Heads of State or Government
| State | Leader | Affiliation | Office |
| Barbados | Errol Walton Barrow (1920–1987) | BSc (Econ) 1950 | Prime minister 1962-1966; 1966–1976; 1986–1987 |
| Canada | Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) | Research Fee Student 1947-1948 | Prime minister 1968-1979; 1980–1984 |
| Canada | Kim Campbell (b. 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- |
| Denmark | HM Queen Margrethe II (b. 1940) | Occasional student 1965 | Queen 1972- |
| Dominica | Dame Eugenia Charles | LLM 1949 | Prime minister 1980-1995 |
| EU | Professor Romano Prodi (b. 1939) | Research Fee Student 1962-1963 | President of the European Commission 1999-2004; |
| Fiji | Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) | Diploma Econ & Social Admin 1962 | Prime minister 1970-1992; President 1994-2000 |
| Germany | Heinrich Brüning | BSc Economics Student 1911-1913 | Chancellor 1930-32 |
| Ghana | Dr Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) | PhD 1946 | First president 1960-1966 |
| Ghana | Hon Dr Hilla Limann (1934–1998) | BSc (Econ) 1960 | President 1979-1981 |
| Ghana | John Atta Mills (b. 1944) | LLM 1967-68 | President 2009 |
| Greece | George Papandreou (b.1952) | MSc Sociology 1977 | Prime minister 2009-2011 |
| Greece | Dr Constantine Simitis (b. 1936) | Research Fee Student 1961-1963 | Prime minister 1996-2004 |
| India | Shri KR Narayanan (1921–2005) | BSc (Econ) 1945-1948 | President 1997-2002 |
| Israel | Moshe Sharett (1894–1965) | BSc (Econ) 1924 | Prime minister 1953-1955 |
| Italy | Professor Romano Prodi (b. 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 | Taro Aso (b.1940) | Occasional Student 1966 | Prime minister 2008- |
| Kenya | Jomo Kenyatta (1891–1978) | ADA 1936 | First president 1964-1978 |
| Kenya | Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931) | BSc Economics 1959 | President 2002- |
| Kiribati | Anote Tong (b.1952) | MSc Sea-Use Group 1988 | President 2003- |
| Libya | Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi (b 1972) | PhD 2006 | Effectively Prime Minister, 2007–2011 |
| Mauritius | Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo (1920–2000) | LLB 1948 | First president of Mauritius March–June 1992 |
| Mauritius | Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam (b. 1947) | LLB 1990 | Prime minister 1995-2000; 2005- |
| Nepal | Sher Bahadur Deuba (b. 1943) | Research Student International Relations 1988-1989 | Prime minister 1995-1997; 2001–2003; 2004–2005 |
| Panama | Harmodio Arias (1886–1962) | Occasional Student, 1909–1911 | President 1932-1936 |
| Peru | Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto (1897–1979) | BSc (Econ) 1918 | Prime minister 1959-1961 |
| Peru | Beatriz Merino (b.1947) | LLM 1972 | Prime minister 2003 |
| Poland | Marek Belka (b.1952) | Summer School 1990 | Prime minister 2004-05 |
| Singapore | Goh Keng Swee (1918–2010) | BSc Economics 1951; PhD Economics 1956 | Deputy prime minister 1959-84 |
| Saint Lucia | John Compton (b. 1926) | 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 (b.1956) | PhD Law 1984 | Vice-premier 2006- |
| Thailand | Tanin Kraivixien (b. 1927) | LLB 1953 | Prime minister 1976-1977 |
| United Kingdom | Lord Attlee (1883–1967) | Lecturer in social science and administration, 1912–1923 | Prime minister, 1945–1951 |
| United States | John F Kennedy (1917–1963) | General Course student 1935 | President 1961-1963 |
- Óscar Arias (b. 1941) - President of Costa Rica, 1986–1990, 2006–present and Nobel Prize winner
- Maurice Bishop (1944–1983) - Prime Minister of Grenada (1979–1983)
- Heinrich Brüning (1885–1970) - Chancellor of Germany, 1930–1932
- Joe Bossano (b.1939) - Chief Minister of Gibraltar, 1988–1996
- Forbes Burnham - (1923–1985) - President of Guyana
- Tuanku Jaafar (b. 1922) - Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia, 1994–1999
- Tanin Kraivixien (b. 1927) - Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976–1977
- Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914–2000) - Premier of Taiwan, 1984–1989
- Sylvanus Olympio (1902–1963) - Prime Minister of Togo, 1958–1961, and first President of Togo, 1961–1963
- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900–1985) - Prime Minister of Mauritius (1961–1982)
- Tsutomu Hata - (b.1935) Prime Minister of Japan, 1994
- Takahashi Korekiyo (1854 – 1936) - Prime Minister of Japan 1920-22, 1932
- Sergey Stanishev (b. 1966) - Prime Minister of Bulgaria, 2005–2009
- Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005) - Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, 1986–1990
- Banja Tejan-Sie, (1917–2000) - Governor-General and leader of opposition Sierra Leone People's Party in Sierra Leone
- Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1923) - Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959–1990
- Jacques Parizeau (b.1966) Premier of Quebec, 1994-1995
- Paul Kagame (b.1957) President of Rwanda, 2000 -
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