Government and politics
Heads of state or government
| State | Image | Leader | Affiliation | Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Barbados |  | Errol Barrow (1920–1987) | BSc (Econ) 1950 | Prime minister (1962–1966; 1966–1976; 1986–1987) |
 | Mia Mottley (born 1965) | LLB 1986 | Prime minister (2018–present) | |
 Benin |  | Lionel Zinsou (born 1954) | Course unknown | Prime minister (2015–2016) |
 Bulgaria |  | Sergey Stanishev (born 1966) | Visiting Fellow International Relations 1999–2000 | Prime minister (2005–2009) |
 Canada |  | Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) | Research Fee student 1947–1948 | Prime minister (1968–1979; 1980–1984) |
 | Kim Campbell (born 1947) | PhD student 1973 | Prime minister (June–November 1993) | |
 Colombia |  | Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo | Occasional Registration 1932–1933 | President (1934–1938; 1942–1945) |
 | Juan Manuel Santos | MSc Economics 1975 | President (2010–2018) | |
 Costa Rica |  | Óscar Arias (born 1941) | Enrolled 1967 | President (1986–1990; 2006–2010) |
 Denmark |  | HM Queen Margrethe II (born 1940) | Occasional student 1965 | Queen (1972–present) |
 Dominica |  | Dame Eugenia Charles | LLM 1949 | Prime minister (1980–1995) |
 Fiji |  | Sir Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) | Diploma Econ & Social Admin 1962 | Prime minister (1970–1992) President (1994–2000) |
 Finland |  | Alexander Stubb (born 1968) | PhD International Politics 1999 | Prime minister (2014–2015) |
 Germany |  | Heinrich Brüning | BSc Economics student 1911–1913 | Chancellor (1930–1932) |
 Ghana |  | Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) | PhD 1946 | President (1960–1966) |
 | Hilla Limann (1934–1998) | BSc (Econ) 1960 | President (1979–1981) | |
 | John Atta Mills (born 1944) | LLM 1967–1968 | President (2009) | |
 Gibraltar |  | Joe Bossano (born 1939) | BSc Economics circa 1960 | Chief Minister (1988–1996) |
 Greece |  | George Papandreou (born 1952) | MSc Sociology 1977 | Prime minister (2009–2011) |
 | Constantine Simitis (born 1936) | Research Fee student 1961–1963 | Prime minister (1996–2004) | |
 Grenada |  | Maurice Bishop (1943–1983) | LLB circa 1967–1968 | Prime minister (1979–1983) |
 Guyana |  | Forbes Burnham (1923–1985) | LLB 1948 | Prime minister (1964–1980) President (1980–1985) |
 India |  | K.R. Narayanan (1921–2005) | BSc (Econ) 1945–1948 | President (1997–2002) |
 Israel |  | Moshe Sharett (1894–1965) | BSc (Econ) 1924 | Prime minister (1953–1955) |
 Italy |  | Romano Prodi (born 1939) | Research Fee student 1962–1963 | Prime minister (1996–1998; 2006–2008) |
 Jamaica |  | Michael Manley (1924–1997) | BSc (Econ) 1949 | Prime minister (1972–1980; 1989–1992) |
 | P J Patterson | LLB 1963 | Premier (1992–2006) | |
 Japan |  | Takahashi Korekiyo (1854–1936) | Course unknown | Prime minister (1920–1922; 1932) |
 | Tsutomu Hata (1935–2017) | Course unknown | Prime minister (1994) | |
 | Taro Aso (born 1940) | Occasional student 1966 | Prime minister (2008–2009) | |
 Kenya |  | Jomo Kenyatta (1891–1978) | ADA 1936 | President (1964–1978) |
| Mwai Kibaki (born 1931) | BSc Economics 1959 | President (2002–2013) | ||
 Kiribati | Anote Tong (born 1952) | MSc Sea-Use Group 1988 | President (2003–2016) | |
 Libya | Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (born 1972) | PhD 2006 | Effective prime minister (2007–2011) [4] | |
 Malaysia | Tuanku Jaafar (1922–2008) | Course unknown | Yang di-Pertuan Agong (elected monarch) (1994–1999) | |
 Mauritius | Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900–1985) | Attended lectures whilst studying at University College London | Chief Minister (1961–1968) Prime minister (1968–1982) Governor-general (1983–1985) | |
 | Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo (1920–2000) | LLB 1948 | President (March–June 1992) | |
 | Navinchandra Ramgoolam (born 1947) | LLB 1990 | Prime minister (1995–2000; 2005–2014) | |
 Nepal |  | Sher Bahadur Deuba (born 1943) | Research student, International Relations 1988–1989 | Prime minister (1995–1997; 2001–2003; 2004–2005) |
| Nigeria | Yemi Osinbajo | LLM | Vice President of Nigeria (2015-2023) | |
 Panama | Harmodio Arias Madrid (1886–1962) | Occasional student, 1909–1911 | President (1932–1936) | |
 Peru | Pedro Beltrán Espantoso (1897–1979) | BSc (Econ) 1918 | Prime minister (1959–1961) | |
