid-era South African academic
- Ashley MontaguAshley MontaguMontague Francis Ashley Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and humanist, of Jewish ancestry, who popularized topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development...
, anthropologist - Hortense PowdermakerHortense PowdermakerHortense Powdermaker was an anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood. Born to a Jewish family, Powdermaker spent her childhood in Reading, Pennsylvania and in Baltimore, Maryland. She studied history and the humanities at...
, anthropologist and ethnographer - Alfred Radcliffe-BrownAlfred Radcliffe-BrownAlfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown was an English social anthropologist who developed the theory of Structural Functionalism.- Biography :...
, anthropologist - Audrey RichardsAudrey RichardsAudrey Isabel Richards , was a pioneering British woman social anthropologist who worked mainly in sub-Saharan Africa.Audrey was the second of four girls born to a well-connected family in London, England...
, anthropologist, nutritional anthropologist - Charles Gabriel SeligmanCharles Gabriel SeligmanCharles Gabriel Seligman FRS was a British ethnologist. Born in London, Seligman studied medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital....
, ethnographer - Isaac SchaperaIsaac SchaperaIsaac Schapera, FBA, FRSSAf was Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the anthropology of South African tribesmen....
, anthropologist - Dan SperberDan SperberDan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist. His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology and linguistic pragmatics: developing, with British psychologist Deirdre Wilson, relevance theory in the latter; and an approach to cultural evolution known as the...
, anthropologist - Michael TaussigMichael TaussigMichael Taussig earned a medical degree from the University of Sydney, received his PhD. in anthropology from the London School of Economics and is a professor at Columbia University and European Graduate School...
, prominent 'postmodern' anthropologist - Lionel TigerLionel TigerLionel Tiger is a Canadian-born, American-based anthropologist. He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and co-Research Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is a graduate of McGill University, and the London School of Economics at the University of...
, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers UniversityRutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American... - Edward Westermarck, anthropologist
- Fei XiaotongFei XiaotongFei Xiaotong, or Fei Hsiao-Tung was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist...
, anthropologist
Social Policy Analysts and Workers
- Sir William (later Lord) BeveridgeWilliam BeveridgeWilliam Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCB was a British economist and social reformer. He is best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services which served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.Lord...
- Julian Le GrandJulian Le GrandJulian Le Grand is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and was a senior policy advisor to former Prime Minister Tony Blair....
, prominent social economistSocial economySocial economy refers to a third sector in economies between the private sector and business or, the public sector and government. It includes organisations such as cooperatives, non-governmental organisations and charities.... - Martin KnappMartin KnappProfessor Martin Richard John Knapp is an economist and policy analyst whose research, teaching and consultancy activities are concentrated in the areas of health and social care. As well as being Director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics, he is...
, Chair of LSE Health and Social Care - Tim NewburnTim NewburnWilliam Henry Timothy Newburn is an academic, specialising in criminology and policing. He was president of the British Society of Criminology from 2005-2008, director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology from 2003-2008 and is currently head of the Department of Social Policy at the London...
, professor of criminologyCriminologyCriminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society...
and current president of the British Society of CriminologyBritish Society of CriminologyBritish Society of Criminology is an international organization aims to further the interests and knowledge of both academic and professional people who engaged in any aspect of teaching, research or public education about crime, criminal behaviour and criminal justice systems in the United Kingdom... - Augustus NuwagabaAugustus NuwagabaAugustus Nuwagaba PhD is Ugandan economist and academic. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Social Work & Social Administration, at Makerere University, the oldest university in Uganda. Dr...
, Associate Professor Makerere University - Peter Townsend, professor of social policySocial policySocial policy primarily refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare. Thus, social policy is that part of public policy that has to do with social issues...
- Richard TitmussRichard TitmussRichard Morris Titmuss was a pioneering British social researcher and teacher. He founded the academic discipline of Social Administration and held the founding chair in the subject at the London School of Economics.His books and articles of the 1950s helped to define the characteristics of...
, founder of the academic discipline of social policySocial policySocial policy primarily refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare. Thus, social policy is that part of public policy that has to do with social issues...
Social psychology
- Martin BauerMartin BauerMartin W. Bauer is a social psychologist, currently Head of the department of the Methodology Institute at the London School of Economics. He directs the MSc in Social and Public Communication at the Institute of Social Psychology...
, psychologist - Nicholas HumphreyNicholas HumphreyProfessor Nicholas Keynes Humphrey is an English psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His interests are wide ranging...
, psychologist - J. Philippe RushtonJ. Philippe RushtonJean Philippe Rushton is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r/K selection theory to humans in his book Race,...
, psychologist - Satoshi KanazawaSatoshi KanazawaSatoshi Kanazawa PhD is a Reader in Management at the London School of Economics. His work uses evolutionary psychology to analyze social sciences such as sociology, economics, and anthropology...
(evolutionary psychologist) - Graham WallasGraham WallasGraham Wallas was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, a leader of the Fabian Society and a co-founder of the London School of Economics....
, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society - Paul WebleyPaul WebleyProfessor Paul Webley is Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Psychology and former President of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology.He received his...
, Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - Howard GardnerHoward GardnerHoward Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist who is a professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero and author of over twenty books translated into thirty languages. Since 1995, he has...
, an American psychologist, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences
Statisticians
- Sir Arthur BowleyArthur Lyon BowleySir Arthur Lyon Bowley was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys....
, statistician - D. G. ChampernowneD. G. ChampernowneDavid Gawen Champernowne was an English economist and mathematician.After academic work at Cambridge and the London School of Economics, he worked at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University...
, Professor of Statistical Economics - W. Edwards DemingW. Edwards DemingWilliam Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer and consultant. He is perhaps best known for his work in Japan...
, statistician, economist - James DurbinJames DurbinJames Durbin is a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where his contemporaries included David Cox and Denis Sargan...
, statistician, econometrician - Sir Maurice George Kendall, statistician
- Leslie KishLeslie KishLeslie Kish was an American statistician and survey methodologist of Hungarian descent. He fought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War....
, American statistician - Claus Moser, Baron MoserClaus Moser, Baron MoserClaus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, KCB, CBE is a British statistician who has made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service...
, British statistician, Chancellor, Open University of IsraelOpen University of IsraelThe Open University of Israel is a distance-education university in Israel. , the Open University taught around 39,000 students.The Open University of Israel has more students than any other academic institution in Israel. The administration is based in the city of Ra'anana. Students from all over...
, 1994–2004 - John Denis Sargan, statistician
- Sir R. G. D. AllenR. G. D. AllenSir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician.Allen was born in Worcester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
United Kingdom
- Leo AbseLeo AbseLeopold Abse was a Welsh lawyer, politician and gay rights campaigner. He was a Welsh Labour Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years, and was noted for promoting private member's bills to decriminalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce laws...
, British MP, famous for legalisation of male homosexuality - Lord Waheed Alli, media mogul, openly gay Muslim businessman
- Charlotte AtkinsCharlotte AtkinsCharlotte Jean Scott Atkins is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Staffordshire Moorlands from 1997 until 2010.-Early life:...
, Minister - Richard BaconRichard Bacon (politician)Richard Michael Bacon is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for the South Norfolk constituency.-Early life:...
, British MP - Jackie BallardJackie BallardJacqueline Margaret Ballard has been a politician and journalist in the United Kingdom. She was the Director General of the RSPCA, and took up post as CEO of the RNID on 22 October 2007....
, British MP, journalist, Director General of the RSPCA - Tony Banks, Baron StratfordTony Banks, Baron StratfordAnthony Louis Banks, Baron Stratford was a British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament from 1983 to 2005, before being made a Member of the House of Lords. In government, he served for two years as Minister for Sport...
, former MP and British Peer - Baroness Virginia BottomleyVirginia BottomleyVirginia Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC, DL is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She was raised to the peerage in 2005...
, former Cabinet Minister - John BournJohn BournSir John Bourn, then an officer of the British House of Commons, was holder of the office of Comptroller and Auditor General and, as such, head of the National Audit Office. He took up his post in 1988 after a series of senior appointments in the Ministry of Defence and the Northern Ireland Office...
, Officer, British House of Commons - Annette BrookeAnnette BrookeAnnette Lesley Brooke is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She has been the Member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and North Poole since 2001.-Early life:...
, British MP - Karen BuckKaren BuckKaren Patricia Buck is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Regent's Park and Kensington North since 1997, and is a former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport....
, British MP - Munir ButtMunir ButtMunir Udit Zadu Nehru Butt, CMG is a former senior British diplomat and academic who was an economic and foreign policy advisor to various British Prime-Ministers.-Early life:...
, High Commissioner to Pakistan - Shami ChakrabartiShami ChakrabartiShami Chakrabarti CBE , has been the director of Liberty, a British pressure group, since September 2003. Chakrabarti is the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.-Early life:...
, Director of LibertyLiberty (pressure group)Liberty is a pressure group based in the United Kingdom. Its formal name is the National Council for Civil Liberties . Founded in 1934 by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith , the group campaigns to protect civil liberties and promote human rights... - Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minister, Vice-President of the European Commission
- Yvette CooperYvette CooperYvette Cooper is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford since 2010, having previously been MP for Pontefract and Castleford since 1997. She served in the Cabinet between 2008 and 2010. She is the Shadow Home Secretary...
, Cabinet Minister - Jim CousinsJim CousinsJames Mackay Cousins is an English Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central from 1987 to 2010.-Early life:...
, British MP - Edwina CurrieEdwina CurrieEdwina Jonesnée Cohen is a former British Member of Parliament. First elected as a Conservative Party MP in 1983, she was a Junior Health Minister for two years, before resigning in 1988 over the controversy over salmonella in eggs...
, former British Conservative MP, author, radio presenter - Stella CreasyStella CreasyDr Stella Judith Creasy is a British Labour Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Walthamstow since 2010.-Education:...
, British MP - Hugh DaltonHugh DaltonEdward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton PC was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947, when he was implicated in a political scandal involving budget leaks....
, Chancellor of the Exchequer - Andrew DismoreAndrew DismoreAndrew Hartley Dismore is a British Labour Party politician and a Vice-Chair of the Labour Friends of Israel group who was the Member of Parliament for Hendon from 1997 until 2010 when he was beaten by Conservative Party candidate Matthew Offord.-Early life:Dismore was born in Bridlington,...
, British MP - Frank DobsonFrank DobsonFrank Gordon Dobson, is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Holborn and St. Pancras since 1979...
, Cabinet Minister - Daniel FinkelsteinDaniel FinkelsteinDaniel Finkelstein OBE is a British journalist and former politician. He is the Executive Editor of The Times, where he's also Chief Leader Writer and a weekly political columnist.-Background:...
, Conservative PartyConservative Party (UK)The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
strategist and Comment Editor of The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International... - Barbara Follett, British MP
- Steve Gilbert, British MP
- David Gold, Baron GoldDavid Gold, Baron GoldDavid Laurence Gold, Baron Gold is a British lawyer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.In March 2011 he set up David Gold & Associates high level strategic litigation advisors...
- Philip Gould, Baron Gould of BrookwoodPhilip Gould, Baron Gould of BrookwoodPhilip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood was a British political consultant, and former advertising executive, closely linked to the Labour Party. Appointed by Director of Communications Peter Mandelson, he was strategy and polling adviser to the Labour Party in the general elections of 1987, 1992,...
, political advisor - Tom GreatrexTom GreatrexThomas James Greatrex is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West since 2010. He is presently Shadow Energy Minister.-Early life:Greatrex was born in Kent...
, British MP - Jeremy John Heywood, Permanent Secretary
- Mark HobanMark HobanMark Gerard Hoban MP is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Fareham, and the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.-Early life:...
, British MP - Margaret HodgeMargaret HodgeMargaret Hodge MBE MP, also known as Lady Hodge by virtue of her husband's knighthood, is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Barking since 1994. She was the first Minister for Children in 2003 and was Minister of State for Culture and Tourism at the Department...
, Minister - Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of LairgDerry Irvine, Baron Irvine of LairgAlexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, PC, QC , known as Derry Irvine, is a British lawyer and political figure who served as Lord Chancellor under his former pupil barrister Tony Blair....
, Cabinet Minister - Margot JamesMargot JamesMargot James MP is a British politician and entrepreneur. She is currently a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for women, and the Member of Parliament for the consituency of Stourbridge. She is the first openly lesbian MP in the Conservative Party...
, British MP - Brian JenkinsBrian Jenkins (politician)Brian David Jenkins is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1997 until 2010, and has lived in the constituency for over 50 years...
, British MP - Dr. Syed KamallSyed KamallDr Syed Salah Kamall is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of the European Parliament for London.Kamall was born and brought up in London. He is married with two children. He was educated at The Latymer School, Edmonton...
, British MP - Ruth KellyRuth KellyRuth Maria Kelly is a British Labour Party politician of Irish descent who was the Member of Parliament for Bolton West from 1997 until she stood down in 2010...
, Cabinet Minister - Mervyn KingMervyn King (economist)An ex-officio member of the Bank's interest-rate setting Monetary Policy Committee since its inception in 1997, Sir Mervyn is the only person to have taken part in every one of its monthly meetings to date. His voting style is often seen as "hawkish", a perspective that emphasises the dangers of...
, Governor of the Bank of England - Julian Le GrandJulian Le GrandJulian Le Grand is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and was a senior policy advisor to former Prime Minister Tony Blair....
, senior advisor to the Prime Minister - Spencer LivermoreSpencer LivermoreSpencer Livermore is a strategy and communications professional. He is Director of Strategy at London-based communications consultancy Blue Rubicon, advising clients on strategy, communications, research and message development in the context of corporate and brand campaigns...
, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Director of Political Strategy - Rachel LomaxRachel LomaxJanis Rachel Lomax in Swansea Wales is a British economist and former government official who served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, sitting on the Monetary Policy Committee from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2008.-Early life:...
, British economist and government official - Michael MeacherMichael MeacherMichael Hugh Meacher is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Oldham West and Royton since 1997. Previously he had been the MP for Oldham West, first elected in 1970. On 22 February 2007 he declared that he would be standing for the Labour Leadership, challenging...
, Minister - Baron Merlyn-Rees, former Home Secretary
- Ed MilibandEd MilibandEdward Samuel Miliband is a British Labour Party politician, currently the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition...
, current leader of the Labour PartyLabour Party (UK)The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after... - Andrew MillerAndrew Miller (politician)Andrew Peter Miller is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Ellesmere Port and Neston since 1992.-Early life:...
, British MP - Maria MillerMaria MillerMaria Frances Lewis Miller is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Basingstoke since the 2005 general election...
, British MP - Peter Mond, 4th Baron MelchettPeter Mond, 4th Baron MelchettPeter Robert Henry Mond, 4th Baron Melchett , son of the British Steel Corporation Chairman Sir Julian Mond and Sonia Melchett , was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read Law...
- Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, Cabinet Minister
- Bob NeillBob NeillRobert James MacGillivray "Bob" Neill is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He has served as the Member of Parliament for Bromley and Chislehurst since a by-election on 29 June 2006...
, British MP - Eric OllerenshawEric OllerenshawEric Ollerenshaw OBE is a British Conservative politician and the Member of Parliament for Lancaster and Fleetwood....
, British MP - Marion PhillipsMarion PhillipsMarion Phillips was a Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament in England.She was born to a family in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1881. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne and Melbourne University, graduating in 1903 and in 1904 began a research...
, British MP - Christopher PincherChristopher PincherChristopher John Pincher MP is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for Tamworth, winning the seat from Labour at the 2010 general election.-Before Parliament:...
, British MP - Stephen Pound, British MP
- Baron Reginald PrenticeReginald PrenticeReginald Ernest Prentice, Baron Prentice, PC was a British politician who held ministerial office in both Labour and Conservative Party governments...
- Baroness Joyce Quin
- Baroness Rawlings, British MEP, former Chairman of the Council of King's College London
- Rachel ReevesRachel ReevesRachel Jane Reeves is a British economist and a Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Leeds West since 2010. She served as Shadow Pensions Minister from October 2010 until October 2011, when she was appointed as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Ed...
, British MP - David RutleyDavid RutleyDavid Henry Rutley is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Macclesfield, and was first elected at the 2010 general election....
, British MP - Tom ScholarTom ScholarThomas Whinfield Scholar, known commonly as Tom Scholar, is a British Civil Servant who is a director of the nationalised bank, Northern Rock and was previously Chief of Staff for Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street...
, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gordon BrownGordon BrownJames Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007... - Andrew SelousAndrew SelousAndrew Edmund Armstrong Selous is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who has been the Member of Parliament for South West Bedfordshire since 2001.-Early life:...
, British MP - Virendra SharmaVirendra SharmaVirendra Kumar Sharma is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Ealing Southall since 2007.-Parliamentary career:...
, British MP - Barry SheermanBarry SheermanBarry John Sheerman is a British Labour Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Huddersfield since the 1979 general election.-Early life:...
, British MP - Donald Soper, Baron Soper, Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist.
- Josiah Stamp, former Governor of the Bank of England
- John StonehouseJohn StonehouseJohn Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974...
, former Minister - Jo SwinsonJo SwinsonJo Swinson is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and Member of Parliament for East Dunbartonshire constituency, a suburban and semi-rural area to the north of Glasgow in Scotland, and is the Deputy Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats...
, British MP - Ian Taylor, British MP
- Glenys Thornton, Baroness ThorntonGlenys Thornton, Baroness ThorntonDorothea Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton , known as Glenys Thornton, is a Labour and Co-operative member of the House of Lords...
, Junior Minister - Rudi VisRudi VisRudolf Jan Vis was a Dutch-born British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Finchley and Golders Green from 1997 to 2010.-Early life:...
, British MP - Malcolm WicksMalcolm WicksMalcolm Hunt Wicks is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Croydon North since 1997. He was MP for Croydon North West from 1992 to 1997.-Early life and education:...
, Minister - Jennifer WillottJenny WillottJennifer Nancy Willott is a British politician and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central since the 2005 general election. She is the first woman and the first Liberal Democrat to represent her seat....
, British MP - David WinnickDavid WinnickDavid Julian Winnick is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Walsall North since 1979....
, British MP - Anthony WrightTony Wright (Cannock Chase MP)Dr. Anthony Wayland Wright is a British Labour Party politician and author, who was the Member of Parliament for Cannock Chase from 1997 to 2010...
, Former British MP - Baron Michael Young, academic and author of the 1945 Labour manifesto
United States
- Elliott AbramsElliott AbramsElliott Abrams is an American attorney and neoconservative policy analyst who served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. While serving for Reagan and in the State Department, Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz, and retired U.S. Marine Corps officer...
, Assistant Secretary of State in Reagan AdministrationReagan AdministrationThe United States presidency of Ronald Reagan, also known as the Reagan administration, was a Republican administration headed by Ronald Reagan from January 20, 1981, to January 20, 1989....
; Senior Director of the National Security CouncilUnited States National Security CouncilThe White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...
in Bush Administration - Eric AltermanEric AltermanEric Alterman is an American English teacher, historian, journalist, author, media critic, blogger, and educator. His political weblog named Altercation was hosted by MSNBC.com from 2002 until 2006, moved to Media Matters for America until December 2008, and is now hosted by The...
, Professor at Brooklyn CollegeBrooklyn CollegeBrooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...
; political columnist for The NationThe NationThe Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
; Senior Fellow at the Center for American ProgressCenter for American ProgressThe Center for American Progress is a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. Its website states that the organization is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." It has its headquarters in Washington D.C.Its President and Chief...
and the World Policy InstituteWorld Policy InstituteThe World Policy Institute, a non-partisan policy institute which claims to develop policies that require a progressive ideology. WPI focuses on cooperative policies in order to achieve : an inclusive and sustainable global market economy, engaged global civic participation and effective... - Donald BaerDonald BaerDonald M. Baer was a psychologist who contributed to the applied behavior analysis movement and pioneered the development of behavior analysis at two separate institutions. Dr. Baer is best known for his contributions at the University of Kansas. Throughout his career, he published over two...
, White House Director of Communications and Strategic Planning in Clinton Administration - Valerie Lynn Baldwin, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), Bush Administration
- Walter BernsWalter BernsWalter Berns is an American constitutional law and political philosophy professor. He is currently a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor emeritus at Georgetown University.- Early life and career :...
, Scholar, American Enterprise InstituteAmerican Enterprise InstituteThe American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a conservative think tank founded in 1943. Its stated mission is "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism—limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and... - Alan BlinderAlan BlinderAlan Stuart Blinder is an American economist. He serves at Princeton University as the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs in the Economics Department, Vice Chairman of The Observatory Group, and as co-director of Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies,...
, Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisors under Bill ClintonBill ClintonWilliam Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
; economic advisor to John KerryJohn KerryJohn Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...
; vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of GovernorsFederal Reserve Board of GovernorsThe Federal Reserve Board of Governors is the main governing body of the Federal Reserve System. It is charged with overseeing the 12 District Reserve Banks and with helping implement national monetary policy. Governors are appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate...
; Professor of Economics, Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... - Michael ChertoffMichael ChertoffMichael Chertoff was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. He previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as assistant U.S. Attorney...
, United States Secretary of Homeland SecurityUnited States Secretary of Homeland SecurityThe United States Secretary of Homeland Security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the body concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. The position was created by the...
, Bush Administration; US Attorney, Bush Sr. and Clinton Administrations - Colm ConnollyColm ConnollyColm F. Connolly is a former United States Attorney for the district of Delaware. He is best known for his prosecution of Thomas J. Capano for capital murder. Connolly would later make a cameo appearance in the made for television movie based on the murder, And Never Let Her Go directed by Peter...
, United States AttorneyUnited States AttorneyUnited States Attorneys represent the United States federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. There are 93 U.S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands...
, Bush Administration - Lauchlin CurrieLauchlin CurrieLauchlin Bernard Currie was a Canadian-born U.S.economist from New Dublin, Nova Scotia, Canada, and allegedly an agent of espionage for the Soviet Union....
, White House Economic Adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Rosa DeLauroRosa DeLauroRosa L. DeLauro is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party.The district is based in New Haven, and includes most of that city's suburbs.-Early life, education and career:...
, high-ranking Democratic Member of the US House of Representatives - Edwin FeulnerEdwin FeulnerEdwin John Feulner Jr. is President of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, a position he has held since 1977....
, President of the Heritage Foundation Think Tank - William GaleWilliam G. GaleWilliam G. Gale is the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy and the former vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He conducts research on a variety of economic issues, focusing particularly on tax policy, fiscal policy,...
, Council of Economic Advisers, Bush Administration - Eric GarcettiEric GarcettiEric Michael Garcetti is an American municipal politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council. He serves as its President and represents the 13th District. He is the son of the former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early...
, President, Los Angeles City CouncilLos Angeles City CouncilThe Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles.The Council is composed of fifteen members elected from single-member districts for four-year terms. The president of the council and the president pro tempore are chosen by the Council at the first regular meeting after... - Marc GrossmanMarc GrossmanMarc Grossman is the United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs....
, US Under-Secretary of State, Bush Administration; US Ambassador to Turkey, Clinton Administration; Special Advisor to the President on Near East Affairs, Carter Administration - Orval H. HansenOrval H. HansenOrval Howard Hansen was a United States Representative from Idaho. Hansen served as a Republican in the House from 1969 to 1975, representing the state's Second Congressional District....
, Republican Member of the US House of Representatives - Genta H. HolmesGenta H. HolmesGenta Hawkins Holmes is an American professor in diplomacy and former American foreign service officer and ambassador. She is currently teaching A Practicum in Diplomacy at the University of California, Davis....
, United States Ambassador to AustraliaUnited States Ambassador to AustraliaThe position of United States Ambassador to Australia has existed since 1940. U.S.-Australian relations have been close throughout the history of Australia...
, Clinton Administration; United States Ambassador to NamibiaUnited States Ambassador to NamibiaThe 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 established. On that same day, the U.S. Embassy in Windhoek...
; Chief of Mission to HaitiHaitiHaiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
and MalawiMalawiThe Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size... - Alice Stone IlchmanAlice Stone IlchmanAlice Stone Ilchman served as the eighth president of Sarah Lawrence College from 1981 to 1998.-Background:...
, Assistant Secretary of Education and Cultural Affairs under US President Jimmy Carter - Dr Bruce JentlesonBruce JentlesonBruce Jentleson is a professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, where he served from 2000-2005 as Director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy....
, International Affairs Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice President Al GoreAl GoreAlbert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.... - Bruce KatzBruce J. KatzBruce Katz Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated with a B.A. from Brown University in 1981. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985. Currently he is a Vice President at the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C...
, former Chief of Staff, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; Vice President, Brookings InstitutionBrookings InstitutionThe Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and... - Anthony KennedyAnthony KennedyAnthony McLeod Kennedy is an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, having been appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988. Since the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, Kennedy has often been the swing vote on many of the Court's politically charged 5–4 decisions...
, United States Supreme Court, Associate Justice - John F. KennedyJohn F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
, President of the United States 1961-1963 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Jr. was an American bomber pilot during World War II. He was the eldest of nine children born to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Elizabeth Kennedy....
, first son of Joseph Kennedy and elder brother of John F. Kennedy - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. is an American radio host, activist, and attorney specializing in environmental law. He is the third of eleven children born to Ethel Skakel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and is the nephew of John F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy...
, environmental activist, son of slain Senator Robert Kennedy - Vanessa KerryVanessa KerryVanessa Bradford Kerry is the younger daughter of John Kerry and his first wife, Julia Thorne. She gained national recognition while campaigning for her father during the 2004 presidential election....
, Democratic activist and daughter of Senator John Kerry (D-MA) - Ron KindRon KindRonald James "Ron" Kind is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district is located in the western portion of the state and is anchored by La Crosse and Eau Claire and Platteville....
, Democratic Member of US House of Representatives - Mark KirkMark KirkMark Steven Kirk is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, Kirk was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 10th congressional district....
, Republican Member of the US Senate. - Susan LindauerSusan LindauerSusan Lindauer is an American journalist, author, and antiwar activist. She was accused of conspiring to act as an agent for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein...
, ex-Congressional aide accused of assisting Iraqi intelligence prior to the 2003 invasion - Edward LuttwakEdward LuttwakEdward Nicolae Luttwak is an American military strategist and historian who has published works on military strategy, history and international relations.-Biography:...
, Consultant to the US National Security Council, State Department and Defence Department; Economist; Historian; Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies - James McGreevey, former Governor of New JerseyGovernor of New JerseyThe Office of the Governor of New Jersey is the executive branch for the U.S. state of New Jersey. The office of Governor is an elected position, for which elected officials serve four year terms. While individual politicians may serve as many terms as they can be elected to, Governors cannot be...
- Brad MillerBrad Miller (congressman)Ralph Bradley "Brad" Miller is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. District 13 includes all of Caswell and Person counties, and parts of Alamance, Granville, Guilford, Rockingham and Wake counties...
, Member of the US House of Representatives - Chris MooreChris MooreChris Moore is an American film producer.-Early life:Moore received a BA in American History from Harvard University.-Career:Moore has produced the American Pie films, Reindeer Games starring Ben Affleck, Joyride, The Adjustment Bureau , and the Academy Award-winning Good Will Hunting...
, Assistant Secretary of State, Bush Administration - Richard H. MooreRichard H. MooreRichard Hancock Moore was the North Carolina State Treasurer from 2001–2009. He first elected to that post in 2000 and re-elected in 2004.-Career:...
, North Carolina State Treasurer - Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000...
, US Senator - Ethan NadelmannEthan NadelmannEthan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs. Described by Rolling Stone as, "the point man for drug-policy-reform efforts," Ethan Nadelmann is known as a high profile critic and...
, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance - Peter R. OrszagPeter R. OrszagPeter Richard Orszag is an American economist who is a Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup. He is also a columnist at Bloomberg View...
, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors, Clinton Administration; Fellow of the Brookings InstitutionBrookings InstitutionThe Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and...
; Professor, Georgetown UniversityGeorgetown UniversityGeorgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
, Congressional Budget OfficeCongressional Budget OfficeThe Congressional Budget Office is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that provides economic data to Congress....
Director, Director desginate Office of Management and Budget - Alice PaulAlice PaulAlice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist and activist. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.-Activism: Alice Paul received her undergraduate education from...
, American suffragist - Richard PerleRichard PerleRichard Norman Perle is an American political advisor, consultant, and lobbyist who began his career in government, a senior staff member to Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970’s...
, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Reagan Administration; Chairman of Defense Department Advsory Committee, Bush Administration; fellow, American Enterprise Institute - F. Whitten Peters, Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.
- David RockefellerDavid RockefellerDavid Rockefeller, Sr. is the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His five siblings were...
, former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Trilateral Commission - Pete RousePete RousePeter Mikami Rouse is an American political consultant who served as White House Chief of Staff to U.S. President Barack Obama. Rouse has spent years on Capitol Hill, becoming known as the '101st senator' during his tenure as Chief of Staff to Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle...
, White House Chief of Staff, Obama Administration - James RubinJames RubinJames Philip "Jamie" Rubin is a former diplomat and journalist. He is currently an executive editor at Bloomberg News. Having served in the State Department during the administration of President Bill Clinton, he became a Sky News television news journalist and commentator...
, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; lead foreign policy adviser to John Kerry campaign - Robert RubinRobert RubinRobert Edward Rubin served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton administrations. Before his government service, he spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs eventually serving as a member of the Board, and Co-Chairman from 1990-1992...
, US Treasury Secretary and Director, National Economic Council, Clinton Administration; Director of Goldman Sachs - Rajiv ShahRajiv ShahRajiv “Raj” Shah is the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development . He was confirmed by the Senate on December 24, 2009, replacing acting chief Alonzo Fulgham, making him the highest-ranking Indian American in any presidential administration...
, USAID Administrator, Obama Administration - Dr Robert ShapiroRobert J. ShapiroRobert J. Shapiro is co-founder and chairman of , a United States private finance consultancy that has built a reputation on a range of economic policy issues, including climate change, intellectual property, and finance. He is known for warning of the dangers of naked short selling...
, Undersecretary of Commerce, Clinton Administration; Fellow of Harvard University; Fellow of National Bureau of Economic ResearchNational Bureau of Economic ResearchThe National Bureau of Economic Research is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." The NBER is well known for providing start and end... - Mona SutphenMona SutphenMona K. Sutphen is an American senior government official, lobbyist, and writer on foreign policy. Sutphen served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. She is currently "a macro analyst at UBS."- Background :Sutphen is from Milwaukee,...
, current White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy - John TowerJohn TowerJohn Goodwin Tower was the first Republican United States senator from Texas since Reconstruction. He served from 1961 until his retirement in January 1985, after which time he was the chairman of the Reagan-appointed Tower Commission that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair. He was George H. W...
, US Senator - Paul VolckerPaul VolckerPaul Adolph Volcker, Jr. is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan from August 1979 to August 1987. He is widely credited with ending the high levels of inflation seen in the United States in the 1970s and...
, Chairman of Federal Reserve, Carter and Reagan Administrations; US Treasury Under-Secretary, Nixon Administration; President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York - David WelchDavid WelchCharles David Welch is an American diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the United States Department of State from 2005 through 2008...
, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; US Ambassador to Egypt, Bush Administration - Kimba WoodKimba WoodKimba Maureen Wood is a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Early life and education:...
, United States Federal Judge; Attorney General Nominee - Janet YellenJanet YellenJanet Louise Yellen is an American economist and professor, who is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
, Council of Economic Advisers, Clinton Administration; Vice-President, American Economic Association; President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - Dr Dov ZakheimDov ZakheimDov S. Zakheim is a former official of the United States government.Born December 18, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, Zakheim earned his bachelor's degree in government from Columbia University in 1970, and his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, Oxford University...
, Under-Secretary of Defense, Bush and Reagan administrations
Canada
- Jon Allen, Canadian Ambassador to Israel, 2006–present
- Ed BroadbentEd BroadbentJohn Edward "Ed" Broadbent, is a Canadian social democratic politician and political scientist. He was leader of the federal New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989. In the 2004 federal election, he returned to Parliament for one additional term as the Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre.-Life...
, Canadian socialist opposition leader - Kim CampbellKim CampbellAvril Phædra Douglas "Kim" Campbell, is a Canadian politician, lawyer, university professor, diplomat, and writer. She served as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from June 25, 1993, to November 4, 1993...
, former Prime Minister of CanadaPrime Minister of CanadaThe Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution... - John CrosbieJohn CrosbieJohn Carnell Crosbie, PC, OC, ONL, QC is a retired provincial and federal politician and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada...
, Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, former Cabinet minister - Hal Jackman, former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
- Michael IgnatieffMichael IgnatieffMichael Grant Ignatieff is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011...
, former leader of the Liberal PartyLiberal Party of CanadaThe Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative... - Joy MacPhailJoy MacPhailJoy MacPhail is a former Canadian politician in British Columbia. A longtime member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party, she served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1991 to 2005 and as a Minister of the Crown from 1993-1999, and 2000-2001.MacPhail was born in Hamilton,...
, former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia - Marc MayrandMarc MayrandMarc Mayrand , is a Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada, a position he has held since 2007.Mayrand studied law at the University of Ottawa and the London School of Economics....
, Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada - David McGuintyDavid McGuintyDavid Joseph McGuinty, MP is a Canadian lawyer politician from Ontario, Canada. He is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Ottawa South and sits in the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Party of Canada's Critic for Natural Resources...
, Member of Parliament for the Liberal PartyLiberal Party of CanadaThe Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative... - Jacques ParizeauJacques ParizeauJacques Parizeau, is an economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who was the 26th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996.-Early life and career:...
(b. 1930) - PremierPremier of QuebecThe Premier of Quebec is the first minister of the Canadian province of Quebec. The Premier is the province's head of government and his title is Premier and President of the Executive Council....
of QuebecQuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, 1994–1995 - Louis RasminskyLouis RasminskyLouis Rasminsky, CC, CBE was the third Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973, succeeding James Coyne. He was succeeded by Gerald Bouey....
, Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973 - Svend RobinsonSvend RobinsonSvend Robinson is a former Canadian politician. He was a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 2004, representing the suburban Vancouver-area constituency of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party...
, former Canadian MP; first openly gay Canadian politician in major party - Gregory SelingerGregory SelingerGregory F. "Greg" Selinger, is a Canadian politician. He has been serving as the 21st Premier of Manitoba since October 19, 2009, leading an NDP government. From 1999 to 2009 he was the Minister of Finance in the government of his immediate predecessor, Gary Doer. Selinger has been the member of...
, Canadian politician - Mitchell SharpMitchell SharpMitchell William Sharp, PC, CC was a Canadian politician and a Companion of the Order of Canada, was most noted for his service as a Liberal Cabinet minister. He had, however, served in both private and public sectors during his long career.-Background:Sharp was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
, former Canadian Minister of Finance - Walter TarnopolskyWalter TarnopolskyJustice Walter Surma Tarnopolsky was a Canadian judge, legal scholar, and pioneer in the development of human rights law and civil liberties in Canada.-Background and education:...
, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee - Gordon ThiessenGordon ThiessenGordon G. Thiessen, OC was the sixth Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1994 to 2001, succeeding John Crow. He was succeeded by David A. Dodge....
, Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1994 to 2001 - Pierre TrudeauPierre TrudeauJoseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, , usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.Trudeau began his political career campaigning for socialist ideals,...
, former Prime Minister of CanadaPrime Minister of CanadaThe Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution... - Michael WilsonMichael Wilson (politician)Michael Holcombe Wilson, PC, CC is a Canadian diplomat, politician and business leader.Born in Toronto, Ontario, Wilson attended Upper Canada College, Trinity College at the University of Toronto where he joined The Kappa Alpha Society...
, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006–present - Paul ZedPaul ZedPaul Zed is a Canadian lawyer, professor, and politician.Paul Zed was born in Toronto on December 31, 1956 and received his early education from local Saint John, NB schools, graduating from St...
, Member of Parliament for Saint John, New Brunswick - Naomi KleinNaomi KleinNaomi Klein is a Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization.-Family:...
, Journalist, columnist and author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
Latin America and the Caribbean
- Fidel Herrera BeltránFidel Herrera BeltránFidel Herrera Beltrán is a Mexican politician and former governor of Veracruz. A member of Institutional Revolutionary Party , he was elected governor in 2004...
, Governor of Veracruz, Mexico - Eugenia CharlesEugenia CharlesDame Mary Eugenia Charles, DBE was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. She was Dominica's first, and to date only, female prime minister, as well as the nation's longest serving prime minister...
, Prime Minister of Dominica - Winston DookeranWinston DookeranWinston Dookeran is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist. He currently serves as Political Leader of the Congress of the People. His term ends on July 3, 2011 when internal elections will be held to select a political leader. At a press conference on May 28, 2011, Mr. Dookeran...
, Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist - Christiana FigueresChristiana FigueresKaren Christiana Figueres Olsen was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on 17 May 2010, succeeding Yvo de Boer. She had been a member of the Costa Rican negotiating team since 1995, involved in both UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol negotiations. She has...
, current head of the UNFCCC - Martin LousteauMartín LousteauMartín Lousteau was the Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina under the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, from December 10, 2007, until April 24, 2008...
, Minister of economy and production, Argentina - Shridath RamphalShridath RamphalSir Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal, GCMG, AC, ONZ, OE, OM, QC, FRSA served as the second Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975-1990. Ramphal previously served as the Foreign Minister of Guyana from 1972-1975...
, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth - Juan Manuel SantosJuan Manuel SantosJuan Manuel Santos Calderón is a Colombian politician who has been the President of Colombia since 7 August 2010. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Trade, Minister of Finance, and Minister of National Defense.-Career:...
, President of Colombia. Formerly Minister of Foreign Trade, Minister of Finance and Minister of National Defense. - uan Felipe Sanchez Franco, Director UNRWA Operations, West Bank, Jerusalem
Europe
- Georgios AlogoskoufisGeorgios AlogoskoufisGeorge Alogoskoufis is a Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business since 1990. He was a member of the Hellenic Parliament from September 1996 till October 2009 and served as Greece's Minister of Economy and Finance from March 2004 till January 2009. During...
, former Minister for Economy and Finance, Greece - Prince Amedeo of Belgium
- Frits BolkesteinFrits BolkesteinFrederik "Frits" Bolkestein is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy . He served as a Member of the House of Representatives from 16 January 1978, until 5 November 1982, when he became State Secretary for Economic Affairs from 5 November 1982, until 14 July...
, Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner - Lykke FriisLykke FriisLykke Friis is a Danish politician for the party Venstre and former Minister for Climate and Energy and equal rights. Prior to this she was prorector at the University of Copenhagen, to which she was appointed for a five-year period starting March 1, 2006...
, Minister for Climate and Energy, Denmark - Prince Haakon MagnusHaakon, Crown Prince of NorwayHaakon, Crown Prince of Norway is the heir apparent to the throne of Norway. On birth he was named Prince Haakon Magnus but it was stressed in the announcement that he would go by the name Haakon. He became Crown Prince Haakon when his father ascended to the crown as Harald V in 1991...
, Crown Prince of Norway - Patrick JanssensPatrick JanssensPatrick Janssens is a Belgian politician, born on 19 September 1956. He is a member of the SP.a and currently mayor of the port city Antwerp.- Career :...
, Mayor of Antwerp, Belgium; Member of the Flemish Parliament, former Chairman of the Flemish social democratic party (SP), and former Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives - Jan KavanJan KavanJan Kavan is a Czech diplomat and politician.-Biography:Kavan was born in London, the son of a Czech diplomat, Pavel Kavan, and a British teacher, Rosemary Kavan. His father was arrested and tried in a Czech show trial in the 1950s; his mother later wrote a memoir, Love and Freedom.He is a member...
, former President of the United Nations General Assembly, member of the Czech Parliament, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic - Ursula von der LeyenUrsula von der LeyenUrsula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician of the conservative Christian Democratic Union.Since 30 November 2009, she has served as the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the Second Cabinet Merkel. In the First Cabinet Merkel , she served as Federal Minister of Family...
, Minister for Labour and Social Affairs, Germany - Ivan MiklošIvan MiklošIvan Mikloš is the incumbent Minister of Finance of Slovakia, appointed on July 9, 2010. He previously served as Slovakia's Minister of Finance from 2002 to 2006 and Deputy Prime Minister for Economy between 1998 and 2002....
, Minister of Finance of Slovakia - Franz NeumannFranz Leopold NeumannFranz Leopold Neumann was a German-Jewish left-wing political activist, Marxist theorist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of National Socialism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of...
, first Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal - Érik OrsennaÉrik OrsennaÉrik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult , a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris , Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics...
(real name: Erik Arnoult), former economist and advisor to François MitterrandFrançois MitterrandFrançois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...
, member of the Conseil d'État and of the Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
, 1988 Prix GoncourtPrix GoncourtThe Prix Goncourt 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"... - Giorgos PapakonstantinouGiorgos PapakonstantinouGiorgos Papakonstantinou , born October 30, 1961 in Athens, Greece, is a Greek economist and politician and the current Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Greece, formerly Minister for Finance. He is a member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.-Education and career:He...
