Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

SAIS has over 15,000 alumni working in approximately 140 countries. Over 130 SAIS graduates have become Ambassadors throughout the world.

• Madeleine Albright - Former U.S. Secretary of State (attended SAIS, but did not earn degree)
• Mahamat Ali Adoum - Former Foreign Affairs minister, Chad's Ambassador to the United Nations
• Peter F. Allgeier - former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and former acting U.S. Trade Representative
• Cresencio S. Arcos - Former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, and former Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for International Affairs
• Nancy Birdsall - Founding President of the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C.
• Robert O. Blake, Jr. - Former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives and nominated to be U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Department of State
• Wolf Blitzer - CNN news anchor
• Adam Boulton - Sky News political editor
• Jeremy Bowen - BBC journalist and presenter
• Gayleatha B. Brown - Former U.S. Ambassador to Benin and current Ambassador designee to Burkina Faso
• R. Nicholas Burns - Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Greece
• Rocco Antonio Cangelosi - Italian Diplomat, Diplomatic Advisor to the President of the Italian Republic
• James Cason - Former U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay
• Herman Jay Cohen - U.S. diplomat, former Ambassador to various countries in Africa
• Jean-Maurice Dehousse - Former Belgian Minister-President of the Wallonia region, Former Mayor of Liege
• John Caspar Dreier - Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States
• Hermann Eilts - Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, worked with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat throughout the Camp David Accords
• Jessica Einhorn -former Dean of SAIS, member of the Board of Directors of Time Warner, former Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former Managing Director of the World Bank
• Peter A. Flaherty - Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company
• Robert Stephen Ford - Former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria
• Pamela P. Flaherty - President and CEO of Citigroup Foundation and Chair of the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees
• Alan H. Fleischmann - Co-Founder of ImagineNations Group and Senior Counselor and director of Albright Stonebridge Group
• Jeffrey Garten - Former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and former Dean of the Yale School of Management
• Timothy F. Geithner - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón - Former U.S. Ambassador to Chile
• April Glaspie - American diplomat, first woman to be appointed U.S. Ambassador to an Arab country, best known as the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq in the run-up to the 1991 Gulf War
• Geir H. Haarde - Former Prime Minister of Iceland
• John J. Hamre - President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Lawrence Hatheway - Chief Economist of UBS Investment Bank
• John E. Herbst - Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan, current Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization as a career member of the Senior Foreign Service
• James Howard Holmes - Former U.S. Ambassador to Latvia
• Devinda Subasinghe - Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States
• Hans Hoogervorst - Netherlands former Minister of Public Health, former Minister of Finance
• Tracey Ann Jacobson - Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan and Tajikistan
• Angela Kane - U.N. Undersecretary General for Management
• Malcolm Kerr - American University of Beirut President and Academic, assassinated
• Bert Koenders - Dutch Minister of Development Cooperation, Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
• Ellen Laipson - President of the Stimson Center
• Frank Lavin - U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
• Jim Leach - Chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities, former U.S. Representative from Iowa, former Chair of U.S. House of Representatives Banking & Financial Institutions Committee, former faculty and trustee at Princeton University
• Lee Tae-sik - Former Republic of Korea's Ambassador to the United States
• Samuel W. Lewis - Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and U.S. Ambassador at the Camp David Accord talks in 1978
• Dennis P. Lockhart - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• Peter Magowan - Former owner of the San Francisco Giants and former CEO of Safeway (attended SAIS, but did not earn degree)
• Sir David Manning - British Ambassador to Israel (1995–1998), Foreign Policy Adviser to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (2001–2003), British Ambassador to the United States (2003–2007)
• Maurizio Massari - Italian Diplomat, former Head of the Policy Analysis and Planning Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
• John E. McLaughlin - Former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
• Christopher Meyer - British Ambassador to the United States during the Second Gulf War
• Marcia Miller - Former Vice-Chair and Commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission
• Federico Minoli - Former CEO of Ducati Motor Holding
• Ana Belen Montes - Spy for Cuba working at the Defense Intelligence Agency and arrested in 2001
• Loretta Napoleoni, best selling author of Terror Incorporated and Insurgent Iraq. She is an expert on financing of terrorism and advises several governments on counter-terrorism
• Dr. Andreas Nick, Managing Director, Head of M&A, Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. KGaA, Frankfurt, Germany
• Pat O'Brien - Television personality
• John E. Osborn - Former commissioner, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy; affiliate faculty in law and international studies, University of Washington; senior executive with life sciences companies Cephalon and Onyx Pharmaceuticals
• Claudio Pacifico - Italian diplomat, Italian Ambassador to Egypt
• Ronald D. Palmer - Former U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia
• Gerhard Pfanzelter - Secretary General of the CEI, Former Permanent Representative of Austria to the UN, Ambassador of Austria to Syria, Senegal, Gambia, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali and Mauritania
• Nicholas Platt - Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Philippines, and Zambia; former President of the Asia Society
• Charles P. Ries - Current U.S. Minister for Economic Affairs and Coordinator for Economic Transition in Iraq, former U.S. Ambassador to Greece
• Marcie Berman Ries - Former U.S. Ambassador to Albania
• William A. Reinsch - Member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, former President of the National Foreign Trade Council, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration
• Arturo Sarukhán - Mexico's Ambassador to the United States
• David Shear - U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam
• Gabriel Silva Luján - Colombia's twice Ambassador to the United States, and Minister of Defence
• Bandar bin Sultan - Saudi Arabia's former Ambassador to the United States
• Cui Tiankai - People's Republic of China's Vice Foreign Minister
• Roberto Toscano - Italian diplomat, former Italian Ambassador to India, and Iran
• Lousewies van der Laan - Former leader of Democrats 66 in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
• Michael G. Vickers - Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Department of Defense
• Cassandra D. Waldon - Chief, External Communications Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Wang Guangya - People's Republic of China's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. - Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
• Jody Williams - Nobel Peace Prize recipient for her leadership of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
• Irving A. Williamson - Commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission
• Lois Wolk - member of the California State Senate
• Anne E. Derse - U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania, SAIS'81