
SFS graduates take on leadership roles in many different areas. Some work in the private sector, with law and business providing a range of opportunities. The traditions of public service and scholarship both remain strong as well; alumni can be found in the areas of diplomacy, international organizations and humanitarian work, as well as in scholarly careers as members of university faculties or research organizations.

U.S. Leaders & Diplomats

U.S. Government & Politics
- David Addington (SFS’78) | Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney
- Toney Anaya (SFS’63) | Governor (Former), D-New Mexico
- Robert Bauman (SFS’59) | U.S. Representative (Former), R-Maryland 1st District
- Courtney Beale (SFS’02) | Senior Director for Global Engagement at the National Security Council
- Paul Clement (SFS’88) | Solicitor General of the United States (Former); Distinguished Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School
- William Jefferson Clinton (SFS’68) | 42nd President of the United States
- Henry Cuellar (SFS’78) | U.S. Representative, D-Texas 28th District
- Debbie Dingell (SFS’75) | U.S. Representative, D-Michigan 12th District
- Richard Durbin (SFS’66) | U.S. Senator, D-Illinois; Senate Minority Whip
- Victoria Espinel (SFS’89) | Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (Former), Executive Office of the President; Chief Executive of the Software Industry Trade Group BSA
- Jason Foley (MSFS’99) | Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) in USAID’s Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs
- Luis G. Fortuño (SFS’82) | Governor (Former), PNP-Puerto Rico
- Mike Gallagher (SSP’12) | U.S. Representative, R-Wisconsin 8th District
- Mike Garcia (SSP’98) | U.S. Representative, R-California 25th District
- Edward Gistaro (SFS’86) | Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence Integration
- Dana Gresham (SFS’94) | Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs (former), U.S. Department of Transportation; Chief of Staff to Senator Doug Jones of Alabama
- Gurbir S. Grewal (SFS ’95) | New Jersey Attorney General
- Julius Lloyd Horwich (SFS’86) | Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs (former), Department of Education
- Bill Jackson (MSFS’84) | Representative for Textiles, Office of US Trade Representative; Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (Former)
- Gen. James L. Jones (SFS’66) | USMC General (Retired); National Security Advisor (Former) to President Barack Obama
- Denis McDonough (MSFS’96) | Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Chief of Staff (Former) to President Barack Obama
- Mark Medish (SFS’84) | Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on National Security Council (Former); Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury (Former)
- Christopher Milligan (SFS’87) | Counselor to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); Acting Mission Director USAID / Madagascar (Former)
- Mick Mulvaney (SFS’89) | U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland; Acting White House Chief of Staff (Former); Director, Office of Management and Budget (Former); U.S. Representative (Former), R-South Carolina 5th District
- Stephanie Murphy (MSFS’04) | U.S. Representative, D-Florida 7th District
- Kirstjen Nielsen (SFS’94) | U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (Former)
- Glenn C. Nye (SFS’96) | U.S. Representative (Former), D-Virginia 2nd District
- Stacey Plaskett (SFS’88) | U.S. Representative, D-U.S. Virgin Islands
- Pat Quinn (SFS’71) | Governor (Former), D-Illinois
- William “Bill” B. Schuette (SFS’76) | Attorney General of Michigan (Former); U.S. Representative (Former), R-Michigan 10th District
- Phillip R. Sharp (SFS’64) | U.S. Representative (Former), D-Indiana 2nd District
- Wendy Silberman Cutler (MSFS’83) | Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (Former)
- Dan Sullivan (MSFS’93) | U.S. Senator, R-Alaska
- George Tenet (SFS’76) | Director of Central Intelligence (Former); Managing Director at Allen & Company; Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University
- Paula Tufro (MSFS’06) | Director for Development and Democracy (Former), National Security Council
- Dennis Wilder (MSFS’79) | Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs (Former), National Security Council