 | Beatriz Merino (born 1947) | LLM 1972 | Prime minister (2003) | |
 Poland |  | Edward Szczepanik (1915–2005) | MSc Economics 1953 | Prime minister of government in exile (1986–1990) |
 | Marek Belka (born 1952) | Summer School 1990 | Prime minister (2004–2005) | |
 Sierra Leone | Banja Tejan-Sie (1917–2000) | LLB circa 1950 | Governor-general (1968–1971) | |
 Singapore |  | Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015) | Occasional student after circa 1945 | Prime minister (1959–1990) |
 | Tharman Shanmugaratnam (born 1957) | BSc (Econ) 1981 | President (2023–present) | |
 Saint Lucia | John Compton (1925–2007) | LLB 1952 | Premier (1964–1979) Prime minister (February–July 1979; 1982–1996) | |
 Taiwan |  | Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914–2000) | Composition fee student 1947–1949 | Premier (1984–1989) |
 | Tsai Ing-wen (born 1956) | Ph.D. Law 1984 | President (2016–present) | |
 Thailand |  | Tanin Kraivixien (born 1927) | LLB 1953 | Prime minister (1976–1977) |
 Togo |  | Sylvanus Olympio (b. 1902–1963) | BSc Economics | Prime minister (1958–1961) President (1961–1963) |
 United Kingdom |  | Ramsay MacDonald | Lecturer | Prime minister (1924; 1929–1935) |
 | Clement Attlee (1883–1967) | Lecturer in social science and administration, 1912–1923 | Prime minister (1945–1951) |
United Kingdom
Current members of the House of Commons
- Josh Babarinde, British MP
- Saqib Bhatti, British MP
- Nesil Caliskan, British MP, Leader of Enfield Council
- Dan Carden, British MP
- Yvette Cooper, British MP, Home Secretary
- Stella Creasy, British MP
- Janet Daby, British MP
- Anneliese Dodds, British MP, Minister of State for Women and Equalities
- Miatta Fahnbulleh, British MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
- Georgia Gould, British MP, Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office, Leader of Camden Council
- Richard Holden, British MP
- Ed Miliband, British MP, former leader of the Labour Party and former leader of the Opposition, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Joy Morrissey, British MP
- Matthew Pennycook, British MP, Minister of State
- Rachel Reeves, British MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Yuan Yang, British MP
Current members of the House of Lords
- Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, media mogul
- Ros Altmann, Baroness Altmann, former Minister of State for Pensions
- Virginia Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, former Secretary of State for National Heritage; former Secretary of State for Health
- Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, development economist
- Matthew Elliott, political strategist, former head of Taxpayers' Alliance and Vote Leave
- Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine
- Anthony Giddens, sociologist
- David Gold, Baron Gold
- Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, current Deputy High Court Judge
- Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, former lord chancellor
- Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury, School Professor of Economics at the LSE; former governor of the Bank of England
- Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist
- Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore, former director of political strategy to British prime minister Gordon Brown
- Nick Markham, Baron Markham
- Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett
- Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh, political theorist
- Dave Prentis, Baron Prentis of Leeds, trade unionist
- Joyce Quin, Baroness Quin, Labour Party politician
- Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings, British MEP, former chairman of the Council of King's College London
- Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
- Aamer Sarfraz, Baron Sarfraz, Conservative politician and businessman
- Minouche Shafik, Baroness Shafik of Camden and Alexandria, director of the LSE (2017–23); former deputy governor of the Bank of England for markets and banking
- Peter Smith, Baron Smith of Leigh, former executive leader of Wigan Council
- Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, former chairman of the Financial Services Authority
- Guglielmo Verdirame, Baron Verdirame
- William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, former deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
