This list of people associated with the London School of Economics includes notable alumni, non-graduates, academics and administrators affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science. This includes 55 past or present heads of state, as well as 18 Nobel laureates.^[1]

LSE started awarding its own degrees in its own name in 2008,^[2] prior to which it awarded degrees of the University of London. This page does not include people whose only connection with the university consists in the award of an honorary degree.

The list has been divided into categories indicating the field of activity in which people have become well known. Many of the university's alumni have attained a level of distinction in more than one field, however these appear only in the category which they are most often associated.

Government and politics

Heads of state or government

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State	Leader	Affiliation	Office
Barbados	Errol Barrow (1920–1987)	BSc (Econ) 1950	Prime Minister (1962–1966; 1966–1976; 1986–1987)
Barbados	Mia Mottley (born 1965)	LLB 1986	Prime Minister (2018–present)
Benin	Lionel Zinsou (born 1954)	Course unknown	Prime Minister (2015–2016)
Bulgaria	Sergey Stanishev (born 1966)	Visiting Fellow International Relations 1999–2000	Prime Minister (2005–2009)
Canada	Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000)	Research Fee student 1947–1948	Prime Minister (1968–1979; 1980–1984)
Canada	Kim Campbell (born 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 (2010–2018)
Costa Rica	Óscar Arias (born 1941)	Enrolled 1967	President (1986–1990; 2006–2010)
Denmark	HM Queen Margrethe II (born 1940)	Occasional student 1965	Queen (1972–present)
Dominica	Dame Eugenia Charles	LLM 1949	Prime Minister (1980–1995)
Fiji	Sir Kamisese Mara (1920–2004)	Diploma Econ & Social Admin 1962	Prime Minister (1970–1992) President (1994–2000)
Finland	Alexander Stubb (born 1968)	PhD International Politics 1999	Prime Minister (2014–2015)
Germany	Heinrich Brüning	BSc Economics student 1911–1913	Chancellor (1930–1932)
Ghana	Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972)	PhD 1946	President (1960–1966)
	Hilla Limann (1934–1998)	BSc (Econ) 1960	President (1979–1981)
	John Atta Mills (born 1944)	LLM 1967–1968	President (2009)
Gibraltar	Joe Bossano (born 1939)	BSc Economics circa 1960	Chief Minister (1988–1996)
Greece	George Papandreou (born 1952)	MSc Sociology 1977	Prime Minister (2009–2011)
Greece	Constantine Simitis (born 1936)	Research Fee student 1961–1963	Prime Minister (1996–2004)
Grenada	Maurice Bishop (1943–1983)	LLB circa 1967–1968	Prime Minister (1979–1983)
Guyana	Forbes Burnham (1923–1985)	LLB 1948	Prime Minister (1964–1980) President (1980–1985)
India	K.R. Narayanan (1921–2005)	BSc (Econ) 1945–1948	President (1997–2002)
Israel	Moshe Sharett (1894–1965)	BSc (Econ) 1924	Prime Minister (1953–1955)
Italy	Romano Prodi (born 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	Takahashi Korekiyo (1854–1936)	Course unknown	Prime Minister (1920–1922; 1932)
	Tsutomu Hata (1935–2017)	Course unknown	Prime Minister (1994)
	Taro Aso (born 1940)	Occasional student 1966	Prime Minister (2008–2009)
Kenya	Jomo Kenyatta (1891–1978)	ADA 1936	President (1964–1978)
Kenya	Mwai Kibaki (born 1931)	BSc Economics 1959	President (2002–2013)
Kiribati	Anote Tong (born 1952)	MSc Sea-Use Group 1988	President (2003–2016)
Libya	Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (born 1972)	PhD 2006	Effective Prime Minister, (2007–2011)^[4]
Malaysia	Tuanku Jaafar (1922–2008)	Course unknown	Yang di-Pertuan Agong (elected monarch) (1994–1999)
Mauritius	Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900–1985)	Attended lectures whilst studying at University College London	Chief Minister (1961–1968) Prime minister (1968–1982) Governor-General (1983–1985)
	Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo (1920–2000)	LLB 1948	President (March–June 1992)
	Navinchandra Ramgoolam (born 1947)	LLB 1990	Prime Minister (1995–2000; 2005–2014)
Nepal	Sher Bahadur Deuba (born 1943)	Research student, International Relations 1988–1989	Prime Minister (1995–1997; 2001–2003; 2004–2005)
Panama	Harmodio Arias Madrid (1886–1962)	Occasional student, 1909–1911	President (1932–1936)
Peru	Pedro Beltrán Espantoso (1897–1979)	BSc (Econ) 1918	Prime Minister (1959–1961)
Peru	Beatriz Merino (born 1947)	LLM 1972	Prime Minister (2003)
Poland	Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005)	MSc Economics 1953	Prime Minister of government in exile (1986–1990)
Poland	Marek Belka (born 1952)	Summer School 1990	Prime Minister (2004–2005)
Sierra Leone	Banja Tejan-Sie (1917–2000)	LLB circa 1950	Governor-General (1968–1971)
Singapore	Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015)	Occasional student after circa 1945	Prime Minister (1959–1990)
Singapore	Tharman Shanmugaratnam (born 1957)	BSc (Econ) 1981	President (2023–present)
Saint Lucia	John Compton (1925–2007)	LLB 1952	Premier (1964–1979) Prime Minister (February–July 1979; 1982–1996)
Taiwan	Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914–2000)	Composition fee student 1947–1949	Premier (1984–1989)
Taiwan	Tsai Ing-wen (born 1956)	Ph.D. Law 1984	President (2016–present)
Thailand	Tanin Kraivixien (born 1927)	LLB 1953	Prime Minister (1976–1977)
Togo	Sylvanus Olympio (b. 1902–1963)	BSc Economics	Prime Minister (1958–1961) President (1961–1963)
United Kingdom	Ramsay MacDonald	Lecturer	Prime Minister (1924; 1929–1935)
United Kingdom	Clement Attlee (1883–1967)	Lecturer in social science and administration, 1912–1923	Prime Minister (1945–1951)