- Ambassador Michele Thoren Bond (MSFS’77) | Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (Former); Ambassador to Lesotho (Former)
- Paula Dobriansky (SFS’77) | Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs (Former); Special Envoy to Northern Ireland (Former)
- Ambassador Judith Gail Garber (SFS’83) | Ambassador to Cyprus; Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (Former); Ambassador to Latvia (Former)
- Patrick F. Kennedy (SFS’71) | Under Secretary for Management (Former), State Department
- A. Wess Mitchell (MAGES’04) | Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (Former); Co-Founder and former President, Center for European Political Analysis (CEPA)
- Matthew Reynolds (SFS’82) | Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (Former)
- Anne C. Richard (SFS’82) | Assistant Secretary of Population, Refugees, and Migration (Former), State Department
- Therese Shaheen (SFS’80) | Chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan (Former)
- Xochitl Torres Small (SFS’07) | U.S. Representative, D-New Mexico 2nd District
- Lori Trahan (SFS’95) | U.S. Representative, D-Massachusetts 3rd District
- Ambassador Philip Verveer (SFS’66) | Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy (Former)
- Kenneth D. Ward (SFS’79) | U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

U.S. Ambassadors & Diplomats
- Ambassador Craig Allen (MSFS’85) | Ambassador to Brunei (Former); President of the United States-China Business Council (USCBC)
- Ambassador Alexander A. Arvizu (SFS’80) | Ambassador to Albania (Former)
- Ambassador Diego Asencio (SFS’52) | Ambassador to Colombia and Brazil (Former)
- Ambassador Christopher Ashby (SFS’68) | Ambassador to Uruguay (Former)
- Ambassador Vincent Battle (SFS’62) | Ambassador to Lebanon (Former)
- Ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat (MSFS’80) | Ambassador to Bangladesh (Former); Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau and Senegal (Former)
- Ambassador John Blaney (MSFS’75) | Ambassador to Liberia (Former)
- Ambassador Richard Bloomfield (SFS’50) | Ambassador to Ecuador and Portugal (Former)
- Ambassador Donald E. Booth (SFS’76) | Ambassador to Ethiopia, Liberia, and Zambia (Former); U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan (Former)
- Ambassador Natalie E. Brown (SFS’89) | Ambassador to Uganda; Charge d’Affaires to Eritrea (Former)
- Ambassador Piper Campbell (SFS’88) | Head of the U.S. Mission to the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Former); Ambassador to Mongolia (Former)
- Ambassador Robert Cekuta (SFS’80) | Ambassador to Azerbaijan (Former)
- Ambassador Maura Connelly (SFS’81) | Ambassador to Lebanon (Former)
- Ambassador Ivo Daalder (MSFS’82) | President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of NATO (Former)
- Ambassador Glyn T. Davies (SFS’79) | Ambassador to Thailand (Former); Ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations in Vienna (Former)
- Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis (SFS’76) | Charge D’Affaires to Cuba (Former)
- Ambassador John P. Desrocher (SFS’86) | Ambassador to Algeria
- Ambassador Edward Djerejian (SFS’60) | Director, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy; Ambassador to Syria and Israel (Former)
- Ambassador James F. Dobbins Jr. (SFS’63) | Ambassador to the EU (Former); U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Former)
- Ambassador Thomas J. Dodd (SFS’57) | Ambassador to Costa Rica and Uruguay (Former)
- Ambassador Michael James Dodman (SFS’83) | Ambassador to Mauritania
- Ambassador Joseph R. Donovan Jr. (SFS’73) | Ambassador to Indonesia (Former)
- Ambassador Cynthia Efird (SFS’71) | Ambassador to Angola (Former)
- Ambassador John D. Feeley (SFS’83) | Ambassador to Panama (Former)
- Ambassador Janet E. Garvey (MSFS’79) | Ambassador to Cameroon (Former)
- Ambassador Tatiana C. Gfoeller-Volkoff (SFS’83, MSFS’83) | Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan (Former)
- Ambassador J. Scott Gration (SSP’88) | Ambassador to Kenya (Former); Special Envoy to Sudan (Former)
- Ambassador David Hale (SFS’83) | Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Department of State; Ambassador to Pakistan, Lebanon, and Jordan (Former)
- Ambassador Michael Hammer (SFS’85) | Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ambassador to Chile (Former); Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (Former); Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Press and Communications (Former)
- Ambassador S. Fitzgerald Haney (SFS’90, MSFS’91) | Ambassador to Costa Rica (Former)
- Ambassador Dennis Hankins (SFS’81) | Ambassador to Mali; Ambassador to Guinea (Former)
- Ambassador Parker T. Hart (SFS’40) | Ambassador to Yemen, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey (Former)
- Ambassador Maura Harty (SFS’81) | Ambassador to Paraguay (Former); Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (Former); President & CEO of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
- Ambassador Todd Haskell (SFS’84) | Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo
- Ambassador John Herbst (SFS’74) | Director of the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center; Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Ukraine (Former)
- Ambassador Stuart Holliday (SFS’88) | Ambassador to the UN for Special Political Affairs (Former); President & CEO of Meridian International Center
- Ambassador Michael S. Hoza (SFS’79) | Ambassador to Cameroon (Former)
- Ambassador Makila James (ISD Associate 2002-’03) | Ambassador to Swaziland (Former); Director of the Office of Caribbean Affairs(Former), State Department
- Ambassador Eric G. John (SFS’82) | Ambassador to Thailand (Former); President of Boeing Korea; Vice President of Boeing International
- Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson (SFS’32) | Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Thailand, and Japan (Former)
- Ambassador Mark Johnson (SFS’68) | Ambassador to Senegal (Former)
- Ambassador Kelly Keiderling (SFS’88) | Ambassador to Uruguay (Former)
- Ambassador Thomas Kelly (SFS’84, CLAS’84) | Ambassador to Djibouti (Former)
- Ambassador Lisa Kubiske (MSFS’79) | Ambassador to Honduras (Former); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Finance and Development (Former)
- Ambassador Alphonse LaPorta (SFS’60) | Ambassador to Mongolia (Former)
- Ambassador Franklin L. Lavin (SFS’79) | Ambassador to Singapore (Former); CEO of Export Now
- Ambassador Edward B. Lawson (SFS’24, MSFS’25) | Ambassador to Iceland and Israel (Former)
- Ambassador Hugo Llorens (SFS’77) | Ambassador to Honduras (Former); Consul General, Sydney, Australia (Former)
- Ambassador Eileen Malloy (SFS’75) | Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan (Former); Senior Advisor on Minsk Implementation, U.S. Embassy Kyiv (Former)
- Ambassador John Maisto (LAS’61) | Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Nicaragua, Venezuela (Former)
- Ambassador Deborah-Ann McCarthy (MSFS’79, G’79) | Ambassador to Lithuania (Former); Executive Director of the CSIS/ICAPAA (International Career Advancement Program Alumni Association)
- Ambassador Jackson McDonald (SFS’78) | Ambassador to Gambia and Guinea (Former)
- Ambassador Jack McFall (SFS’29) | Ambassador to Finland (Former)
- Ambassador Gerald McGowan (SFS’68, L’74) | Ambassador to Portugal (Former)
- Ambassador Richard Mills, Jr. (SFS’81) | Ambassador to Armenia (Former)
- Ambassador Stephen Mull (SFS’80) | Ambassador to Poland (Former); U.S. Lead Coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation (Former)
- Ambassador Richard Boyce Norland (SFS’77) | Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Georgia (Former)
- Ambassador Frank V. Ortiz, Jr. (SFS’50) | Ambassador to Barbados, Guatemala, Peru, and Argentina (Former)
- Ambassador Virginia Palmer (SFS’83) | Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources; Ambassador to Malawi (Former)
- Ambassador Mark Robert Parris (SFS’72) | Ambassador to Turkey (Former)
- Ambassador Michael Pelletier (SFS’86) | Ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros (Former)
- Ambassador Joan Polaschik (MSFS ’93) | Ambassador to Algeria (Former)
- Ambassador Otto Reich (CLAS’73) | Ambassador to Venezuela (Former); Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (Former); CEO, Otto Reich Associates
- Ambassador Eric Rubin (ISD Associate 1999-’00) | Ambassador to Bulgaria
- Ambassador Todd D. Robinson (SFS’85) | Ambassador to Guatemala (Former)
- Ambassador V. Manuel Rocha (MSFS’78) | Ambassador to Bolivia (Former); President of Barrick Gold Corp. Pueblo Viejo
