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)
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | General Information |
| ► | History of the School |
| ► | Noted Alumni or Faculty |
| ► | List of the School's Directors |
| ► | LSE in Political Drama |
| ► | Trivia |
| ► | External links |
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