United Kingdom

Civil servants

Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Sir Kenneth Berrill, chief economic adviser to the Treasury; Head of the Central Policy Review Staff
John Bourn, former Comptroller and Auditor General
Sir John Burgh, director-general of the British Council
Sir Sydney Caine, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, director of the LSE
Paul Corrigan, director of strategy and commissioning of the NHS London Strategic Health Authority
Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
Claus Moser, Baron Moser, director of the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom
Dame Una O'Brien, Permanent Secretary Department of Health
Vicky Pryce former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service
Sir David Ramsden, MSc Economics 1990, chief economic adviser to HM Treasury
Tom Scholar, Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury
Josiah Stamp, former Governor of the Bank of England

United States

Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State in Reagan Administration; senior director of the National Security Council in Bush Administration
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
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, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's 3rd congressional district (1991-present), former chair of the House Appropriations Committee
Leandra English, deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation Think Tank
William Gale, Council of Economic Advisers, Bush Administration
Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
Marc Grossman, U.S. Under-Secretary of State, Bush Administration; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, Clinton Administration; Special Advisor to the President on Near East Affairs, Carter Administration
Orval H. Hansen, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Idaho's 2nd congressional district (1969-1975)
Alice Stone Ilchman, Assistant Secretary of Education and Cultural Affairs under U.S. President Jimmy Carter
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
Vanessa Kerry, Democratic activist and daughter of former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State John Kerry
Ron Kind, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district (1997-2023)
Mark Kirk, U.S. Senator from Illinois (2010-2017)
Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern involved in a sex scandal with former President Bill Clinton
Susan Lindauer, ex-Congressional aide accused of assisting Iraqi intelligence prior to the 2003 invasion
Edward Luttwak, consultant to the U.S. 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 Jersey
Brad Miller, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 13th congressional district (2003-2013)
Richard H. Moore, North Carolina state treasurer
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (1997-2001)
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 designate Office of Management and Budget
Jon Ossoff, U.S. Senator from Georgia (2021-present)
Tan Parker, member of the Texas Senate (former member of the Texas House of Representatives)
Alice Paul, American suffragist
Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Reagan Administration; Chairman of Defense Department Advisory Committee, Bush Administration; fellow, American Enterprise Institute
F. Whitten Peters, Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.
David Rockefeller, former chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Trilateral Commission, son of financer John D. Rockefeller Jr. and grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller
Max Rose, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 11th congressional district (2019-2021)
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, U.S. Treasury Secretary and director, National Economic Council, Clinton Administration; director of Goldman Sachs
Rajiv Shah, USAID Administrator, Obama Administration
Robert Shapiro, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, 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, U.S. Senator from Texas (1961-1985)
Sanford J. Ungar, President emeritus of Goucher College; director of Voice of America; member of Council on Foreign Relations
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
Kimba Wood, U.S. Federal Judge; Attorney General nominee
Dov Zakheim, Under-Secretary of Defense, Bush and Reagan administrations

Canada

Ed Broadbent, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, 1975–1989
John Crosbie, Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, former Cabinet minister
Jean-Yves Duclos, Canadian Liberal MP, Canada's Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Brian Greenspan, barrister
Hal Jackman, former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party, 2008–2011
Joy MacPhail, former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia
Marc Mayrand, chief electoral officer of Elections Canada, 2007–present
David McGuinty, Member of Parliament, Liberal Party
Catherine McKenna, Canadian Liberal MP, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Bill Morneau, Canadian MP, Canada's Minister of Finance, 2015–2020
Jacques Parizeau, Premier of Quebec, 1994–1996
Svend Robinson, former Canadian MP; first openly gay Canadian politician in major political party
Gregory Selinger, Premier of Manitoba, 2009–2016
Mitchell Sharp, former Canadian Minister of Finance
Paul Zed, Member of Parliament for Saint John, New Brunswick

Latin America and the Caribbean

Eduardo Bhatia, President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
Winston Dookeran, Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist
Christiana Figueres, current head of the UNFCCC
Martin Lousteau, Minister of economy and production, Argentina
Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa, former minister of foreign affairs and public works, Colombia.^[6]
Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
Kamina Johnson Smith, current Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Jamaica
Edith Clarke (anthropologist)

Europe

Georgios Alogoskoufis, former Minister for Economy and Finance, Greece
Prince Amedeo of Belgium
Yuriko Backes, Minister for Finances, Luxembourg^[7]
Annalena Baerbock, German politician, Co-Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany
Rubina Berardo, Member of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic
Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner
Joe Bossano, Chief Minister of Gibraltar
Lykke Friis, Minister for Climate and Energy, Denmark
Prince Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
Tomáš Hellebrandt, Member of the Slovak parliament
Patrick Janssens, Mayor of Antwerp (2003–2012); MP Flemish Parliament, chairman Flemish social democrats (SP) (1999–2003), Belgian MP Chamber of Representatives (2003–2004)
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
Memli Krasniqi, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development of the Republic of Kosovo
Ursula von der Leyen, former Minister of Defence, Germany, current President of the European Commission
Jana Maláčová, former Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic
Ivan Mikloš, Minister of Finance of Slovakia
Franz Neumann, first Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
Érik Orsenna, 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
Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance, Poland
Jonas Gahr Støre, Leader of the Norwegian Labour Party and former Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Zdeněk Tůma, Governor of Czech National Bank
Kai Whittaker, member of the German Parliament
August Zaleski, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Victor Habert-Dassault, Member of the French Parliament
Markus Gstöttner, former deputy Chief of Staff and economic advisor to Sebastian Kurz, current Chief of Staff to Karl Nehammer