- Ambassador Richard Schmierer (ISD Associate 2005-’06) | Ambassador to Oman (Former); Chairman of the Board, Middle East Policy Council
- Ambassador Dorothy Shea (MSFS’91) | Ambassador to Lebanon
- Ambassador Nancy Soderberg (MSFS’84) | Alternate Representative to the United Nations (Former); Deputy National Security Advisor (Former); President & CEO of Soderberg Global Solutions
- Ambassador Mark C. Storella (ISD Associate 2002-’03) | Ambassador to Zambia (Former)
- Ambassador James C. Swan (SFS’84) | Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Djibouti (Former)
- Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz (SFS’91) | Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives; Ambassador to Nepal (Former)
- Ambassador Patrick Theros (SFS’63) | Ambassador to Qatar (Former); President of the U.S.-Qatar Business Council
- Ambassador Krishna Urs (SFS’80) | Ambassador to Peru (Former)
- Ambassador Viron Vaky (SFS’47) | Ambassador to Costa Rica, Colombia, and Venezuela (Former)
- Ambassador Richard David Vine (SFS’49) | Ambassador to Switzerland (Former); Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs (Former)
- Ambassador C. David Welch (SFS’75) | Ambassador to Egypt (Former); President of the Europe, Africa & Middle East division, Bechtel
- Ambassador Melissa F. Wells (SFS’56) | Ambassador to Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Estonia (Former)

U.S. Military & Department of Defense
- Gen. John R. Allen (SSP’83) | Commander of International Security Assistance Force (Former), Afghanistan
- Robert Baer (SFS’76) | Veteran Case Officer (Former), CIA’s Directorate of Operations in the Middle East; Intelligence and Security Analyst at CNN
- Charles “Mike” Brown (MSFS’91) | Chief of Staff for Europe and NATO Policy (Former), U.S. Department of Defense
- Gen. George W. Casey Jr. (SFS’70) | Chief of Staff of U.S. Army (Former); Georgetown University Board of Directors; Chairman of the Board of Governors
- Maj. Gen. John Fugh (SFS’57) | Judge Advocate General of the United States Army (Former)
- Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr. (SSP’94) | Ambassador to South Korea; Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (Former)
- Caryn C. Hollis (LAS’87) | Performing the Duties of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (Former); Deputy Assistant Secretary of Counternarcotics and Global Threats (Former)
- Brig. Gen. Les A. Kodlick (ISD Associate 2005-’06) | Director of Public Affairs (Former), Office of the Secretary of the Air Force
- Jamie Morin (SFS’96) | Assistant Secretary for Financial Management and Comptroller (Former), U.S. Air Force
- Paul L. Oostburg Sanz (SFS’91) | General Counsel (Former), U.S. Department of the Navy
- Gen. David Petraeus (’94-’95 SFS Fellow) | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Former); Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (Former); Commander of the United States Central Command (Former)
- Maj. Gen H.D. Polumbo (ISD Associate 1999-’00) | Commander (Former), Ninth Air Force
- Kenneth P. Rapuano (SSP’92) | Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security
- RADM Edward D Sheafer (MSFS’75) | Director of Naval Intelligence (Former)
- Michael A. Sheehan (MSFS’88) | Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (Former)
- Vice Admiral William D. Sullivan (SSP’90) | U.S. Military Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee (Former)
- David J. Trachtenberg (MSFS’80) | Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (Former); Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (Former)
- Andrew C. Weber (MSFS’86) | Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs (Former)
- Theresa M. Whelan (SSP’93) | Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense & Global Security (Former);
Foreign Leaders & Diplomats

- Ambassador Shlomo Argov (SFS’52) | Ambassador from Israel to the United Kingdom (Former)
- Ambassador Ricardo Alberto Arias (SFS’61) | Foreign Minister of Panama (Former); Ambassador of Panama to the United Nations (Former)
- Ragnheiður E. Árnadóttir (MSFS’94) | Minister for Industry and Commerce, Member of Parliament, Iceland (Former)
