The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the

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and government of

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. The school offers

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, and

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, four doctoral degrees, and many executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to

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, international affairs, and

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. As of 2021, HKS had an endowment of $1.7 billion. The School is a member of the

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(APSIA), a global consortium of schools that trains leaders in international affairs. The School's primary campus is located on John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge. The main buildings overlook the

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and are southwest of

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and Harvard Square, on the site of a former MBTA Red Line trainyard. The School is adjacent to the public riverfront John F. Kennedy Memorial Park. Harvard Kennedy School alumni include 17

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, the most of any graduate institution in the world. Alumni also include

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officials, military leaders, heads of central banks, and

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. In independent rankings, Harvard Kennedy School routinely ranks at the top of the world's graduate schools in public policy, social policy, international affairs, and government.

History

Harvard Kennedy School Littauer Building

Founding

The Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration was founded in 1936 with a $2 million gift (equivalent to roughly $30 million in 2010) from Lucius Littauer, an 1878

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher ...

alumnus, businessman, former U.S. Congressman, and the first coach of Harvard Crimson football. Harvard Kennedy School's shield was designed to express the national purpose of the school and was modeled after the U.S. shield. The School drew its initial faculty from Harvard's existing government and economics departments, and welcomed its first students in 1937. The School's original home was in the Littauer Center, north of

, which is now home to

's Economics Department. The first students at the Graduate School were called Littauer Fellows, participating in a one-year course listing which later developed into the school's mid-career

Master in Public Administration The Master of Public Administration (M.P.Adm., M.P.A., or MPA) is a specialized higher professional post graduate degree in public administration, similar/ equivalent to the Master of Business Administration but with an emphasis on the issues of ...

program. In the 1960s, the School began to develop its current public policy degree and course curriculum associated with its Master in Public Policy program.

Renaming and move

In 1966, three years following the assassination of U.S. President and 1940

alumnus John F. Kennedy, the school was renamed in his honor. By 1978, the faculty, including presidential scholar and adviser Richard Neustadt, foreign policy scholar and later dean of the School Graham Allison, Richard Zeckhauser, and Edith Stokey, consolidated the School's programs and research centers at the present Harvard Kennedy School campus. The first new building opened on the southern half of the former Eliot Shops site in October 1978. Under the terms of Littauer's original grant, the current campus also features a building called Littauer. In 1966, at the same time as the school was renamed, the Harvard Institute of Politics was created with Neustadt as its founding director. Harvard Institute of Politics has been housed on the school campus since 1978, and today sponsors and hosts a series of programs, speeches and study groups for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students. Along with major Harvard Kennedy School events, the Institute of Politics holds its events are held at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, named in honor of the late John F. Kennedy Jr. in Harvard Kennedy School's Littauer Building.

Rebranding and campus expansion

In late 2007, the Kennedy School of Government announced that it while its official name was not being altered, it was rebranding itself as the Harvard Kennedy School, with the change to be rolled out during the first part of 2008. The goal was to make clearer the school's connection with Harvard. It was also thought that the new branding would reduce confusion with other entities named after Kennedy, such as the

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and the

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. The rebranding had the support of Senator

Edward M. Kennedy Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic ...

, as well as of

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. In 2012, Harvard Kennedy School announced a $500 million fundraising campaign, $120 million of which was to be used to significantly expand the Harvard Kennedy School campus, adding 91,000 square feet of space including six new classrooms, a new kitchen, and dining facility, offices and meeting spaces, a new student lounge and study space, more collaboration and active learning spaces and a redesigned central courtyard. Groundbreaking commenced on May 7, 2015, and the project was completed in late 2017. The new Harvard Kenedy School campus was opened in December 2017. From 2004 to 2015, Harvard Kennedy School's dean was David T. Ellwood, a

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official in the

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administration. In 2015, Douglas Elmendorf, a former director of the U.S.

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, was named both dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and the school's Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy.

Academics

Degrees

Harvard Kennedy School offers four master's degree programs. The two-year Master in Public Policy (MPP) program focuses on

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management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

, ethics, statistics and negotiations in the public sector. There are three separate

(MPA) programs: a one-year Mid-Career Program (MC/MPA) intended for professionals who are more than seven years removed from their college graduation; a two-year MPA program intended for professionals who have an additional graduate degree and are more recently out of school; and a two-year international development track (MPA/ID) focused on development studies with a strong emphasis on

and

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. Members of the mid-career MPA class are Mason Fellows, who are public and private executives from developing countries. Mason Fellows typically constitute about 50 percent of the incoming class of Mid-Career MPA candidates. The Mason cohort is the most diverse at Harvard in terms of nationalities and ethnicities represented. It is named after

Edward Sagendorph Mason Edward Sagendorph Mason (February 22, 1899 – February 29, 1992) was an American economist and professor at Harvard University. He was the Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as the John F. Kennedy School of Governmen ...

, the former Harvard professor who, from 1947 to 1958, was dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration, now known as Harvard Kennedy School. In addition to the master's programs, Harvard Kennedy School administers four doctoral programs. Ph.D. degrees are awarded in

political economy Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...

and government in conjunction with Harvard University's departments of economics and government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), in

and

social policy Social policy is a plan or action of government or institutional agencies which aim to improve or reform society. Some professionals and universities consider social policy a subset of public policy, while other practitioners characterize soci ...

in conjunction with Harvard's departments of government and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation and ...

, and in health policy in conjunction with FAS and the

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Joint and concurrent degrees

Harvard Kennedy School has a number of joint and concurrent degree programs within Harvard and with other leading universities, which allow students to receive multiple degrees in a reduced period of time. Joint and current students spend at least one year in residence in Cambridge taking courses. Harvard Kennedy School joint degree programs are run with

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA ...

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

, and

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urba ...

, and concurrent programs are offered with

Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the academic study of religion or for leadership roles in religion, go ...

and

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools ...

. Beyond Harvard, HKS has concurrent degree arrangements with other law, business, and medical schools, including the

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, the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, a ...

