A Selection of our Alumni

  •  Kofi Annan, 7th UN Secretary-General (1996-2006), Nobel Peace Prize (2001)
  •  Shara L. Aranoff, Chairman of the US International Trade Commission (2005-2014)
  •  Sibusio Bengu, first black Vice-Chancellor of a South African University, Fort Hare University
  •  Micheline Calmy-Rey, Foreign Minister of Switzerland (2003-2011)
  •  Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Minister of Foreign Minister of Mexico (2006-2012)
  •  Saul Friedländer, 2008 Pulitzer Prize Recipient, Historian and Professor at UCLA
  •  Carlos Fuentes (+2012), Mexican Diplomat and Novelist
  •  Philipp Hildebrand, Vice-President of BlackRock; President of the Swiss National Bank (2010-2012)
  •  Leonid Hurwicz (+2008), 2007 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
  •  Nobuyuki Idei, Founder and CEO of Quantum Leaps Corporation, Tokyo; Chairman and Group CEO of Sony Corporation (2003-2005)
  •  Jakob Kellenberger, former President of the ICRC, Member of the ICRC Assembly Council
  •  Yan Lan, Managing Director of Lazard, China
  •  Carlos Lopes, Professor at Cape Town University and Visiting Fellow at Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford; former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
  •  Hsueh Shou Sheng, Vice-Chancellor of Nanyang University in Singapore, Founding Rector of the University of East Asia, Macau
  •  Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Office, Microsoft
  •  Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General for Research, European Commission
  •  Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru