List of Elliott School of International Affairs people
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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.
Journalism
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- Adam Ciralsky[1] – Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning journalist of 60 Minutes and NBC News
- Diana B. Henriques (BA '69)[2] – Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times journalist
- Kasie Hunt (BA '06)[3] – MSNBC and NBC News correspondent
- Matt Medved[4] – Spin editor-in-chief
- Josh Rogin[5] – CNN political analyst, Bloomberg View foreign policy analyst
- Kim A. Snyder (BA 83)[6] – 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[7] – 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)[8] U.S. Ambassador to China
- Michael Punke[9] – 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)[10] – 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
- David Crowley – Cincinnati, Ohio city councilman and vice-mayor
- 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)[11]
- 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[12]
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[13]
- Alireza Nader – RAND Corporation international policy analyst; left RAND for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
- [ Sina Azodi ]] - Elliott School of International Affairs Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics
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
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