Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy - Prominent Alumni

Prominent Alumni

Government, Diplomacy, and International Organizations

• Rafeeuddin Ahmed, F56, UN Under-Secretary General
• Hernán Escudero, Ecuadorean Diplomat Former ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and to the Republic of Peru.
• Shafi U Ahmed, F86, High Commissioner of Bangladesh to United Kingdom
• Abul Ahsan, F62, former Bangladeshi Ambassador to the U.S., and member of the Executive Board of UNESCO
• Yasushi Akashi, senior Japanese diplomat, former Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations
• Bolaji Akinyemi, F66, Nigerian Electoral Reform Panel, former Foreign Minister of Nigeria
• Mimi Alemayehou, F98, U.S. Director of the African Development Bank
• Sultan T. Al-Nahayan, GMAP01, United Arab Emirates Minister of Tourism & Trade
• Joyce Aluoch, GMAP08, Judge to the International Criminal Court
• Anthony Banbury, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Field Support
• Barbara Bodine, F71, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and Kuwait
• Matthew Bryza, F88, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
• Pío Cabanillas, F86, Former Ministry-Spokesman of Spain
• Dante Caputo, F67, former President of the United Nations General Assembly
• Tom Casey, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the United States Department of State
• Peter J. Chan, F76, Singapore’s Ambassador to Thailand
• Humayun Rashid Choudhury, former speaker of the Bangladesh National Parliament
• Robin Christopher, F68, former Ambassador of United Kingdom to Argentina
• Musa Javed Chohan, F84, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Canada, former Ambassador to France and Malaysia
• Erin Conaton, F95, Undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force
• Pamela Cox, F77, F84, Vice President for Latin America, The World Bank
• Charles Crawford, former British Ambassador to Poland and Serbia
• Walter L. Cutler, F54, former U.S. Ambassador to Congo-Kinshasa (1975–79), Tunisia (1982–84), and Saudi Arabia (1984–89)
• C. Richard D'Amato, F67, former member of the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, former senior foreign policy and defense advisor to the Democratic Senate leader, Senator Robert C. Byrd
• Liu Daqun, F86, permanent Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
• Jaime Daremblum-Rosenstein, F64, former Ambassador of Costa Rica to U.S.
• Nathaniel Davis, former senior advisor to President Lyndon Johnson on Soviet and Eastern European affairs, and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
• Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, F81, Greek politician and Member of the European Parliament
• Sofyan A. Djalil, F93, Indonesian Minister of State-owned Enterprises and former Minister for Communications and Information, First United Indonesia Cabinet
• Michael Dobbs, former Chief of Staff of the British Conservative party, political thriller novelist
• William B. Edmondson, F51, former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa
• J. Adam Ereli, F89, U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain
• Pieter Feith, F70, Head of Mission for the European Union-led Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM)
• Jeffrey Feltman, F83, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
• Colette Flesch, F61, Member of Luxembourg's Parliament, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg, former President of the Council of the EU
• Jean Francois-Poncet, F48, Member of French Senate, former French Foreign Minister
• Luis Gallegos-Chiriboga, F83, Ambassador of Ecuador to U.S.
• Shukri Ghanem, F73, Libyan Minister of Oil and Gas, former Prime Minister of Libya
• Giorgi Gomiashvili, F99, former Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia
• Kennedy Graham, MP for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
• Humayun Hamidzada, F02, Spokesperson and Director of Communications, Office of the President of Afghanistan
• Abdelaziz Hamzaoui, F60, Tunisian Ambassador to U.S.
• Yoshiaki Harada, Member of the House of Representatives in the Japanese Diet
• Bryce Harland, former Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations
• John E. Herbst, F80, Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, U.S. State Department, former Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan
• Robert Hormats, F66, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, and former Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
• Raffi Hovannisian, former Foreign Minister of Armenia, leader of the Heritage party
• Jonathan Howe, F67, former Deputy Assistant to the President of the U.S. for National Security Affairs
• Wolfgang Ischinger, F73, former Ambassador of Germany to the U.S. and UK, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference
• Ismat Jahan, F86, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations
• Ahmad Kamal, former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
• Kostas Karamanlis, F82, Prime Minister of Greece
• Olga Kefalogianni, F06, Greek Member of Parliament
• Shahryar Khan, former Foreign Minister of Pakistan
• Shah A M S Kibria, former Minister of Finance of Bangladesh
• Robert R. King, United States special envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues
• Liu Xiaoming, F83, Chinese Ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• Juan Fernando López Aguilar, F88, Minister of Justice, Spain
