Journalism edit

• 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 edit

• 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 edit

• 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 edit

• 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 edit

• Richard Carson – most-cited environmental economist in the world^[12]

Business edit

• 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 edit

• 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. Coast 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 edit

• 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 edit

• 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. Alireza Nader left RAND for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD).

Other edit

• 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

Scholars and researchers edit

• 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 edit

• 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 edit

• 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 edit

• 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 edit

• Michael Oren – former Israeli Ambassador to the United States
• Farooq Sobhan – former Bangladeshi Ambassador to China, India, and Malaysia
• Arturo Sarukhan – former Mexican Ambassador to United States

Politicians edit

• 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 edit

• James Foster – World Bank Board Advisor

Military edit

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

Journalism edit

• 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 edit

• 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 edit

• 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

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• List of George Washington University faculty