The list of Elliott School of International Affairs people includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University, located in Washington, D.C.
Among its alumni are numerous ambassadors, diplomats, politicians, and public figures, including Chang Dae-whan (former prime minister of South Korea), Tammy Duckworth (sitting U.S. senator), Rose Gottemoeller (current deputy-general of NATO), Ciarán Devane (current chief executive of the British Council), and John Shalikashvili (former Supreme Allied Commander). Notable faculty has included Christopher A. Kojm, chairman of the National Intelligence Council under President Obama, Moudud Ahmed, former prime minister of Bangladesh, Amitai Etzioni, former president of the American Sociological Association, William J. Crowe, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and S. M. Krishna, Foreign Minister of India.
Alumni
Journalism Adam Ciralsky – Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning journalist of 60 Minutes and NBC News Diana B. Henriques (BA '69) – Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times journalist Kasie Hunt (BA '06) – MSNBC and NBC News correspondent Matt Medved – Spin editor-in-chief Josh RoginWashington Post – Josh Rogin – CNN political analyst, Bloomberg View foreign policy analyst Kim A. Snyder (BA 83) – Variety Magazine contributor, director of Sundance Film Festival-nominated documentary I Remember Me
Diplomacy Cresencio S. Arcos Jr. – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras Richard L. Baltimore – U.S. Ambassador to Oman Elliott Charng – Taiwanese Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand, and India Edward "Skip" Gnehm – U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia Robert P. Jackson – U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Cameroon Lyle Franklin Lane – U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay and Paraguay Marisa Lino (MA '72) – U.S. Ambassador to Albania Francis Terry McNamara (MA '72) – U.S. Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe Joseph Prueher (MA '69) U.S. Ambassador to China Michael PunkeWashington Post – Meet the author of ‘The Revenant’ — except you can’t because of his federal job – U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization David H. Shinn (MA '64) – U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso Kurt Volker (MA '87) – U.S. Ambassador to NATO
Law Andrew P. Bakaj (BA '03) – former Department of Defense and CIA official; lead counsel for the whisteblower during the impeachment inquiry and the subsequent impeachment of President Donald Trump Denise Krepp (BA '95) – Chief Counsel for the United States Maritime Administration Miguel Méndez (AB '62) – Stanford Law School legal scholar, deputy director of California Rural Legal Assistance Neil Thomas Proto (MA '69) – General Counsel to President Jimmy Carter on Nuclear Safety, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London
Politics Bob Barr (MA '72) – U.S. congressman from Georgia Jennifer Shasky Calvery – director of the U.S. Treasury Department Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Chang Dae-whan (MA '74) – Prime Minister of South Korea Jeremiah Denton (MA '64) – U.S. senator from Alabama Tammy Duckworth (MA '96) – U.S. senator from Illinois Sam Johnson (MS '74) – U.S. congressman from Texas Sara Gideon (BA '94) – Speaker of the House of Representatives of Maine Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (F.S. '03) – President of Croatia (2015–present) Khatuna Kalmakhelidze (MA '07) – Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance of the Republic of Georgia Stephen Maitland – Pennsylvania state representative K. T. McFarland (BA '73) – Deputy National Security Advisor Linda Melconian – Massachusetts state senator Arifa Khalid Pervaiz – Congresswoman of the National Assembly of Pakistan Caroline Simmons – member of President Barack Obama's Transition Team Philip S. Smith – member of the Republican National Committee William Timmons – South Carolina state senator Robert J. Winglass – Maine state representative
Economics Richard Carson – most-cited environmental economist in the world
Business David A. Nadler – vice-chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies 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
Military Mark M. Boatner III – Croix de Guerre-decorated soldier and military historian General Edwin H. Burba Jr. – four-star U.S. Army general, Commander-in-Chief of United States Army Forces Command General John T. Chain Jr. – U.S. Air Force general, Board of Directors member for Northrop Grumman and the Kemper Corporation Lincoln D. Faurer – Director of the National Security Agency Admiral Sylvester R. Foley Jr. – Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Admiral John B. Hayes (MA '64) – 16th Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard General Frederick Kroesen – commanding general of the Seventh United States Army Vice Admiral Julien J. LeBourgeois – President of the Naval War College General Fred K. Mahaffey – four-star U.S. Army general, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Readiness Command Rear Admiral Fran McKee – first female officer to hold the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Alabama Women's Hall of Fame inductee Hal Moore – Distinguished Service Cross and Order of Saint Maurice-decorated lieutenant general and military author General James P. Mullins – four-star U.S. Air Force general, Commander-in-Chief of Air Force Logistics Command General Bryce Poe II – four-star U.S. Air Force general, Commander of Air Force Logistics Command General Thomas M. Ryan Jr. – U.S. Air Force general, Commander-in-Chief of Military Airlift Command Shanti Sethi – first Indian-American woman to command a major U.S. Navy warship, the USS Decatur General John M. Shalikashvili (MA '70) – Supreme Allied Commander and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro – director of the Office of Naval Intelligence Admiral Owen W. Siler (MA '68) – 15th Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard General Donn A. Starry – four-star U.S. Army general, Commander-in-Chief of United States Strike Command Admiral William O. Studeman – Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, admiral of the United States Navy Kenneth L. Tallman – 8th Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy Richard M. Wells – Director of the Defense Mapping Agency
