List of Elliott School of International Affairs people

Alumni

Journalism

• Adam Ciralsky- Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning journalist of 60 Minutes and NBC News
• Kasie Hunt - MSNBC and NBC News correspondent
• Diana B. Henriques - Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times journalist
• Matt Medved - Spin editor-in-chief
• Josh Rogin - CNN political analyst, Bloomberg View foreign policy analyst
• Kim A. Snyder - Variety Magazine contributor, director of Sundance Film Festival-nominated documentary I Remember Me

  Diplomacy

• Michael Punke - U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
• Kurt Volker - U.S. Ambassador to NATO
• Joseph Prueher U.S. Ambassador to China
• Edward "Skip" Gnehm – U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia
• Richard L. Baltimore - U.S. Ambassador to Oman
• Lyle Franklin Lane - U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay and Paraguay
• Robert P. Jackson - U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Cameroon
• David H. Shinn - U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso
• Francis Terry McNamara - U.S. Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe
• Marisa Lino - U.S. Ambassador to Albania
• Cresencio S. Arcos Jr. - U.S. Ambassador to Honduras
• Elliott Charng - Taiwanese Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand, and India

  Law

• Andrew P. Bakaj - Former Department of Defense and CIA Official; lead counsel for the Whisteblower during the Impeachment Inquiry and the subsequent Impeachment of President Donald Trump.
• Miguel Méndez - Stanford Law School legal scholar, Deputy Director of California Rural Legal Assistance
• Denise Krepp - Chief Counsel for the United States Maritime Administration
• Neil Thomas Proto - General Counsel to President Jimmy Carter on Nuclear Safety, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London

  Politics

• Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, current President of Croatia
• Chang Dae-whan - Prime Minister of South Korea
• Tammy Duckworth - U.S. Senator from Illinois
• Jeremiah Denton - U.S. Senator from Alabama
• Sam Johnson - U.S. Congressman from Texas
• Bob Barr - U.S. Congressman from Georgia
• Arifa Khalid Pervaiz - Congresswoman of the National Assembly of Pakistan
• Sara Gideon - Speaker of the House of Representatives of Maine
• K. T. McFarland - Deputy National Security Advisor
• Khatuna Kalmakhelidze - Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance of the Republic of Georgia
• William Timmons - South Carolina State Senator
• Caroline Simmons - member of President Barack Obama's Transition Team
• Stephen Maitland - Pennsylvania State Representative
• David Crowley - Cincinnati, Ohio City Councilman and Vice-Mayor
• Brandon Patty - Policy Director for Marco Rubio's 2009 U.S. Senate campaign
• Linda Melconian - Massachusetts State Senator
• Robert J. Winglass - Maine State Representative
• Jennifer Shasky Calvery - Director of the U.S. Treasury Department Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
• Philip S. Smith - member of the Republican National Committee
• William Timmons - South Carolina State Senator

  Economics

• Richard Carson - most-cited environmental economist in the world

  Business

• Michael Punke - Vice President of Amazon Web Services, former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
• Danny Sebright - President of the U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council, former Policy Director of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
• David A. Nadler - Vice-Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies

  Military

• General John M. Shalikashvili - Supreme Allied Commander and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• General Fred K. Mahaffey - Four-Star U.S. Army General, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Readiness Command
• General John T. Chain Jr. - U.S. Air Force General, Board of Directors member for Northrop Grumman and the Kemper Corporation
• General Frederick Kroesen - Commanding General of the Seventh United States Army
• General Thomas M. Ryan Jr. - U.S. Air Force General, Commander-in-Chief of Military Airlift Command
• General James P. Mullins - Four-Star U.S. Air Force General, Commander-in-Chief of Air Force Logistics Command
• General Donn A. Starry - Four-Star U.S. Army General, Commander-in-Chief of United States Strike Command
• General Bryce Poe II - Four-Star U.S. Air Force General, Commander of Air Force Logistics Command
• General Edwin H. Burba Jr. - Four-Star U.S. Army General, Commander-in-Chief of United States Army Forces Command
• Admiral Owen W. Siler - 15th Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard
• Admiral John B. Hayes - 16th Commandant of the U.S. Cost Guard
• Admiral Sylvester R. Foley Jr. - Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
• Admiral William O. Studeman - Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Admiral of the United States Navy
• Vice Admiral Julien J. LeBourgeois - President of the Naval War College
• Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro - Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence
• Rear Admiral Fran McKee - 1st female officer to hold the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Alabama Women's Hall of Fame inductee
• Lincoln D. Faurer - Director of the National Security Agency
• Richard M. Wells - Director of the Defense Mapping Agency
• Mark M. Boatner III - Croix de Guerre-decorated soldier and military historian
• Hal Moore - Distinguished Service Cross and Order of Saint Maurice-decorated lieutenant general and military author
• Kenneth L. Tallman - 8th Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy
• Shanti Sethi - 1st Indian-American woman to command a major U.S. Navy warship, the USS Decatur

