Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Prominent alumni

• Madeleine Albright - former U.S. Secretary of State (attended SAIS, but did not take degree)
• Wolf-Ruthart Born - Germany's Ambassador to Mexico
• Wolf Blitzer - CNN news anchor
• R. Nicholas Burns - Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
• Luk Darras - Belgium's Ambassador to Australia
• Jean De Ruyt - Belgium's Ambassador to NATO
• Thomas Donnelly - Deputy Director of the Project for a New American Century and former executive editor of The National Interest
• Jessica Einhorn - current Dean of SAIS, member of the Board of Directors, Time Warner, director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and former managing VP of the World Bank
• Helmut Frick - Germany's Ambassador to Belarus
• Wilfried Geens - Belgium's Ambassador to Israel
• Timothy F. Geithner - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• John J. Hamre - President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Franklin Lavin - U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
• Samuel Lewis - former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and U.S. Ambassador at the Camp David Accord talks in 1978
• Sir David Manning - Britain's Ambassador to the United States
• John E. McLaughlin - former Acting Director of Central Intelligence
• Marcia Miller - former Vice-Chair and Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission
• Ana Belen Montes - spy for Cuba working at the Defense Intelligence Agency, arrested in 2001
• George Saliba - Malta's Ambassador to the United States
• Bandar bin Sultan - Saudi Arabia's former Ambassador to the United States
• Roberto Toscano - Italy's Ambassador to Iran
• Herbert Traxl - Austria's Ambassador to Thailand
• Umberto Vattani - Italy's Ambassador to the European Union
• Guangya Wang - China's Ambassador to the United Nations
• Jody Williams - Nobel Peace Prize recipient for her leadership of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
• Helga Winkler-Campagna - Austria's Ambassador to Mexico