, former Minister for Finance of Greece - George Papandreou, Foreign Minister of Greece from 1999 to 2004 and from 2009 to present, Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to present
- Elias Mossialos, Minister of StateMinister of State (Greece)The Minister of State of Greece is a Greek minister. The ministry was created on 10 March 2004 from the Ministry of the Press and the Media .The current minister is Georgios Stavropoulos.-History:...
and Government Spokesman, GreeceGreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... - Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance, Poland
- Jonas Gahr StøreJonas Gahr StøreJonas Gahr Støre is the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, having been appointed to Jens Stoltenberg's second cabinet on 17 October 2005. He represents the Norwegian Labour Party.-Personal life:...
, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs - Alexander StubbAlexander StubbCai-Göran Alexander Stubb is a Finnish politician and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 4 April 2008 to 22 June 2011...
, Finish Minister of Foreign Affairs - Zdeněk TůmaZdenek TumaZdeněk Tůma is a Czech economist and a former Governor of the Czech National Bank since 1 December 2000. He was confirmed by President Václav Klaus for another six-year term on 11 February 2005. Tůma resigns as of 30 June 2010...
, Governor of Czech National Bank - August ZaleskiAugust ZaleskiAugust Zaleski was a Polish economist, politician, and diplomat. Twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, he served as the President of Poland within the Polish Government in Exile.- Biography :...
, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Africa
- Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, effectively Prime Minister of Libya (2007-2011), son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
- Augustus AkinloyeAugustus AkinloyeAugustus Meredith Adisa Akinloye , 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:...
, Nigerian lawyer and politician.Chairman of defunct National Party of Nigeria - Kader AsmalKader AsmalKader Asmal 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 African Association of International Law. He was married to Louise Parkinson and has two sons...
, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee - Paul KagamePaul KagamePaul Kagame is the sixth and current President of the Republic of Rwanda. He rose to prominence as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front , whose victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the Rwandan genocide...
, President of Rwanda - Ibrahim GambariIbrahim GambariIbrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985...
, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations - Jeanne HobanJeanne HobanJeanne Hoban , known after her marriage as Jeanne Moonesinghe, was a British Trotskyist who became active in trade unionism and politics in Sri Lanka. She was one of the handful of European Radicals in Sri Lanka.- Early years :She was born in Gillingham, Kent...
, Anglo-Sri LankaSri LankaSri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
n journalist, Trotskyist political activist and trade-unionist - Aguinaldo JaimeAguinaldo JaimeAguinaldo Jaime is an Angolan political figure. He served as Minister of Finance from June 1990 to April 1992, President of the African Investment Bank , and as Provincial Governor from 1999 to 2002. He was subsequently Deputy Prime Minister....
, Deputy Prime Minister of Angola - Pallo JordanPallo JordanDr Zweledinga Pallo Jordan was the Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa from 29 April 2004 to 10 May 2009...
, Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa - Nelson MandelaNelson MandelaNelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
, former President of South Africa and freedom fighter - Michael Wamalwa KijanaMichael Wamalwa KijanaMichael Wamalwa Kijana was a Kenyan politician and, at the time of his death, Kenya's Vice-President.-Early life:...
, former Vice-President of Kenya - Mac MaharajMac MaharajSathyandranath Ragunanan "Mac" Maharaj is a South African politician affiliated to the African National Congress, academic and businessman of Indian origin....
, South African ANC politician, former Minister of Transport - Robert MugabeRobert MugabeRobert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...
, President of Zimbabwe. - Bayo OjoBayo OjoChristopher Adebayo Ojo 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 practice in Nigeria, England and Wales. He is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.-Early life...
, past head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of JusticeNigerian Federal Ministry of JusticeThe Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice is the legal arm of the Federal Government of Nigeria, primarily concerned with bringing cases before the judiciary that are initiated or assumed by the government. It is headed by the Attorney General, who is also Minister of Justice... - Obafemi AwolowoObafemi AwolowoJeremiah Obafemi Awolowo was a Nigerian politician, trade unionist, author and statesman. A Yoruba and native of Ikenne in Ogun State of Nigeria, he started his career as a regional political leader like most of his pre-independence contemporaries and was responsible for much of the progressive...
, Nigerian independence leader, FabianFabian SocietyThe Fabian Society is a British socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. It is best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning late in the 19th century and continuing up to World...
lawyer, human rights advocate - Alex Quaison-SackeyAlex Quaison-SackeyDr. Alex Quaison-Sackey 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 education:...
, former foreign minister of Ghana - Winston TubmanWinston TubmanWinston A. Tubman is a Liberian diplomat and politician of Americo-Liberian descent. He is a former justice minister and diplomat for the nation and leader of the Congress for Democratic Change Winston A. Tubman (born 1941) is a Liberian diplomat and politician of Americo-Liberian descent. He is a...
, Liberian diplomat and politician - Shamsudeen UsmanShamsudeen UsmanShamsuddeen Usman is the Minister of National Planning, Chairman of the Steering Committee on Nigeria Vision 2020 and immediate past Finance Minister of Nigeria...
Nigerian economist, technocrat and banker. Current Minister of National Planning and past Minister of Finance of Nigeria.
Asia
- Lee Kuan YewLee Kuan YewLee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH is a Singaporean statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, governing for three decades...
, former Prime Minister of Singapore
- B. R. AmbedkarB. R. AmbedkarBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, a revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of independent India. He was also the Chairman...
, First Law Minister of INDIAIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
,Buddhist revivalist, Indian jurist, scholar and Bahujan political leader who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution - Piyasvasti AmranandPiyasvasti AmranandPiyasvasti Amranand was Thailand's Energy Minister between 9 October 2006 and 6 February 2008. He is former Secretary-General of the Thai National Energy Policy Office, Chairman of Kasikorn Asset Management and Chairman of Panel of Advisors for CEO of Kasikornbank...
, Thailand's Energy Minister - Choowong Chayabutra, former Thailand's Secretary of Ministry of Interior, Senator and a member of parliament
- C. R. PattabhiramanC. R. PattabhiramanChetpet Ramaswami Iyer Pattabhiraman was an Indian lawyer, politician and statesman from the Indian National Congress. He was the eldest son of Indian statesman C. P. Ramaswami Iyer...
, Indian member of Parliament and Union Minister. - Taro AsoTaro Asowas the 92nd Prime Minister of Japan serving from September 2008 to September 2009, and was defeated in the August 2009 election.He has served in the House of Representatives since 1979. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007, and was Secretary-General of the LDP briefly in 2007 and...
, former Prime Minister of Japan - Tam Yiu ChungTam Yiu ChungTam Yiu-chung, GBS, JP, is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, representing the New Territories West constituency. He was a member of the Executive Council from 1997 to 2002...
, current councillor from 1998 in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the chairperson of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) - Audrey EuAudrey EuYuet Mee Audrey Eu , LLB, LLM, SC, JP is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the former leader of the Civic Party.-Education and legal career:...
, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and former party leader of the Civic Party - Abul FatehAbul FatehAbul Fateh 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's Foreign Service Academy and subsequently becoming Bangladesh's first Foreign Secretary...
, Bangladesh diplomat - Mustafa Kamal (judge), former Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Vivienne GoonewardenaVivienne GoonewardenaViolet Vivienne Goonewardena was a Sri Lankan pioneer socialist and feminist. Her life and politics were shaped by the most interesting times of the Sri Lankan Left and she was in turn one of its more colourful personalities.-Political beginnings:Goonewardena was drawn into politics while still...
, Sri Lankan Trotskyist freedom agitator, parliamentarian, trade unionist and women's activist - Wang GuangyaWang GuangyaWang Guangya , born March 1950 in Jiangsu Province People's Republic of China, is a Chinese diplomat who is currently Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. A career diplomat, Wang was previously Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs...
, permanent representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations - Tsai Ing-wenTsai Ing-wenTsai Ing-wen is the current chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan. Studying in Taiwan, the U.S and the U.K. Tsai earned an LL.B. from National Taiwan University, an LL.M. from Cornell University Law School and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics....
, former Vice Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) - Amarananda Somasiri Jayawardene, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
- Yang Jiechi, current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
- Emily LauEmily LauEmily Lau Wai-hing JP is one of two vice-chairmen of Democratic Party.She was the convenor of The Frontier...
, Hong Kong politician - Dr. Maliha LodhiMaliha LodhiMaleeha Lodhi, HI, is a journalist, academic, and diplomat from Pakistan. She was the high commissioner of Pakistan to the United Kingdom, and a former ambassador to the United States. In the Fall of 2008 she was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard...
, Pakistan's High Commissioner to United Kingdom and former Ambassador to USA - Kashmala TariqKashmala TariqKashmala Tariq is a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from the Women Reserve Constituency NA-277 for the province of Punjab. She belongs to the Pakistan Muslim League or PML-Q...
, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan - Makhdoom Ali KhanMakhdoom Ali KhanMakhdoom Ali Khan , is a practising Senior Advocate Supreme Court. Makhdoom Ali Khan is a former Attorney General of Pakistan, former Chairman Pakistan Bar Council, former member of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, former Board Member of the Federal Judicial Academy of Pakistan and a...
, Ex-Attorney General of Pakistan and chief lawyer of President Pervez Musharraf - Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiyar, Former Dy. Foreign Minister of Pakistan
- 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
- Goh Keng SweeGoh Keng SweeGoh Keng Swee was the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1984, and a Member of Parliament for the Kreta Ayer constituency for a quarter of a century. Born in Malacca in the Straits Settlements into a Peranakan family, he came to Singapore at the age of two years...
, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore - Tharman ShanmugaratnamTharman ShanmugaratnamTharman Shanmugaratnam is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party , he is currently the country's Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance and Minister for Manpower. He previously served as the Minister for Education from 2003 to 2008...
, Singapore's Finance Minister - Juwono SudarsonoJuwono SudarsonoJuwono Sudarsono is The author of well-respected works on political science and international relations...
, Indonesian Minister of Defence - Puey UngpakornPuey UngpakornPuey Ungpakorn, MBE was an extremely successful bureaucrat who played a central role in the shaping of Thailand's economic development and in the strengthening of its system of higher education...
, former governorGovernorA governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...
of the (Central) Bank of ThailandBank of Thailand- History :The Bank of Thailand was first set up as the Thai National Banking Bureau. The Bank of Thailand Act was promulgated on 28 April 1942 vesting upon the Bank of Thailand the responsibility for all central banking functions... - Jyoti BasuJyoti BasuJyoti Basu was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India from West Bengal, India. He served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000, making him the longest-serving Chief Minister of any Indian state. Basu was a member of the CPI Politburo from the time of the...
, Indian politician, Kolkata, West Bengal, India - Salahuddin AhmadSalahuddin AhmadSalahuddin Ahmad was the attorney general of Bangladesh from July 13, 2008 to January 12, 2009 and a prominent practicing lawyer of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Mr. Ahmad was appointed after Fida M...
, former Attorney General of Bangladesh
Australia
- Ameer AliAmeer AliAmeer Ali is the ex-President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, an umbrella group for various Islamic groups or councils in Australia...
, President of the Australian Federation of Islamic CouncilsAustralian Federation of Islamic CouncilsThe Australian Federation of Islamic Councils was founded in 1964 as an umbrella group for various Islamic groups or councils, and is considered Australia's most important Islamic organisation. The mission of AFIC is to provide service to the community in a manner that is in accordance with the... - William Macmahon BallWilliam Macmahon BallWilliam Macmahon Ball, AC was an Australian academic and diplomat. Educated at Caulfield Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, Ball studied both psychology and political science as a research fellow at Melbourne and the London School of...
, Australian diplomat - Peter ColemanPeter ColemanWilliam Peter Coleman is an Australian writer/journalist, former politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis. Following Willis' resignation as leader he was made Leader of the New South Wales Opposition...
, Journalist and conservative politician - Arnold CookArnold CookDr Arnold Charles Cook was a blind academic and senior economics lecturer at the University of Western Australia. He is noted for, in 1950, bringing the first guide dog to Australia and for being instrumental in establishing the first guide dog training centre in the country.-Biography:Cook was...
, Founder of the Guide Dog movement - Nugget Coombs, Governor of the Reserve Bank of AustraliaReserve Bank of AustraliaThe Reserve Bank of Australia came into being on 14 January 1960 as Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority, when the Reserve Bank Act 1959 removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank to it....
- Robert Hill, Defence Minister
- Christian PorterChristian PorterCharles Christian Porter is a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Bateman and is Treasurer and Attorney-General in the Liberal-National government. He entered Parliament after winning the seat of Murdoch in a by-election in 2008 following...
, Treasurer and Attorney-General of Western Australia - Gordon ReidGordon Reid (Governor)Gordon Stanley Reid AC was an Australian academic who was Governor of Western Australia from 1984 to 1989....
, Governor of Western Australia and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia
Middle East
- Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai (attended courses; did not graduate)
- Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan, member of royal family of Jordan
- Shlomo ArgovShlomo ArgovShlomo Argov was a prominent Israeli diplomat. He was the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom whose attempted assassination led to the 1982 Lebanon War.-Attempted assassination:...
, prominent Israeli diplomat, former Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom - Yishai Be'erYishai Be'erAluf Yishai Beer is a general in the Israel Defense Forces, head of a reserve call-up, and former President of the Israeli Military Court of Appeals....
, General in the Israel Defense Forces and currently the President of the Israeli Military Court of Appeals - Kemal DervişKemal DervisKemal Derviş 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 assistance policy through the United Nations." In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the...
, UNDP Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey - Rafi EitanRafi EitanRafael "Rafi" Eitan is an Israeli politician and former intelligence officer. Today he leads Gil and is a former Minister of Pensioner Affairs. In the past, he was in charge of the Mossad operation that led to the capture of Adolf Eichmann...
, leader of the Gil Party in Israeli Politics, law maker, former security - Stanley FischerStanley FischerStanley "Stan" Fischer is an American-Israeli economist and the current Governor of the Bank of Israel. He previously served as Chief Economist at the World Bank.-Biography:...
, Governor of the Bank of Israel; former World Bank Chief Economist - Emre GönensayEmre GönensayEmre Gönensay is a Turkish politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996 and is a member of the True Path Party.-Biography:...
, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996 - Amnon RubinsteinAmnon RubinsteinAmnon Rubinstein is an Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002, he served in several ministerial positions. He is currently dean of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a patron of Liberal International.-Early life:Rubinstein was born...
, Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist, Education Minister of Israel, 1993–1996 - Jeremy issacharoff, Israeli Ambassador, expert on global disarmament.
- Mosbah Al-Ahdab, Lebanese politician and businessman, MP for Tripoli (1996–present);Honorary Consul of France in North Lebanon (1992–1996).
International organisations and ambassadors
- James AllanJames Allan (diplomat)James Nicholas Allan CMG CBE is a former British diplomat, High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique .-Background:...
, British High Commissioner in MauritiusMauritiusMauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
and ambassador to Mozambique - Kader AsmalKader AsmalKader Asmal 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 African Association of International Law. He was married to Louise Parkinson and has two sons...
, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee - Rosemary BanksRosemary BanksRosemary Banks is a New Zealand diplomat, currently New Zealand's Ambassador to France. She was formerly New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from June 2005 to June 2009...
, New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations - Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minister under Thatcher; Vice-President of the European Commission
- Kemal DervişKemal DervisKemal Derviş 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 assistance policy through the United Nations." In 2005, he was ranked 67th in the...
, UNDP Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey - Nitin DesaiNitin DesaiNitin Desai is an Indian economist. He was Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations from 1997 to 2003.-Early life and academic career:...
, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs - Ibrahim GambariIbrahim GambariIbrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985...
, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations - Ian GoldinIan GoldinIan Andrew Goldin took up his most recent position as Director of Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, in September 2006. He is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development, and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford....
, former Vice President of External Affairs, World Bank - Jeffrey Goldstein, Managing Director, World Bank
- Wang GuangyaWang GuangyaWang Guangya , born March 1950 in Jiangsu Province People's Republic of China, is a Chinese diplomat who is currently Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. A career diplomat, Wang was previously Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs...
, permanent representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations - Robert Murray Hill, Australian Ambassador to the United Nations
- Robert E. HunterRobert E. HunterRobert Edwards Hunter is a Senior Advisor at the RAND Corporation, Arlington, Va. He was National Security Council Director of West European Affairs , Director of Middle East Affairs , and United States Ambassador to NATO...
, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO - Clete Donald Johnson, Jr.Clete Donald Johnson, Jr.Clete Donald "Don" Johnson, Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer and academic from the state of Georgia.- Early life and education :...
, former Member of Congress and US Ambassador, LL.M 1978 - Manoj JunejaManoj JunejaIn April, 2011, Manoj Juneja, a citizen of India, was appointed as one of the two Deputy Directors-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ....
, Deputy Director-General for Operations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Ahmad KamalAhmad KamalAhmed Kamal is a retired Pakistani diplomat, most noted for his work at the United Nations. He served as a professional diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan for close to forty years until his retirement in 1999...
, Pakistani Ambassador to the UN - Jan KavanJan KavanJan Kavan is a Czech diplomat and politician.-Biography:Kavan was born in London, the son of a Czech diplomat, Pavel Kavan, and a British teacher, Rosemary Kavan. His father was arrested and tried in a Czech show trial in the 1950s; his mother later wrote a memoir, Love and Freedom.He is a member...
, former President of the United Nations General Assembly, member of the Czech Parliament, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic - Mohsin KhanMohsin KhanMohsin Hasan Khan is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 48 Tests and 75 ODIs from 1977 to 1986 mainly as an opening batsman.-Life and Career:...
, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund - Dr Maliha LodhiMaliha LodhiMaleeha Lodhi, HI, is a journalist, academic, and diplomat from Pakistan. She was the high commissioner of Pakistan to the United Kingdom, and a former ambassador to the United States. In the Fall of 2008 she was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard...
, prominent Pakistani politician; Pakistani Ambassador to the US - John J. MarescaJohn J. MarescaJohn J. Maresca is a distinguished American diplomat, business leader, and educator. Maresca has held a number of posts in the US government including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and US Ambassador. He has also founded, led, and contributed to a number of prominent NGOs and private sector...
, former US Ambassador to the OSCE in the George H.W. Bush Administration - Krishna Menon, former Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, Minister of Defense, and leading proponent of India's emancipation
- Marty NatalegawaMarty NatalegawaRaden Mohammad Marty Muliana Natalegawa, more commonly known as Marty Natalegawa, is an Indonesian diplomat and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet...
, Indonesian Ambassador to the United Kingdom - Franz NeumannFranz Leopold NeumannFranz Leopold Neumann was a German-Jewish left-wing political activist, Marxist theorist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of National Socialism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of...
, First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal - Shridath RamphalShridath RamphalSir Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal, GCMG, AC, ONZ, OE, OM, QC, FRSA served as the second Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975-1990. Ramphal previously served as the Foreign Minister of Guyana from 1972-1975...
, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth - Shaha RizaShaha RizaShaha Riza, , is a World Bank employee currently on external assignment at the Foundation for the Future, a "semi-independent foundation to promote democracy" in the Middle East and North Africa...
, World Bank - Pierre SanePierre SanéPierre Sané was UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences from May 2001 - June 2010. He was Secretary General of Amnesty International from October 1992 to April 2001.-Biography:Born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1949...
, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences - Michele J. SisonMichele J. SisonMichele J. Sison is a United States Ambassador and a career member of the United States Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor. She earned her B.A. in Political Science from Wellesley College and also studied at the London School of Economics...
, current US Ambassador to Lebanon in the Bush Administration - Walter TarnopolskyWalter TarnopolskyJustice Walter Surma Tarnopolsky was a Canadian judge, legal scholar, and pioneer in the development of human rights law and civil liberties in Canada.-Background and education:...
, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee - Michael WilsonMichael Wilson (politician)Michael Holcombe Wilson, PC, CC is a Canadian diplomat, politician and business leader.Born in Toronto, Ontario, Wilson attended Upper Canada College, Trinity College at the University of Toronto where he joined The Kappa Alpha Society...
, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006–present - Arne Roy WaltherArne Roy WaltherArne Roy Walther is a Norwegian diplomat.He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971. He was the Norwegian ambassador to India from 1994 to 1999, and to Austria from 2002 to 2003. He was the secretary general of the International Energy Forum from 2004 to 2009, and...
, Norwegian ambassador to Japan
Film and music
- Sylvia AndersonSylvia AndersonSylvia Anderson , born 25 March 1937, is a British voice artist and film producer, most notable for collaborations with Gerry Anderson, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1975....
(nee Thamm), producer, writer, voice actor - Greg BarkerGreg BarkerGreg Barker is director and producer of the documentary feature Sergio, which was shortlisted for a 2010 Academy Award. LA Times critic Kenneth Turan described Sergio as “a documentary of exceptional power,” and Variety said “Barker turns his biopic into a thriller...and creates riveting cinema.”A...
, documentary filmmaker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda - Mick JaggerMick JaggerSir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
, British musician, lead vocalist of The Rolling StonesThe Rolling StonesThe Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up... - Soha Ali KhanSoha Ali Khan- Early life :Khan was born into the erstwhile princely family of Pataudi. She has Muslim Pashtun ancestry through Nawabs of Pataudi lineage from her father's side and Bengali Hindu ancestry from her mother's side...
, Indian actress - Sophie ChoudrySophie ChoudrySophie Choudry is an Indian film actress, singer, former MTV India VJ and occasional model and anchor.-Early life:...
, Indian actress - Tara SharmaTara SharmaTara Sharma is an Indian actress. She is half British and half Indian.-Personal life:Sharma is the daughter of the well-known author and actor, Partap Sharma, and Susan Sharma, and is an alumna of the London School of Economics and of the United World College of the Adriatic. She is married to ad...
, Indian actress - Arif MardinArif MardinArif Mardin was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country...
, Turkish music producer - Ron MoodyRon MoodyRon Moody is an English actor.- Personal life :Moody was born in Tottenham, North London, England, the son of Kate and Bernard Moodnick, a studio executive. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was a Lithuanian Jew. He is a cousin of director Laurence Moody and actress Clare...
, British actor, famous for playing FaginFaginFagin is a fictional character who appears as an antagonist of the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, referred to in the preface of the novel as a "receiver of stolen goods", but referred to more frequently within the actual story as the "merry old gentleman" or simply the "Jew".-Character:Born...
in Oliver!Oliver!Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.... - Jaime MurrayJaime MurrayJaime Murray is an English actress, best known for playing Stacie Monroe in Hustle and Lila Tournay in season two of the Showtime series Dexter. She has also had recurring roles as H.G...
, actress - Jules O'RiordanJudge JulesJudge Jules is a British dance music DJ and producer, known for his DJ activities and popular radio show which achieved global success.-Education:...
(aka Judge Jules), Radio 1 DJ - Mat OsmanMat OsmanMat Osman is an English musician, best known as the bassist in the band Suede. He studied at the London School of Economics, where in 1989 he was awarded a BSc in Economics....
, bass player for SuedeSuede (band)Suede are an English alternative rock band from London, formed in 1989. The group's most prominent early line-up featured singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Bernard Butler, bass player Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gilbert. By 1992, Suede were hailed as "The Best New Band in Britain", and attracted... - Edward R. PressmanEdward R. PressmanEdward R. Pressman is an American film producer.Pressman was born in New York City, New York, the son of Lynn and Jack Pressman, known as the "King of Marbles", who founded the Pressman Toy Corporation.-Filmography:...
, film producer (Wall StreetWall StreetWall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...
, Das BootDas BootDas Boot is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann...
, Thank You for Smoking) - Sophie SolomonSophie SolomonSophie Solomon is a British violinist, songwriter and composer who fuses many different musical influences into her music. In January 2012 she will take up the Directorship of the Jewish Music Institute, SOAS.-Early life:...
, British violinist, songwriter and composer - Robin SpryRobin SpryRobin Spry was a Canadian filmmaker and television producer best known for his documentary film Action: The October Crisis of 1970 about Quebec's October Crisis.-Profile:...
, filmmaker - Frank TurnerFrank TurnerFrank Turner is an English folk/punk singer-songwriter from Meonstoke, Winchester. Initially the vocalist of post-hardcore band Million Dead, Turner embarked upon a primarily acoustic-based solo career following the band's split in 2005. To date, Turner has released four solo albums, two rarities...
, musician, in the band Million DeadMillion DeadMillion Dead were a hardcore punk band from London, UK, active between 2001 and 2005.-History:The band was founded in 2000 by Cameron Dean and Julia Ruzicka, after both came to London from Australia. They were joined by Ben Dawson, who had worked with Dean in a record shop in the city...
, now a solo artist. He wrote his final year dissertation while on tour with Million Dead. - Oliver WeindlingOliver WeindlingOliver Weindling is a British jazz promoter and founder of the Babel jazz record label. He came from a family which encouraged his interest in music, being taken to the opera and concerts regularly. Originally an economist by training with degrees from Balliol College, Oxford and London School of...
, jazz promoter and founder of the Babel jazz record label - Frederick M. ZolloFrederick M. ZolloFrederick M. Zollo is an award winning American producer and director of both stage and screen.-Selected stage productions:* On Golden Pond*"funHouse"* The Farnsworth Invention* Frozen* The Goat: or, Who is Sylvia?...
, Academy Award-nominated producer - Scott NeustadterScott NeustadterScott Neustadter is a professional screenwriter. He often works with his writing partner, Michael Weber. The two writers wrote the screenplays for Days of Summer and The Pink Panther 2. Days of Summer is based on two real relationships Neustadter had.Neustadter was born and raised in Margate,...
, Hollywood writer, 500 Days of Summer500 Days of SummerDays of Summer is a 2009 comedy drama film. It was written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, directed by Marc Webb, produced by Mark Waters, and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. The film employs a nonlinear narrative structure, with the story based upon its male protagonist...
is based on a romance at LSE - Rhian BensonRhian BensonRhiannon Afua "Rhian" Benson is a Ghanaian soul and jazz singer, songwriter, and composer.-Early life:Benson was born in Accra, Ghana to a Welsh mother, who was a singer, and an Ashanti father, who was a guitarist, and she has a younger sister.She was raised in Ghana, India, where her family moved...
, Ghanaian and Welsh soul and jazz singer-songwriter
Television and radio
- Zeina AwadZeina AwadZeina Awad co-hosts Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English’s flagship current affairs programme about the Americas. Awad believes that Fault Lines strives to identify and patch information gaps by "asking the tough questions" of the countries and people in power....
Reporter, Al Jazeera English - Jana BennettJana BennettJana Bennett OBE is Director of Vision at the BBC. She took up the post in 2006, having been Director of Television from April 2002. She was previously Executive Vice President and General Manager at Discovery Communications in the US...
Head of Vision, BBC - BidishaBidishaBidisha is a feminist, critic, broadcaster and writer. She began writing professionally for arts magazines such as i-D, Dazed and Confused and the NME at the age of 15 and published her first novel at 18.-Early life:Bidisha is an only child, her parents are both lecturers in information technology...
, broadcaster and writer - Jon BlairJon BlairJon Blair is a South African born writer, producer and director of documentary films, drama and comedy who has lived in England and the United States ever since he was drafted into the South African army in the late 1960s...
Academy Award, British Academy Award and Emmy winning producer and director - Martin DurkinMartin Durkin (television director)Martin Durkin is a television producer and director, most prominently of television documentaries for Channel 4 in Britain. He is managing director of WAG TV, a London-based independent TV production company. He has produced, directed and executive-produced a wide variety of programmes covering...
TV director - Loyd GrossmanLoyd GrossmanLoyd Daniel Gilman Grossman, OBE, FSA is an American-British television presenter, chef and musician who has mainly worked in the UK.- Early life, education and honours :...