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (attended SFS 64-66) | President of the Philippines (Former); Representative of Pampanga’s 2nd District and Speaker of the Philippines House of Representatives (Former)
- Giorgi Baramidze (ISD Associate 1998-’99) | Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia (Former); Minister of Internal Affairs (Former); Minister of Defense (Former)
- Agustin Barrios Gomez (SFS’93) | Deputy for Mexico City’s 10th District at the Mexico Chamber of Deputies (Former)
- Pelayo Castro Zuzuarregui (MSFS’03) | Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation to Nicaragua; Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation to Costa Rica (Former)
- Gabor Csaba (MSFS’94) | Ambassador of Hungary to Korea; Director-General of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Former)
- Ambassador Simcha Dinitz (SFS’55, MSFS’58) | Ambassador of Israel to the United States (Former)
- Roberto Dondisch (MSFS’01) | Consul of Mexico in Seattle, Washington; Director-General for Global Issues, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Former)
- Felipe VI of Spain (MSFS’95) | King of Spain
- Princess Ghida Talal (SFS’89, MSFS’89) | Member of the House of Hashemites; Chairperson of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation
- Ambassador Jorge Guajardo (SFS’93) | Ambassador of Mexico to China (Former)
- Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah (SFS’16) | Crown Prince of Jordan
- Senator Nasser Judeh (SFS’83) | Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Former), Jordan
- Ashraf Haidari (SSP’05) | Afghan Ambassador to Sri Lanka
- Prince Hashim bin Hussein (SFS’05) | Younger of the two sons of King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan, and half-brother of the reigning King Abdullah II of Jordan
- Zeljko Komsic (GLS ’03) | Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Former)
- Kono Taro (SFS’86) | Minister for Administrative Reform and Regulatory Reform of Japan; Minister of Defense of Japan (Former); Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan (Former)
- Count Alexander Graf of Lambsdorff (MSFS’94) | Member of the Bundestag (German Parliament, Vice President of EU Parliament (Former)
- Ambassador Alfonso López Caballero (SFS’67) | Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom(Former)
- John Lynch-Staunton (SFS’53) | Canadian Senator (Former), First Conservative Party Leader
- Juan Manuel Galan Pachon (MSFS’03) | Senator of the Republic of Colombia
- Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece (MSFS’95) | First son of King Constantine II of Greece
- Philippos, Prince of Greece and Denmark (SFS’08) | Third son and fifth child of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark
- Ambassador Ahn Ho-Young (MSFS’83) | Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States (Former)
- Prince Talal bin Muhammad (SFS’89, MSFS’89) | Special Advisor to King Abdullah II, Jordan
- King Abdullah II of Jordan (MSFS Mid-Career Fellow’87)| King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Riaz Mohammed Khan (ISD Associate 1988-’89) | Foreign Secretary of Pakistan (Former)Leader of Pakistani delegation to UN General Assembly, 2009, Pakistani Ambassador to Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the EU (Former)
- Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al-Saud (SFS’81) | Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom (Former)
- Ambassador Kasit Piromya (SFS’68) | Foreign Minister of Thailand (Former)
- Ambassador Ben Roswell (SFS’93) | Ambassador of Canada to Venezuela (Former); Co-Founder of Udara
- H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Thani (SFS ’10) | Deputy Emir of Qatar
- Ambassador Bruno Stagno Ugarte (SFS’91) | Foreign Minister of Costa Rica (Former)
- Wang Yi (ISD Associate 1997-’98) | Foreign Minister of People’s Republic of China
- David Y.L. Lin (MSFS’90) | Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Former); Foreign Minister of Taiwan (Former)
International Organizations

- Alejandro Alvarez von Gustedt (MSFS’97) | Co-Founder and Partner of International Venture Philanthropy Center (IVPC); Representative (Former), Inter-American Development Bank, Europe
- Christopher Coleman (MSFS’83) | Deputy Special Representative, UNMIK; Director (Former) of the Civilian Capacity Project, United Nations
- Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen (MSFS’88) | Chief, Multilateral Investment Fund Inter-American Development Bank
- Stephane Dujarric (SFS’88) | Spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres; Director of News and Media (Former), United Nations Department of Public Information
- Sabine Durier (MSFS ’98) | Change Management Lead, Operational Platforms International Finance Corporation
- Darrin Hartzler (MSFS ’96) | Global Manager, Corporate Governance Unit, International Finance Corporation
- Rita Jupe (MSFS ’98) | Principal, Blended Finance & Partnerships Vice-Presidency, International Finance Corporation
- Julie T. Katzman (SFS ’83) | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Inter-American Development Bank
- Hoda Moustafa (MSFS ’98) | Regional Head for Africa, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, The World Bank
- Izumi Nakamitsu (MSFS ’89) | Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Office for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations
- Fabrizio Opertti (MSFS’97) | Chief of Trade and Investment, Inter-American Development Bank
- Idoia Ortiz de Artiñano (MSFS’08) | Advisor to the Dean and Future World Fellow, IE School of International Relations
- Edgar Restrepo (MSFS ’98) | Principal Investment Officer (Former), International Finance Corporation
- Manuel Rosini (MSFS ’98) | Head of Office, UNICEF
- Jordan Schwartz (MSFS’91) | Director of Infrastructure and Urban Development in Singapore, The World Bank
- Zibu Sibanda (MSFS ’02) | Senior Communications Specialist, International Finance Corporation
- Tomasz Telma (MSFS ’89) | Director, Europe, and Central Asia, International Finance Corporation
NGOs & Nonprofits

- Carmen Twillie Ambar (SFS’90) | President, Oberlin College; President (Former), Cedar Crest College
- Lawrence Biondi, S.J. (MSFS’66) | President Emeritus (Former), St. Louis University
- Joseph Cirincione (MSFS’83) | President, The Ploughshares Fund (Former)
- Lorne Craner (SSP’86) | President of American Councils for International Education; Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Right and Labor (Former)
- Chad Griffin (SFS’97) | President (Former), Human Rights Campaign; Founder, American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER)
- Mohammed bin Khalifa Hamad Al-Thani (SFS’09) | Chairman, Qatar 2022 World Cup Committee
- Malte Humpert (MAGES’11) | Founder and Senior Fellow, The Arctic Institute; Caribbean Energy Consultant at Inter-American Development Bank
- Mary Ellen Iskenderian (SFS’81) | President and CEO, Women’s World Banking
- Jeremy Konyndyk (MSFS’03) | President, Refugees International
- Parag Khanna (SFS’99, SSP’05) | Author; Director of the Global Governance Initiative (Former), The New America Foundation
- Tim King (SFS’89) | Founder and CEO, Urban Prep Academies
- J. Lane Kirkland (SFS’48) | President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (Former)
- Tessie San Martin (SFS’80) | CEO & President, Plan International USA
- Rev. Brian Paulson (SFS’81) | Jesuit Provincial of the Chicago-Detroit Province; President of St. Ignatius College Preparatory School (Former), Chicago, Illinois
- Debora Spar (SFS’84) | President; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Former); President, Barnard College (Former)
- Katie Taylor (MSFS’92) | Executive Director, Pan American Development Foundation; Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health at USAID (Former)
- Mark von Hagen (SFS’76) | Director of School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University (Former); Director of Harriman Institute (Former), Columbia University
- David A. Weiss (MSFS’78) | President and CEO, Global Communities
- B. Joseph White (SFS’69) | President Emeritus of the University of Illinois
Private Sector

- Molly Ashby (MSFS’83) | Co-founder and CEO, Solera Capital LLC
- Joseph R. Baczko (SFS’67) | President & COO (Former) of Blockbuster Entertainment; Founder and President of Toys “R” Us International; CEO (Former) of Max Factor-Europe
- Charles Bunch (SFS’71) | Chairman and CEO (Former) of PPG Industries; Chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers (Former)
- Michael J. Callahan (SFS’90) | Senior Vice President, General Counsel of LinkedIn; Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary (Former), Yahoo!
