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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.

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
EU	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-
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-
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
Taiwan	Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914–2000)	Composition fee student 1947-1949	Premier 1984-1989
Taiwan	Tsai Ing-wen (b.1956)	PhD Law 1984	Vice-premier 2006-
Thailand	Tanin Kraivixien (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 Arias (b. 1941) - President of Costa Rica, 1986–1990, 2006–present and Nobel Prize winner
• Maurice Bishop (1944–1983) - Prime Minister of Grenada (1979–1983)
• Heinrich Brüning (1885–1970) - Chancellor of Germany, 1930–1932
• Forbes Burnham - (1923–1985) - President of Guyana
• Tuanku Jaafar (b. 1922) - Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia, 1994–1999
• Tanin Kraivixien (b. 1927) - Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976–1977
• Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914–2000) - Premier of Taiwan, 1984–1989
• Sylvanus Olympio (1902–1963) - Prime Minister of Togo, 1958–1961, and first President of Togo, 1961–1963
• Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900–1985) - Prime Minister of Mauritius (1961–1982)
• Sergey Stanishev (b. 1966) - Prime Minister of Bulgaria, 2005–2009
• Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005) - Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, 1986–1990
• Banja Tejan-Sie, (1917–2000) - Governor-General and leader of opposition Sierra Leone People's Party in Sierra Leone
• Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1923) - Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959–1990

Nobel laureates

Alumni

• 1950: Ralph Bunche (Peace)
• 1979: Sir William Arthur Lewis (Economics)
• 1991: Ronald Coase (Economics)
• 1999: Robert Mundell (Economics)
• 2007: Leonid Hurwicz (Economics)

Founders and professors

• 1925: George Bernard Shaw (Literature)
• 1950: Bertrand Russell (Literature)
• 1959: Philip Noel-Baker (Peace)
• 1972: Sir John Hicks (Economics)
• 1974: Friedrich von Hayek (Economics)
• 1977: James Meade (Economics)
• 1990: Merton Miller (Economics)
• 1998: Amartya Sen (Economics)
• 2001: George Akerlof (Economics)
• 2003: Robert F. Engle III (Economics)
• 2007: Leonid Hurwicz (Economics)
• 2008: Paul Krugman (Economics)
• 2010: Christopher A. Pissarides (Economics)

Non-alumni

• 1987: Óscar Arias (Peace)

Guy Medal recipients

• 1945 Sir Maurice Kendall
• 1976 James Durbin (Silver)
• 1978 Sir R. G. D. Allen (Gold)
• 1982 Henry Wynn (Silver)
• 2007 Howell Tong (Silver)
• 2008 James Durbin (Gold)

Academics

Economists

• Daron Acemoglu, economist, John Bates Clark Medal Winner 2005
• Sir Roy Allen, economist and mathematician
• Tony Antoniou, former Dean of Durham Business School and Professor of Finance
• Heinz Wolfgang Arndt, economist
• Peter Thomas Bauer, development economist
• William Baumol, Professor of Economics and Director, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University
• Charles Bean, economist, member of Monetary Policy Committee
• Timothy Besley, economics professor and member of Monetary Policy Committee
• Kenneth Binmore, economist
• Alan Budd, British economist, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford
• Willem Buiter, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee
• Ronald Coase, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University; Previously Chairman, National Intelligence Council and; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
• Peter Cornelius, former Group Chief Economist of Royal Dutch Shell, Former Chief Economist of the World Economic Forum
• Hugh Dalton, former LSE student, lecturer and Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Lord Desai, development economist
• Roderick D. Fraser, economist, President of the University of Alberta, 1995–2005
• Ian Goldin, development economist, Director of The James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford
• Charles Goodhart, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee
• David Forbes Hendry, British economist, currently Professor of Economics and Head of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford
• J.A. Hobson, economist and writer
• Samuel Hollander, British/Canadian/Israeli economist
• Anothony Hopwood, Former dean of Oxford Said Business School
• Eliot Janeway, American economist, economic advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson
• Harry Johnson, economist
• Lewis Webster Jones, economist, fifteenth President of Rutgers University
• Nicholas Kaldor, economist
• Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, Nobel Prize winner, Pultizer Prize winning journalist
• Maurice Kugler, development economist
• Ludwig Lachmann, economist
• David Laidler, economist
• Lord Layard, economist
• Peter Leeson, George Mason Economist
• Sir William Arthur Lewis, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Lisa M. Lynch, William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs and former Academic Dean at the Fletcher School at Tufts University
• James Meade, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Merton Miller, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Michio Morishima, Japanese economist
• Robert Mundell, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Stephen Nickell, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee
• Andrew Oswald, economist
• Baron Maurice Peston, economist and politician
• Peter C. B. Phillips, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at Yale University
• William Phillips, economist
• Christopher A. Pissarides, Cypriot-born British economist, member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Cyprus
• Mihir Rakshit, economist
• Lionel Robbins, economist
• Tadeusz Rybczynski, Polish-born English economist, known for the development of the Rybczynski theorem
• Anthony Saunders, Chairman, Department of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University
• Tibor Scitovsky, economist
• Arthur Seldon, free market ideologue
• Andrew Sentance, member of Monetary Policy Committee
• G.L.S. Shackle, economist
• Neil Shephard, econometrician
• Alasdair Smith, economist, former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex
• Piero Sraffa, economist
• Nicholas Stern, economist
• Sho-Chieh Tsiang, economist
• Lord Turner, businessman, academic, chair of the UK Financial Services Authority
• John Van Reenen, economist, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics
• Sushil Wadhwani, economist
• Sir Alan Walters, monetary economist
• Guglielmo Weber, Professor in Econometrics, Director of the Antonveneta Centre for Economic Research of the University of Padua
• Basil Yamey, industrial economist
• Allyn Abbott Young, economist