  International Organizations

• Rose Gottemoeller - 16th Deputy-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Ciarán Devane - Chief Executive of the British Council
• Olav Kjørven - UNICEF Director for Public Partnerships, former Norwegian State Secretary for International Development
• Kathryne Bomberger - Director-General of the International Commission on Missing Persons
• Marc Garlasco - Senior Military Advisor for the Human Rights Council, Senior Civilian Protection Officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

  Scholars

• Alireza Nader - RAND Corporation international policy analyst
• Roderic Ai Camp - Mexico-United States relations specialist, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and BBC contributor, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Board of Directors member

  Other

• Reona Ito - The American Prize-winning orchestral conductor
• F. Lynn McNulty - "Father" of U.S. Federal Information Security, Director of Information Security for the U.S. State Department
• W. W. Behrens Jr. - Founder of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Gorgi Popstefanov - 2016 and 2010 Macedonian National Men's Cycling Champion
• Sarah Reinertsen - ITU World Triathlon Championship-winning paratriathlete
• Charles C. Noble - Major General and engineer on the Manhattan Project

  Faculty

Scholars & researchers

• Stephen C. Smith – current Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy
• Sabina Alkire - Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
• David Shambaugh - Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
• Pavel Baev - Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
• Dina Rizk Khoury - Guggenheim Fellow
• Robert Entman - Humboldt Prize-winning communications scientist
• Rouben Paul Adalian - Director of the Armenian National Institute
• Martha Finnemore – leader of the constructivist school of international relations theory
• Marc Lynch – Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies, Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security
• Harris Mylonas - Editor in Chief of Nationalities Papers
• Nathan J. Brown – former Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies, Board Advisor to the Project on Middle East Democracy
• Charles Glaser - famed Defensive Realist theorist
• Michael N. Barnett – famed Constructivist theorist
• Ronald H. Spector - Samuel Eliot Morison Prize-winning military historian
• Walter Reich - AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility-winning international relations scholar
• James Hershberg - former Director of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center
• Howard Sachar - National Jewish Book Award-winning Middle East historian

  Diplomacy

• Stephen Biddle – Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
• Matthew Levinger - Senior Program Officer of the United States Institute of Peace
• Andrew A. Michta - Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

  Assistant Secretaries of State

• Thomas E. McNamara – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
• Eric Newsom – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
• Karl Inderfurth – former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
• Esther Brimmer - former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
• Bathsheba Nell Crocker - former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
• George Moose - former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
• Gaston J. Sigur Jr. - Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

  U.S. Ambassadors

• David H. Shinn - former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso
• Edward "Skip" Gnehm – former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia
• Joseph LeBaron – former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar and Mauritania
• Ronald D. Palmer – former U.S. Ambassador to Togo, Malaysia, and Mauritius
• Thomas J. Dodd Jr. – former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica and Uruguay
• Lino Gutierrez - former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and Nicaragua

  Foreign Ambassadors

• Michael Oren - former Israeli Ambassador to the United States
• Farooq Sobhan - former Bangladeshi Ambassador to China, India, and Malaysia

  Politicians

• Moudud Ahmed – former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• S. M. Krishna - former Foreign Minister of India
• John Negroponte - former Director of National Intelligence, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
• Robert O. Work – former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Christopher A. Kojm - former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council
• Scott Pace – Chief Executive of the National Space Council
• Robert Hutchings - former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council
• Allison Macfarlane - former Chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Lawrence Wilkerson – former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell
• Leon Fuerth – former National Security Adviser to U.S. Vice President Al Gore
• Mickey Edwards - former U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma, Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee

  Economics

• James Foster - World Bank Board Advisor

  Military

• William J. Crowe – former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  Journalism

• Henry Farrell - Foreign Policy & Washington Post contributor
• Roy Richard Grinker - Editor of Anthropological Quarterly, New York Times and PBS NewsHour contributor
• David Alan Grier - Computer Magazine columnist
• Selig S. Harrison - Washington Post, New York Times, and The Financial Times-contributing journalist specializing in Southeast Asia

  International Organizations

• Cynthia McClintock - Center for International Policy Board of Directors member, former President of the Latin American Studies Association
• Michael M. Cernea - World Bank Senior Advisor for Social Policy
• Nikolai Zlobin - President of the Center on Global Interests

  Other

• Amitai Etzioni – former president of the American Sociological Association
• William Luers – former President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• James N Rosenau - former president of the International Studies Association
• Harry Harding - founding Dean of the Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
• John Logsdon - former member of the NASA Advisory Council
• Pascale Ehrenfreund - CEO of the German Aerospace Center, first woman President of the Austrian Science Fund
• Ray O. Johnson - former Chief Technology Officer of Lockheed Martin