Africa

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
Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian independence leader, Fabian lawyer, human rights advocate
Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
Anil Gayan, former foreign minister of Mauritius
Jeanne Hoban, Anglo-Sri Lankan journalist, Trotskyist political activist and trade-unionist
Aguinaldo Jaime, Deputy Prime Minister of Angola
Michael Wamalwa Kijana, former vice-president of Kenya
Josina Z. Machel, women's rights activist
Mac Maharaj, South African ANC politician, former Minister of Transport
Bayo Ojo, past head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice
Babatunji Olowofoyeku, Nigerian politician
Yemi Osinbajo, vice-president of Nigeria
Alex Quaison-Sackey, former foreign minister of Ghana
Winston Tubman, Liberian diplomat and politician
Shamsudeen Usman, Nigerian economist, technocrat and banker; Minister of National Planning and past Minister of Finance of Nigeria

Asia

B. R. Ambedkar, First Law Minister of India, political leader who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution^[8]
Lakshmi Kant Jha, Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Member of Parliament, Indian Ambassador to United States, Governor of Kashmir
Leslie Goonewardene, Statesman, Trotskyist independence activist and founder of Sri Lanka's first political party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party.
Piyasvasti Amranand, Thailand's Energy Minister
Ferdinand Alexander "Sandro" Araneta Marcos III - Congressman of the 1st district of Ilocos Norte, eldest son of President Bongbong Marcos and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, grandson of former President Ferdinand Marcos and former First Lady Imelda Marcos.
Sonny Angara, Senator of the Philippines
Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Defence Minister of Pakistan
Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, former Dy. Foreign Minister of Pakistan
Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, former Organising Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League; Dy. Education Minister of Bangladesh
Jyoti Basu, 2nd longest serving Indian chief minister, Indian politician, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Audrey Eu, chairman of the Civic Party and former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Feroze Gandhi, Indian-Parsi politician and journalist, former 'First Gentleman of India' (husband of PM Indira Gandhi)
Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's Minister of Defence
Yang Jiechi, current member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, former Foreign Minister
Sir Yuet Keung Kan, Hong Kong politician, banker and lawyer
Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan, President of Pakistan Muslim League, 1st Chief Minister of N.W.F.P. Pakistan, former Industry Trade and Interior Minister of Pakistan
Emily Lau, Hong Kong politician, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
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
Ghazali Shafie, former Foreign Minister of Malaysia
Marty Natalegawa, former Foreign Minister of Indonesia
C. R. Pattabhiraman, Indian member of Parliament and Union Minister
Emília Pires, former Minister of Finance of Timor-Leste
Sajith Premadasa, Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka, Member of Parliament for Colombo District, Leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, former Minister of Housing and Construction, former Minister of Samurudi Affairs and former Deputy Minister of Health
Pramod Ranjan Sengupta, Marxist intellectual and member of Indian National Army
Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesian Minister of Defence
Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959–1984
Tan Chuan-Jin, Singapore's Minister for Social and Family Development
Kashmala Tariq, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Josephine Teo, Singapore's Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
Fadli Zon, Former deputy speaker of the Indonesian People's Representative Council
Melvyn Ong, Singaporean army general and the current Chief of Defence Force of the Singapore Armed Forces
Raghav Chadha, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Punjab, India
Jayant Chaudhary, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, India

Australia and New Zealand

Tim Barnett, Member of the Parliament of New Zealand
Peter Coleman, journalist and conservative politician
Bill Hastings, Chief Censor of New Zealand, judge
Robert Hill, Defence Minister
Christian Porter, Treasurer and Attorney-General of Western Australia
Gordon Reid, Governor of Western Australia and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia
Peter Shergold, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Stephen Smith, Foreign and Defence Minister
Tim Watts, Labour MP

Middle East

Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai
Princess Badiya bint Hassan, member of royal family of Jordan
Yishai Be'er, General in the Israel Defense Forces and currently the President of the Israeli Military Court of Appeals
Maxime Chaya, Lebanese sportsman, mountaineer, and explorer
Kemal Derviş, former UNDP Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey
Rafi Eitan, leader of the Gil Party in Israeli Politics, lawmaker, former security
Emre Gönensay, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996
Moshe Levi, Lieutenant General, was the 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Yitzhak Moda'i, Israeli politician who served as an MP for over 20 years
Amnon Rubinstein, Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist, Education Minister of Israel, 1993–1996
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, 2014-2023