• Lui Tuck Yew, F94, Minister for Transport in Singapore
• William J. Luti, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Defense Policy and Strategy for the National Security Council
• Mary Locke, F70, senior staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Winston Lord, F60, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
• Mosud Mannan, F89, Bangladesh Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco
• Scot Marciel, F83, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs
• Edwin W. Martin, former U.S. Ambassador to Burma
• Freddy Matungulu, deputy division chief of the International Monetary Fund, former Finance Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Cynthia McKinney, F80, former U.S. Representative from Georgia
• David McKean, F86, Chief of staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and former chief of staff for U.S. Senator John Kerry
• Wayne McCook, GMAP01, Ambassador of Jamaica to China
• Michael R. Meyer, F75, Director, Comm. & Speech writing for UN Secretary General
• Tariq M. Mir, former Ambassador from Pakistan to Sri Lanka, Iraq and Iran
• Derek Mitchell, current United States Ambassador to Burma
• William T. Monroe, F73, former U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan, F49, former U.S. Senator, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Bernd Mützelburg, F74, Germany’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, former Ambassador to India
• Guy de Muyser, F55, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Soviet Union and NATO
• Kittiphong na Ranong, F81, Ambassador of Thailand to the United States
• Harvey Frans Nelson, Jr., F50, U.S. Ambassador to Swaziland
• Toshiyuki Niwa, F65, Deputy Executive Director for UNICEF
• Phyllis E. Oakley, F57, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration (1994–97) and Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1997–99)
• Vartan Oskanian, F83, former Foreign Minister of Armenia
• Frank Pallone, F63, U.S. Representative from New Jersey
• Farah Pandith, F95, Special Representative to Muslim Communities for the United States Department of State
• Frank Craig Pandolfe, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral
• Michael E. Parmly, former Chief of Mission of the United States Interests Section in Havana
• Thomas R. Pickering, F54, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Under Secretary of State, and Senior VP, International Relations, Boeing Co.; namesake of the prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship administered by the U.S. Department of State
• Shazia Z. Rafi, F83, Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action
• Masihur Rahman, F80, former representative of Bangladesh to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Islamic Development Bank
• Bill Richardson, F71, Governor of New Mexico, former U.S. Secretary of Energy and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
• Iqbal Riza, F57, former Chief of Staff to the UN Secretary-General
• Leslie V. Rowe, F82, U.S. Ambassador, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
• Theodore E. Russell, First U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia, former Deputy Assistant Administrator for International Activities at the Environmental Protection Agency
• Akitaka Saiki, F79, Japan's representative to the Six Party Talks for North Korea
• Omar Samad, GMAP06, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada and France
• Graham Maitland, F'06, South African Ambassador to Sudan
• Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, former Chief Executive of the Colombian Coffee Delegation to the International Coffee Organization (ICO), former Minister of Foreign Trade, Minister of Finance, and Minister of Defense of Colombia
• Abdulla Shahid, F91 Foreign Minister of the Maldives
• Antoinette Sayeh, F85, Director of the African Department, International Monetary Fund, former Finance Minister of Liberia
• Sir David Serpell, F37, former British MP, British Foreign Office, author of the Serpell Report
• Surakiart Sathirathai, F80, former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
• Klaus Scharioth, F78, Ambassador of Germany to the U.S.
• Konrad Seitz, F67, German diplomat and scholar, former ambassador to China, India, and Italy
• Radmila Sekerinska GMAP07, Deputy Prime Minister of Macedonia
• Godfrey Smith, GMAP02, Foreign Minister of Belize
• Shashi Tharoor, F76, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Communications
• Mary Thompson-Jones, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy to the Czech Republic
• Malcolm Toon, F38, former U.S. Ambassador (USSR 1963-1979, Czechoslovakia 1969-1971, Yugoslavia 1971-1975, Israel 1975-1976)
• Sandra Louise Vogelgesang, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, and U.S. Ambassador to Nepal
• Hassan Wirajuda, F84, Foreign Minister of Indonesia
• Peter Woolcott, F82, Australian Ambassador to Italy
• Chusei Yamada, Member of the United Nations International Law Commission, Special Advisor to the Japanese Foreign Minister
• Junsai Zhang, F89, Ambassador of China to Australia
• Philip D. Zelikow, F95, Counselor of the U.S. Department of State
• Edson Zvobgo, founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF, later critic of Robert Mugabe
• Mary Burce Warlick, United States Ambassador to Serbia
• Harold Caballeros, Secretary of State Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Guatemala

Non-Profits and NGOs

• Peter Ackerman, F69, Founding Chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
• Zainah Anwar, Women's rights activist, former head of the Sisters in Islam
• C. Fred Bergsten, F62, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics, former U.S. Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury
• Dale Bryk, Senior Attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy clinic
• Sean Callahan, F88, Executive Vice President, Overseas Operations, Catholic Relief Services
• Craig Cohen, Associate Vice President for Research and Programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Charles H. Dallara, F75, Managing Director, Institute of International Finance, former Asst. Sec. for Int’l. Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury
• Dan Doyle, Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport
• Marsha Evans, F76, former President of the American Red Cross and Girl Scouts of the USA
• Evelyn Farkas, Senior Fellow at the American Security Project, former Executive Director of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
• Stephen Flanagan, F79, Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security Policy and Senior Vice President and Director of the International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Stephen Flynn, F91, Council on Foreign Relations
• Jason W. Forrester, Director of Policy at Veterans for America
• Hilary French, Vice President for Research at the Worldwatch Institute
• Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Founder of the Journal of Human Development, former Director of the Human Development Report Office at the World Bank
• Paul Hsu, F66, President of Epoch Foundation
• Satish Jha, President and CEO of One Laptop Per Child in India
• Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies
• Matthew Levitt, Director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Bette Bao Lord, novelist and writer, Chair of the Board of Trustees of Freedom House
• Shijuro Ogata, F55, Deputy Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, former Deputy Governor of the Development Bank of Japan, former Deputy Governor for International Relations of the Bank of Japan
• George R. Packard III, F59, President of the U.S. Japan Foundation
• Jeremy Rifkin, F69, economist and writer, creator of the Foundation On Economic Trends
• Reeta Roy, F89, President and CEO of the MasterCard Foundation
• Kaare Sandegren, F53, former Secretary of International Affairs at the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, former member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
• Jonathan A. Small, F68, former President, Non-Profit Coordinating Committee of New York
• Crocker Snow, Jr., Director of the The Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy
• John Stremlau, F69, F74, Vice President, Peace Programs, The Carter Center
• Fred Tanner, Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
• Nicolás de Torrente, F82, Executive Director, Doctors Without Borders

Academia

• Lisa Anderson, Provost of the American University in Cairo, former professor at Harvard University and SIPA at Columbia University
• Arnaud Blin, French historian and political scientist, former researcher at the Institut Diplomacie et Défense, the French Institute for Strategic Analysis and the Ecole de la paix de Grenoble
• Clayton Clemens, Professor of Government at The College of William and Mary
• Richard N. Current, former Bancroft Prize-winning historian and University of Wisconsin Professor
• Harriet Elam-Thomas, Director of the Diplomacy Program at the University of Central Florida, former U.S. Ambassador to Senegal
• John E. Endicott, F74, Vice Chancellor of the Solbridge International School of Business and President of Woosong University
• Oliver Everett, CVO, former Royal Librarian to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom
• David W. Kennedy, F79, International Legal Scholar and Vice President International Affairs at Brown University
• Peter F. Krogh, F66, Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
• Laurence Lafore, former author, Professor of History at the University of Iowa
• Mahmood Mamdani, F69, Professor of Government at Columbia University, Director of Columbia's Institute of African Studies, former President of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa
• Colette Mazzucelli, Professor of international studies, New York University's Center for Global Affairs
• Satoshi Morimoto, F80, Professor of international politics at Takushoku University, member of the Congressional Forum for a New Japan
• Vali Nasr, F84, Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, former Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
• Cymie Payne, Professor at University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Associate Director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment at the California Center for Environmental Law and Policy
• Joseph W. Polisi, F70, President of The Juilliard School
• Mitchell Reiss, Vice-Provost of International Affairs at The College of William and Mary, former United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State
• Dorothy Sobol, F66 & 79, Professor of International Economics and Emerging Markets at SAIS, former vice-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Zvi Meir Shtauber, F74, Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University
• Niklas Swanström, Program Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, a research and policy center affiliated with the School of Advanced International Studies
• Gregory Unruh, F99, Director of the Lincoln Center for Ethics in Global Management at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, coiner of the term Carbon lock-in in his Fletcher dissertation
• Alan Wachman, F84, Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
• Norman Wengert, F39, Founder of the doctoral program in Environmental Politics and Policy at Colorado State University, author of the seminal work Natural Resources and the Political Struggle
• Wu Teh Yao, former Professor of Political Science and Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Singapore, took part in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights while working at the United Nations
• Hassan Abbas, F02, 08, Professor, SIPA, Columbia University