, the Tuck School of Business at

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, The Wharton School of the

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, University of California, Berkeley School of Law,

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, and UCSF Medical Center. Abroad, Harvard Kennedy School offers a dual degree with the

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HKS courses

Harvard Kennedy School maintains six academic divisions each headed by a faculty chair. In addition to offerings in the Harvard Kennedy School course listing, students are eligible to cross-register for courses at the other graduate and professional schools at Harvard and at the

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, and the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. MPP coursework is focused on one of five areas, called a Policy Area of Concentration (PAC), and includes a year-long research seminar in their second year, which includes a master's thesis called a Policy Analysis Exercise.

Rankings

Harvard Kennedy School has routinely ranked as the best, or among the best, of the world's public policy graduate schools. '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranks it the best graduate school for social policy, the best for health policy, and second best for public policy analysis. In 2015 rankings, Kennedy School is ranked first in the subcategory of health policy and second in the category of public policy analysis and social policy. Kennedy's School's foreign affairs programs have consistently ranked at the top or near the top of ''

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'' magazine's Inside the Ivory Tower survey, which lists the world's top twenty academic

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programs at the undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. levels. In 2012, for example, the survey ranked Kennedy School first overall for doctoral and undergraduate programs and third overall in the Master's category.

Student organizations

Harvard Kennedy School maintains a range of student activities, including interest-driven student caucuses, the student government (Kennedy School Student Government, known as KSSG), student-edited policy journals including ''Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy'', ''Kennedy School Review'', the ''Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy'', a student newspaper (''The Citizen''), and a number of student athletic groups. Students can join the

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, which is the centralized student government for the twelve graduate and professional schools of

. The Harvard Graduate Council is responsible for advocating student concerns to central administrators, including the

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, provost, deans of students, and deans for the nearly 15,000 graduate and professional students across the twelve schools, organizing large university-wide initiatives and events, administering and providing funding for university-wide student groups, and representing the Harvard graduate student population to other universities and external organizations. Harvard Graduate Council is known for spearheading the "One Harvard" movement, which aims to bring all of Harvard's graduate schools together through closer collaboration and social interaction.

Centers

Harvard Kennedy School is home to 14 centers, including: * Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation *

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, also known as the Belfer Center, is a research center located within the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, in the United States. From 2017 until his death in Oc ...

* Carr Center for Human Rights Policy * Center for International Development *

Center for Public Leadership The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) is an academic research center at Harvard University that provides teaching, research and training in the practical skills of leadership for people in government, nonprofits, and business. Located at Harva ...

* Institute of Politics * Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics * Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy * Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government *

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston is a research and policy center housed at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The director is Jeffrey Liebman, a professor of economics at Harvard. The Rappapor ...

* Taubman Center for State and Local Government * Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy * Joint Center for Housing Studies * Women and Public Policy Program The majority of centers offer research and academic fellowships through which fellows can engage in research projects, lead study groups into specific topics and share their experiences with industry and government with the student body. Under Dean Elmendorf, the school has tried to focus its engagement across the political spectrum, which has caused controversy at times. Recently, the school came under criticism for offering a fellowship to

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on September 13, 2017. It then publicly rescinded the offer on September 15, 2017, after CIA director

Mike Pompeo Michael Richard Pompeo (; born December 30, 1963) is an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served under President Donald Trump as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2017 to 2018 and as the 70th United State ...

canceled a speaking engagement at Harvard and sent a letter condemning the university for awarding the fellowship. A 2021 investigative report by student group Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard found that many of the center's climate initiatives were funded in part by fossil fuel companies, and that some of the centers had allegedly taken several steps to cover up that fact.

Awards

The Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service is awarded to "a graduating student whose commitment, activities, and contributions to public service are extraordinary". Several other awards are also awarded on "Class Day" at the end of May each year.

Notable faculty

* Graham Allison * Alan A. Altshuler * Mary Jo Bane * David J. Barron *

Jacqueline Bhabha Jacqueline Strimpel Bhabha (born 1951) is a British academic, and an attorney. She is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. lecturer in law at Harvard Law School and teaches public policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Her research and legal practice has focus ...

* Linda Bilmes *

Robert Blendon Robert J. Blendon is an American academic who is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Emeritus and Acting Director for the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Developm ...

* Derek Bok *

George Borjas George Jesus Borjas ( born Jorge Jesús Borjas, October 15, 1950) is a Cuban-American economist and the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has been described as "America’s leading immi ...

* R. Nicholas Burns *

Felipe Calderón Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 ...

Albert Carnesale Albert Carnesale (born July 2, 1936) is an American academic and a specialist in arms control and national security. He is a former chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, provost of Harvard University, and dean of the Harvard K ...

* Ashton Carter * Antonia Handler Chayes * William C. Clark * Richard Clarke *

Susan P. Crawford Susan P. Crawford (born February 27, 1963) is the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She served as President Barack Obama's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and is a columnist f ...

* David Cutler *

Michael Dukakis Michael Stanley Dukakis (; born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history a ...

* David Ellwood * Jeffrey Frankel * Jason Furman * Marshall Ganz * David Gergen * Edward Glaeser *

Robert R. Glauber Robert Rudolf Glauber (March 22, 1939February 14, 2021) was an American academic who was a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a visiting professor at the Harvard Law School. He was the former chairman, president, board member a ...

* Stephen Goldsmith *

Ricardo Hausmann Ricardo Hausmann (born 1956) is the former Director of the Center for International Development currently leading the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab and is a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the John F. ...

* J. Bryan Hehir * Ronald Heifetz * A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. * John P. Holdren * Swanee Hunt *

Michael Ignatieff Michael Grant Ignatieff (; born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a histo ...

* Sheila Jasanoff *

Christopher Jencks Christopher Sandy Jencks (born October 22, 1936) is an American social scientist. Career Jencks is currently the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He graduated from Phillips E ...

Alex Jones Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right and alt-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. He hosts ''The Alex Jones Show'' from Austin, Texas, which the Genesis Communications Network broadcast ...

* Dale Jorgenson *

Juliette Kayyem Juliette N. Kayyem (born August 16, 1969) is an American former government official and author. She is host of the WGBH podcast ''The SCIF''. She is a national security analyst for CNN and is a weekly guest on Boston Public Radio. She is the Belf ...