International organisations and ambassadors

James Allan, British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique
Jon Allen, Canadian Ambassador to Israel, 2006–present
Shlomo Argov, prominent Israeli diplomat, former Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom
Kader Asmal, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
William Macmahon Ball, Australian diplomat
Rosemary Banks, New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations
Philip Barton, British High Commissioner to Pakistan
Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minister under Thatcher; Vice-President of the European Commission
Andrei Dapkiunas, Belarusian Ambassador to Austria, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the UN
Nitin Desai, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
Abul Fateh, Bangladesh diplomat
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
Genta H. Holmes, United States Ambassador to Australia, Clinton Administration; United States Ambassador to Namibia; Chief of Mission to Haiti and Malawi
Robert E. Hunter, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
Clete Donald Johnson, Jr., former Member of Congress and US Ambassador, LL.M 1978
Manoj Juneja, deputy director-general for operations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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
Maliha Lodhi, Pakistan's High Commissioner to United Kingdom and former Ambassador to USA
John J. Maresca, former US Ambassador to the OSCE in the George H.W. Bush Administration
Sir Goolam Hoosen Kader Meeran, President of the UK Employment Tribunals; Judge of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal
Braj Kumar Nehru, Ambassador of India to the United States and Indian High Commissioner to Britain
Michael O'Neill, director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
William Peters, High Commissioner in Malawi
Karen Pierce, current Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, 1999–2004
Bertrand Ramcharan, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights^[9]
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, US Ambassador to Lebanon in the Bush Administration
Lachezara Stoeva, Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Walter Tarnopolsky, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee
Arne Roy Walther, Norwegian ambassador to Japan
Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006–present

Central bankers

Janet Yellen, Chair of the US Federal Reserve, 2014–2018
Stanley Fischer, Vice president of the US Federal Reserve, 2014–2017; Governor of the Bank of Israel, 2005–2013
Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, 2003–2013
Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979–1987
Puey Ungpakorn, Governor of the Central Bank of Thailand

Tim Besley, economics professor and member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
Charlie Bean, economist, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
Willem Buiter, economist, ex-member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
Michele Bullock, economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
Nugget Coombs, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel; former World Bank Chief Economist^[10]
Neville Ubeysin-gha Jayawardena, Sri Lankan Sinhala economist, entrepreneur, and Senator; first indigenous governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Stephen Nickell, economist, ex-member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
Amarananda Somasiri Jayawardene, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Louis Rasminsky, Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1961–1973

Nobel laureates

Main article: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the London School of Economics

Guy Medal (statistics) recipients

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

Academics

Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the 21st Century
Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, British-Indian economist and Labour politician
Michael Oakeshott, philosopher and conservative thinker

Economists

For Nobel Prize winning economists, see § Nobel laureates.

Daron Acemoglu, economist, John Bates Clark Medal Winner 2005
Sir Roy Allen, economist and mathematician
Thomas Armbrüster, economist
Heinz Wolfgang Arndt, economist
Kaushik Basu, chief economist of the World Bank
Peter Thomas Bauer, development economist
William Baumol, professor of economics and director, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University
Jo Beall, professor of development studies
Walter Berns, scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Sir Tim Besley, economist
Kenneth Binmore, economist
Sir Richard Blundell, economist and econometrician
Sir Alan Budd, British economist, provost of The Queen's College, Oxford
Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University; previously chairman, National Intelligence Council and; Under Secretary of State for Economic
Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, development economist
Miren Etxezarreta, economist^[11]
Ian Goldin, development economist, director of Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Charles Goodhart, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee
W. M. Gorman, economist
Sir Theodore Gregory, British economist, economic adviser to the Government of India from 1938 to 1946
Frank Hahn, economist
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
Eliot Janeway, American economist, economic advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson
Harry Johnson, Canadian economist
Lewis Webster Jones, economist, fifteenth President of Rutgers University
Nicholas Kaldor, economist
Peter Kenen, economist
Maurice Kugler, development economist
Ludwig Lachmann, economist
David Laidler, economist
Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist
Peter Leeson, George Mason Economist
Patrick Minford, economist
Michio Morishima, Japanese economist
Abhinay Muthoo, economist
Andrew Oswald, economist
Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End, economist and politician
Peter C. B. Phillips, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at Yale University
William Phillips, economist, inventor of the Phillip's Curve
Arnold Plant, economist
Thomas Piketty, economist, author of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" Affairs
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
Gary Stevenson, former trader; economic equality campaigner
Paul Sweezy, Marxist economist
Prajapati Trivedi, economist, First Secretary Performance Management to Government of India
Sho-Chieh Tsiang, economist
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, businessman, academic, chair of the UK Financial Services Authority
Ralph Turvey, economist at the London School of Economics, HM Treasury, the Electricity Council and the National Board for Prices and Incomes^[12]^[13]
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
Basil Yamey, industrial economist
Allyn Abbott Young, economist
Francesco Caselli, economist
Richard Werner, banking economist
Ricardo Reis, economist
Friedrich August von Hayek, CH, FBA, winner of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for their work on money and economic fluctuations, and the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomen
Sir John Richards Hicks - winner of the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Kenneth J. Arrow for their pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory

Economic historians

Edwin Cannan, historian of economic thought, professor at LSE, 1895–1926
Nick Crafts, professor of economic history at LSE, 1995–2005
Kent Deng, East Asian economic historian
Niall Ferguson, Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs
Mary S. Morgan, historian of economics
R. H. Tawney, English writer; a leading advocate of Christian Socialism^[14]
Donald Winch, professor of the history of economics at the University of Sussex
Eileen Power, second woman to be appointed to the Chair of Economic History^[15]
Lilian Knowles, First female professor of Economic History and first female Dean of Faculty, 1920s

Employment relations and management

Chrisanthi Avgerou, chor of information systems
Claudio Ciborra (1951–2005), chor of information systems

Historians

Janet Coleman, historian of political thought
Martin van Creveld, Israeli military historian and theorist
James Joll, leading World War I historian
Paul Kennedy, British historian specialising in international relations and grand strategy
Alfred Marshall, historian and sociologist
Desmond Morton, historian
Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, historian
Rosemary O'Day, historian and author, Eileen Power student, 1970
Ben Pimlott, Fabian President, modern historian, former president of the University of Nottingham
A. L. Rowse, historian
Sir 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, 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, historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history