Historians

• Janet Coleman FRHS, historian of political thought
• Martin van Creveld, Israeli military historian and theorist
• Niall Ferguson, prominent economic and international historian
• James Joll, leading World War One historian
• Paul Kennedy, British historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy
• David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize winning author, prominent historian on African Americans
• Juliette Levy, historian and Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
• Alfred Marshall, historian and sociologist
• Desmond Morton, historian
• Lewis Bernstein Namier, historian
• Ben Pimlott, Fabian President, modern historian, former president of Nottingham University
• Anthony Seldon, historian, biographer of Tony Blair and headmaster of Wellington College
• Avi Shlaim, historian specialising in the Middle East
• Alan Sked, leading Habsburg historian and founder of the United Kingdom Independence Party
• David Starkey, historian specialising in Tudor England
• G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, historian
• David Stevenson (WW1 historian), World War One historian
• John Stubbs, historian, former president of Trent University and Simon Fraser University
• Jacob Talmon, historian
• Arnold Joseph Toynbee, historian
• Sir Charles Webster, Stevenson Professor of International History; diplomat and founder of the United Nations
• Odd Arne Westad, 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 Deng, East Asian economic historian
• Mary S. Morgan, historian of economics
• Tim Leunig, economic historian of the cotton and railway industries, anthropometric historian, economic commentator
• R. H. Tawney, an English writer, economist, historian, social critic and university professor and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism. Richard Tawney has been called "the patron saint of adult education".
• Edwin Cannan, historian of economic thought, professor at LSE from 1895 to 1926.
• Nick Crafts, professor of economic history at LSE between 1995 and 2005
• Niall Ferguson, Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs

Employment relations/Management

• Ian Angell, Professor of Information Systems
• Chrisanthi Avgerou, Professor of Information Systems
• Adam Seth Litwin, assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University
• David Metcalf, professor at LSE from 1982 to present
• Claudio Ciborra (1951–2005) Professor of Information Systems

Human geography

• George Jonas, founder of social geography; Professor of Geography at LSE, 1958-1983
• Halford MacKinder, geographer and LSE director, 1903–1908
• Laurence Dudley Stamp, geographer

International relations

• Daniele Archibugi, former Visiting Professor of International Relations
• Chris Brown, Professor of International Relations
• Hedley Bull, Professor of International Relations
• Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations
• Christopher Coker, Professor of International Relations, Department Head
• Michael Cox, Professor of International Relations
• David Held, Professor of International Relations
• Fred Halliday, Professor of International Relations (Montague Burton Chair), to 2008
• Kimberly Hutchings, Professor of International Relations
• Mary Kaldor, Professor of International Relations
• Parag Khanna, author and current PhD candidate
• F. S. Northedge, former Professor of International Relations
• Richard W. Lyman, former Provost and President of Stanford University; Founder Stanford Institute for International Studies
• Susan Strange, Professor of International Relations (Montague Burton Chair), 1978 to 1988.
• Leonard Suransky, Winner of Des Lee Visiting Lectureship in Global Awareness at Webster University
• William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, Professor of International Relations; deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
• Margot Light, Professor of International Relations
• Martin Wight, Reader in International Relations, 1949–1960

Law

• Janice R. Bellace, Samuel A. Blank Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania, founding president of the Singapore Management University
• Paul Davies, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics, Honorary QC
• Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, former president of the American Bar Association, and former president of the Florida State University
• Albert Venn Dicey, English jurist
• Dame Linda Dobbs, 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 Finer, 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 Greenwood QC, esteemed international lawyer; advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the 2003 Iraq war, member of the ICJ
• Joseph Grundfest, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School
• Osagie Imasogie, Grant Irey Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
• Makhdoom Ali Khan, Barrister-at-Law from Lincolns Inn and Attorney General of Pakistan
• Philip Noel-Baker, professor of international law, politician, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Rolf Sethe, professor for civil law, commercial and economic law, University of Zurich, Ars legendi-Price Winner
• Adam Tomkins, John Millar Professor of Public Law at the University of Glasgow
• Michael Zander QC, Professor Emeritus. A distinguished professor of law at LSE between 1977 and 1998, member of the Runciman Royal Commission on Criminal Justice (1991–1993) and the Legal Correspondent of The Guardian newspaper between 1963 and 1988
• David van Zandt, Dean and Professor, Northwestern University Law School
• Andrew Ashworth CBE QC, Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Son of Politician Robert F Kennedy, Law professor at Pace School of Law

Philosophers

• Joseph Agassi, philosopher
• Brian Barry, moral and political philosopher
• William Warren Bartley, philosopher
• John Lane Bell, philosopher
• Nick Bostrom, philosopher
• Mike Burke, philosopher
• Nancy Cartwright, philosopher
• Sir Bernard Crick, political philosopher
• Helena Cronin, Darwinist philosopher
• Gregory Currie, philosopher
• Daniel Dennett, philosopher