, TV Chef/Presenter - Robert Kilroy-SilkRobert Kilroy-SilkRobert Michael Kilroy-Silk is an English former politician, former independent Member of the European Parliament, and former television presenter, best known for his daytime talk show Kilroy. He has been a university lecturer and Labour Party Member of Parliament...
, TV Presenter, politician and former EuroscepticEuroScepticEuroSceptic is the second album of British singer Jack Lucien. It was released in October 2009.Due to being an album influenced by Europop, it features songs with parts in different languages...
MEPMember of the European ParliamentA Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,... - Hari KondaboluHari KondaboluHari Kondabolu is an American stand-up comic.-Career:A graduate of Bowdoin College and the London School of Economics, he has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live as well as appearing on a variety of national comedy festivals, including the 2007 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival. Additionally, he has made...
, stand-up comedian - Kirsty LangKirsty LangKirsty Lang is a British journalist and broadcaster currently working for the BBC. Lang was raised in various parts of the world; her family were evacuated from Nigeria at the time of the Biafran war in 1967.-Career:...
, broadcaster and journalist - Martin LewisMartin Lewis (financial journalist)Martin Steven Lewis is journalist, television presenter, website entrepreneur and author in the United Kingdom, who specialises in ways to save money...
, TV presenter and Money Saving Expert, born 1972 - James O'Brien, radio journalist
- Sean McGuiness, Top Gear, Producer
- Mark UrbanMark UrbanMark Urban is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and orientalist, and is currently the Diplomatic Editor for BBC Two's Newsnight.-Education and early career:...
, NewsnightNewsnightNewsnight is a BBC Television current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians. Jeremy Paxman has been its main presenter for over two decades....
Diplomatic Editor - Josh ChetwyndJosh ChetwyndJoshua Stephen Chetwynd is a journalist, broadcaster, author and former baseball player.-Journalism:Chetwynd has worked as a staff reporter for USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter and U.S. News & World Report...
baseball presenter - Huw WheldonHuw WheldonSir Huw Pyrs Wheldon OBE MC was a BBC broadcaster and executive.Wheldon was born in Prestatyn, Wales and educated at Friars School, Bangor. His father, Sir Wynn Wheldon, was a prominent educationalist, who had been awarded the DSO for gallantry in the First World War...
, former MD of BBC TV
Authors and journalists
- Edith AbbottEdith AbbottEdith Abbott was an American economist, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Her younger sister was Grace Abbott....
, author and social worker, Carnegie Postgraduate Fellowship 1906 - Eric AltermanEric AltermanEric Alterman is an American English teacher, historian, journalist, author, media critic, blogger, and educator. His political weblog named Altercation was hosted by MSNBC.com from 2002 until 2006, moved to Media Matters for America until December 2008, and is now hosted by The...
, Professor of English at Brooklyn CollegeBrooklyn CollegeBrooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...
; political columnist for The NationThe NationThe Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
; Senior Fellow at the Center for American ProgressCenter for American ProgressThe Center for American Progress is a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. Its website states that the organization is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." It has its headquarters in Washington D.C.Its President and Chief...
and the World Policy InstituteWorld Policy InstituteThe World Policy Institute, a non-partisan policy institute which claims to develop policies that require a progressive ideology. WPI focuses on cooperative policies in order to achieve : an inclusive and sustainable global market economy, engaged global civic participation and effective... - Tim LottTim LottTim Lott is a British author. After running his own magazine publishing business, he graduated from the London School of Economics in 1986....
, journalist and Whitbread Award winning author - Anne ApplebaumAnne ApplebaumAnne Elizabeth Applebaum is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has been an editor at The Economist, and a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post...
, journalist and author - Pat BarkerPat BarkerPat Barker CBE, FRSL is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres around themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken.-Personal life:...
, author, historian - Peter BartPeter BartPeter Benton Bart is an American journalist and film producer. He perhaps best known for his lengthy tenure as the editor of Variety, an entertainment-trade magazine....
, journalist and film producer - Melissa BennMelissa BennMelissa Ann Benn is a British journalist and writer. She is the only daughter of Tony and Caroline Benn.Benn was born in Hammersmith, London. She has two older brothers, Stephen and Hilary, and a younger brother, Joshua. She attended Holland Park School and graduated with a first in History from...
, journalist and feminist - Owen Bennett-JonesOwen Bennett-JonesOwen Bennett-Jones is a journalist for BBC Online and is presently one of the hosts of The Interview on the BBC World Service, and is a former BBC correspondent, based in several countries around the world.-Education:...
, BBC World Service journalist - John BersiaJohn BersiaJohn C. Bersia, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 2000, is a global educator and journalist. He serves as Special Assistant to the President for Global Perspectives, as Director of the Global Perspectives Office and as a University Professor at the University of Central Florida...
, Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winning journalist - Simon GarfieldSimon GarfieldSimon Frank Garfield is a British journalist and non-fiction author. He was educated at the independent University College School in Hampstead, London, and the London School of Economics, where he was the Executive Editor of The Beaver....
, Observer journalist and author of "Mauve" and "Our Hidden Lives" - Josh ChetwyndJosh ChetwyndJoshua Stephen Chetwynd is a journalist, broadcaster, author and former baseball player.-Journalism:Chetwynd has worked as a staff reporter for USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter and U.S. News & World Report...
, baseball presenter, player and writer - Andrew CoyneAndrew CoyneJames Andrew Coyne is the national editor for Maclean's, a weekly national newsmagazine in Canada. Previously, he was a columnist with the National Post and an editor-in-chief of the University of Manitoba's newspaper, The Manitoban.-Background:Coyne was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Hope...
, national editor for Maclean'sMaclean'sMaclean's is a Canadian weekly news magazine, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.-History:Founded in 1905 by Toronto journalist/entrepreneur Lt.-Col. John Bayne Maclean, a 43-year-old trade magazine publisher who purchased an advertising agency's in-house... - Edwina CurrieEdwina CurrieEdwina Jonesnée Cohen is a former British Member of Parliament. First elected as a Conservative Party MP in 1983, she was a Junior Health Minister for two years, before resigning in 1988 over the controversy over salmonella in eggs...
, politician, author, radio presenter - Robert ElmsRobert ElmsRobert Elms is an English writer and broadcaster. Elms was a writer for The Face magazine in the 1980s, and has a self-confessed love of clothes and fashion...
, radio presenter, music journalist - Ekow EshunEkow EshunEkow Eshun is a British writer, journalist, and broadcaster. Until November 2010 he was the artistic director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, leaving before the end of his six month notice period. He is a contributor to BBC2's Friday night arts programme Newsnight Review and a...
, BBC Newsnight broadcaster, and TV host - Tom HappoldTom HappoldTom Happold is Head of Multimedia of Guardian News Media. He previously worked on the BBC Ten O'clock News and Channel 4 News. He was previously Deputy Editor of Comment is free.-External links:...
, Editor of The Guardian - Mark Leonard, author and journalist
- Daniel FinkelsteinDaniel FinkelsteinDaniel Finkelstein OBE is a British journalist and former politician. He is the Executive Editor of The Times, where he's also Chief Leader Writer and a weekly political columnist.-Background:...
, Comment Editor of The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International... - Edward GreensponEdward GreensponEdward Greenspon is vice president, business development for Star Media Group, a division of Torstar Corp. Before that, he was the editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for seven years...
, editor-in-chief of The Globe and MailThe Globe and MailThe Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...
newspaper - Judith Hare, Countess of ListowelJudith Hare, Countess of ListowelJudith, Countess of Listowel was a noted British-Hungarian journalist and author who married William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel in 1933....
, journalist and author - John HonderichJohn HonderichJohn Allen Honderich, is a Canadian businessman who was the publisher of the Toronto Star from 1994 to 2004.Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Beland Honderich, Honderich graduated from Neuchâtel Junior College in Switzerland, the University of Toronto and London School of Economics.His...
, former Publisher of the Toronto StarToronto StarThe Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario... - Robert KaiserRobert Blair KaiserRobert Blair Kaiser is an American author and journalist, best known for his writing on the Catholic Church.As a correspondent for Time Magazine, he won the Overseas Press Club's Ed Cunningham Award in 1962 for the "best magazine reporting from abroad" for his reporting on the Second Vatican...
, American author and journalist - Parag KhannaParag KhannaDr. Parag Khanna is an Indian American author and international relations expert. He is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. and Director of...
, author - To KitTo KitChip Tsao , also known by his pen name To Kit and epithet First Wit of Hong Kong, is a multilingual Hong Kong-based columnist, broadcaster, and writer. He is well-known for his sarcasm and wry sense of humour....
(real name: Chip Tsao), Hong Kong-based columnist-broadcaster - Naomi KleinNaomi KleinNaomi Klein is a Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization.-Family:...
, author of No LogoNo LogoNo Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies is a book by Canadian author Naomi Klein. First published by Knopf Canada in January 2000, shortly after the 1999 WTO Ministerial Conference protests in Seattle had generated media attention around such issues, it became one of the most influential books...
and The Shock DoctrineThe Shock DoctrineThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by Canadian author Naomi Klein, and is the basis of a 2009 documentary by the same name.... - Nick KotzNick KotzNathan "Nick" K. Kotz , born in San Antonio, Texas, is an American journalist, author, and historian. He is best known for his 2005 book Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America chronicling the roles of President Johnson and Dr. King in the...
, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist - Paul KrugmanPaul KrugmanPaul Robin Krugman is an American economist, professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times...
, New York Times columnist, Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winning journalist - Robert KuttnerRobert KuttnerRobert Kuttner is an American journalist and writer. Kuttner is the co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, which was created in 1990 as "an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas," according to its mission statement...
, journalist and economics author - Kirsty LangKirsty LangKirsty Lang is a British journalist and broadcaster currently working for the BBC. Lang was raised in various parts of the world; her family were evacuated from Nigeria at the time of the Biafran war in 1967.-Career:...
, broadcaster and journalist - Philippe LegrainPhilippe LegrainPhilippe Legrain is a British economist and writer. He specialises in global and European economic issues, notably globalisation, migration and the post-crisis world.- Early life and background :...
, British journalist and writer - Bernard LevinBernard LevinHenry Bernard Levin CBE was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics,...
, journalist, author and broadcaster - David Levering LewisDavid Levering LewisDavid Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois...
, Pulitzer Prize winning author, prominent historian on African Americans - Michael LewisMichael Lewis (author)Michael Lewis is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Panic and Home Game: An...
, #1 New York Times best selling author of Moneyball, Next, The New New Thing, Liar's Poker, Trail Fever, and The Money Culture; contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and BloombergBloomberg L.P.Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P... - Rod LiddleRod LiddleRoderick E. L. Liddle is an English print, radio, and television journalist.He is an associate editor of The Spectator, and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he is the author of Too Beautiful for You , Love Will Destroy Everything , and co-author of The Best of Liddle Britain...
, journalist, TV presenter, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme - Edward LucasEdward Lucas (journalist)Edward Lucas is a British journalist.Lucas is International Editor of The Economist, the London-based global newsweekly and also oversees the paper’s political coverage of Central and Eastern Europe. He has been covering eastern Europe since 1986, and was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002,...
, journalist - Tinius Nagell-ErichsenTinius Nagell-ErichsenEinar Fredrik Åke Tinius Nagell-Erichsen was a Norwegian publisher, noted for his leadership of the Schibsted media conglomerate which includes the broadsheet newspaper Aftenposten and the tabloid Verdens gang....
, Norwegian publisher of AftenpostenAftenpostenAftenposten is Norway's largest newspaper. It retook this position in 2010, taking it from the tabloid Verdens Gang which had been the largest newspaper for several decades. It is based in Oslo. The morning edition, which is distributed across all of Norway, had a circulation of 250,179 in 2007...
and Verdens GangVerdens GangVerdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper... - China MiévilleChina MiévilleChina Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
, writer, PhD International Relations 2001 - Keith MurdochKeith MurdochSir Keith Arthur Murdoch was an Australian journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch, the CEO and Chairman of News Corp.-Life and career:Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1885, the son of Annie and the Rev...
, journalist and the father of Rupert MurdochRupert MurdochKeith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate.... - Érik OrsennaÉrik OrsennaÉrik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult , a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris , Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics...
(real name: Erik Arnoult), former economist and advisor to François MitterrandFrançois MitterrandFrançois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...
, member of the Conseil d'État and of the Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
, 1988 Prix GoncourtPrix GoncourtThe Prix Goncourt 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"... - Nisha PillaiNisha PillaiNisha Pillai is a journalist based in London. She is one of the main news anchors with BBC World News.-Early life:Pillai was born in Kolkata, India and grew up in Mumbai. When she was 14, her family moved to London, England...
, BBC World presenter - Aroon PurieAroon PurieAroon Purie is an Indian businessman who is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of India Today and the Chief Executive of the India Today Group. He is also the Managing Director of Thomson Press Limited and the Chairman and Managing Director of TV Today...
, Indian media mogul; founding editor and editor in chief of India TodayIndia TodayIndia Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...
and chairman of TV Today Network Limited - Nabila RamdaniNabila RamdaniNabila Ramdani is a Paris-born freelance journalist of Algerian descent who specialises in Anglo-French issues, Islamic affairs, and the Arab World.- Education:...
, French-Algerian journalist - Christopher RuddyChristopher RuddyChristopher Ruddy is an American conservative journalist. He is currently the CEO of Newsmax Media which publishes Newsmax.com, one of the top ranked websites for conservative political news in the United States...
, journalist, CEO of Newsmax MediaNewsMax MediaNewsmax Media is a conservative American news media organization founded by Christopher W. Ruddy and based in West Palm Beach, Florida. It operates the news website Newsmax.com and publishes Newsmax Magazine.Christopher W...
, formerly with the New York Post and Pittsburg Times Review. - Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
Renowned philosopher and Nobel Literature prize winning author - Sadeq SabaSadeq SabaSadegh Saba is an Iranian journalist, who currently works as the BBC's Iranian affairs analyst. He has been involved in BBC Persian Television. In July 2009, he became head of the BBC Persian section....