Writers and Journalists

• Abdulaziz Al-Saqqaf, F79, Founder of the Yemen Times, Yemen's first English-language newspaper, winner of the National Press Club's International Award for Freedom of the Press
• Doug Bailey, F62, Founder of The Hotline, political consultant
• Michael Dobbs, F77, author, former journalist at The Washington Post, winner of the PEN award for non-fiction
• David Grann, F93, New York Times best-selling author
• Dan Green, F91, Producer, ABC's Nightline
• Tim Judah, front line reporter for The Economist and author
• Yitzhak Aharon Korff, publisher of The Jewish Advocate, dayan of Boston's rabbinical court
• Beto Ortiz, Peruvian journalist, critic of Alberto Fujimori's government
• Harry A. Radliffe II, F73, Producer, CBS 60 Minutes
• James S. Robbins, Senior Editorial Writer for Foreign Affairs at The Washington Times, winner of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Meritorious Civilian Service Award
• Najmuddin Shaikh, F62, writer for the Daily Times (Pakistan), former Pakistani diplomat
• Thom Shanker, F82, The New York Times, Washington Bureau
• Fakruddin Ahmed, F08, Newsline, Pakistan

Military

• Hans Binnendijk, F70, Theodore Roosevelt Chair in National Security Policy and Founding Director of the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University
• Erin Conaton, F95, United States Under Secretary of the Air Force
• Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Commanding General of the I Marine Expeditionary Force
• Susan Livingstone, F73, former Undersecretary of the Navy
• Richard W. Mies, former Commander in Chief of the United States Strategic Command
• Daniel J. Murphy, Jr., F79, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired), Chairman and CEO, Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
• James G. Stavridis, F84, Commander U.S. European Command, and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe
• Patrick M. Walsh, F93, U.S. Navy Admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations

Private Sector

• Khalid Al-Fayez, F74, CEO, Gulf International Bank
• Phillip K. Asherman, GMAP04, President and CEO of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company
• Robert G. Bell, F70 Senior Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment
• Charles N. Bralver, F75, former Vice Chairman and Founding Partner, Oliver Wyman
• Daniel K. Chao, F75, former President and Chairman, Bechtel Corporations, China
• Meng Dong, F99, President, Beijing Hengkun (Group) Ltd.
• Gerald W. Ford, F84, Founder and Chairman, Caffè Nero
• Robert Fisher, F77, Managing Partner, Goldman Sachs
• Mike Gadbaw, F70, VP & Senior Counsel for International Law & Policy, General Electric
• Ghazi Abdul Jawad, F72, former President & CEO, Arab Banking Corporation
• Ignasius Jonan, GMAP05, former President & CEO, Bahana Pembinaan Ushaha, Indonesia
• Chung Won Kang, F79, President and CEO of KB Kookmin Bank
• Robert E. Kiernan, F81, Chairman & CEO, Resolution Capital Advisors
• Michelle Kwan, F11, former figure skater
• Susan Livingston, F81, Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman
• Jim Manzi, F79, Founder and former CEO of Lotus.
• Vikram S. Mehta, F79, Chairman, Shell Group of Companies, India
• Kingsley Moghalu, F92, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sogato Strategies S.A
• Janet Norwood, F46, Director, Mid Atlantic Medical Services
• B. Craig Owens, GMAP01, Exec. VP& Chief Financial Officer, Delhaize Group, Brussels, Belgium
• Betsy Parker Powel, F57, President, Diamond Machine Technology
• Andy Safran, F76, Managing Dir & Global Head Energy Utilities & Chemicals, Investment Banking, Citigroup
• Debasish “Dev” Sanyal, F88, CEO, Air BP
• Charles Sitter, F56, former President of Exxon Mobil
• Neil Smit, F88, President Comcast Cable & former President & CEO, Charter Communications
• Greg Terry, F70, Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley Asia
• Richard Thoman, F67, former President and CEO of Xerox, Inc.
• Dimitris Tziotis, F95, President and CEO of Cleverbank, an award-winning strategy consultancy
• Carl Walter, F74, CEO, JP Morgan (China)
• David Welch, F77, Regional President of Europe/Africa/Middle East/South West Asia for Bechtel and former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
• Walter B. Wriston, F42, former Chairman and CEO of Citigroup
• Ziwang Xu, F88, former Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Asia
• Mian Zaheen, F74, Managing Director, Lazard Company
• Maria Gordon, F98, Executive Vice President and Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio Manager, PIMCO