• Paul Feyerabend, philosopher
• Peter S. Fosl, philosopher
• Ernest Gellner, philosopher
• John Gray, political philosopher
• Horace Romano Harré, philosopher
• Colin Howson, philosopher
• Imre Lakatos, philosopher
• Nicholas Maxwell, philosopher
• David Miller, philosopher
• Alan Musgrave, philosopher
• Michael Oakeshott, philosopher
• Sir Karl Popper, philosopher
• Graham Priest, philosopher
• Bertrand Russell, philosopher, Nobel Prize winner
• Jeremy Shearmur, philosopher
• Elliott Sober, philosopher
• Jeremy Stangroom, philosopher
• John Worrall, philosopher

Political scientists

• Benjamin Barber, professor of political science, University of Maryland, College Park
• Scott Barrett, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University
• Sarah Gibson Blanding, Vassar College's sixth president and first female president
• Ralph Bunche, political scientist and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Verity Burgmann, professor of political science, University of Melbourne
• William Christian, political scientist at the University of Guelph
• Ivor Martin Crewe, political scientist, Vice-Chancellor of University of Essex
• Amy Gutmann, political scientist, President of the University of Pennsylvania
• James Jupp AM, British/Australian political scientist and author
• Harold Laski, political scientist and economist, colleague of Albert Einstein
• Jim Leach, John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University
• Steven Lukes, political and social theorist
• Shireen Mazari, political scientist from Pakistan
• Ralph Miliband, political scientist
• Brendan O'Leary, Irish political scientist, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania
• Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh, political theorist
• Louis Pauly, political scientist
• Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, political scientist, diplomat and author
• Jill Vickers, political scientist

Sociologists

• Helmut Anheier, founder of the Centre for Civil Society and Dean of the Hertie School of Governance
• Eileen Barker, sociology of religion
• Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist
• Ulrich Beck, sociologist
• Robin Blackburn, sociologist
• Tessa Blackstone, educationalist
• Stanley Cohen, sociologist
• Peter Davis, sociologist
• Norbert Elias, leading sociologist
• Lord Anthony Giddens, sociologisy renowned for his theory of structuration, and former Director of the School
• Paul Gilroy, sociologist
• W.D. Hamilton, grandfather of sociobiology and the 'selfish gene' theory popularised by Dawkins
• Richard "Dick" Hobbs, sociologist
• Michael Mann, sociologist
• Karl Mannheim, sociologist
• Robert McKenzie, sociologist and psephologist
• Andrew Milner, sociologist of literature
• Talcott Parsons, sociologist
• John Porter, sociologist
• Nikolas Rose, sociologist
• Saskia Sassen, sociologist and economist
• Richard Sennett, sociologist
• Fran Tonkiss, sociologist
• Hilary Wainwright, sociologist

Social anthropology

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

Social Policy Analysts and Workers

• Sir William (later Lord) Beveridge
• Hartley Dean, professor of social policy
• Howard Glennerster, professor of social policy
• Julian Le Grand, prominent social economist
• Martin Knapp, Chair of LSE Health and Social Care
• Tim Newburn, professor of criminology and current president of the British Society of Criminology
• Augustus Nuwagaba, Associate Professor Makerere University
• Peter Townsend, professor of social policy
• Richard Titmuss, founder of the academic discipline of social policy

Social psychology

• Martin Bauer, psychologist
• Nicholas Humphrey, psychologist
• J. Philippe Rushton, psychologist
• Satoshi Kanazawa (evolutionary psychologist)
• Graham Wallas, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society
• Paul Webley, Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• Howard Gardner, an American psychologist, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences

Statisticians

• Sir Arthur Bowley, statistician
• D. G. Champernowne, Professor of Statistical Economics
• W. Edwards Deming, statistician, economist
• James Durbin, statistician, econometrician
• Sir Maurice George Kendall, statistician
• Leslie Kish, American statistician
• Claus Moser, Baron Moser, British statistician, Chancellor, Open University of Israel, 1994–2004
• Maurice Henry Quenouille, statistician
• John Denis Sargan, statistician
• David C G Beaumont, statistician, logician
• Sir R. G. D. Allen

Government and politics

United Kingdom

• Leo Abse, British MP, famous for legalisation of male homosexuality
• Lord Waheed Alli, media mogul, openly gay Muslim businessman
• Charlotte Atkins, Minister
• Richard Bacon, British MP
• Jackie Ballard, British MP, journalist, Director General of the RSPCA
• Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, former MP and British Peer
• Baroness Virginia Bottomley, former Cabinet Minister
• John Bourn, Officer, British House of Commons
• Annette Brooke, British MP
• Karen Buck, British MP
• Munir Butt, High Commissioner to Pakistan
• Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
• Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minister, Vice-President of the European Commission
• Yvette Cooper, Cabinet Minister
• Jim Cousins, British MP
• Edwina Currie, former British Conservative MP, author, radio presenter
• Stella Creasy, British MP
• Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Andrew Dismore, British MP
• Frank Dobson, Cabinet Minister
• Michael Ellam, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Director of Communications
• Daniel Finkelstein, Conservative Party strategist and Comment Editor of The Times
• Barbara Follett, British MP
• Steve Gilbert, British MP
• David Gold, Baron Gold
• Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, political advisor
• Tom Greatrex, British MP
• Lisa Harker, government child poverty tsar
• Mark Hoban, British MP
• Margaret Hodge, Minister
• Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Cabinet Minister
• Margot James, British MP
• Brian Jenkins, British MP
• Dr. Syed Kamall, British MP
• Ruth Kelly, Cabinet Minister
• Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England
• Julian Le Grand, senior advisor to the Prime Minister
• Spencer Livermore, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Director of Political Strategy
• Rachel Lomax, British economist and government official
• Michael Meacher, Minister
• Baron Merlyn-Rees, former Home Secretary
• Ed Miliband, current leader of the Labour Party
• Andrew Miller, British MP
• Maria Miller, British MP
• Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett
• Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, Cabinet Minister
• Bob Neill, British MP
• Eric Ollerenshaw, British MP
• Marion Phillips, British MP
• Christopher Pincher, British MP
• Stephen Pound, British MP
• Baron Reginald Prentice
• Baroness Joyce Quin
• Baroness Rawlings, British MEP, former Chairman of the Council of King's College London
• Rachel Reeves, British MP
• David Rutley, British MP
• Tom Scholar, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gordon Brown
• Andrew Selous, British MP
• Virendra Sharma, British MP
• Barry Sheerman, British MP
• Josiah Stamp, former Governor of the Bank of England
• John Stonehouse, former Minister
• Jo Swinson, British MP
• Ian Taylor, British MP
• Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, Junior Minister
• Rudi Vis, British MP
• Malcolm Wicks, Minister
• Jennifer Willott, British MP
• David Winnick, British MP
• Anthony Wright, Former British MP
• Baron Michael Young, academic and author of the 1945 Labour manifesto

United States

• Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State in Reagan Administration; Senior Director of the National Security Council in Bush Administration
• Eric Alterman, Professor at Brooklyn College; political columnist for The Nation; Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and the World Policy Institute
• Donald Baer, 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
• Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice
• Lisa Belzberg, Founder and Director, PENCIL
• Walter Berns, Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
• Karan Bhatia, Deputy United States Trade Representative; Assistant Secretary of Transportation, Bush Administration
• Anne Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice; Former associate professor of law at University of New Mexico
• Alan Blinder, Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisors under Bill Clinton; economic advisor to John Kerry; vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Professor of Economics, Princeton University
• John A. Bohn, President and Chairman at the Export-Import Bank of the United States
• Clifford Bond, United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bush Administration
• Rebecca Birget Certa, Democratic Member of US House of Representatives
• Michael Chertoff, United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Bush Administration; US Attorney, Bush Sr. and Clinton Administrations
• Colm Connolly, United States Attorney, Bush Administration
• Lauchlin Currie, White House Economic Adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Rosa DeLauro, high-ranking Democratic Member of the US House of Representatives
• Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation Think Tank
• George T. Frampton Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Clinton Administration; Chairman of the Council of Environmental Quality, Clinton Administration
• William Gale, Council of Economic Advisers, Bush Administration
• Eric Garcetti, President, Los Angeles City Council
• Marc Grossman, 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. Hansen, Republican Member of the US House of Representatives
• Stuart Holliday, US Representative to the United Nations; Assistant Secretary of State
• Frank S. Holleman, Deputy Secretary of Education, Clinton Administration
• Genta H. Holmes, United States Ambassador to Australia, Clinton Administration; United States Ambassador to Namibia; Chief of Mission to Haiti and Malawi
• Alice Stone Ilchman, Assistant Secretary of Education and Cultural Affairs under US President Jimmy Carter
• Dr Bruce Jentleson, International Affairs Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore
• Bruce Katz, former Chief of Staff, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; Vice President, Brookings Institution
• Anthony Kennedy, United States Supreme Court, Associate Justice
• John F. Kennedy, President of the United States 1961-1963
• Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., first son of Joseph Kennedy and elder brother of John F. Kennedy
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., environmental activist, son of slain Senator Robert Kennedy
• Vanessa Kerry, Democratic activist and daughter of Senator John Kerry (D-MA)
• Ron Kind, Democratic Member of US House of Representatives
• Mark Kirk, Republican Member of the US Senate.
• Deborah Lehr, lead negotiator for China's WTO Accession; former partner at Mayer Brown
• Susan Lindauer, ex-Congressional aide accused of assisting Iraqi intelligence prior to the 2003 invasion
• Clay Lowery, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Bush Administration
• Edward Luttwak, Consultant to the US National Security Council, State Department and Defence Department; Economist; Historian; Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
• John W. McCarter, President and CEO of The Field Museum; White House Fellow during Lyndon B. Johnson Administration
• James McGreevey, former Governor of New Jersey
• Elisabeth Millard, Senior Director of the National Security Council, Bush Administration; Deputy Chief of US Mission to Nepal
• Brad Miller, Member of the US House of Representatives
• Chris Moore, Assistant Secretary of State, Bush Administration
• Richard H. Moore, North Carolina State Treasurer
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US Senator
• Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance
• Peter R. Orszag, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors, Clinton Administration; Fellow of the Brookings Institution; Professor, Georgetown University, Congressional Budget Office Director, Director desginate Office of Management and Budget
• Max Pappas, Director of Policy at FreedomWorks
• Alice Paul, American suffragist
• Richard Perle, 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.
• Victoria Radd, White House Deputy Director of Communications, Clinton Administration; senior policy advisor to Bentsen, Dukakis and Mondale campaigns
• David Rockefeller, former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Trilateral Commission
• Pete Rouse, White House Chief of Staff, Obama Administration
• James Rubin, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; lead foreign policy adviser to John Kerry campaign
• Robert Rubin, US Treasury Secretary and Director, National Economic Council, Clinton Administration; Director of Goldman Sachs
• August Schumacher Jr., Under-Secretary of Agriculture, Clinton Administration
• Rajiv Shah, USAID Administrator, Obama Administration
• Dr Robert Shapiro, Undersecretary of Commerce, Clinton Administration; Fellow of Harvard University; Fellow of National Bureau of Economic Research
• Mona Sutphen, current White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
• John Tower, US Senator
• Paul Volcker, Chairman of Federal Reserve, Carter and Reagan Administrations; US Treasury Under-Secretary, Nixon Administration; President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; US Ambassador to Egypt, Bush Administration
• Maureen White, US Democratic Party National Finance Chair; US Representative to UNICEF; Human Rights Watch, board-member
• Kimba Wood, United States Federal Judge; Attorney General Nominee
• Janet Yellen, Council of Economic Advisers, Clinton Administration; Vice-President, American Economic Association; President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Dr Dov Zakheim, Under-Secretary of Defense, Bush and Reagan administrations