Human geography

Harold Brookfield (PhD 1950), emeritus professor, Australian National University
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
Coral Bell, reader in international relations, 1965–1972
Hedley Bull, professor of international relations
Barry Buzan, professor of international relations
Michael Cox, professor of international relations
Sara Hagemann, assistant professor at LSE's European Institute^[16]
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, specialist in geopolitics and globalisation, managing partner of FutureMap and former managing partner of Hybrid Reality as well as Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum
F. S. Northedge, former professor of international relations
Richard W. Lyman, former provost and president of Stanford University; founder of Stanford Institute for International Studies
Susan Strange, professor of international relations (Montague Burton Chair), 1978–1988
Leonard Suransky, winner of Des Lee Visiting Lectureship in Global Awareness at Webster University
Martin Wight, reader in international relations, 1949–1960

Law

Andrew Ashworth CBE KC, Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford
Janice R. Bellace, Samuel A. Blank Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania, founding president of the Singapore Management University
Aminullah Chaudhry, Pakistan bureaucrat and remained Principal Secretary to Prime Minister (PSPM) of Pakistan Malik Meraj Khalid and director general (DG), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
Paul Davies, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics, Honorary KC
Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, former president of the American Bar Association, and former president of the Florida State University
Albert Venn Dicey, English jurist
Joseph Grundfest, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School
Jeremy Horder FBA, former Law Commissioner for England and Wales, professor of law at Oxford University and the London School of Economics
Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, professor of comparative law, University of Oxford, and a scholar in labour law
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of politician Robert F. Kennedy, law professor at Pace University School of Law
Sir David Hughes Parry, Professor of English law, 1930–1959
Michael Zander KC, professor emeritus, Legal Correspondent of The Guardian newspaper, 1963–1988
John Hart Ely, 10th Dean of Stanford Law School
J. A. G. Griffith FBA, Welsh legal scholar, Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics, Chancellor of the University of Manchester
Nicola Lacey CBE FBA, professor of law, gender and social policy at the London School of Economics, professor of criminal law and legal theory at the University of Oxford
Julia Black CBE FBA, president-elect of the British Academy, strategic director of innovation and professor of law at the London School of Economics
Hugh Collins FBA, Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford, former Head of the Law Department at the London School of Economics and general editor of the Modern Law Review
Conor A. Gearty FBA KC, Professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, founder member of the Matrix Chambers
Gerry Simpson, chair in Public International Law at the London School of Economics, professor of law at the University of Melbourne
Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill, Visiting Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Ewan McKendrick KC, Herbert Smith Professor of English Private Law at the University of Oxford, Registrar of the University of Oxford
Neil Duxbury FBA, Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics
Dame Sarah Elizabeth Worthington, DBE, KC (Hon), FBA, FRSA, Pro-Director of the London School of Economics (with responsibility for research and external relations) between 2005 and 2010, Deputy High Court Judge in the Chancery Division
Sir Nigel Simon Rodley, KBE, Professor of Law and Chair of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, Member of the UN Human Rights Committee between 2001 and 2016
Martti Koskenniemi, Centennial Professor at the Law Department of the London School of Economics, Professor of International Law in the University of Helsinki and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights
Antony T. Anghie, law professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law
Raymond Wacks, Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory and Head of Department of Law (1986-1993), University of Hong Kong

Linguists

Geoffrey Sampson, linguist

Philosophers

Joseph Agassi, philosopher
Brian Barry, moral and political philosopher
William Warren Bartley, philosopher
John Lane Bell, mathematical logician
Kenneth Binmore, philosopher, economist and mathematician
Nick Bostrom, philosopher
Luc Bovens, philosopher
Craig Callender, philosopher
Nancy Cartwright, philosopher of science
Sir Bernard Crick, political philosopher
Helena Cronin, Darwinist philosopher
Gregory Currie, philosopher
Daniel Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist

Paul Feyerabend, philosopher
Peter S. Fosl, philosopher
Ernest Gellner, philosopher
John Gray, political philosopher
Horace Romano Harré, philosopher
Colin Howson, philosopher
Chandran Kukathas, political theorist
Imre Lakatos, philosopher of science
Christian List, philosopher
Shirley Robin Letwin, political philosopher
David Makinson, philosopher and mathematical logician
Nicholas Maxwell, philosopher
David Miller, philosopher
Alan Musgrave, philosopher
Michael Oakeshott, philosopher
Samir Okasha, philosopher of science
Michael Otsuka, moral and political philosopher
Sir Karl Popper, philosopher
Graham Priest, philosopher
Wlodek Rabinowicz, philosopher
Eric Scerri, philosopher of chemistry
Jeremy Shearmur, philosopher
Elliott Sober, philosopher of biology
Jeremy Stangroom, philosopher
John Worrall, philosopher of science

Political scientists

Benjamin Barber, professor of political science, University of Maryland, College Park
Sir Ernest Barker, political scientist, Principal of King's College London, 1920–1927
Scott Barrett, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University
Sarah Gibson Blanding, Vassar College's sixth president and first female president
Verity Burgmann, professor of political science, University of Melbourne
Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, political scientist, diplomat and author
William Christian, political scientist at the University of Guelph
Alasdair Cochrane, political theorist and ethicist, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Sheffield^[17]
Ivor Martin Crewe, political scientist, Vice-Chancellor of University of Essex
Sir Bernard Crick, political theorist
Marianne Githens, American political scientist, feminist, author, and Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of Goucher College
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
Margaret Moore, political theorist
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
William A. Robson, lecturer and professor of public administration, London School of Economics
Gordon Smith, professor of politics and government, London School of Economics
Jill Vickers, political scientist
Ken Young, UK public policy and politics of the early Cold War, King's College London