, BBC Iranian affairs analyst - Edward Taylor ScottEdward Taylor ScottEdward Taylor "Ted" Scott was a British journalist, who was editor and briefly co-owner of the Manchester Guardian, and the younger son of its legendary editor-owner C. P...
, journalist, former editor and co-owner of The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... - Barbara SerraBarbara SerraBarbara Serra is an Italian-born British-based journalist and TV newsreader, who presents from London on Al Jazeera.-Biography:Born in Milan to Italian parents, she was raised in Copenhagen from the age of nine...
, journalist and TV News Reader - Bret StephensBret StephensBret Louis Stephens is the foreign-affairs columnist of the Wall Street Journal and deputy editorial page editor, responsible for the editorial pages of the Journals European and Asian editions...
, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member and Editor in Chief of the Jerusalem Post - Michael Whitney StraightMichael Whitney StraightMichael Whitney Straight, was an American magazine publisher, novelist, patron of the arts, a member of the prominent Whitney family, and a confessed spy for the KGB.-Biography:...
, publisher and novelist - Sander VanocurSander VanocurSander "Sandy" Vanocur is an American journalist.- Career :Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Vanocur moved to Peoria, Illinois when he was twelve years old. After attending Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois, he earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the Northwestern...
, journalist, NBC - Siddharth VaradarajanSiddharth VaradarajanSiddharth Varadarajan is the Editor of The Hindu, one of India's leading English language newspapers. He has reported on the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the crisis in Kashmir...
, journalist and editor - Stuart VarneyStuart VarneyStuart Varney is a British-American economic journalist, and as of 2011, working for the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network. Varney joined Fox News in January, 2004 as a business contributor on many shows, such as Your World with Neil Cavuto. He also occasionally serves as guest host...
, Peabody-award winning economic journalist, Fox; Previously CNN - David ViseDavid A. ViseDavid A. Vise, a journalist and author for over 20 years, is now a Senior Advisor to New Mountain Capital, a New York-based investment firm, and New Mountain Vantage, its public equity fund. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 while working as a business reporter for the Washington Post...
, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, author of The Google Story - Justin WebbJustin WebbJustin Oliver Webb is a British journalist who has worked for the BBC since 1984. Since August 2009, he has presented on the Today programme.-Early life:...
, BBC News, Washington Correspondent - Xu ZhimoXu ZhimoXu Zhimo was an early 20th century Chinese poet. He was given the name of Zhangxu and the courtesy name of Yousen . He later changed his courtesy name to Zhimo ....
, early 20th century Chinese poet
Business and Finance
- Josef Ackermann (* 1948), CEO of Deutsche BankDeutsche BankDeutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...
(visiting professor) - Lord Waheed AlliWaheed Alli, Baron AlliWaheed Alli, Baron Alli is a British multimillionaire media entrepreneur and politician. He was co-founder and managing director of Planet 24, a TV production company, and managing director at Carlton Television Productions...
, House of Lords, media mogul, only openly gay Muslim businessman - Lau Ming-Wai, businessman who studied law at LSE; his father is Hong Kong billionaire property developer Joseph LauJoseph LauJoseph Lau Luen Hung is a billionaire Hong Kong real estate investor who owns a 61% stake in Chinese Estates Holdings. His fortune is estimated by Forbes at $4.3 billion.-Wealth:...
who was ranked #458 richest man in the world by Forbes in 2007 - Delphine ArnaultDelphine ArnaultDelphine Arnault is a French businesswoman with the LVMH luxury goods conglomerate. The daughter of Bernard Arnault, she is one of the richest women in the world; on September 24, 2005, she married Alessandro Vallarino Gancia, heir to an Italian wine fortune.-Biography:Arnault was in 2008 one of...
, billionaire French businesswoman - Geoffrey BellGeoffrey BellGeoffrey L Bell, , is an economist, banker, and Executive Secretary of the Washington based Group of Thirty, an influential and high powered council of private and central bankers....
, banker, and Group of ThirtyGroup of ThirtyThe Group of Thirty, often abbreviated to G30, is an international body of leading financiers and academics which aims to deepen understanding of economic and financial issues and to examine consequences of decisions made in the public and private sectors related to these issues...
founder - Sir Gordon BruntonGordon BruntonSir Gordon Charles Brunton KBE is an English businessman, publisher and racehorse owner/breeder.- Early life :Educated at Cranleigh School, Surrey and studied under Harold Laski at the London School of Economics...
, Chief Executive Thomson CorporationThomson CorporationThe Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies.Thomson was active in financial services, healthcare sectors, law, science & technology research, and tax & accounting sectors...
, Former Chairman Sotheby'sSotheby'sSotheby's is the world's fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation.-History:The oldest auction house in operation is the Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674, the second oldest is Göteborgs Auktionsverk founded in 1681 and third oldest being founded in 1731, all Swedish... - Richard CarusoRichard CarusoRichard E. Caruso, PhD, is a serial entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Integra Life Sciences and other companies. In 2006, Caruso was named the Ernst and Young National Entrepreneur of the Year for the United States.-Education:Dr...
, Founder and Chairman of Integra LifeSciences Corporation and 2006 Ernst & Young US Entrepreneur of the Year - Tony FernandesTony FernandesTan Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes CBE is a Malaysian entrepreneur and the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., who introduced the first budget no-frills airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline "Now everyone can fly"...
, entrepreneur - Clara FurseClara FurseDame Clara Hedwig Frances Furse DBE was the Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange between 2001 and May 2009, and was the first female to occupy the position. In 2005 she was ranked 19th in Fortune magazine's Most powerful women in business list.Furse was born in Canada to Dutch parents, and...
, former Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange - Thomas J Kourdi, Director, Kourdi Ltd
- Sir Stelios Haji-IoannouStelios Haji-IoannouSir Stelios Haji-Ioannou , born 14 February 1967) is a British entrepreneur of Greek Cypriot origin, currently a resident of Monaco. He is the scion of a wealthy, shipowning family, but is best known for setting up easyJet, a highly successful and profitable low-cost airline, with start-up funds...
, entrepreneur, founder of EasyGroup - Michael S. Jeffries, CEO Abercrombie & FitchAbercrombie & FitchAbercrombie & Fitch is an American retailer that focuses on casual wear for consumers aged 18 to 22. It has over 300 locations in the United States, and is expanding internationally....
Co. - Richard KahanRichard KahanRichard Kahan is a Canadian television actor. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he is known for his role as Marco Pacella in the television series The 4400.-Filmography:- External links :...
, Chairman, Riverside South Planning Corporation, Donald Trump's building - Robert KaplanRobert S. KaplanRobert S. Kaplan is Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, United States, and co-creator, together with David P. Norton, of the balanced scorecard, a means of linking a company's current actions to its long-term goals...
, former Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International - Michael Kopper, former Enron executive
- Spiro LatsisSpiro LatsisDr. Spiro J. Latsis is a Greek businessman with a fortune of US$9.1 billion . He ranked 51st on Forbes's 2006 World's Billionaires list. He is the son of the Greek shipping magnate, John Latsis, who died in 2003....
, billionaire - Charles Lee, Former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- David MorganDavid Morgan (businessman)David Raymond Morgan AO is the former CEO and Managing Director of Westpac Banking Corporation, one of Australia's four major banks and Chairman of the Australian Bankers Association.-Early life, education and personal life:...
, CEO of WestpacWestpacWestpac , is a multinational financial services, one of the Australian "big four" banks and the second-largest bank in New Zealand.... - Arif NaqviArif NaqviArif Naqvi is the CEO of Dubai-based investment bank Abraaj Capital, the leading private equity firm in the Middle East and Northern Africa. He has spent 27 years in the banking, finance and investments industry....
, CEO of Abraaj CapitalAbraaj CapitalAbraaj Capital is among the world's 50-biggest private equity groups, and invests in the growing Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region, a region also known as MENASA. Abraaj manages about $6.6 billion of funds and stakes in about two dozen companies, including some of the best known in...
, the leading private equity firm in the Middle EastMiddle EastThe Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East... - Erling Dekke NæssErling Dekke NæssErling Dekke Næss, was a Norwegian shipowner and businessman. Brother of philosopher Arne Dekke Næss, his nephew was the mountaineer and businessman Arne Næss Jr.. Best known for his early adoption of flags of convenience, Næss was Deputy Head of Nortraship's New York office from 1942 to 1946....
, Norwegian shipowner and businessman - Richard NesbittRichard NesbittRichard William Nesbitt is a Canadian financial executive. He became CEO of CIBC World Markets on February 29, 2008, replacing former CIBC World Markets head Brian Shaw....
, CEO, TSX Group; Toronto Stock Exchange - Jorma OllilaJorma OllilaJorma Jaakko Ollila is the Chairman and former CEO of the Nokia Corporation and a Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company , UPM-Kymmene , and Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd...
, Chairman of Nokia CorporationNokiaNokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
, Non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch ShellRoyal Dutch ShellRoyal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six... - Zarin PatelZarin PatelZarin Patel is the BBC's Chief Financial Officer. She took up the post on 1 December 2004 following the promotion of John Smith to Chief Operating Officer. She was previously Head of Revenue Management, the department within the BBC responsible for collecting the Television licence, a job she had...
, BBC's Chief Financial Officer - Gary PerlinGary PerlinGary Perlin was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is the current chief financial officer of the Capital One Financial Corporation and former CFO of the World Bank.- Background :...
, CFO Capital One Financial Corporation; Former CFO World BankWorld BankThe World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty... - Avinash PersaudAvinash PersaudAvinash D. Persaud is Chairman of Intelligence Capital Ltd, a company specializing in analyzing, managing and creating financial liquidity in investment projects and portfolios. He is also the non-Executive Chairman of the London-based Elara Capital, a leading investment bank...
, Global Head of Currency & Commodity Research at J.P. Morgan - Vicky PryceVicky PryceVicky Pryce CB is an economist, and former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service.-Early life:She was born in Athens, the daughter of Nicolas and Voula Courmouzis...
, former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service - Philip J. PurcellPhilip J. PurcellPhilip J. Purcell was the former Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley in the late 1990s and 2000s. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of Dean Witter and managed the firm under its ownership by Sears, Roebuck & Co....
, former CEO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter - Ruth Porat, Chief Financial Officer, Morgan Stanley
- Syed Ali RazaSyed Ali RazaSyed Ali Raza is the former and current President and Chairman of the National Bank of Pakistan.He is the son of Syed Hashim Raza, an ICS [Indian Civil Services] Officer of pre partition India, who later emigrated to Pakistan and joined the civil services, Hashim Raza held top bureaucratic...
, President and Chairman of the National Bank of PakistanNational Bank of PakistanNational Bank of Pakistan is one of the largest commercial bank operating in Pakistan. It has redefined its role and has moved from a public sector organisation into a modern commercial bank... - David RockefellerDavid RockefellerDavid Rockefeller, Sr. is the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His five siblings were...
, American billionaire and business tycoon - Maurice SaatchiMaurice Saatchi, Baron SaatchiMaurice Nathan Saatchi, Baron Saatchi is the co-founder, with his brother Charles, of the advertising agencies Saatchi and Saatchi and M&C Saatchi, where he currently serves as Executive Director.- Early life :...
, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi - George SorosGeorge SorosGeorge Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes...
, Notable Financier; Billionaire - Brian MacCabaBrian MacCabaBrian MacCaba is a multi-millionaire businessman born and raised in Ireland but now primarily based in London and Jerusalem. Although he made his fortune in the e-commerce sector through his company Cognotec, he is perhaps best known for his part in the infamous 'Indecent Proposal' libel case...
, Notable Jewish CEO of Cognotec - Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of DidgemereAllen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of DidgemereAllen John George Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere KCVO is an industrialist.He was educated at Ilford County High School and the London School of Economics....
, industrialist, Chancellor of Middlesex UniversityMiddlesex UniversityMiddlesex University is a university in north London, England. It is located in the historic county boundaries of Middlesex from which it takes its name. It is one of the post-1992 universities and is a member of Million+ working group... - Lance Uggla, CEO of Markit Group
- Panagis VourloumisPanagis VourloumisPanagis Vourloumis was a Greek politician, lawyer, economist and a finance minister. He was one of the main collaborators of Eleftherios Venizelos. He studied law at the University of Athens and worked in Marseilles as the director of a raisin export company. In 1893, he founded his own business...
, Managing Director and President of the OTEOTEHellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. , usually known by its Greek initials OTE, is the dominant telecommunications provider in Greece. Formerly a state-owned monopoly, OTE was part-privatized in 1998 and is now listed on the Athens and New York Stock Exchanges...
's Board, the national telecommunications provider of Greece - Arnold WeinstockArnold WeinstockArnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock was an English businessman whom The Guardian newspaper called "Britain's premier post-second-world-war industrialist."...
, English businessman, best known for building GEC - Jim WhitehurstJim WhitehurstJim Whitehurst is the Chief Executive Officer at Red Hat. Prior to that, he was a Chief Operating Officer of Delta Air Lines. Whitehurst was tapped by former Delta CEO Gerald Grinstein to lead the airline out of bankruptcy and played a critical role in Delta's battle for survival against the...
, CEO of Red HatRed HatRed Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide.... - Winston DookeranWinston DookeranWinston Dookeran is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist. He currently serves as Political Leader of the Congress of the People. His term ends on July 3, 2011 when internal elections will be held to select a political leader. At a press conference on May 28, 2011, Mr. Dookeran...
, politician and economist; former Governor of the Caribbean Development Bank and Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
Lawyers and judges
- Cherie BoothCherie BlairCherie Blair , known professionally as Cherie Booth QC, is a British barrister working in the legal system of England and Wales. She is married to the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair; the couple have three sons and one daughter...
QC, judge, wife of former British Prime MinisterPrime Minister of the United KingdomThe Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the Head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Parliament, to their political party and...
Tony BlairTony BlairAnthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007... - Linda DobbsLinda DobbsDame Linda Penelope Dobbs, DBE , styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Dobbs, was the first non-white person to be appointed to the senior judiciary of England and Wales, being appointed a high court judge in 2004....
, first non-white person to be appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales - Courtenay GriffithsCourtenay GriffithsCourtenay Griffiths QC is a Jamaican-born British barrister, notable for his defence within a number of high-profile cases, and a member of London-based Garden Court Chambers.-Early life:...
, QC - Curtis DoebblerCurtis DoebblerDr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler is an international human rights lawyer who since 1988 has been representing individuals before international human rights bodies in Africa, Europe, the Americas and before United Nations bodies...
, lawyer, represented Saddam HusseinSaddam HusseinSaddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003... - Baron GrabinerAnthony Grabiner, Baron GrabinerAnthony Stephen Grabiner, Baron Grabiner QC is a British barrister. He is the head of chambers at One Essex Court, a leading set of commercial barristers in the Temple....
, judge - Christopher GreenwoodChristopher GreenwoodSir Christopher John Greenwood CMG QC is a duly elected member of the International Court of Justice. He is a barrister and professor of international law at the London School of Economics...
QC, member of the ICJ and esteemed international lawyer; advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the 2003 Iraq war - Rosalyn HigginsRosalyn HigginsDame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, QC is the former President of the International Court of Justice. Higgins was the first female judge to be appointed to the ICJ, and was elected President in 2006. Her term of office expired on 6 February 2009...
QC, judge and former president of the International Court of Justice - Makhdoom Ali KhanMakhdoom Ali KhanMakhdoom Ali Khan , is a practising Senior Advocate Supreme Court. Makhdoom Ali Khan is a former Attorney General of Pakistan, former Chairman Pakistan Bar Council, former member of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, former Board Member of the Federal Judicial Academy of Pakistan and a...
, former Attorney General of Pakistan - Manfred LachsManfred LachsManfred H. Lachs was a Polish diplomat and jurist who greatly influenced in the development of international law after World War II.-Life:...
, judge on the International Court of JusticeInternational Court of JusticeThe International Court of Justice is the primary judicial organ of the United Nations. It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands... - Mustafa Kamal, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr.Thomas MesereauThomas Arthur Mesereau, Jr. is an American attorney best known for defending Michael Jackson in his 2005 child molestation trial.-The Robert Blake murder trial:...
, lawyer, represented Michael JacksonMichael JacksonMichael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records... - Gareth PeirceGareth PeirceGareth Peirce is an English solicitor, educated at the Cheltenham Ladies' College, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics. She is known for her work in high profile cases representing people with Irish and Muslim backgrounds accused of terrorism.-Personal life:Born with the...
, solicitor, represented the Guildford FourGuildford FourThe Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven were two sets of people whose convictions in English courts for the Guildford pub bombings in the 1970s were eventually quashed... - Robert RibeiroRobert RibeiroRobert Ribeiro is a Hong Kong judge and honorary lecturer in law at the University of Hong Kong. He is currently serving one of the three permanent judges for the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong.-Early life and education:...
, Permanent Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal - Cedric ThornberryCedric ThornberryCedric Thornberry is an international lawyer and former Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations, for which he worked for 17 years. He spent most of his United Nations service in international peace keeping in Cyprus, the Middle East, ex-Yugoslavia and Somalia.-Background:Cedric Thornberry...
, International lawyer and former Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations - Christopher WolfChristopher WolfChristopher Wolf is an American attorney specializing in Internet and privacy law. He is a partner in the international law firm of Hogan & Hartson. He is the founding editor and lead author of the first Practising Law Institute legal treatise on privacy and information security law...
, American attorney, a pioneer in Internet law
Others
- Bill BlytheBill BlytheWilliam Jackson Blythe, Jr., usually known as Bill Blythe or William Blythe , is a real estate broker in Houston, Texas, and a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Harris County...
, fromer RepublicanRepublican Party (United States)The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
state representativeTexas House of RepresentativesThe Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Texas Legislature. The House is composed of 150 members elected from single-member districts across the state. The average district has about 150,000 people. Representatives are elected to two-year terms with no term limits...
from Harris CountyHarris County, TexasAs of the 2010 Census, the population of the county was 4,092,459, White Americans made up 56.6% of Harris County's population; non-Hispanic whites represented 33.0% of the population. Black Americans made up 18.9% of the population. Native Americans made up 0.7% of Harris County's population...
, TexasTexasTexas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, 1971 to 1983 - Dame Elisabeth HoodlessElisabeth HoodlessDame Elisabeth Anne Marian Frost Hoodless, DBE is the Executive Director of Community Service Volunteers , the United Kingdom's leading volunteering and training charity. She is also a former Labour councillor in North London, and a long-term Labour party member...
, humanitarian - Monica LewinskyMonica LewinskyMonica Samille Lewinsky is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996...
, former White House intern involved in a sex scandal with former President Bill ClintonBill ClintonWilliam Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... - Cathy Chui Chi Kay, Hong Kong billionaire's son's wife
- John LacyJohn LacyJohn Lacy is a former professional footballer who played for Kingstonian, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur and Crystal Palace.-Football career:...
, English footballer, 1975 FA Cup finalist1975 FA Cup FinalThe 1975 FA Cup Final was contested by West Ham United and Fulham at Wembley. The Fulham team contained two former England captains in former West Ham captain Bobby Moore, making his last appearance at Wembley, and Alan Mullery. West Ham won 2–0, with the two goals scored by Alan Taylor...
with Fulham FC - Valerie PlameValerie PlameValerie Elise Plame Wilson , known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is a former United States CIA Operations Officer and the author of a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA.-Early life :Valerie Elise Plame was born on...
, CIA officer who was controversially identified in a newspaper column by Robert NovakRobert NovakRobert David Sanders "Bob" Novak was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving for the U.S. Army in the Korean War, he became a reporter for the Associated Press and then for...
in July 2003 - Ahmed Omar Saeed SheikhAhmed Omar Saeed SheikhAhmed Omar Saeed Sheikh is a British-born militant of Pakistani descent with links to various Islamist militant organisations, including Jaish-e-Mohammed, al-Qaeda, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and the Taliban.He was arrested and served time in prison for...
, Islamic militant - Val Venis, wrestler
- Geoffrey SampsonGeoffrey SampsonGeoffrey Sampson is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex....
, linguist - Zecharia SitchinZecharia SitchinZecharia Sitchin was an Azerbaijani-born American author of books promoting an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he states was a race of extra-terrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune...
, ancient astronaut theorist - Loyd GrossmanLoyd GrossmanLoyd Daniel Gilman Grossman, OBE, FSA is an American-British television presenter, chef and musician who has mainly worked in the UK.- Early life, education and honours :...
, chef and TV presenter - Dr Robert Kilroy-SilkRobert Kilroy-SilkRobert Michael Kilroy-Silk is an English former politician, former independent Member of the European Parliament, and former television presenter, best known for his daytime talk show Kilroy. He has been a university lecturer and Labour Party Member of Parliament...
politician and TV Presenter - Carlos the JackalCarlos the JackalIlich Ramírez Sánchez , better known as Carlos the Jackal, is a Venezuelan pro-Palestinian currently serving a life sentence in France for shooting to death two French secret agents and a Lebanese informer in 1975....
, terrorist - HRH Prince Abdul Malik, third in line to the Sultan of Brunei
- Josh ChetwyndJosh ChetwyndJoshua Stephen Chetwynd is a journalist, broadcaster, author and former baseball player.-Journalism:Chetwynd has worked as a staff reporter for USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter and U.S. News & World Report...
baseball player, presenter and author - Elham Al QasimiElham Al QasimiElham Al Qasim is an Emirati woman, who embarked on a successful skiing expedition to the North Pole “unsupported and unassisted”...
, First Arab Woman to reach the North Pole
Fictional
- President Josiah BartletJosiah BartletJosiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet is a fictional character played by Martin Sheen on the television serial drama The West Wing. He is President of the United States for the entire series until the last episode, when his successor is inaugurated...
, fictional President of the United StatesPresident of the United StatesThe President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
on NBCNBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's popular TV show The West Wing - Prime Minister Jim HackerJames HackerJames George Hacker, Baron Hacker of Islington, KG, PC, B. Sc. , Hon. D. C. L. was a fictional British politician. He was the Minister of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs, and later the Prime Minister, in the 1980s British sitcom Yes Minister and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister...
of Yes MinisterYes MinisterYes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC Television between 1980–1982 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran from 1986 to 1988. In total there were 38 episodes—of which all but...
and Yes, Prime Minister - Andrew Bond, fictional father of James BondJames BondJames Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
, 007 - Eliza Doolittle, fictional character in PygmalionPygmalion (play)Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of...
by George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
Founders of LSE
- Sidney Webb and Beatrice WebbBeatrice WebbMartha Beatrice Webb, Lady Passfield was an English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield...
- George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
- Graham WallasGraham WallasGraham Wallas was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, a leader of the Fabian Society and a co-founder of the London School of Economics....
- Henry Hutchinson
- H. G. WellsH. G. WellsHerbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
- Annie BesantAnnie BesantAnnie Besant was a prominent British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.She was married at 19 to Frank Besant but separated from him over religious differences. She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society ...
- Hubert BlandHubert BlandHubert Bland was an early English socialist and one of the founders of the Fabian Society.Born in Woolwich, south-east London, Bland wanted to join the army but instead became a bank clerk. In 1877, he met 19-year-old Edith Nesbit, a follower of William Morris. They married on 22 April 1880 with...
- Edith NesbitE. NesbitEdith Nesbit was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television...
- Sydney OlivierSydney Olivier, 1st Baron OlivierSydney Haldane Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier, KCMG, CB, PC , was a British civil servant. A Fabian and a member of the Labour Party, he served as Governor of Jamaica and as Secretary of State for India in the first government of Ramsay MacDonald...
- Oliver Lodge
- Leonard WoolfLeonard WoolfLeonard Sidney Woolf was an English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf.-Early life:...
and Virginia WoolfVirginia WoolfAdeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.... - Emmeline PankhurstEmmeline PankhurstEmmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement which helped women win the right to vote...
(Some are depicted in the Fabian Window
Fabian Window
The founders of the Fabian Society are depicted in the famous stained-glass Fabian Windowdesigned by George Bernard Shaw. The window was stolen in 1978 and reappeared at Sotheby's in 2005...
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- Frank PodmoreFrank PodmoreFrank Podmore was an English author, founding member of the Fabian Society, and writer on psychic matters.-Life:...
- Edward R. PeaseEdward R. PeaseEdward Reynolds Pease was an English writer and a founding member of the Fabian Society.Pease, the sixth of fifteen children, was born near Bristol, the son of devout Quakers, Thomas Pease and Susanna Ann Fry sister of Edward Fry, the judge...
- Edward CarpenterEdward CarpenterEdward Carpenter was an English socialist poet, socialist philosopher, anthologist, and early gay activist....
- Henry Stephens SaltHenry Stephens SaltHenry Stephens Salt was an English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer,...
- Ramsay MacDonaldRamsay MacDonaldJames Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government for two terms....
- H. M. Hyndman
- Keir HardieKeir HardieJames Keir Hardie, Sr. , was a Scottish socialist and labour leader, and was the first Independent Labour Member of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
- Henry Campbell-BannermanHenry Campbell-BannermanSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman GCB was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He also served as Secretary of State for War twice, in the Cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery...
- Lytton StracheyLytton StracheyGiles Lytton Strachey was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit...
- E. M. ForsterE. M. ForsterEdward Morgan Forster OM, CH was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society...
- Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
- John DavidsonJohn DavidsonJohn Davidson may refer to:* John Andrew Davidson , Canadian politician* John Davidson , American actor* John Davidson , Australian admiral...
- Havelock EllisHavelock EllisHenry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis , was a British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and...
- R. H. TawneyR. H. TawneyRichard Henry Tawney was an English economic historian, social critic, Christian socialist, and an important proponent of adult education....
- G. D. H. ColeG. D. H. ColeGeorge Douglas Howard Cole was an English political theorist, economist, writer and historian. As a libertarian socialist he was a long-time member of the Fabian Society and an advocate for the cooperative movement...
- Leopold Stennett AmeryLeopold Stennett AmeryLeopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery CH , usually known as Leo Amery or L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist, noted for his interest in military preparedness, India, and the British Empire.-Early life:Leopold Amery was born in Gorakhpur, India to an English...
, statesman and Conservative politician. - Richard Burdon Haldane, Liberal politician, lawyer, and philosopher.
- Leopold MaxseLeopold MaxseLeopold James Maxse was a journalist and editor of the conservative British publication, National Review, between August 1893 and his death in January 1932...
, editor, National ReviewNational Review (London)The National Review was founded in 1883 by the English writers Alfred Austin and William Courthope.It was launched as a platform for the views of the British Conservative Party, its masthead incorporating a quotation of the former Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli:Under editor Leopold... - Alfred Milner, statesman and colonial administrator
- Henry NewboltHenry NewboltSir Henry John Newbolt, CH was an English poet. He is best remembered for Vitaï Lampada, a lyrical piece used for propaganda purposes during the First World War.-Background:...
, author and poet. - Carlyon BellairsCarlyon BellairsCommander Carlyon Wilfroy Bellairs was a British naval officer and politician.He was born at Gibraltar, the son of Lieutenant-General Sir William Bellairs, KCMG....
, naval commander and M.P.Member of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,... - James Louis GarvinJames Louis GarvinFor the basketball player, see James Garvin James Louis Garvin , was an influential British journalist, editor, and author...
, journalist and editor - Sir Clinton Edward DawkinsClinton Edward DawkinsSir Clinton Edward Dawkins was a British businessman and civil servant.He succeeded Alfred Milner as private secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer George Goschen in 1889. He later served overseas as undersecretary for finance in Egypt from 1895 to 1899...
, businessman and civil servant. - Sir Edward Grey