Canada

• Jon Allen, Canadian Ambassador to Israel, 2006–present
• Ed Broadbent, Canadian socialist opposition leader
• Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada
• John Crosbie, Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, former Cabinet minister
• Hal Jackman, former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
• Michael Ignatieff, current leader of the Liberal Party
• Sheryl Kennedy, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada
• Joy MacPhail, former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia
• Marc Mayrand, Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada
• David McGuinty, Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party
• Jacques Parizeau (b. 1930) - Premier of Quebec, 1994–1995
• Louis Rasminsky, Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1961 to 1973
• Svend Robinson, former Canadian MP; first openly gay Canadian politician in major party
• Gregory Selinger, Canadian politician
• Mitchell Sharp, Canadian Minister of Finance
• Walter Tarnopolsky, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee
• Gordon Thiessen, Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1994 to 2001
• Pierre Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada
• Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006–present
• Paul Zed, Member of Parliament for Saint John, New Brunswick
• Naomi Klein, Journalist, columnist and author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Fidel Herrera Beltrán, Governor of Veracruz, Mexico
• Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica
• Mario Adolfo Cuevas, Director, National Center for Economic Research (CIEN), Guatemala
• Winston Dookeran, Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist
• Pedro Pablo Errázuriz, Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, Chile
• Christiana Figueres, current head of the UNFCCC
• Eduardo Lizano, President of the Central Bank of Costa Rica from 1984 to 1990
• Martin Lousteau, Minister of economy and production, Argentina
• Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
• Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia. Formerly Minister of Foreign Trade, Minister of Finance and Minister of National Defense.
• Richard Farah, leading Caribbean furniture manufacturer and economist

Europe

• Georgios Alogoskoufis, former Minister for Economy and Finance, Greece
• Prince Amedeo of Belgium
• Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner
• Lykke Friis, Minister for Climate and Energy, Denmark
• Nikos Garganas, Governor of the Bank of Greece
• Martin Grunditz, Swedish Ambassador to Greece
• Prince Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
• Jan Kavan, 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 Leyen, Minister for Labour and Social Affairs, Germany
• Ivan Mikloš, Minister of Finance of Slovakia
• Franz Neumann, first Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
• Érik Orsenna (real name: Erik Arnoult), former economist and advisor to François Mitterrand, member of the Conseil d'État and of the Académie française, 1988 Prix Goncourt
• Giorgos Papakonstantinou, 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
• Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance, Poland
• Michalis Sarris, Cypriot Minister for Finance
• Jonas Gahr Støre, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Alexander Stubb, Finish Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Zdeněk Tůma, Governor of Czech National Bank
• Leo Van Houtven, former secretary of the IMF
• Michiel van Hulten, Dutch politician, former MEP
• Jose Vinals, Head of monetary and capital markets division, IMF and former deputy governor of the Bank of Spain
• August Zaleski, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

Africa

• Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, considered to be effectively the Prime Minister of Libya since 2007; son of Libyan leader (effectively President of Libya) Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi
• Bolajoko Akinbolagbe, Nigerian.
• Augustus Akinloye, Nigerian lawyer and politician.Chairman of defunct National Party of Nigeria
• Kader Asmal, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
• Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
• Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
• Jeanne Hoban, Anglo-Sri Lankan journalist, Trotskyist political activist and trade-unionist
• Aguinaldo Jaime, Deputy Prime Minister of Angola
• Pallo Jordan, Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa
• Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa and freedom fighter
• Michael Wamalwa Kijana, former Vice-President of Kenya
• Mac Maharaj, South African ANC politician, former Minister of Transport
• Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe.
• Mawere Mugabe, son of Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe
• Bayo Ojo, past head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice
• Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian independence leader, Fabian lawyer, human rights advocate
• Alex Quaison-Sackey, former foreign minister of Ghana
• Winston Tubman, Liberian diplomat and politician
• Shamsudeen Usman Nigerian economist, technocrat and banker. Current Minister of National Planning and past Minister of Finance of Nigeria.
• Samuel G Ikoku notable Nigerian economist and politician; senior adviser of Dr Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
• Samuel Aluko famous Nigeria professor of Economics