International organizations Kathryne Bomberger – Director-General of the International Commission on Missing Persons Ciarán Devane – Chief Executive of the British Council Marc Garlasco – Senior Military Advisor for the Human Rights Council, Senior Civilian Protection Officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan Rose Gottemoeller (MA '81) – 16th Deputy-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Olav Kjørven – UNICEF Director for Public Partnerships, former Norwegian State Secretary for International Development
Scholars Roderic Ai Camp (MA '67) – 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 Ross Horning (MA, '52; Ph.D., '58) – historian
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Other W. W. Behrens Jr. – founder of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 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 Charles C. Noble – major general and engineer on the Manhattan Project Gorgi Popstefanov – 2016 and 2010 Macedonian National Men's Cycling Champion Sarah Reinertsen – ITU World Triathlon Championship-winning paratriathlete
Faculty
Scholars and researchers Rouben Paul Adalian – Director of the Armenian National Institute Sina Azodi- Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics Sabina Alkire – Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative Pavel Baev – Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Michael N. Barnett – famed Constructivist theorist Nathan J. Brown – former director of the Institute for Middle East Studies, Board Advisor to the Project on Middle East Democracy Robert Entman – Humboldt Prize-winning communications scientist Martha Finnemore – leader of the constructivist school of international relations theory Charles Glaser – famed Defensive Realist theorist James Hershberg – former director of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center Dina Rizk Khoury – Guggenheim Fellow 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 Walter Reich – AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility-winning international relations scholar Howard Sachar – National Jewish Book Award-winning Middle East historian David Shambaugh – Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Stephen C. Smith – director of the Institute for International Economic Policy Ronald H. Spector – Samuel Eliot Morison Prize-winning military 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 Esther Brimmer – former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Bathsheba Nell Crocker – former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Karl Inderfurth – former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Thomas E. McNamara – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs George Moose – former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Eric Newsom – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Gaston J. Sigur Jr. – Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
U.S. Ambassadors Thomas J. Dodd Jr. – former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica and Uruguay Edward "Skip" Gnehm – former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia Lino Gutierrez – former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and Nicaragua Joseph LeBaron – former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar and Mauritania Ronald D. Palmer – former U.S. Ambassador to Togo, Malaysia, and Mauritius David H. Shinn – former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso
Foreign ambassadors Michael Oren – former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Arturo Sarukhan – former Mexican Ambassador to United States Farooq Sobhan – former Bangladeshi Ambassador to China, India, and Malaysia
Politicians Moudud Ahmed – former prime minister of Bangladesh Mickey Edwards – former U.S. congressman from Oklahoma, chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee Leon Fuerth – former national security adviser to U.S. vice president Al Gore Robert Hutchings – former chairman of the National Intelligence Council Christopher A. Kojm – former chairman of the National Intelligence Council S. M. Krishna – former foreign minister of India Allison Macfarlane – former chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission John Negroponte – former director of National Intelligence, U.S. deputy secretary of state, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Scott Pace – chief executive of the National Space Council Lawrence Wilkerson – former chief of staff to United States secretary of state Colin Powell Robert O. Work – former U.S. deputy secretary of defense
Economics James Foster – World Bank board advisor
Military William J. Crowe – former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Journalism Henry Farrell – Foreign Policy and Washington Post contributor David Alan Grier – Computer Magazine columnist