Sociologists

Peter Abell, founding director of Interdisciplinary Institute of Management
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
Anthony Giddens, sociologist renowned for his theory of structuration, and former director of the school
Paul Gilroy, sociologist
Jocelyn Hyslop, social worker and educator
Ernest Krausz (1931-2018), Israeli professor of sociology and president at Bar Ilan University
Michael Mann, sociologist
Karl Mannheim, sociologist
Robert McKenzie, sociologist and psephologist
José Guilherme Merquior, sociologist and literary critic
Andrew Milner, sociologist of literature
Talcott Parsons, sociologist
John Porter, sociologist
Nikolas Rose, sociologist
Saskia Sassen, sociologist and economist
Mike Savage, sociologist
Richard Sennett, sociologist
France Winddance Twine, sociologist
Hilary Wainwright, sociologist

Social anthropology

Bronislaw Malinowski, eminent anthropologist and functionalist

Laura Bear, anthropologist
Maurice Bloch, marxist and cognitive anthropologist
Fredrik Barth, anthropologist
Jean Comaroff, anthropologist
John Comaroff, anthropologist
Maria Czaplicka, Polish cultural anthropologist
Jack Herbert Driberg, anthropologist^[18]
E.E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist
Sir Raymond Firth, ethnologist, founder of economic anthropology
Rosemary Firth, ethnologist
Meyer Fortes, anthropologist
Alfred Gell, anthropologist
David Graeber, anthropologist, anarchist and activist
Deborah James, anthropologist
Phyllis Kaberry, anthropologist
Adam Kuper, anthropologist
David Lan, anthropologist and film maker
Edmund Leach, anthropologist
Charles Stafford, anthropologist
Alan Macfarlane, social anthropologist and historian
Lucy Mair, anthropologist
Harvey Whitehouse, cognitive anthropologist
Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologist
Z.K. Mathews, prominent Apartheid-era South African academic
Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist and ethnographer
Philip Proudfoot, anthropologist and politician
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

William Beveridge, former director of LSE
Winifred Cavenagh, Professor of Social Administration and Criminology at Birmingham University
Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, senior advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair
Martin Knapp, Chair of LSE Health and Social Care
Jane Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy
Tim Newburn, professor of criminology and current president of the British Society of Criminology
Augustus Nuwagaba, associate professor at Makerere University
Peter Townsend, professor of social policy
Richard Titmuss, founder of the academic discipline of social policy
Emily Grundy, Professor of Demography
Roger Zogolovitch, architect and developer, director of the Infrastructure and Development course (1998-2003)

Social psychology

Martin Bauer, psychologist
Howard Gardner, American psychologist, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences
Nicholas Humphrey, psychologist
Satoshi Kanazawa, evolutionary psychologist
J. Philippe Rushton, psychologist
Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist
Andrew Samuels, 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

Statisticians

Sir R. G. D. Allen, President of the Royal Statistical Society
D. J. Bartholomew, Professor of Statistics and President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1993–1995
Daasebre Oti Boateng, Ghanaian Government statistician and head of the Statistical Service from 1982 to 2000, first black Chairman of the United Nations Statistical Commission in 1987^[19]
Sir Arthur Bowley, statistician
D. G. Champernowne, Professor of Statistical Economics
W. Edwards Deming, statistician, economist
Sir Ian Diamond, statistician, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen
James Durbin, statistician, econometrician
John Hajnal, statistician
W.D. Hamilton, mathematical biologist and demographer
Sir Maurice George Kendall, statistician
Leslie Kish, statistician
John Denis Sargan, statistician
Nate Silver, American statistician
Howell Tong, statistician
Henry Wynn, President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1977

Arts and media

Film, music and performance

Sylvia Anderson (nee Thamm), producer, writer, voice actor
Greg Barker, documentary filmmaker, director of Ghosts of Rwanda
Rhian Benson, Ghanaian and Welsh soul and jazz singer-songwriter
Ralph Brown, actor, writer (Withnail & I, Alien3, Wayne's World 2)
Mika, Beirut-born British/American singer
Sophie Choudry, Indian actress
Mick Jagger, British musician, lead vocalist of the Rolling Stones
Angelina Jolie, film actress and activist^[20]
Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules), Radio 1 DJ
Soha Ali Khan, Indian actress
Katell Keineg, singer/songwriter
Arif Mardin, Turkish music producer
Metis, American musician
Arnon Milchan, Israeli independent Hollywood film producer who has been linked to Mossad
Ron Moody, British actor, famous for playing Fagin in Oliver!
Jaime Murray, actress
Scott Neustadter, Hollywood writer; 500 Days of Summer is based on a romance at LSE
Mat Osman, bass player for Suede
Edward R. Pressman, film producer (Wall Street, Das Boot, Thank You for Smoking)
David Rodigan, reggae DJ
Allan Segal, BAFTA-winning documentary film maker
Tara Sharma, Indian actress
Sophie Solomon, British violinist, songwriter and composer
Robin Spry, filmmaker
Frank Turner, musician, in the band Million Dead, now a solo artist; 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

