List of Elliott School of International Affairs people

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 count 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, among numerous others.

Alumni[]

Current President of Croatia, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović; F.S. '03

Chang Dae-whan (MA '74), former Prime Minister of South Korea.

Rose Gottemoeller (MA '81), 16th Deputy-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Kasie Hunt (BA '06), host of Kasie DC on MSNBC.

Tammy Duckworth (MA '96), U.S. Senator.

Michael Punke (BA '86), Vice President of Amazon Web Services, former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization.

Joseph Prueher (MA '69), U.S. Ambassador to China.

Ciarán Devane (MIPP '06), CEO of the British Council.

Sam Johnson (MA '76), U.S. Congressman, former Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Journalism[]

Adam Ciralsky^[1]- Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning journalist of 60 Minutes and NBC News
Kasie Hunt (BA '06)^[2] - MSNBC and NBC News correspondent
Diana B. Henriques (BA '69)^[3] - Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times journalist
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[]

Michael Punke^[7] - U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
Kurt Volker (MA '87)^[8] - U.S. Ambassador to NATO
Joseph Prueher (MA '69)^[9] U.S. Ambassador to China
Edward "Skip" Gnehm – U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia
Richard L. Baltimore^[10] - 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 (MA '64) - U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso
Francis Terry McNamara (MA '72) - U.S. Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe
Marisa Lino (MA '72) - 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 (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.
Miguel Méndez (AB '62) - Stanford Law School legal scholar, Deputy Director of California Rural Legal Assistance
Denise Krepp (BA '95) - Chief Counsel for the United States Maritime Administration
Neil Thomas Proto (MA '69) - General Counsel to President Jimmy Carter on Nuclear Safety, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London

Politics[]

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (F.S. '03), current President of Croatia (2015-present)^[11]
Chang Dae-whan (MA '74) - Prime Minister of South Korea
Tammy Duckworth (MA '96) - U.S. Senator from Illinois
Jeremiah Denton (MA '64) - U.S. Senator from Alabama
Sam Johnson (MS '74) - U.S. Congressman from Texas
Bob Barr (MA '72) - U.S. Congressman from Georgia
Arifa Khalid Pervaiz - Congresswoman of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Sara Gideon (BA '94) - Speaker of the House of Representatives of Maine
K. T. McFarland (BA '73) - Deputy National Security Advisor
Khatuna Kalmakhelidze (MA '07) - 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
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^[12]

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 (MA '70) - 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 (MA '68) - 15th Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard
Admiral John B. Hayes (MA '64) - 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 (MA '81) - 16th Deputy-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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 (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

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[]

Khatuna Kalmakhelidze (MA '07), Minister of Corrections & Legal Assistance of Georgia.

John Shalikashvili (MA '70), Supreme Allied Commander.

Lincoln D. Faurer (MA '68), 10th Director of the National Security Agency.

Vice Admiral W. W. Behrens Jr. (MA '64), founder of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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
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