Former members of parliament
- Leo Abse, British MP, famous for legalisation of male homosexuality
- Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, former head of the Home Civil Service
- Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, former solicitor general for England and Wales
- Charlotte Atkins, former junior minister
- Jackie Ballard, British MP, journalist and director general of the RSPCA
- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, British MP and British Peer
- Sir Rhodes Boyson, British MP
- Annette Brooke, British MP
- Greg Clark, British MP
- Nick Clegg, British MP, former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom and former leader of the Liberal Democrats
- Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, British Peer, former cabinet minister; former vice-president of the European Commission
- Tim Collins, British MP
- Maureen Colquhoun, Britain's first openly lesbian MP
- Jim Cousins, British MP
- Jo Cox, British MP
- Edwina Currie, British MP, former junior minister
- Hugh Dalton, former chancellor of the exchequer
- Andrew Dismore, British MP
- Frank Dobson, British MP, former cabinet minister
- Dick Douglas, British MP
- Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy, British MP, former cabinet minister; former president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
- Helen Eadie, MSP [5]
- Sir David Evennett, British MP
- Barbara Follett, British MP
- Steve Gilbert, British MP
- Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood, political advisor
- Tom Greatrex, British MP
- Miranda Grell, former Labour Councillor known as the first person found guilty of making false statements under the Representation of the People Act 1983
- Judith Hart, Baroness Hart, former cabinet minister
- Mark Hoban, British MP
- Dame Margaret Hodge, British MP
- Jane Hutt, Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government
- Sydney Irving, Baron Irving of Dartford, British MP
- Ranil Jayawadena, British MP, former cabinet minister
- Brian Jenkins, British MP
- Aubrey Jones, Minister; chairman of the National Board for Prices and Incomes
- Frank Judd, Baron Judd, former Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; former Minister for Overseas Development
- Mark Logan, British MP
- Syed Kamall, British MEP
- Ruth Kelly, British MP, former cabinet minister
- Arthur Latham, British MP
- Rachel Lomax, former deputy governor of the Bank of England for monetary policy
- Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, British MP, former Secretary of State for Defence; former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
- Dame Mavis McDonald, Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office
- Michael Meacher, minister
- John Mendelson, British MP
- Andrew Miller, British MP
- Doreen Miller, Baroness Miller of Hendon, British Peer
- John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, former Secretary of State for Health and Social Services; former Secretary of State for Transport
- Sir Bob Neill, British MP
- Eric Ollerenshaw, British MP
- Marion Phillips, British MP
- Chris Pincher, former MP for Tamworth and Minister of State
- Stephen Pound, British MP
- Sir Ray Powell, British MP
- Reginald Prentice, Baron Prentice, Cabinet Minister
- Merlyn Rees, former home secretary
- Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear, former leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords
- Andrew Selous, British MP
- Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, former junior minister
- Virendra Sharma, British MP
- Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, former cabinet minister
- Sir Richard Shepherd, British MP
- Donald Soper, Baron Soper, Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist
- John Stonehouse, former minister
- Jo Swinson, British MP, former Leader of the Liberal Democrats
- Ian Taylor, British MP
- Adam Tomkins, MSP
- Rudi Vis, British MP
- Malcolm Wicks, Minister
- Jenny Willott, British MP, former junior minister
- David Winnick, British MP
- Anthony Wright, British MP
- Michael Young, Baron Young, academic and author of the 1945 Labour manifesto
Civil servants
- Sir John Beddington, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
- Sir Kenneth Berrill, chief economic adviser to the Treasury; head of the Central Policy Review Staff
- John Bourn, former Comptroller and Auditor General
- Sir John Burgh, director-general of the British Council
- Sir Sydney Caine, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, director of the LSE
- Paul Corrigan, director of strategy and commissioning of the NHS London Strategic Health Authority
- Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and head of the Home Civil Service
- Claus Moser, Baron Moser, director of the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom
- Dame Una O'Brien, Permanent Secretary Department of Health
- Vicky Pryce, former joint head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service
- Sir David Ramsden, MSc Economics 1990, chief economic adviser to HM Treasury
- Tom Scholar, Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury
- Josiah Stamp, former governor of the Bank of England
United States
- Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State in Reagan Administration; senior director of the National Security Council in Bush Administration
- Donald A. Baer, White House Director of Communications and Strategic Planning in Clinton Administration
- Valerie Lynn Baldwin, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller), Bush Administration
- Bridget A. Brink, U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia and Ukraine, Trump and Biden administrations
- Michael Chertoff, United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Bush Administration; US Attorney, Bush Sr. and Clinton Administrations
- Colm Connolly, United States Attorney, Bush Administration
- Lauchlin Currie, White House Economic Adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Rosa DeLauro, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's 3rd congressional district (1991–present), former chair of the House Appropriations Committee
- Leandra English, deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation Think Tank
- William Gale, Council of Economic Advisers, Bush Administration
- Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
- Marc Grossman, U.S. Under-Secretary of State, Bush Administration; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, Clinton Administration; Special Advisor to the President on Near East Affairs, Carter Administration
- Orval H. Hansen, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Idaho's 2nd congressional district (1969–1975)
- Alice Stone Ilchman, Assistant Secretary of Education and Cultural Affairs under U.S. president Jimmy Carter
- Bruce Jentleson, International Affairs Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore
- Bruce Katz, former chief of staff, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; Vice President, Brookings Institution
- Vanessa Kerry, Democratic activist and daughter of former U.S. senator and Secretary of State John Kerry
- Ron Kind, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district (1997–2023)
- Mark Kirk, U.S. senator from Illinois (2010–2017)
- Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern involved in a sex scandal with former president Bill Clinton
- Susan Lindauer, ex-Congressional aide accused of assisting Iraqi intelligence prior to the 2003 invasion
- Edward Luttwak, consultant to the U.S. National Security Council, State Department and Defence Department; economist; historian; Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
- James McGreevey, former governor of New Jersey
- Brad Miller, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 13th congressional district (2003–2013)
- Richard H. Moore, North Carolina state treasurer
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. senator from New York (1997–2001)
- Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance
- Peter R. Orszag, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors, Clinton Administration; Fellow of the Brookings Institution; Professor, Georgetown University, Congressional Budget Office director, director designate Office of Management and Budget
- Jon Ossoff, U.S. senator from Georgia (2021–present)
- Tan Parker, member of the Texas Senate (former member of the Texas House of Representatives)
- Alice Paul, American suffragist
- Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Reagan Administration; Chairman of Defense Department Advisory Committee, Bush Administration; fellow, American Enterprise Institute
- F. Whitten Peters, Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.
- David Rockefeller, former chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Council on Foreign Relations; Chairman/Honorary Chairman, the Trilateral Commission, son of financer John D. Rockefeller Jr. and grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller
- Max Rose, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 11th congressional district (2019-2021)
- Pete Rouse, White House Chief of Staff, Obama Administration
- James Rubin, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; lead foreign policy adviser to John Kerry campaign
- Robert Rubin, U.S. Treasury Secretary and director, National Economic Council, Clinton Administration; director of Goldman Sachs
- Rajiv Shah, USAID Administrator, Obama Administration
- Robert Shapiro, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, Clinton Administration; Fellow of Harvard University; Fellow of National Bureau of Economic Research
- Mona Sutphen, current White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
- John Tower, U.S. senator from Texas (1961-1985)
- Sanford J. Ungar, President emeritus of Goucher College; director of Voice of America; member of Council on Foreign Relations
- Paul Volcker, chairman of Federal Reserve, Carter and Reagan Administrations; US Treasury Under-Secretary, Nixon Administration; President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State, Clinton Administration; US Ambassador to Egypt, Bush Administration
- Kimba Wood, U.S. Federal Judge; Attorney General nominee
- Dov Zakheim, Under-Secretary of Defense, Bush and Reagan administrations
Canada
- Ed Broadbent, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, 1975–1989
- John Crosbie, Lieutenant-governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, former cabinet minister
- Jean-Yves Duclos, Canadian Liberal MP, Canada's Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
- Brian Greenspan, barrister
- Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party, 2008–2011
- Hal Jackman, former Lieutenant-governor of Ontario
- Joy MacPhail, former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia
- Marc Mayrand, chief electoral officer of Elections Canada, 2007–present
- David McGuinty, Member of Parliament, Liberal Party
- Catherine McKenna, Canadian Liberal MP, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change
- Bill Morneau, Canadian MP, Canada's Minister of Finance, 2015–2020
- Jacques Parizeau, Premier of Quebec, 1994–1996
- Svend Robinson, former Canadian MP; first openly gay Canadian politician in major political party
- Gregory Selinger, Premier of Manitoba, 2009–2016
- Mitchell Sharp, former Canadian Minister of Finance
- Paul Zed, Member of Parliament for Saint John, New Brunswick
Latin America and the Caribbean
- Eduardo Bhatia, President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
- Edith Clarke, anthropologist
- Winston Dookeran, Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist
- Christiana Figueres, current head of the UNFCCC
- Luis Fernando Jaramillo Correa, former minister of foreign affairs and public works, Colombia [6]
- Martin Lousteau, Minister of economy and production, Argentina
- Shridath Ramphal, former secretary-general of the Commonwealth
- Kamina Johnson Smith, current minister of foreign affairs and Trade, Jamaica
Europe
- Georgios Alogoskoufis, former Minister for Economy and Finance, Greece
- Prince Amedeo of Belgium
- Yuriko Backes, Minister for Finances, Luxembourg [7]
- Annalena Baerbock, German politician, Co-Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, first female Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany
- Rubina Berardo, Member of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic
- Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician and former EU Commissioner
- Joe Bossano, Chief Minister of Gibraltar
- Lykke Friis, Minister for Climate and Energy, Denmark
- Markus Gstöttner, former deputy Chief of Staff and economic advisor to Sebastian Kurz, current Chief of Staff to Karl Nehammer
- Prince Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
- Victor Habert-Dassault, Member of the French Parliament
- Tomáš Hellebrandt, Member of the Slovak parliament
- Patrick Janssens, Mayor of Antwerp (2003–2012); MP of Flemish Parliament, chairman of Flemish social democrats (SP) (1999–2003), Belgian MP of Chamber of Representatives (2003–2004)
- Jan Kavan, former president of the United Nations General Assembly, member of the Czech Parliament, former foreign minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
- Memli Krasniqi, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development of the Republic of Kosovo
- Ursula von der Leyen, former minister of defence, Germany, current president of the European Commission
- Jana Maláčová, former Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic
- Ivan Mikloš, Minister of Finance of Slovakia
- Franz Neumann, first Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
- Érik Orsenna, former economist and advisor to François Mitterrand, member of the Conseil d'État and of the Académie française, 1988 Prix Goncourt
- Giorgos Papakonstantinou, former Minister for Finance of Greece
- Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance, Poland
- Jonas Gahr Støre, Leader of the Norwegian Labour Party and former Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Zdeněk Tůma, governor of Czech National Bank
- Kai Whittaker, member of the German Parliament
- August Zaleski, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Africa