Television and radio

David Attenborough, BBC presenter and naturalist
Zeina Awad, reporter, TRT WORLD
Jana Bennett, Head of Vision, BBC
Bidisha, broadcaster and writer
Jon Blair, Academy Award, British Academy Award and Emmy-winning producer and director
Josh Chetwynd, baseball presenter
Gary Delaney, stand-up comedian
Martin Durkin, TV director
Loyd Grossman, TV chef/presenter
Robert Kilroy-Silk, TV presenter, politician and Eurosceptic former MEP
Hari Kondabolu, stand-up comedian
Martin Lewis, TV presenter and money saving expert
Sean McGuiness, Top Gear producer
James O'Brien, radio journalist
Mark Urban, Newsnight diplomatic editor
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
Anne Applebaum, journalist and author
Pat Barker, author, historian
Peter Bart, journalist and film producer
Sally Belfrage, journalist and author
Julia Belluz, senior health correspondent for Vox
Melissa Benn, journalist and feminist
Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC World Service journalist
Josh Chetwynd, baseball presenter, player and writer
Andrew Coyne, national editor for Maclean's
Rhian Edwards, poet
Robert Elms, radio presenter, music journalist
Ekow Eshun, BBC Newsnight broadcaster, and TV host
Simon Garfield, The Observer journalist; author of Mauve and Our Hidden Lives
Tom Happold, editor of The Guardian
Maajid Nawaz, author and activist
Leslie Finer, British journalist and author
Daniel Finkelstein, Comment Editor of The Times
Yvonne Green, poet, writer, barrister
Edward Greenspon, editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail newspaper
Tim Judah, journalist and author
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
Robert Kuttner, journalist and economics author
Kirsty Lang, broadcaster and journalist
Philippe Legrain, British journalist and writer
Bernard Levin, journalist, author and broadcaster
Michael Lewis, best selling author; contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg
Rod Liddle, journalist, TV presenter, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme
Tim Lott, journalist and Whitbread Book Awards-winning author
Edward Lucas, journalist
Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, Norwegian publisher of Aftenposten and Verdens Gang
Hilary Mantel, writer, Man Booker Prize winner in 2009 and 2012, the first woman to receive the award twice
Kingsley Martin, former editor of the New Statesman
China Miéville, writer, PhD International Relations 2001
Keith Murdoch, journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch
Yvonne Ndege, journalist
Peter Pomerantsev, journalist
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
Nabila Ramdani, French-Algerian journalist
Christopher Ruddy, journalist, CEO of Newsmax Media, formerly with the New York Post and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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
Joss Sheldon, author
Michael Whitney Straight, publisher and novelist
Mitchell Symons, journalist and author
Paul Tansey, economics editor for The Irish Times
Sander Vanocur, journalist, NBC
Siddharth Varadarajan, journalist and editor
Stuart Varney, Peabody Award-winning economic journalist
Justin Webb, BBC News, Washington Correspondent
Jacqueline Wheldon, novelist
Xu Zhimo, early 20th-century Chinese poet

Pulitzer Prize winners

Year	Recipient	Prize
1968	Nick Kotz	Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
1987	Anne Applebaum	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
1990	David A. Vise	Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism
1993	Roy Gutman	Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
1994	David Levering Lewis	Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
2000	John Bersia	Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
2001	David Levering Lewis	Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
2013	Bret Stephens	Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Business and finance

Josef Ackermann (born 1948), former CEO of Deutsche Bank (visiting professor)
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, banker, cofounder Access Bank Plc and Founder & Chairman, Africa Initiative for Governance
Ameer Ali, economist, President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
Marco Alverà, CEO of Snam
Delphine Arnault, billionaire French businesswoman
Sir Terence Beckett, chairman of Ford and director-general of the Confederation of British Industry
Geoffrey Bell, banker, and Group of Thirty founder
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
Sir Gordon Brunton, Chief Executive of Thomson Corporation, former Chairman of Sotheby's
Richard Caruso, founder and Chairman of Integra LifeSciences Corporation; 2006 Ernst & Young US Entrepreneur of the Year
Glyn England, chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board^[21]
Tony Fernandes, entrepreneur
Clara Furse, former Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, entrepreneur, founder of EasyGroup
Michael S. Jeffries, CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Jonathan Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum (born 1959), chief operating officer of investment trust RIT Capital Partners plc, and a Labour member of the House of Lords
Spiro Latsis, billionaire
Charles Lee, former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Catherine Maxwell Stuart, 21st Lady of Traquair, brewer, hotelier, and estate owner
David Morgan, CEO of Westpac
Arif Naqvi, CEO of The Abraaj Group, a private equity firm
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
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, Alphabet Inc, former Chief Financial Officer, 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
David Rockefeller, former chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Trilateral Commission, son of financer John D. Rockefeller Jr. and grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller
Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, industrialist, Chancellor of Middlesex University
George Soros, financier; billionaire
Peter Sutherland, BP and Goldman Sachs chairman

Sheikha Alanoud bint Hamad Al Thani, finance executive at the Qatar Financial Centre
Gordon Thiessen, Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1994–2001
Yevhenia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian entrepreneur and lobbyist on behalf of her mother, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko^[22]
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, Baron Weinstock, English businessman best known for building GEC
Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat
Jeff Wooller, accountant and educationalist
Rebekah Yeoh, Malaysian businesswoman and philanthropist

Law enforcement

Sir Ian Johnston, Chief Constable of British Transport Police
Valerie Plame, CIA officer who was controversially identified in a newspaper column by Robert Novak in July 2003
Barbara Wilding, Chief Constable of South Wales Police