Asia

• Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore

• B. R. Ambedkar, First Law Minister of INDIA,Buddhist revivalist, Indian jurist, scholar and Bahujan political leader who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution
• Piyasvasti Amranand, Thailand's Energy Minister
• C. R. Pattabhiraman, Indian member of Parliament and Union Minister.
• Taro Aso, former Prime Minister of Japan
• Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, former Attorney General of Bangladesh and twice Adviser on Law for the two successive caretaker governments of Bangladesh
• Choowong Chayabutra, former Thailand's Secretary of Ministry of Interior, Senator and a member of parliament
• Tam Yiu Chung, current councillor from 1998 in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and a member of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB)
• Audrey Eu, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and currently the party leader of the Civic Party
• Abul Fateh, Bangladesh diplomat
• Mustafa Kamal (judge), former Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Vivienne Goonewardena, Sri Lankan Trotskyist freedom agitator, parliamentarian, trade unionist and women's activist
• Wang Guangya, permanent representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations
• Tsai Ing-wen, 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 Lau, Hong Kong politician
• Dr. Maliha Lodhi, Pakistan's High Commissioner to United Kingdom and former Ambassador to USA
• Kashmala Tariq, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
• Makhdoom Ali Khan, 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 Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
• Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's Finance Minister
• Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesian Minister of Defence
• Puey Ungpakorn, former governor of the (Central) Bank of Thailand
• Nani Lal Barua, Banker, Central Bank of India, Calcutta, India
• Jyoti Basu, Indian politician, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Salahuddin Ahmad, former Attorney General of Bangladesh

Australia

• Ameer Ali, President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
• William Macmahon Ball, Australian diplomat
• Peter Coleman, Journalist and conservative politician
• Arnold Cook, Founder of the Guide Dog movement
• Nugget Coombs, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Robert Hill, Defence Minister
• John Laker, Chairman, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
• Christian Porter, Treasurer and Attorney-General of Western Australia
• Gordon Reid, Governor of Western Australia and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia
• Don Russell, Australian Ambassador to the United States, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Keating
• Peter Sheargold, Secretary of Prime Minister's Department

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 Argov, prominent Israeli diplomat, former Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Yishai Be'er, General in the Israel Defense Forces and currently the President of the Israeli Military Court of Appeals
• Kemal Derviş, UNDP Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey
• Rafi Eitan, leader of the Gil Party in Israeli Politics, law maker, former security
• Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel; former World Bank Chief Economist
• Emre Gönensay, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996
• Amnon Rubinstein, 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 Allan, British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique
• Kader Asmal, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
• Rosemary Banks, New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations
• Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minister under Thatcher; Vice-President of the European Commission
• Kemal Derviş, UNDP Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey
• Nitin Desai, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
• Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
• Ian Goldin, former Vice President of External Affairs, World Bank
• Jeffrey Goldstein, Managing Director, World Bank
• Wang Guangya, permanent representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations
• Robert Murray Hill, Australian Ambassador to the United Nations
• John Huges, British Ambassador to Argentina
• Robert E. Hunter, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
• Rajmah Hussain, Ambassador of the Malaysia to the United States
• Clete Donald Johnson, Jr., former Member of Congress and US Ambassador, LL.M 1978
• Ahmad Kamal, Pakistani Ambassador to the UN
• Jan Kavan, 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 Khan, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund
• Dr Maliha Lodhi, prominent Pakistani politician; Pakistani Ambassador to the US
• John J. Maresca, 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 Natalegawa, Indonesian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Marty M. Natalegawa, Indonesian Ambassador to the UK and Ireland, and Representative of ASEAN Ambassadors to the UK
• Franz Neumann, First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
• Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
• Shaha Riza, World Bank
• Pierre Sane, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences
• Michele J. Sison, current US Ambassador to Lebanon in the Bush Administration
• Walter Tarnopolsky, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee
• Leo Van Houtven, former secretary of the IMF
• Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006–present
• Wenzhong Zhou, Chinese Ambassador to the US
• Arne Roy Walther, Norwegian ambassador to Japan

Arts and media

Film and music

• Sylvia Anderson (nee Thamm), producer, writer, voice actor
• Greg Barker, documentary filmmaker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda
• Mick Jagger, British musician, lead vocalist of The Rolling Stones
• Soha Ali Khan, Indian actress
• Sophie Choudry, Indian actress
• Tara Sharma, Indian actress
• Peter Lawlor, producer-songwriter of UK number 1 "Inside" for Stiltskin, and composer, e.g. BBC1 main theme, Premier League Theme
• Arif Mardin, Turkish music producer
• Ron Moody, British actor, famous for playing Fagin in Oliver!
• Jaime Murray, actress
• Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules), Radio 1 DJ
• Mat Osman, bass player for Suede
• Edward R. Pressman, film producer (Wall Street, Das Boot, Thank You for Smoking)
• Sophie Solomon, British violinist, songwriter and composer
• Robin Spry, filmmaker
• Frank Turner, musician, in the band Million Dead, now a solo artist. He wrote his final year dissertation while on tour with Million Dead.
• Oliver Weindling, jazz promoter and founder of the Babel jazz record label
• Frederick M. Zollo, Academy Award-nominated producer
• Andrew Pettitt, singer and songwriter for The Shortwave Set
• Scott Neustadter, Hollywood writer, 500 Days of Summer is based on a romance at LSE
• Rhian Benson, Ghanaian and Welsh soul and jazz singer-songwriter