- Kelly Coffey, (MSFS’89) | CEO, City National Bank; CEO (Former), J.P. Morgan’s U.S. Private Bank
- Bud Colligan (SFS’76) | Senior Advisor for International Affairs & Trade, State of California; Board-member, Monterey Bay Economic Partnership; Founder and CEO of South Swell Ventures; Chairman and CEO (Former) of Macromedia
- Jay Collins (MSFS’89) | Vice Chairman, Corporate and Investment Banking, Citibank Group; Co-Global Head (Former), Public Sector Group, Citibank Group
- Herbert Cordt (MSFS’74) | Managing Partner, Cordt & Partner; Chairman, RHI Magnesita
- Peter L. Corsell (SFS’00) | Co-founder and Managing Partner, Twenty-First Century Utilities; Founder and CEO (Former), GridPoint
- Robert Dekker (MSFS’92) | Owner and CEO, Dekker Hout
- Maria Eitel (MSFS’88) | Founding President and CEO, Nike Foundation; Vice President of Corporate Responsibility (Former); Nike
- Ron Faucheux (SFS’78) | President, Clarus Research Group; Former Louisiana State Representative (Former), District 100
- James A. Firestone (SFS’76) | Member of the Board of Directors for Goodyear Tire and Rubber; President (Former) of Xerox North America; Executive Vice President (Former), Xerox Corporation
- David Fox (SFS’81) | President of Global Family & Private Investment Offices Group; Vice Chairman (Former), J.P. Morgan.
- Richard Gallivan (MSFS’92) | Managing Director and Head of TMT Investment Banking, Mizuho Americas; Managing Director \and Co-Head of Global Software, Systems & Solutions (Former), Barclays Capital
- Dexter Goei (SFS’93) | CEO of Altice
- Antonio Gracias (MSFS’93) | Founder, Managing Partner, and CIO, Valor Equity Partners L.P.; Trustee, Aspen Institute
- Michael Horn (MSFS’90) | Chief Counsel of Consumer Products, Walt Disney Company
- Raj Kumar (SFS’97) | Founder, President and Editor-In-Chief, DEVEX; Chairman (Former), Humanitarian Council of the World Economic Forum
- Laura Lane (MSFS’90) | President, Global Public Affairs, UPS
- Lori Leveen (MSFS’83) | Co-founder, Levenger
- Zyad Limam (MSFS’88) | Director and Founder, Afrique Magazine
- Julie Martin (MSFS’79) | Managing Director in Political Risk and Structured Credit Practice, Marsh
- Elizabeth Mily (MSFS’93) | Managing Director, Barclays Investment Bank; Managing Director (Former), Goldman Sachs
- Alex Orfinger (MSFS’86) | Executive Vice President, American City Business Journals; Publisher (Former), Washington Business Journal
- David Oxenstierna (MSFS’89) | Senior Partner, CAPCO; Managing Director (Former), Morgan Stanley
- Paul Pelosi (SFS’62) | Owner of Financial Leasing Services, Inc.; Owner (Former), Sacramento Mountain Lions
- Gary Perlin (SFS’72) | Senior Advisor (Former) to the CEO of Capital One Financial Corp.; CFO and Vice President of the World Bank
- Ben Powell (MSFS’00) & Ricardo Teran (MSFS’02) | Co-founders, Agora Partnerships
- Peter Raymond (MSFS’90) | Principal, Capital Projects and Infrastructure, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Stephen Raymund (MSFS’80) | Chairman of the Board, Tech Data Product Management, Inc.; former Chairman of the Board (Former), Tech Data Corporation
- Chris Sacca (SFS’97) | Founder/Proprietor, Lowercase Capital
- Elliot G. Sander (SFS’77) | President and CEO, The HAKS group; CEO (Former) of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Santiago Sedaca (MSFS’97) | Vice President, Palladium; President (Former) of CARANA Corporation
- Shéhérazade Semsar-de Boisséson (SFS’90, MSFS’90) | Managing Director, POLITICO Europe
- Andrew Shoyer (MSFS’86) | Chair/Partner, International Trade and Dispute Resolution Practice, Sidley Austin LLP