Lawyers and judges

Dorab Patel, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice, 2006–2009
Manfred Lachs, Judge of the International Court of Justice, 1967–1993
Anthony Kennedy, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1988–2018
Yoram Danziger, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, 2007–present

Kweku Etrew Amua-Sekyi, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and Justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia
Cherie Blair KC, judge, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
Gerald Butler, senior judge at Southwark Crown Court
Colm Connolly, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Yoram Danziger, Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
Dame Linda Dobbs, first non-white person to be appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales
Courtenay Griffiths, KC
Curtis Doebbler, lawyer, represented Saddam Hussein
Sir Richard Field, High Court Judge
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 Michael Fox, Lord Justice of Appeal
Dame Janet Gaymer KC, Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments
Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, Deputy High Court Judge
Sir Christopher Greenwood KC, advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the Iraq War, member of the International Court of Justice
Bill Hastings, Chief Censor of New Zealand
Dame Rosalyn Higgins KC, judge and former president of the International Court of Justice
Betty Mould-Iddrisu, former Attorney General of Ghana
Sir Robin Jacob, as Lord Justice Jacob a Lord Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales
Sir Edwin Jowitt, High Court Judge
Makhdoom Ali Khan, former Attorney General of Pakistan
Salahuddin Ahmad, former Attorney General of Bangladesh
Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice
Manfred Lachs, judge on the International Court of Justice
Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, Judge of the International Court of Justice
Mustafa Kamal, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh
Lauretta Lamptey, Ghanaian Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice
D. Price Marshall Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Jeremy McMullen, KC, judge at the High Court, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Southwark Crown Court
Thomas Mesereau, lawyer, represented Michael Jackson
Dorab Patel, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
Gareth Peirce, solicitor, represented the Guildford Four
Robert Ribeiro, Permanent Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
Walter Tarnopolsky, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee
Cedric Thornberry, International lawyer and former Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Mónica Feria Tinta, international lawyer, obtained the first international human rights court decision ordering the prosecution of a former Head of State for crimes under international law; co-recipient of Gruber Justice Prize 2007
Peter Whiteman, Deputy High Court Judge
Christopher Wolf, American attorney, pioneer in Internet law
Kimba Wood, federal judge on senior status for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
John A. Woodcock Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine
Derry Irvine KC, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Scottish lawyer and judge, former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, founder of the 11 King's Bench Walk Chambers
James Hamilton, participated in the United States Senate Watergate Committee

NGOs, charities and pressure groups

Alagappa Alagappan (1925–2014), Indian-born American founder of the Hindu Temple Society of North America^[23]
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty
Mark Goldring, chief executive of Mencap, chief executive of Oxfam GB^[24]^[25]
Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, executive director of Community Service Volunteers (1975–2011)
Mary Joynson, director of Barnardo's^[26]^[27]
Marion Kozak, human rights campaigner
Temi Mwale, founder of The 4Front Project^[28]^[29]
Sir Nicholas Partridge, Chief Executive Terrence Higgins Trust; Chairman of Involve
Anusyabehn Sarabhai, Indian trade unionist
Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International
Barbara Davies, former national organizer of Christian CND^[30]

Sport

Josh Chetwynd, baseball player, presenter and author
John Lacy, English footballer, 1975 FA Cup finalist with Fulham
Marcus Mepstead, Men's Foil Team, Rio 2016 Olympics
Folarin Ogunsola, Gambian national swimmer
Elham Al Qasimi, first Arab woman to reach the North Pole
Andy Ripley, British Lions Rugby International
Val Venis, wrestler

Others

Jonathan Bartley, former co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales^[31]
Penelope Meredith Mary Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Arnold Cook, founder of the Guide Dog movement
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American naval officer and brother of US president John F. Kennedy, died in WWII
Ralph Lazar, artist
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal, terrorist
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Islamic militant

Fictional

President Josiah Bartlet, fictional President of the United States on NBC's popular TV show The West Wing
Eliza Doolittle, fictional character in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Prime Minister Jim Hacker of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
Guy MacKendrick, a British accounts executive in Mad Men
Jack Ryan, fictional character by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations
Charles Umtali, President of Buranda as Selim Mohammed in Yes Minister (Season 1, Episode 2: "The Official Visit").

Founders of LSE

First the four generally accepted co-founders:^[32]

Sidney Webb
George Bernard Shaw
Beatrice Webb, also Governor, LSE, 1901-1928^[33]^[34]
Graham Wallas

The original governors of the LSE were, besides Beatrice Webb:^[33]

Jervoise Athelstane Baines, Governor, LSE, 1901-1926
Hubert Bland, Governor, LSE, 1901-1914
William Garnett, mathematical physicist and educational administrator, Governor, LSE, 1901-1932
Robert Giffen, Governor, LSE, 1901-1910
Courtenay Ilbert, Governor, LSE, 1901-1923
Richard Burdon Haldane, Liberal politician, lawyer, and philosopher, Governor, LSE, 1901-1907
Alfred Lyall, Governor, LSE, 1901-1911
Joseph Francis Oakeshott, Governor, LSE, 1901-1945
Edward R. Pease, Governor, LSE, 1901-1945
William Pember Reeves, Governor, LSE, 1901-1908
Lionel Walter Rothschild, Governor, LSE, 1901-1929
Bertrand Russell, Governor, LSE, 1901-1906
Herbert L Samuel, Governor, LSE, 1901-1945
Charlotte Shaw, Governor, LSE, 1901-1922^[35]
Frederick Whelan, Governor, LSE, 1901-1945
Edward Arthur Whittuck, Governor, LSE, 1901-1924