Television and radio

• Jana Bennett Head of Vision, BBC
• Bidisha, broadcaster and writer
• Jon Blair Academy Award, British Academy Award and Emmy winning producer and director
• Martin Durkin TV director
• Loyd Grossman, TV Chef/Presenter
• Robert Kilroy-Silk, TV Presenter, politician and former Eurosceptic MEP
• Hari Kondabolu, stand-up comedian
• Kirsty Lang, broadcaster and journalist
• Martin Lewis, TV presenter and Money Saving Expert, born 1972
• James O'Brien, radio journalist
• Alex Pickard, Television Presenter and Philanthropist
• Sean McGuiness, Top Gear, Producer
• Mark Urban, Newsnight Diplomatic Editor
• Jennifer McGuiness, Weathergirl - BBC 24
• Josh Chetwynd baseball presenter
• Huw Wheldon, former MD of BBC TV

Authors and journalists

• Edith Abbott, author and social worker, Carnegie Postgraduate Fellowship 1906
• Eric Alterman, Professor of English at Brooklyn College; political columnist for The Nation; Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and the World Policy Institute
• Anne Applebaum, journalist and author
• Pat Barker, author, historian
• Peter Bart, journalist and film producer
• Melissa Benn, journalist and feminist
• Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC World Service journalist
• John Bersia, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• Simon Garfield, Observer journalist and author of "Mauve" and "Our Hidden Lives"
• Josh Chetwynd, baseball presenter, player and writer
• Andrew Coyne, national editor for Maclean's
• Edwina Currie, politician, author, radio presenter
• Robert Elms, radio presenter, music journalist
• Ekow Eshun, BBC Newsnight broadcaster, and TV host
• Tom Happold, Editor of The Guardian
• Mark Leonard, author and journalist
• Daniel Finkelstein, Comment Editor of The Times
• Edward Greenspon, editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail newspaper
• Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, journalist and author
• John Honderich, former Publisher of the Toronto Star
• Robert Kaiser, American author and journalist
• Parag Khanna, author
• To Kit (real name: Chip Tsao), Hong Kong-based columnist-broadcaster
• Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
• Nick Kotz, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
• Robert Kuttner, journalist and economics author
• Kirsty Lang, broadcaster and journalist
• Philippe Legrain, British journalist and writer
• Bernard Levin, journalist, author and broadcaster
• David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize winning author, prominent historian on African Americans
• Michael Lewis, #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 Bloomberg
• Rod Liddle, journalist, TV presenter, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme
• Edward Lucas, journalist
• Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, Norwegian publisher of Aftenposten and Verdens Gang
• China Miéville, writer, PhD International Relations 2001
• Keith Murdoch, journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch
• Érik Orsenna (real name: Erik Arnoult), former economist and advisor to François Mitterrand, member of the Conseil d'État and of the Académie française, 1988 Prix Goncourt
• Nisha Pillai, BBC World presenter
• Aroon Purie, Indian media mogul; founding editor and editor in chief of India Today and chairman of TV Today Network Limited
• Christopher Ruddy, journalist, CEO of Newsmax Media, formerly with the New York Post and Pittsburg Times Review.
• Bertrand Russell Renowned philosopher and Nobel Literature prize winning author
• Sadeq Saba, BBC Iranian affairs analyst
• Edward Taylor Scott, journalist, former editor and co-owner of The Guardian
• Barbara Serra, journalist and TV News Reader
• Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member and Editor in Chief of the Jerusalem Post
• Michael Whitney Straight, publisher and novelist
• Sander Vanocur, journalist, NBC
• Siddharth Varadarajan, journalist and editor
• Sangeeth Varghese, columnist and author
• Stuart Varney, Peabody-award winning economic journalist, Fox; Previously CNN
• David Vise, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The Washington Post, author of The Google Story
• Justin Webb, BBC News, Washington Correspondent
• Xu Zhimo, early 20th century Chinese poet

Business and Finance

• Josef Ackermann (* 1948), CEO of Deutsche Bank (visiting professor)
• Lord Waheed Alli, 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 Lau who was ranked #458 richest man in the world by Forbes in 2007
• Delphine Arnault, billionaire French businesswoman
• Geoffrey Bell, banker, and Group of Thirty founder
• Sir Gordon Brunton, Chief Executive Thomson Corporation, Former Chairman Sotheby's
• Richard Caruso, Founder and Chairman of Integra LifeSciences Corporation and 2006 Ernst & Young US Entrepreneur of the Year
• Tony Fernandes, entrepreneur
• Clara Furse, former Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange
• Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, entrepreneur, founder of EasyGroup
• David Heleniak, Vice-Chairman, Morgan Stanley
• Samuel Isaly, Manager Eaton Vance Worldwide Health Sciences fund
• Michael S. Jeffries, CEO Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
• Richard Kahan, Chairman, Riverside South Planning Corporation, Donald Trump's building
• Robert Kaplan, former Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International
• Michael Kopper, former Enron executive
• Spiro Latsis, billionaire
• Charles Lee, Former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
• Frank Mattern, Head McKinsey Germany