- Justin B. Smith (SFS’91) | CEO of Bloomberg Media Group
- Christopher L. Yetter (SFS’02) | Chief of Staff to the Vice Chancellor for Research; Chief of Staff (Former), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley
Sports & Entertainment
- Aimee Mullins (SFS’98) | Track and field athlete, competitor in 1996 Paralympic Games and Chef de Mission for the 2012 U.S. Olympic delegation; Actress; Fashion model and motivational speaker
- Megan Mylan (SFS’92) | Documentary Director known for Smile Pinki, winner of the Academy Award for Best Short Subject Documentary
- Carl Reiner (SFS’43) | Actor, director, writer, and producer; Winner of nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award
- Michael Sucsy (SFS’95) | Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award-winning director and writer for HBO film Grey Gardens

Journalism & Literature
- Tania Bryer (SFS’84) | Guest Presenter and Executive Producer of CNBC Meets
- Joohee Cho (SFS’91, MSFS’95) | ABC News Seoul Bureau Chief and Reporter
- Bob Colacello (SFS ’69) | Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair; former Editor of Interview Magazine
- George Crile III (SFS’68) | CBS News Producer (60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II) and reporter; twice awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award by the Overseas Press Club; author of the 2003 bestseller Charlie Wilson’s War
- G.Vanessa de la Torre (CLAS’11) | News Anchor, Caracol TV, Bogota Colombia
- Paul Erdman (SFS’55) | Financial author and Edgar Award-winning fiction novelist
- Jamie Fly (MAGES’02) | President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Jamie Gangel (SFS’77) | Special Correspondent, CNN
- Lourdes Garcia-Navarro (SFS’94) | Host of Weekend Edition Sunday, National Public Radio; Winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award and Peabody Award
- Linda Gradstein (SFS’85, MAAS’85) | Israel Bureau Chief, The Media Line News Agency; Israel Correspondent (Former), NPR News.
- Daniel Henninger (SFS’68) | Deputy editorial page director of The Wall Street Journal; Contributor on Fox News; Winner of the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Distinguished Writing Award for editorial writing
- Pati Jinich (CLAS’04) | Chef; Founder/Owner, Pati’s Mexican Table (PBS – 6th Season)
- Mark Landler (SFS’87) | White House Correspondent; European Economic Correspondent (Former); Hong Kong Bureau Chief for The New York Times
- James Politi (SFS’99) | World Trade Editor at the Financial Times
- Kai Ryssdal (SSP’93, P’20) | Host and Senior Editor of Marketplace
- Michael Schearer (MSFS’99) | Network Analyst, Fortego LLC
- David Schickler (SFS’91) | Author and screenwriter known for The Dark Path and co-creating the television series Banshee
- Thomas Sietsema (SFS ’83) | Food Critic, Washington Post; James Beard Restaurant Awards Recipient
- Kate Snow (MSFS’93) | National Correspondent and Anchor, NBC Nightly News, NBC; Anchor (Former), MSNBC Live with Kate Snow, MSNBC
- Kara Swisher (SFS’84) | Co-Founder of Recode; Technology Columnist (Former) for The Wall Street Journal
- Lisa Sylvester (SFS’92) | Peabody Award and Emmy Award-winning reporter; Reporter (Former) for CNN’s The Situation Room
- Anthony Thomopoulos (SFS’59) | CEO of MTM, International Family Entertainment, Inc.; President (Former) of ABC Entertainment and ABC Broadcast Group
- Arick Wierson (SFS’94) | NYC Media General Manager (Former); Media Advisor (Former) to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg