London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist university based in London, often regarded as the world's most prestigious social science institution with unrivalled diversity.

Noted Alumni or Faculty

Heads of State or Heads of Government

• Harmodio Arias (1886-1962) - President of Panama,1932-1936
• Oscar Arias (b. 1941) - President of Costa Rica and Nobel Prize Winner
• Errol Walton Barrow (1920-1987) - Prime Minister of Barbados, 1962-1966, 1966-1976, 1986-1987
• Marek Belka (b. 1952) - Prime Minister of Poland, 2004-present
• Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto (1897-1979) - Prime Minister of Peru, 1959-1961
• Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970) - Chancellor of Germany, 1930-1932
• Kim Campbell (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Canada, June-November 1993
• Eugenia Charles (b. 1919) - Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980-1995
• John Compton (b. 1926) - Premier of Saint Lucia, 1964-1979, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, February-July 1979 & 1982-1996
• Sher Bahadur Deuba (b. 1943) - Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995-1997, 2001-2002, 2004-2005
• Tuanku Jaafar (b. 1922) - Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia, 1994-1999
• John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) - President of the U.S.A. 1961-1963
• Jomo Kenyatta (1891-1978) - First President of Kenya, 1964-1978
• Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931) - President of Kenya, 2002-present
• Thanin Kraivichien (b. 1927) - Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976-1977
• Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914-2000) - Premier of Taiwan, 1984-1989
• Hilla Limann (1934-1998) - President of Ghana, 1979-1981
• Pumarejo Alfonso Lopez - President of Colombia, 1934-1938, 1942-1945
• Michael Manley (1924-1997) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1972-1980, 1989-1992
• Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (1920-2004) - Prime Minister of Fiji 1970-1992, President of Fiji 1994-2000
• Queen Margrethe II (b. 1940) - Queen of Denmark, 1972-present
• Beatriz Merino, first female Prime Minister of Peru, 2002-2003
• Shri K R Narayanan (1997-2002) - President of India
• Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) - First President of Ghana, 1960-1966
• Percival Patterson (b. 1935) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992-present
• Jacques Parizeau, Premier of Quebec, 1994-1995
• Romano Prodi (b. 1939) - Prime Minister of Italy, 1996-1998 and President of the European Commission, 1999-2004
• Navinchandra Ramgoolam (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Mauritius, 1995-2000, 2005-present
• Veerasainy Ringadoo (1920-2000) - First President of Mauritius, March-June 1992
• Moshe Sharett (1894-1965) - Prime Minister of Israel, 1953-1955
• Constantine Simitis (b. 1936) - Prime Minister of Greece, 1996-2004
• Anote Tong (b. 1952) - President of Kiribati, 2003-present
• Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) - Prime Minister of Canada, 1968-1979, 1980-1984

Other Prominent Alumni or Faculty

• Roberto Abdenur (former Brazilian Ambassador to the US)
• Elliott Abrams (Assistant Secretary of State in the Reagan Administration; founding member of the Project for the New American Century; Special Assistant to the President and Policy Director on the National Security Council in the George W. Bush Administration)
• Daron Acemoglu (John Bates Clark Medal Winner 2005)
• Sir Roy Allen (Economist and Mathematician)
• Prince Amedeo of Belgium
• Sir David Attenborough (TV Presenter)
• Cherie Booth QC (wife of Tony Blair)
• Sir Arthur Bowley (Statistician/professor)
• Ed Broadbent (Canadian socialist opposition leader)
• Hedley Bull (one of the world's foremost scholars in the field of International Relations)
• Ralph Bunche (Nobel prize winner)
• Johnnie Carson (US Ambassador to Zimbabwe in the Clinton Administration)
• Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)
• Ronald Coase (Nobel prize winner)
• Edwina Currie (politician, author, radio presenter)
• Hugh Dalton (former Chancellor of the Exchequer)
• Rosa DeLauro (high-ranking Democratic Member of the US House of Representatives)
• Kemal Dervis (UNDP Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey)
• Albert Venn Dicey - Author of Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution; one of the most famous English jurists ever.
• Frank Dobson (former Health Secretary)
• Paul Feyerabend (philosopher)
• 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)
• Stanley Fischer (Governor of the Bank of Israel)
• Professor Lord Anthony Giddens (a former Director of the School, who is the most cited contemporary sociologist in the world and is widely regarded as the field's foremost scholar)
• Gianandrea Goisis (Political economist/professor)
• Ian A. Goldin (Vice President of External Affairs, World Bank)
• John Gray (political philosopher)
• Christopher Greenwood QC (esteemed international lawyer; advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the 2003 Iraq war)
• Loyd Grossman (TV Chef/Presenter)
• Marc Grossman (U.S. Under Secretary of State)
• Amy Gutmann (President of the University of Pennsylvania, 2004-present; former Provost of Princeton University, 2001-2004)
• Stelios Haji-Ioannou (entrepreneur, founder of EasyGroup)
• W.D. Hamilton (grandfather of sociobiology and the 'selfish gene' theory popularised by Dawkins)
• Margaret Hodge (British MP, Minister for Children)
• Robert E. Hunter (Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO)
• Sir Mick Jagger (Musician)
• C. Donald Johnson (former Member of Congress and US Ambassador)
• Ruth Kelly (UK Secretary of State for Education)
• Anthony Kennedy (U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice)
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (environmental activist, son of slain Senator Robert Kennedy)
• Vanessa Kerry (Democratic activist and daughter of Senator John Kerry (D-MA))
• Robert Kilroy-Silk (TV Presenter and politican)
• Mervyn King (Governor of the Bank of England)
• Mark S. Kirk (prominent Republican Member of the US House of Representatives)
• Imre Lakatos (philosopher)
• Harold Laski (political scientist and economist)
• James A. Leach (prominent Republican Member of the US House of Representatives)
• Bernard Levin (journalist)
• Sir Arthur Lewis (Nobel prize winner)
• 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)
• Dr Maleeha Lodhi (prominent Pakistani politician; Pakistani Ambassador to the US)
• Halford MacKinder (geographer and LSE director, 1903-1908)
• Joy MacPhail (former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia)
• Haakon Magnus (Crown Prince of Norway)
• John J. Maresca (former US Ambassador to the OSCE in the George H.W. Bush Administration)
• Z.K. Mathews (prominent Apartheid-era South African academic)
• Shri Aditya Mehta (Indian Sex Guru and Spiritual Healer)
• Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr. (American criminal defense attorney)
• Brian Michael Cheeburger Cheeburger Wall of Fame
• China Miéville (writer)
• Ralph Miliband (political scientist)
• Merton Miller (Nobel prize winner)
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan (former U.S. Senator)
• Robert Mundell (Nobel prize winner)
• Philip Noel-Baker (Nobel prize winner)
• Jorma Ollila (CEO of Nokia Corporation)
• Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules) (Radio 1 DJ)
• Alice Paul (American suffragist)
• Richard Perle (Political advisor)
• Nisha Pillai (BBC World presenter)
• Valerie Plame
• Sir Karl Popper (philosopher)
• Saif el-Islam el-Qaddafi (Political activist and elder son of Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi)
• James P. Rubin (former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for the Department of State in the Clinton Administration; lead foreign policy adviser to the 2004 Kerry-Edwards campaign)
• Robert Rubin (former U.S. Treasury Secretary)
• Bertrand Russell (philosopher, Nobel prize winner)
• Dr Don Russell former Australian Ambassador to the US and adviser to Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating
• Charles Saatchi (Founder, Saatchi and Saatchi)
• Maurice Saatchi (Founder, Saatchi and Saatchi)
• Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (Carlos the Jackal, criminal)
• Tara Scharma (Bollywood film star)
• Omar Sheikh (international terrorist)
• Michelle Sison (US Ambassador to the UAE in the Bush Administration)
• George Soros (Notable Financier; Billionaire)
• Paul Volcker (former Chairman of Federal Reserve)
• David Welch (Assistant Secretary of State in the Clinton Administration; US Ambassador to Egypt in the Bush Administration)
• Janet Yellen (Former Member of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton Administration and the current President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2004-present)