• David Morgan, CEO of Westpac
• Robert Murley, Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston and Chairman of Investment Banking for the Americas
• Arif Naqvi, CEO of Abraaj Capital, the leading private equity firm in the Middle East
• Christopher Nassetta, President and CEO of Hilton Hotels Corp.
• Erling Dekke Næss, Norwegian shipowner and businessman
• Richard Nesbitt, CEO, TSX Group; Toronto Stock Exchange
• Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Nokia Corporation, Non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell
• Zarin Patel, BBC's Chief Financial Officer
• Sheila Penrose, Chairman, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; President of Penrose Group; Director of McDonalds
• Gary Perlin, CFO Capital One Financial Corporation; Former CFO World Bank
• Avinash Persaud, Global Head of Currency & Commodity Research at J.P. Morgan
• Ruth Porat, Chief Financial Officer at Morgan Stanley
• Vicky Pryce, former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service
• Philip J. Purcell, former CEO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
• Syed Ali Raza, President and Chairman of the National Bank of Pakistan
• Stephen Robert, co-chairman of CIBC Oppenheimer Holdings Corp, Chancellor of Brown University
• David Rockefeller, American billionaire and business tycoon
• Barr Rosenberg, Chairman and director of research, AXA Rosenberg Investment Management LLC
• Wieslaw Rozlucki, CEO Warsaw Stock Exchange 1991-2006, Poland
• Maurice Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
• George Soros, Notable Financier; Billionaire
• Brian MacCaba, Notable Jewish CEO of Cognotec
• Bryan Sanderson CBE, Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank plc
• Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, industrialist, Chancellor of Middlesex University
• Lance Uggla , CEO of Markit Group
• Panagis Vourloumis, Managing Director and President of the OTE's Board, the national telecommunications provider of Greece
• Arnold Weinstock, English businessman, best known for building GEC
• Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat
• Jacques Bussières, former Governor of the Bank of Jamaica
• George Arthur Brown, former Governor of the Bank of Jamaica
• Victor E. Bruce, former Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
• Winston Dookeran, politician and economist; former Governor of the Caribbean Development Bank and Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
• Simone Perillo, Secretary General of F.O.T.A (Formula One Teams Association)

Lawyers and judges

• Cherie Booth QC, judge, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
• Linda Dobbs, first non-white person to be appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales
• Courtenay Griffiths, QC
• Curtis Doebbler, lawyer, represented Saddam Hussein
• Baron Grabiner, judge
• Christopher Greenwood 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 Higgins QC, judge and former president of the International Court of Justice
• Graham Hill, judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1989 to 2005
• Makhdoom Ali Khan, former Attorney General of Pakistan
• Manfred Lachs, judge on the International Court of Justice
• Mustafa Kamal, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh
• Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr., lawyer, represented Michael Jackson
• Gareth Peirce, solicitor, represented the Guildford Four
• Robert Ribeiro, Permanent Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
• Cedric Thornberry, International lawyer and former Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Christopher Wolf, American attorney, a pioneer in Internet law

Others

• Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, humanitarian
• Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern involved in a sex scandal with former President Bill Clinton
• Cathy Chui Chi Kay, Hong Kong billionaire's son's wife
• Valerie Plame, CIA officer who was controversially identified in a newspaper column by Robert Novak in July 2003
• Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos the Jackal, Marxist terrorist
• Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Islamic militant
• Geoffrey Sampson, linguist
• Zecharia Sitchin, ancient astronaut theorist
• Martin Lewis, money saving expert
• Loyd Grossman, chef and TV presenter
• Dr Robert Kilroy-Silk politician and TV Presenter
• HRH Prince Abdul Malik, third in line to the Sultan of Brunei
• Josh Chetwynd baseball player, presenter and author
• Elham Al Qasimi, First Arab Woman to reach the North Pole
• Mary K Blair, one of the founders of the Ross Group

Fictional

• President Josiah Bartlet, fictional President of the United States on NBC's popular TV show The West Wing
• Prime Minister Jim Hacker of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
• Andrew Bond, fictional father of James Bond, 007
• Eliza Doolittle, fictional character in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Founders of LSE

• Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb
• George Bernard Shaw
• Graham Wallas
• Henry Hutchinson
• H. G. Wells
• Annie Besant
• Hubert Bland
• Edith Nesbit
• Sydney Olivier
• Oliver Lodge
• Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf
• Emmeline Pankhurst

(Some are depicted in the Fabian Window)

• Frank Podmore
• Edward R. Pease
• Edward Carpenter
• Henry Stephens Salt
• Ramsay MacDonald
• H. M. Hyndman
• Keir Hardie
• Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
• Henry Campbell-Bannerman
• Lytton Strachey
• E. M. Forster
• Bertrand Russell
• John Davidson
• Havelock Ellis
• R. H. Tawney
• G. D. H. Cole
• Leopold Stennett Amery, statesman and Conservative politician.
• Richard Burdon Haldane, Liberal politician, lawyer, and philosopher.
• Leopold Maxse, editor, National Review
• Alfred Milner, statesman and colonial administrator
• Henry Newbolt, author and poet.
• Carlyon Bellairs, naval commander and M.P.
• James Louis Garvin, journalist and editor
• Sir Clinton Edward Dawkins, businessman and civil servant.
• Sir Edward Grey

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