- Augustus Akinloye, Nigerian lawyer and politician, Chairman of defunct National Party of Nigeria
- Kader Asmal, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
- Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian independence leader, Fabian lawyer, human rights advocate
- Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
- Anil Gayan, former foreign minister of Mauritius
- Jeanne Hoban, Anglo-Sri Lankan journalist, Trotskyist political activist and trade-unionist
- Aguinaldo Jaime, Deputy Prime Minister of Angola
- Michael Wamalwa Kijana, former vice-president of Kenya
- Josina Z. Machel, women's rights activist
- Mac Maharaj, South African ANC politician, former Minister of Transport
- Bayo Ojo, past head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice
- Babatunji Olowofoyeku, Nigerian politician
- Yemi Osinbajo, vice-president of Nigeria
- Alex Quaison-Sackey, former foreign minister of Ghana
- Winston Tubman, Liberian diplomat and politician
- Shamsudeen Usman, Nigerian economist, technocrat and banker; Minister of National Planning and past Minister of Finance of Nigeria
Asia
- Zaini Ahmad, Bruneian politician and rebel during the 1962 Brunei revolt [8]
- B. R. Ambedkar, first Law Minister of India, political leader who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution [9]
- Piyasvasti Amranand, Thailand's Energy Minister
- Sonny Angara, senator of the Philippines
- Ferdinand Alexander "Sandro" Araneta Marcos III - Congressman of the 1st district of Ilocos Norte, eldest son of President Bongbong Marcos and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, grandson of former president Ferdinand Marcos and former first lady Imelda Marcos
- Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Defence Minister of Pakistan
- Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, former deputy foreign minister of Pakistan
- Jyoti Basu, 2nd longest serving Indian chief minister, Indian politician, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Raghav Chadha, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Punjab, India
- Jayant Chaudhary, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, India
- Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, former organising secretary of Bangladesh Awami League; Dy. Education Minister of Bangladesh
- Audrey Eu, chairman of the Civic Party and former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Feroze Gandhi, Indian-Parsi politician and journalist, former 'First Gentleman of India' (husband of PM Indira Gandhi)
- Leslie Goonewardene, statesman, Trotskyist independence activist and founder of Sri Lanka's first political party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party
- Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's Minister of Defence
- Lakshmi Kant Jha, governor of Reserve Bank of India, Member of Parliament, Indian Ambassador to United States, Governor of Kashmir
- Yang Jiechi, current member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, former foreign minister
- Sir Yuet Keung Kan, Hong Kong politician, banker and lawyer
- Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan, President of Pakistan Muslim League, 1st chief minister of N.W.F.P. Pakistan, former Industry Trade and Interior Minister of Pakistan
- Emily Lau, Hong Kong politician, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Marvi Memon, Member National Assembly Pakistan
- Krishna Menon, former Indian Permanent Representative to the UN, Minister of Defence, and leading proponent of India's emancipation
- Marty Natalegawa, former foreign minister of Indonesia
- Melvyn Ong, Singaporean army general and the current Chief of Defence Force of the Singapore Armed Forces
- Ong Ye Kung, Singapore's Minister for Health (2021–present); former minister for education (2015-2020), former minister for transport (2020-2021)
- C. R. Pattabhiraman, Indian member of Parliament and Union Minister
- Emília Pires, former minister of finance of Timor-Leste
- Sajith Premadasa, Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka, Member of Parliament for Colombo District, Leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, former Minister of Housing and Construction, former Minister of Samurudi Affairs and former Deputy Minister of Health
- Pramod Ranjan Sengupta, Marxist intellectual and member of Indian National Army
- Ghazali Shafie, former foreign minister of Malaysia
- Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesian Minister of Defence
- Goh Keng Swee, former deputy prime minister of Singapore, 1959–1984
- Tan Chuan-Jin, former Minister for Social and Family Development (2014–2017), Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore (2017–2023)
- Kashmala Tariq, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
- Josephine Teo, Singapore's Minister for Manpower (2018–2021), Minister for Communications and Information (2021–present)
- Fadli Zon, former deputy speaker of the Indonesian People's Representative Council
Australia and New Zealand
- Annastacia Palaszczuk, former premier of Queensland (2015-2023)
- Tim Barnett, Member of the Parliament of New Zealand
- Peter Coleman, journalist and conservative politician
- Bill Hastings, Chief Censor of New Zealand, judge
- Robert Hill, defence minister
- Christian Porter, treasurer and Attorney-general of Western Australia
- Gordon Reid, Governor of Western Australia and vice-chancellor of the University of Western Australia
- Peter Shergold, Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Stephen Smith, foreign and defence minister
- Tim Watts, Labour MP
Middle East
- Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai
- Princess Badiya bint Hassan, member of royal family of Jordan
- Yishai Be'er, general in the Israel Defense Forces and currently the president of the Israeli Military Court of Appeals
- Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, 2014–2023
- Maxime Chaya, Lebanese sportsman, mountaineer, and explorer
- Kemal Derviş, former UNDP administrator (head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey
- Rafi Eitan, leader of the Gil Party in Israeli Politics, lawmaker, former security
- Emre Gönensay, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996
- Moshe Levi, lieutenant general, 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
- Yitzhak Moda'i, Israeli politician who served as an MP for over 20 years
- Amnon Rubinstein, Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist, Education Minister of Israel, 1993–1996
International organisations and ambassadors
- James Allan, British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique
- Jon Allen, Canadian Ambassador to Israel, 2006–present
- Shlomo Argov, prominent Israeli diplomat, former Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom
- Kader Asmal, South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee
- William Macmahon Ball, Australian diplomat
- Rosemary Banks, New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations
- Philip Barton, British High Commissioner to Pakistan
- Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, Cabinet Minister under Thatcher; Vice-President of the European Commission
- Andrei Dapkiunas, Belarusian Ambassador to Austria, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the UN
- Nitin Desai, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
- Abul Fateh, Bangladesh diplomat
- Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
- Ian Goldin, former vice president of external affairs, World Bank
- Jeffrey Goldstein, managing director, World Bank
- Wang Guangya, permanent representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations
- Robert Murray Hill, Australian Ambassador to the United Nations
- Genta H. Holmes, United States Ambassador to Australia, Clinton Administration; United States Ambassador to Namibia; Chief of Mission to Haiti and Malawi
- Robert E. Hunter, former U.S. ambassador to NATO
- David Jackson, Director of Local Development Finance, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), BSc 1986 [10]
- Clete Donald Johnson, Jr., former member of Congress and US Ambassador, LL.M 1978
- Manoj Juneja, deputy director-general for operations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Ahmad Kamal, Pakistani Ambassador to the UN
- Jan Kavan, former president of the United Nations General Assembly, member of the Czech Parliament, former foreign minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
- Maliha Lodhi, Pakistan's High Commissioner to United Kingdom and former ambassador to USA
- John J. Maresca, former US ambassador to the OSCE in the George H.W. Bush Administration
- Sir Goolam Hoosen Kader Meeran, President of the UK Employment Tribunals; Judge of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal
- Braj Kumar Nehru, Ambassador of India to the United States and Indian High Commissioner to Britain
- Michael O'Neill, director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- William Peters, high commissioner in Malawi
- Karen Pierce, current Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
- Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, 1999–2004
- Bertrand Ramcharan, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [11]
- Shridath Ramphal, former secretary-general of the Commonwealth
- Shaha Riza, World Bank
- Pierre Sane, UNESCO's assistant director-general for Social and Human Sciences
- Michele J. Sison, US Ambassador to Lebanon in the Bush Administration
- Lachezara Stoeva, Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
- Walter Tarnopolsky, Canadian judge and member of United Nations Human Rights Committee
- Arne Roy Walther, Norwegian ambassador to Japan
- Michael Wilson, Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2006–present
Central bankers
Janet Yellen, Chair of the US Federal Reserve, 2014–2018
Stanley Fischer, Vice president of the US Federal Reserve, 2014–2017; governor of the Bank of Israel, 2005–2013
Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, 2003–2013
Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979–1987
Puey Ungpakorn, governor of the Central Bank of Thailand
- Charlie Bean, economist, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
- Tim Besley, economics professor and member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
- Willem Buiter, economist, ex-member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
- Michele Bullock, economist, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
- Nugget Coombs, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
- Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel; former World Bank Chief Economist [12]
- Neville Ubeysin-gha Jayawardena, Sri Lankan Sinhala economist, entrepreneur, and senator; first indigenous governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
- Amarananda Somasiri Jayawardene, governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
- Stephen Nickell, economist, ex-member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
- Louis Rasminsky, governor of the Bank of Canada, 1961–1973
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of Singapore, 2023–present; Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), 2011–2023