Alexander Keyssar Alexander Keyssar (born May 13, 1947) is an American historian and the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Life Alex graduated summa cum laude with a degree in ...

Robert Z. Lawrence Robert Zachary Lawrence (born 1949) is a South Africa-born American economist and Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at th ...

* Jennifer Lerner * Viktor Mayer-Schönberger * Joseph Newhouse *

Pippa Norris Pippa Norris (born 10 July 1953) is a political scientist specializing in comparative politics. She is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and she has served as the Australia ...

* Joseph Nye *

Rafael O'Ferrall Brigadier General Rafael O'Ferrall (born June 29, 1954) is an Army National Guard officer who is the Deputy Commanding General for the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the Assistant Adjutant General (Army) and Deputy Commanding Gener ...

* Meghan O'Sullivan * George Papandreou * Roger B. Porter * Michael Porter * Samantha Power * Lant Pritchett * Robert Putnam * Carmen M. Reinhart *

Dani Rodrik Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957) is a Turkish economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was formerly the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of ...

* Todd Rogers (behavioral scientist) *

Kevin Rudd Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian former politician and diplomat who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and again from June 2013 to September 2013, holding office as the leader of the ...

* John Ruggie * Juan Manuel Santos * Frederic M. Scherer *

Jeffrey L. Seglin Jeffrey L. Seglin (born December 26, 1956) is an American columnist, author, and teacher. Since 2011, he has been a faculty member and director of the communications program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His ...

Sarah Sewall Sarah Sewall (born August 21, 1961) is Executive Vice President for Policy at In-Q-Tel, a strategic investor for the national security community. A national security expert whose career spans government service and academia, she most recently serv ...

* Kathryn Sikkink *

Lawrence Summers Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as the 71st United States secretary of the treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010. He also served as pr ...

* Dennis Frank Thompson *

Stephen Walt Stephen Martin Walt (born July 2, 1955) is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International relations at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University and a political scientist. A member of the realist school of international relations ...

* Marilyn Waring *

Martin Weitzman Martin Lawrence Weitzman (April 1, 1942 – August 27, 2019) was an economist and a professor of economics at Harvard University. He was among the most influential economists in the world according to Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). His l ...

* Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby * John P. White * William Julius Wilson * Richard Zeckhauser *

Dorothy Zinberg Dorothy Shore Zinberg was an American scholar at Harvard Kennedy School and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Zinberg taught in the sociology department at Harvard and continued to lecture at the Kenned ...

* Jonathan Zittrain * Robert B. Zoellick

Notable alumni

Harvard Kennedy School has over 63,000 alumni, many of whom have gone on to notable careers in government, business, public policy, and other fields, including:

Government and politics

Heads of government and state

Pierre Trudeau Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau ( , ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), also referred to by his initials PET, was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and ...

(MA '45) – former

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* Miguel de la Madrid (MPA '65) – former

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born Ellen Eugenia Johnson, 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa. Sirleaf was born in Monr ...

(MPA '71) –

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laureate *

Carlos Salinas de Gortari Carlos Salinas de Gortari CYC DMN (; born 3 April 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician who served as 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), earlier in his career he wo ...

(MPA '73, PhD '76) – former

Lee Hsien Loong Lee Hsien Loong (; born 10 February 1952) is a Singaporean politician and former brigadier-general who has been serving as Prime Minister of Singapore and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party since 2004. He has been the Member of Pa ...

(MPA '80) –

Prime Minister of Singapore The prime minister of Singapore is the head of government of the Republic of Singapore. The president appoints the prime minister, a Member of Parliament (MP) who in their opinion, is most likely to command the confidence of the majority of ...

* Juan Manuel Santos (MPA '81) –

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laureate *

Donald Tsang Sir Donald Tsang Yam-kuen (; born 7 October 1944) is a former Hong Kong civil servant who served as the second Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012. Tsang joined the colonial civil service as an Executive Officer in 1967, occupyi ...

(MPA '82) – Hong Kong

Chief Executive A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especial ...

* Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé (MPA '88) – former

president of Bolivia The president of Bolivia ( es, Presidente de Bolivia), officially known as the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia ( es, Presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia and the ca ...

Jamil Mahuad Witt Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt (born 29 July 1949) is an Ecuadorian lawyer, academic and former politician. He was the 41st president of Ecuador from 10 August 1998, to 21 January 2000. Early life Mahuad was born in Loja, Ecuador. He is of Le ...

(MPA '89) – former

president of Ecuador The president of Ecuador ( es, Presidente del Ecuador), officially called the Constitutional President of the Republic of Ecuador ( es, Presidente Constitucional de la República del Ecuador), serves as both the head of state and head of gover ...

* José María Figueres Olsen (MPA '91) – former

president of Costa Rica The president of the Republic of Costa Rica is the head of state and head of government of Costa Rica. The president is currently elected in direct elections for a period of four years, which is not immediately renewable. Two vice presidents a ...

, CEO of the

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, ...

John Haglelgam John Richard Haglelgam (born August 10, 1949 in Eauripik, Yap) was the second President of the Federated States of Micronesia. Background and earlier life He was born on August 10, 1949 on the island of Eauripik in Yap State. He attended Eau ...

(MPA '93) former

president of the Federated States of Micronesia The president of the Federated States of Micronesia is the head of state and government of the Federated States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia (; abbreviated FSM) is an island country in Oceania. It consists of four ...

* Abdiweli Gaas (MPA '99) – former

prime minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...

(MPA '00) – former

* Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (MPA '02) – former president of Mongolia * Tshering Tobgay (MPA '04) – Prime Minister of Bhutan * Morgan Tsvangirai ('02) -

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

* Frederick Sumaye (MPA '07) former

prime minister of Tanzania The prime minister of Tanzania is the head in the National Assembly of the United Republic of Tanzania. The position is subordinated to the president, who is the actual head of government. The functions and powers of the prime minister are descr ...

* Maia Sandu (MPA '10) former prime minister of Moldova, current president of Moldova

Others

* Rizwan Ahmed (MPA) – Maritime Secretary of Pakistan *

Yam Ah Mee Yam Ah Mee (, born 2 July 1957) is a Singaporean former brigadier-general and civil servant who served as Chief Executive Director of the People's Association between 2010 and 2013. He was also known for his monotone voice and expressionless d ...

(MPA '91) – Chief Executive Director of People's Association, Singapore * Bob Anthony (MPA) – Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma *

Ami Ayalon Ami Ayalon ( he, עמיחי "עמי" איילון, born 27 June 1945) is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. He was previously head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, and commander-in-chief of the ...

(MPA '92) – member,

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

Knesset The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...

* Tariq Bajwa (MPA) – former Finance Secretary of Pakistan * Ed Balls (MPA '90) – former British Member of the Parliament, and Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families and

Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer The Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the British Parliamentary system is the member of the Shadow Cabinet who is responsible for shadowing the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The title is given at the gift of the Leader of the Opposition an ...

Nisrin Barwari Nisrin Barwari (or Nesreen Barwari, born 1967) is an Iraqi politician of Kurdish origin who acted as Iraqi Minister for Municipalities and Public Works following the US occupation of Iraq in 2003. Early life and education Barwari was born in B ...

(MPA '99) – Minister of Municipalities and Public Works of Iraq * Doug Bereuter (MPA '73) – former U.S. Congressman, Nebraska * Charles Blanchard (MPP '85) –

General Counsel of the Army The General Counsel of the Army (also known as the Army General Counsel, abbreviated AGC) is the chief legal officer of the U.S. Department of the Army and senior legal advisor to the Secretary of the Army. U.S. law provides that the General Co ...

1999–2001, General Counsel of the Air Force 2009-2013 * J. Richard Blankenship (MPA '08) – former U.S. Ambassador to The Bahamas * André Boisclair (MPA '05) – former leader of

Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois (; ; PQ) is a Quebec sovereignty movement, sovereignist and social democracy, social democratic provincial list of political parties in Quebec, political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates Quebec sovereignty movement ...

, former Quebec Minister of Citizenship and Immigration * Nick Boles (MPP '89) – former director of Policy Exchange and former Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford (United Kingdom). *

Emilia Boncodin Emilia Tabalanza Boncodin (May 28, 1954 – March 15, 2010) was a Filipina accountant, professor, and public servant. She was the Secretary of the Philippine Department of Budget and Management under the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Sh ...

(MPA '86) – Secretary of the Philippine Department of Budget and Management in the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

* Brendan Boyle (MPP '05) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 13th District of

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; (Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Ma ...

* David A. Bray (Exec '11) – recipient of the

Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership List of Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership recipients is a compilation of United States Executive (government), government executives who have received the Jones Award from the American University School of Public Affairs, an educationa ...

for lifelong public service * Anna Escobedo Cabral (MPA '90) – former U.S. Treasurer * Piper Campbell (MPA '99) – diplomat, currently serves as the 9th U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia * Robert Castelli (MPA '96) – member,

New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Assem ...

, 89th District *

Rajkumar Chellaraj Raj Chellaraj is the CFO and administrative dean at the Stanford Business School, Stanford University. Concurrently, he was also the chief operating officer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford Seed program with primary focus in ...

(MPA '86) – former

Assistant Secretary of State for Administration The Assistant Secretary of State for Administration is the head of the Bureau of Administration in the United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an United States federal executiv ...

United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the country's fore ...

Frank Chikane Frank Chikane (born 3 January 1951 in Bushbuckridge, Transvaal) is a South African civil servant, writer and cleric. He is a member of the African National Congress and moderator of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs for th ...

(MPA '95) – member,

African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...

; South African adviser to the President * Aneesh Chopra (MPP '97) –

U.S. Chief Technology Officer The United States Chief Technology Officer (US CTO) is an official in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The U.S. CTO helps the President and their team harness the power of data, innovation and technology on behalf of the American people ...

under President

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Obama was the first Af ...

Albert Chua Albert Chua (born 1968) is a Singaporean diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations from 2011 to 2013. He was educated at Raffles Institution, the University of East Anglia (BA, English Literature, 1990) a ...

(MPA '00) – former Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations * Henry Cisneros (MPA '73) – former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development * Jacqueline Y. Collins (MPA '01) –

Democratic Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democratic ...

member of the

Illinois Senate The Illinois Senate is the upper chamber of the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of the State of Illinois in the United States. The body was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. Under the I ...

, representing the 16th district since 2003 * Gerry Connolly (MPA '79) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 11th District of Virginia * Dan Crenshaw (MPA '17) - U.S. House of Representatives * David Cunliffe (MPA '95) – Leader of the Opposition,

Parliament of New Zealand The New Zealand Parliament ( mi, Pāremata Aotearoa) is the unicameral legislature of New Zealand, consisting of the King of New Zealand (King-in-Parliament) and the New Zealand House of Representatives. The King is usually represented by his ...

* Joseph Curtatone (MPA '11) – mayor,

Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a total population of 81,045 people. With an area ...

* Mark Daly (MPA, '11) – Irish

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the e ...

* Božidar Đelić (MPA '91) – Vice-president of

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ...

, former Minister of Finance *

Stephen Donnelly Stephen Donnelly (born 14 December 1975) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Health since June 2020. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wicklow constituency since 2011. On his election to Dáil Éireann, ...

(MPA '08) – Irish

Teachta Dála A Teachta Dála ( , ; plural ), abbreviated as TD (plural ''TDanna'' in Irish language, Irish, TDs in English), is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas, Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament). It is the equivalent of terms s ...

(Member of Parliament) for the

Wicklow Wicklow ( ; ga, Cill Mhantáin , meaning 'church of the toothless one'; non, Víkingaló) is the county town of County Wicklow in Ireland. It is located south of Dublin on the east coast of the island. According to the 2016 census, it has ...

constituency * Shaun Donovan (MPA '95) – U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development *

Theodore L. Eliot Jr. Theodore Lyman Eliot Jr. (January 24, 1928 – August 8, 2019)Lorna Sheridan"Sonoma Valley conservationist Ted Eliot dies at 91" ''Sonoma Index-Tribune'', August 9, 2019; Retrieved August 9, 2019 was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Am ...

(MPA '56) – former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan *

Benjamin Fernandes Benjamin Fernandes (born 25 November 1992) is a Tanzanian entrepreneur and former national television presenter. He worked at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the United States in their Digital Team and Financial Services team. He is the ...

(Exec. Ed'17) - Tanzanian entrepreneur * John Fetterman (MPP '99) – Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania (2019–present) *

Roy Folkman Roy Folkman ( he, רוֹעִי פוֹלְקְמָן, born 5 August 1975) is an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Kulanu between 2015 and 2019. Biography During his IDF national service Folkman served as a combat medic. ...

(MPA '13) – member,

Fernando Martín García Fernando Martín García is a Puerto Rican politician and former senator. He was a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1989 to 1993, and then from 2000 to 2004. Early years and studies Fernando Martín García finished his elementary an ...

(MPP '74) – Puerto Rican politician and former Senator * Marilinda Garcia (MPA '10) – member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives * Robert S. Gelbard (MPA '79) – former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and Bolivia * Hector Gramajo (MPA '95) – former Defense Minister of Guatemala * Alan Grayson (MPP '83) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 8th District of Florida * Katherine Harris (MPA '97) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 13th District of Florida; former Florida Secretary of State * Yoshimasa Hayashi (MPA '94) – former Minister of Defense, former Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, Japan * Liu He (MPA '95) – Vice Premier of China *

Teo Chee Hean Teo Chee Hean ( zh, s=张志贤, poj=Tiuⁿ Chì-hiân, p=Zhāng Zhìxián; born 27 December 1954) is a Singaporean politician and former two-star rear-admiral who has been serving as Senior Minister of Singapore since 2019 and Coordinating Mi ...

(MPA '86) – Senior Minister, Co-ordinating Minister for National Security of

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

Keith Hennessey Keith Hennessey is an American economist and former political advisor who served as the Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council. He was appointed to the position in November 2007 by Presi ...

(MPP '94) – former director,

White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C., NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. preside ...

National Economic Council * Paul Heroux, (MPA '11) Mayor, Attleboro, Massachusetts; former State Representative from Massachusetts * Brian Higgins (MPA '96) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 27th District of New York *

Stephen Horn John Stephen Horn (May 31, 1931 – February 17, 2011) was President of California State University, Long Beach and later a five-term Republican United States Congressman from California from 1993 to 2003. Early life Horn was born on May 31, 193 ...

(MPA '55) – former U.S. Congressman, California * Rafael Hui (MPA '83) – former

Chief Secretary for Administration The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Chief Secretary is head of the Governme ...

of Hong Kong * Muhammad bin Ibrahim (MPA '93) – 8th Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia * Natalie Jaresko (MPP '89) – former Minister of Finance in Ukraine *

Vuk Jeremić Vuk Jeremić ( sr-cyr, Вук Јеремић, ; born 3 July 1975) is a Serbian politician and diplomat who served as the president of the United Nations General Assembly from 2012 to 2013 and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia from 200 ...

(MPA '03) – 2012

President of the United Nations General Assembly The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The president is the chair and presiding officer of the General Assembly. Election ...

; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of

Ajay Narayan Jha Ajay Narayan Jha (born 15 January 1959; IAST: ) is a 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Manipur cadre. He was the Finance Secretary of India for three months. He was appointed as the member of Fifteenth Finance Commissio ...

— IAS officer and Expenditure Secretary of India. * Daniel J. Jones, lead investigator for " The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program," which is better known as "The Torture Report." Jones is portrayed by Adam Driver in the film '' The Report''. * Shane Jones (MPA '91) – member,

, and chair of finance committee *

Mitzi Johnson Mitzi Johnson (born November 18, 1970) is an American Democratic politician who was the Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives from 2017 to 2021. She represented the Grand Isle- Chittenden (GI-CHI) district (seat number 1), before lo ...

(MPA '13) - Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives *

Lim Hng Kiang Lim Hng Kiang ( zh, s=林勋强, p=Lín Xūnqiáng; born 9 April 1954) is a Singaporean former politician who served as Minister for Trade and Industry between 2004 and 2018, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office between 2003 and 2004, Mini ...

(MPA '85) – Minister for Trade and Industry of Singapore; member of the Cabinet of Singapore *

Ban Ki-moon Ban Ki-moon (; ; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was his country's Minister ...

(MPA '84) –

United Nations Secretary General The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or SG) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. The role of the secretary-g ...

* Raymond W. Kelly (MPA '84) –

New York City Police Commissioner The New York City Police Commissioner is the head of the New York City Police Department and presiding member of the Board of Commissioners. The commissioner is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the mayor. The commissioner is respons ...

Rajive Kumar Rajive Kumar (born 28 June 1958) is a retired 1981 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer belonging to the Uttar Pradesh cadre. Kumar is currently serving as the chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority and p ...

(MPA) – IAS officer and Chief Secretary of Indian state of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

. * Jim Langevin (MPA '94) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 2nd District of Rhode Island * Andrew Leigh (PhD '04) – member, Australian House of Representatives *

Mark D. Levine Mark D. Levine (born April 30, 1969) is an American politician and educator serving as the 28th Borough President of Manhattan since 2022. Previously, he served as member of the New York City Council from 2014 to 2021, where he represented the ...

(MPP '95) – member, New York City Council, 7th District *

Stephen F. Lynch Stephen Francis Lynch (born March 31, 1955) is an American businessman, attorney and politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. He is a Democrat representing Massachusetts's 8th co ...

(MPA '99) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 9th District of Massachusetts * Dan Maffei (MPP '95) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 25th District of New York * Nabiel Makarim (MPA '84) – former Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Indonesia *

Mark McClellan Mark Barr McClellan (born June 26, 1963) is the director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University. Formerly, he was a senior fellow and director of the ...

(MPA '91) – former Commissioner of the United States

Food and Drug Administration The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food ...

* Sanjay Mitra (MPA) – IAS officer and Defence Secretary of India. * Nripendra Misra (MPA) – Retired IAS officer and

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India The Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India (PS to the PM) is the senior-most bureaucrat in, and the administrative head of, the Prime Minister's Office. The officeholder is generally a civil servant, commonly from the Indian Administ ...

Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the List of Prime Ministers of India, 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the List of chief ministers of Gujarat, Chief Minist ...

from 2014 to 2019. *

Jim Moody James Powers Moody (September 2, 1935March 22, 2019) was an American economist and Democratic politician. He served five terms as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 5th congressional district (1983–1993). At the time, the 5th cong ...

(MPA '67) – former U.S. Congressman, Wisconsin * Toshimitsu Motegi (MPP '83) – Financial Services Minister of Japan * Elias Mudzuri (MPA ) – former Mayor of Harare * George Muñoz (MPP '78) – former CFO of the

U.S. Department of Treasury The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and ...

; former president and CEO of OPIC *

Charles A. Murphy Charles A. "Charley" Murphy (born August 11, 1965) is the former representative of the 21st Middlesex District to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Massachusetts House Committee on Ways and Means. Biography ...

, (MPA '02) – member of the

Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...

and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee * Andrew Natsios (MPA '79) former U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, and administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development * Naheed Nenshi (MPP '98) mayor of Calgary since 2010 * Amon Nikoi (MPA '56) – former Minister for Finance and Economic Planning, Governor of the Bank of Ghana and Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations *

Patrick Nip Patrick Nip Tak-kuen (; born 1964) is a Hong Kong former government official. He served as Secretary for the Civil Service from 2020 to 2022. Background Nip attended Kwun Tong Maryknoll College and then the University of Hong Kong, graduating i ...

(MPA '01) - Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs of

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

* Christine Nixon (MPA '85) – Chief Commissioner of Victoria, Australia Police * Herbert S. Okun (MPA '59) – former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations * Nóirín O'Sullivan (Exec '07) – Police Commissioner of Garda Síochána, Ireland's national police service *

Taku Otsuka is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the National Diet (national legislature of Japan). He is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi. Personal and corporate backgrounds ...

(MPP '05) – a member of the

House of Representatives of Japan The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors is the upper house. The composition of the House is established by and of the Constitution of Japan. The House of Representatives has 465 members, elected for ...

* Francis Pangilinan (MPA '98) – Senator and the Majority Leader of the

Senate of the Philippines The Senate of the Philippines ( Filipino: ''Senado ng Pilipinas'', also ''Mataas na Kapulungan ng Pilipinas'' or "upper chamber") is the upper house of Congress of the bicameral legislature of the Philippines with the House of Representatives ...

* Marcus Peacock (MPP '86) – former Deputy Administrator, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...

* Robert E. Perez - former Deputy Commissioner of U. S. Customs and Border Protection * Yohanan Plesner (MPA '04) – member, Israeli

Brune Poirson Brune Poirson (born 1 September 1982) is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as Secretary of State to the Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2 ...

- Secretary of State, France - Macron Government *

Larry Pressler Larry Lee Pressler (born March 29, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from South Dakota who served in the United States House of Representatives (1975–1979) and United States Senate (1979–1997) as a Republican. He remained active in ...

(MPA '66) – former U.S. Senator from South Dakota *

William Proxmire Edward William Proxmire (November 11, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989. He holds the record for being the longest-servi ...

(MPA '48) – former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin * Jack Reed (MPP '73) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island * Angelo Reyes (MPA '90) – Secretary of Energy of the Philippines; former Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines *

Jesse Robredo Jesse Manalastas Robredo (born Jesus Manalastas Robredo; ; May 27, 1958 – August 18, 2012) was a Filipino politician who served as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government in the administration of President Benigno Aquino III from 2010 ...

(MPA '99) – Secretary of Interior and Local Government of the Philippines; received the Quezon Service Cross (the highest Philippine honor) *

Henry Rotich Henry K. Rotich (born c. 1969) is a Kenyan civil servant who was nominated by President Uhuru Kenyatta as Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury on 23 April 2013. On 14 January 2020, Rotich, who had been arrested on charges of corruption, wa ...

(MPA ') – Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury, 2013-date

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* Pete Rouse (MPA '77) – White House Chief of Staff under President

* Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai - Executive Governor of Kaduna State in Nigeria; former Minister of FCT, Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises both under Obasanjo Administration *

T. N. Seshan Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan (15 December 1932 – 10 November 2019) was an Indian civil servant and bureaucrat who served with the Indian Administrative Service. After serving in various positions in Madras and in various ministries of the ...

(MPA '68) – retired IAS officer and former Chief Election Commissioner and Cabinet Secretary of India *

Joe Sestak Joseph Ambrose Sestak Jr. (born December 12, 1951) is an American politician and retired U.S. Navy officer. He represented in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in 2 ...

(MPA '80, PhD '84) – member, U.S. House of Representatives, 7th District of Pennsylvania * Tharman Shanmugaratnam (MPA) – Senior Minister, Co-ordinating Minister for Social Policies of

* Yasuhisa Shiozaki (MPA '82) – former Chief Cabinet Secretary, Japan * Rob Simmons (MPA '79) – former U.S. Congressman, Connecticut * Barry Smitherman (MPA) – member of the Texas Railroad Commission * Corazon Soliman (MPA '98) – former Secretary of the

Department of Social Welfare and Development The Philippines' Department of Social Welfare and Development ( fil, Kagawaran ng Kagalingan at Pagpapaunlad Panlipunan, Kagawaran ng Kagalingang Panlipunan at Pagpapaunlad, abbreviated as DSWD) is the executive department of the Philippine Go ...

of the Philippines *

Ralf Stegner Ralf Stegner (born 2 October 1959) is a political scientist and a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag for the constituency of Pinneberg since the 2021 elections. Steg ...

(MPA '89) – former Leader of the SPD in

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sc ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

T. S. R. Subramanian Thirumanilaiyur Sitapati Ramana Subramanian (11 December 1938 – 26 February 2018) was an Indian bureaucrat who served as the cabinet secretary of India from August 1996 to March 1998. He was a 1961 batch Indian Administrative Service officer ...

(MPA) – retired IAS officer and former Cabinet Secretary of India * Sardar Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera (MPA) – Commerce Secretary of Pakistan * Nancy Sutley (MPP '86) – Director of

Council on Environmental Quality *

Syahrir Sjahrir (24 February 1945 – 28 July 2008) was a prominent Indonesian political economist. He was officially appointed by President of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as Economic Adviser in the Council of Presidential Advisers ...

(MPA '80, PhD '83) – Economic Adviser in the

Republic of Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. ...

's Council of Presidential Advisors * Mark E. Talisman (1972) – congressional aide and lobbyist * William B. Taylor Jr. (MPP '77) – U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine * Conrad Tillard (born 1964) - Baptist minister, radio host, author, civil rights activist, and politician *

Peter G. Torkildsen Peter Gerard Torkildsen (born January 28, 1958) is an American Republican Party politician from Massachusetts. He represented the 13th Essex district, including his hometown of Danvers, in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 ...

(MPA '90) – former U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts; former chair of

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

Republican Party Republican Party is a name used by many political parties around the world, though the term most commonly refers to the United States' Republican Party. Republican Party may also refer to: Africa *Republican Party (Liberia) * Republican Part ...

Robert Torricelli Robert Guy Torricelli (born August 27, 1951), is an American attorney and former politician. A Democrat, Torricelli served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 9th district from 1983 to 1997 and as a United States s ...

(MPA '80) – former U.S. Senator from New Jersey *

John Tsang John Tsang Chun-wah, GBM, JP (; born Mui; born 21 April 1951) is a Hong Kong former senior civil servant and government official who was the longest-serving Financial Secretary in the Special Administrative Region period to date. Born in ...

(MPA '82) – Financial Secretary of Hong Kong *

Chris Van Hollen Christopher Van Hollen Jr. (born January 10, 1959) is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maryland since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Van Hollen served as the U.S. representative f ...

(MPP '85) – member, U.S. Senate, Maryland *

Paul Volcker Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended th ...

(MA '51, GSPA) – former chairman of the U.S.

Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a ...

; economic advisor to President

* Solomon Areda Waktolla (MPA '13 and LLM'14) – Deputy Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia, Member of the Court of the Permanent Court of Arbitration * Kevin White (MA '57, GSPA) – former Mayor of Boston * David Wilhelm (MPP '90) – campaign manager, Clinton/Gore '92; former chair,

Democratic National Committee The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the governing body of the United States Democratic Party. The committee coordinates strategy to support Democratic Party candidates throughout the country for local, state, and national office, as well ...

Anthony A. Williams Anthony Allen Williams (born July 28, 1951) is an American politician who was the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia, for two terms, from 1999 to 2007. His predecessor had served twice, as the second and fourth mayor. Williams had previously ...

(MPP '87) – former Mayor of Washington, D.C. * Yin Yong (MPA) – Mayor of

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

Adolfo Aguilar Zínser Adolfo Aguilar Zínser ( – ) was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who served as a National Security Advisor to President Vicente Fox and as a UN Security Council Ambassador in the midst of the US invasion of Iraq. Born in Mexico Cit ...

(MPA '78) – former Mexican National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizi ...

Non-profit

* Ayisha Osori – former CEO,

Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund The Nigerian Women's Trust Fund is a women's political action committee dedicated to increasing women's representation and addressing gender equality in line with the National Gender Policy (NGP) of 2006. The Nigerian Women's Trust Fund conducts m ...

* Lester R. Brown (MPA '62) – founder and President of the Earth Policy Institute * Rick Doblin (PhD '01) – Founder and Executive Director, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) * Robert Kagan (MPP '91) – co-founder, Project for a New American Century * Nancy LeaMond (MPP '74) – Executive Vice President,

AARP AARP (formerly called the American Association of Retired Persons) is an interest group in the United States focusing on issues affecting those over the age of fifty. The organization said it had more than 38 million members in 2018. The magazi ...

* Giovanna Negretti (MPA '05) – co-founder and executive director of ¿Oiste? *

Michelle Rhee Michelle Ann Rhee (born December 25, 1969) is an American educator and advocate for education reform. She was Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools from 2007 to 2010. In late 2010, she founded StudentsFirst, a non-profit organizati ...

(MPP '97) – founder of

The New Teacher Project TNTP, formerly known as The New Teacher Project, is an organization in the United States with a mission of ensuring that poor and minority students get equal access to effective teachers. It helps urban school districts and states recruit and t ...

; Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system * Bryan Stevenson (MPP '85) – founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and author of ''Just Mercy'' *

Ramaswami Balasubramaniam Dr. Ramaswami Balasubramaniam (Dr R Balu) is a development scholar, author, public policy advocate, leadership trainer known for his pioneering development work with rural and tribal people in Saragur and Heggadadevana kote Taluks of Mysuru in K ...

(MPA'10) – Founder & President,

Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) is a development organization founded by a group of medicos led by Dr R Balasubramaniam based in Saragur near Mysore in the Indian state of Karnataka. The organization is engaged in building a new civi ...

Military

John C. Acton John C. Acton is a retired United States Coast Guard rear admiral who served as the Director of Operations Coordination for DHS. Acton formerly served as Director of the DHS Presidential Transition Team. Background and education Born in Portsmo ...

(Exec '05) – retired

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rear admiral Rear admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to a major general and air vice marshal and above that of a commodore and captain, but below that of a vice admiral. It is regarded as a two star " admiral" rank. It is often rega ...

who serves as the Director of Operations Coordination for DHS *

John R. Allen Jr. John R. Allen Jr. (born 1935) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) brigadier general. Allen served on active duty for 31 years, until his retirement in 1990. He is a highly decorated command pilot with over 6,000 flying hours on B-47 Stra ...

(Exec '85) – retired

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army S ...

brigadier general and highly decorated command pilot * William J. Begert (Exec '95) – served as commander,

Pacific Air Forces Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force and is also the air component command of the United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). PACAF is headquartered at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam ( ...

, and Air Component Commander for the Commander,

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Franklin J. Blaisdell Franklin J. Blaisdell (born September 15, 1949) is a retired major general in the United States Air Force. Education He is a graduate of Syracuse University, South Dakota State University, and did his post-graduate studies at John F. Kennedy Sch ...

(Exec) – U.S. Air Force Major General *

Sally Brice-O'Hara Vice Admiral Sally Brice-O'Hara (born c. 1953) is an American woman who was the 27th Vice-Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. Education Brice-O'Hara attended Annapolis High School where one of her classmates was Bill Belichick. She graduat ...

(MPA '93) – 27th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard * Dan Crenshaw (MPA '17) – medically retired

United States Navy SEAL The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting sma ...

Lieutenant Commander Lieutenant commander (also hyphenated lieutenant-commander and abbreviated Lt Cdr, LtCdr. or LCDR) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander. The corresponding rank i ...

Peter V. Neffenger Peter Vance Neffenger (born 1955) is a United States Coast Guard Admiral and public servant who served as Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration from July 2015 to January 20, 2017. Education Neffenger earned a B.A. from Bald ...

(MPA '95) – 29th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard and former Administrator of the

Transportation Security Administration The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that has authority over the security of transportation systems within, and connecting to the United States. It was created ...

* Michael E. Fortney (Exec '11) – U.S. Air Force Brigadier General * Jeffrey Fowler (MPA '90) – United States Navy, Vice Admiral; Superintendent,

United States Naval Academy The United States Naval Academy (US Naval Academy, USNA, or Navy) is a United States Service academies, federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It was established on 10 October 1845 during the tenure of George Bancroft as Secretary of ...

John C. Harvey John Collins Harvey Jr. (born December 17, 1951) is a former United States Navy four-star admiral who last served as the 31st Commander, United States Fleet Forces Command from July 24, 2009 to September 14, 2012. He previously served as Director, ...

(MPA '88) – United States Navy, Admiral; Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command *

Robert C. Hinson Robert C. Hinson is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. Career Hinson originally enlisted in the Air Force before being commissioned an officer in 1971. From 1973 to 1977, he served as a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress co-pil ...

(Exec) – U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General * William E. Ingram Jr. (Exec '02) – U.S. Army Lieutenant General and Director of the Army National Guard * Richard C. Johnston (Exec) – U.S. Air Force Brigadier General * Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. (MPA '80) – United States Army, Lt. Col.; author of ''The Army and Vietnam'' * Rick Linnehan (MPA '09) – astronaut * Christopher Loria (MPA '04) – astronaut * Robert W. Parker (general), Robert W. Parker (Exec '91) – U.S. Air Force Major General * Timothy S. Sullivan (Exec) – U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral * Guy C. Swan III (MPA '86) – U.S. Army Major General, Commanding General of the Military District of Washington * Jack Weinstein (general), Jack Weinstein (Exec '06) – U.S. Air Force Major General

Academia

* William Alonso (MPP '56) – economist, former director of Harvard Center for Population Studies * Lawrence S. Bacow (MPP '76, PhD '76) – president,

, President of

, and Chancellor of MIT * Steve Charnovitz (MPP '83) – associate professor, George Washington University * Ronald A. Heifetz (MPA '83) – co-founder,

(MPA '55) – former president of California State University, Long Beach * Ira Jackson (MPA '86) – dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University * Nancy Koehn (MPP) – historian; professor,

; author * Mark Lilla (MPP '80) – professor, Columbia University * Hollis Robbins (MPP '90) – dean, University of Utah * Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (MPA '66) – former president, George Washington University * William E. Trueheart (MPA '73) – former president, Bryant University * Jonathan Zittrain (MPA '95) – professor,

; co-founder Berkman Center at Harvard * Mark Schuster (MPP '88) – dean and founding CEO, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

Journalism

* Komla Dumor (MPA,'03) – television news presenter, BBC World News and Africa Business Report * Mark A. R. Kleiman (MPP, PhD '85) – author * Kevin Corke (MPA '04) – White House Correspondent, Fox News * Caroline Glick (MPP '00) – deputy managing editor of ''The Jerusalem Post'' * Kaj Larsen (MPP '07) – former United States Navy, U.S. Navy United States Navy SEALs, SEAL, journalist for Vice News * Dambisa Moyo (MPA '07) – economist and ''New York Times'' best-selling author * Bill O'Reilly (political commentator), Bill O'Reilly (MPA '96) – political commentator * Malik Siraj Akbar (MPA, '16) – editor-in-chief of ''The Baloch Hal'', exiled Pakistani journalist * Andrew Sullivan (MPA, PhD '90) – journalist, ''The Atlantic'' * Wajahat Saeed Khan – Pakistani journalist for Dunya News & NBC News

Business

* Rune Bjerke (MPA '97) – CEO, DNB ASA * Gregory C. Carr (MPP '86) – founder, Boston Technology * Leonard S. Coleman Jr. (MPA '75) – former president of the National League * Debra L. Lee (MPP '80) – President and CEO, Black Entertainment Television * Daniel Mudd (MPA '86) – former president and CEO of U.S. Fannie Mae * Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg (MPA '71) – founder, President, CEO of Strategic Investment Group * Greg Rosenbaum (MPP '77) – CEO, Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. * Peter Sands (banker), Peter Sands (MPA '88) – Group CEO, Standard Chartered * Klaus Schwab (MPA '67) – founder and Executive Chairman,

* Faryar Shirzad (MPP '89) – managing director, Goldman Sachs, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor * Chris Voss – adjunct professor at McDonough School of Business

Arts

* William Butler (musician), William Butler (MPA '17) – musician and composer, Arcade Fire * Ashley Judd (MPA '10) – Actress, activist * Hill Harper (MPA '92) – Actor * Thor Steingraber (MPA '09) – Opera Director * Damian Woetzel (MPA '07) – former Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet

Spies

* Donald Heathfield (real name: Andrey Bezrukov) (MPA '00) – KGB and Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia), SVR operative until his Illegals Program, disclosure in the United States in 2010.

Notes

References

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