Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Leonard Abramson |
Business |
1932 |
|
Founder, US Healthcare |
George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
Graham T. Allison |
Scholar |
23-Mar-1940 |
|
Kennedy School of Government |
Dillon Anderson |
Government |
14-Jul-1906 |
1974 |
National Security Advisor, 1955-56 |
Michael Armacost |
Diplomat |
15-Apr-1937 |
|
US Ambassador to Japan, 1989-93 |
Elizabeth E. Bailey |
Educator |
1938 |
|
Professor, the Wharton School |
Martin N. Baily |
Economist |
1945 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1995-96, 1999-2001 |
Zoë Baird |
Government |
20-Jun-1952 |
|
Atty Gen. nominee, thwarted by Nannygate |
A. Doak Barnett |
Scholar |
8-Oct-1921 |
17-Mar-1999 |
China on the Eve of Communist Takeover |
Peter Beinart |
Columnist |
1971 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
C. Fred Bergsten |
Economist |
23-Apr-1941 |
|
Institute for International Economics |
Irving Bernstein |
Historian |
15-Nov-1916 |
25-Sep-2001 |
Labor historian |
Alan S. Blinder |
Economist |
14-Oct-1945 |
|
Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve |
Richard C. Blum |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Husband of Dianne Feinstein |
Geoffrey T. Boisi |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, 2000-02 |
David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
Robert S. Brookings |
Business |
22-Jan-1850 |
15-Nov-1932 |
Brookings Institution |
Richard C. Bush III |
Government |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Chair, American Institute in Taiwan |
Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Pre-internet visionary |
Earl Butz |
Government |
3-Jul-1909 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Ford's disgraced Secretary of Agriculture |
Derek Chollet |
Government |
c. 1971 |
|
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Security |
James W. Cicconi |
Attorney |
1952 |
|
EVP Legislative Affairs at AT&T |
Priscilla A. Clapp |
Diplomat |
? |
|
Chief of Mission in Burma, 1999-2002 |
Stephen P. Cohen |
Scholar |
c. 1946 |
|
Foreign policy analyst |
William Cohen |
Government |
28-Aug-1940 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1997-01 |
William T. Coleman, Jr. |
Government |
7-Jul-1920 |
|
US Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77 |
Arthur H. Compton |
Physicist |
10-Sep-1892 |
15-Mar-1962 |
Discovered the Compton Effect |
Karl T. Compton |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1887 |
22-Jun-1954 |
Bikini Island atomic tests |
Jeffrey Connaughton |
Attorney |
c. 1959 |
|
Lobbyist, Quinn Gillespie |
Donald T. Critchlow |
Historian |
18-May-1948 |
|
The Conservative Ascendancy |
Arthur Culvahouse |
Government |
4-Jul-1948 |
|
White House Counsel, 1987-89 |
Ivo Daalder |
Diplomat |
20-Mar-1960 |
|
US Ambassador to NATO |
Kenneth W. Dam |
Government |
10-Aug-1932 |
|
Deputy Treasury Secretary, 2001-03 |
Robert A. Day |
Business |
1943 |
|
Billionaire, Founder of TCW |
C. Douglas Dillon |
Government |
21-Aug-1909 |
10-Jan-2003 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1961-65 |
E. J. Dionne |
Journalist |
23-Apr-1952 |
|
The Washington Post |
Thomas E. Donilon |
Government |
14-May-1955 |
|
US National Security Advisor |
Mario Draghi |
Business |
3-Sep-1947 |
|
President, European Central Bank |
Ken Duberstein |
Government |
21-Apr-1944 |
|
Reagan's Chief of Staff, 1988-89 |
Mickey Edwards |
Politician |
12-Jul-1937 |
|
Congressman from Oklahoma, 1977-93 |
Douglas W. Elmendorf |
Government |
c. 1961 |
|
Director, Congressional Budget Office |
Bruce Fein |
Government |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Reagan lawyer |
Lawrence K. Fish |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Citizens Financial Group |
Richard W. Fisher |
Business |
18-Mar-1949 |
|
President and CEO, Dallas Fed |
Henry H. Fowler |
Government |
5-Sep-1908 |
3-Jan-2000 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-68 |
Jeffrey A. Frankel |
Economist |
5-Nov-1952 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1997-99 |
Richard Freeman |
Economist |
29-Jun-1943 |
|
Labor economist |
William E. Frenzel |
Politician |
31-Jul-1928 |
17-Nov-2014 |
Congressman from Minnesota, 1971-91 |
Stephen Friedman |
Business |
21-Dec-1937 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
Ann M. Fudge |
Business |
23-Apr-1951 |
|
CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2003-07 |
Jason Furman |
Government |
c. 1970 |
|
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution |
James K. Galbraith |
Scholar |
29-Jan-1952 |
|
Economics Professor at UT-Austin |
Robert Gallucci |
Diplomat |
11-Feb-1946 |
|
President, MacArthur Foundation |
Raymond L. Garthoff |
Diplomat |
26-Mar-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1977-79 |
Leslie H. Gelb |
Government |
4-Mar-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1993-2003 |
William H. Gleysteen |
Politician |
8-May-1926 |
6-Dec-2002 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1978-81 |
Stephen M. Goldfeld |
Economist |
9-Aug-1940 |
25-Aug-1995 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1980-81 |
James M. Goldgeier |
Scholar |
c. 1961 |
|
America Between the Wars |
James Goodby |
Diplomat |
20-Dec-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Finland, 1980-81 |
Kermit Gordon |
Economist |
1916 |
1976 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1961-62 |
Lincoln Gordon |
Diplomat |
10-Sep-1913 |
19-Dec-2009 |
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66 |
Mary Graham |
Author |
c. 1944 |
|
Wife of Donald Graham |
Edward M. Gramlich |
Economist |
18-Jun-1939 |
5-Sep-2007 |
Federal Reserve Governor, 1997-2005 |
C. Boyden Gray |
Government |
6-Feb-1943 |
|
Conservative activist, lobbyist |
Jeffrey W. Greenberg |
Business |
1951 |
|
CEO of Marsh & McLennan, 1999-2004 |
Brian L. Greenspun |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Editor of the Las Vegas Sun |
Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
Joseph A. Grundfest |
Attorney |
8-Sep-1951 |
|
Stanford law professor |
Richard Haass |
Government |
28-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations |
Lee H. Hamilton |
Politician |
20-Apr-1931 |
|
9/11 Commission vice chairman |
Mary W. M. Hargreaves |
Historian |
1-Mar-1914 |
29-Aug-2008 |
Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains |
John F. Harris |
Journalist |
c. 1963 |
|
Politico editor-in-chief |
Arthur A. Hartman |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1926 |
16-Mar-2015 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1981-87 |
Rita E. Hauser |
Activist |
12-Jul-1934 |
|
Former Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan |
Teresa Heinz |
Relative |
5-Oct-1938 |
|
Wife of John Kerry |
Warren Hellman |
Business |
25-Jul-1934 |
|
Hellman & Friedman |
Peter Blair Henry |
Economist |
30-Jul-1969 |
|
Dean, Stern School of Business |
Stephen Hess |
Author |
20-Apr-1933 |
|
International News and Foreign Correspondents |
Stephen Horn |
Politician |
31-May-1931 |
17-Feb-2011 |
Congressman from California, 1993-2003 |
Constance J. Horner |
Government |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Former Civil Rights Commissioner |
Amo Houghton |
Politician |
7-Aug-1926 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1987-2005 |
Glenn Hubbard |
Economist |
4-Sep-1958 |
|
George W. Bush economist |
Samuel P. Huntington |
Author |
18-Apr-1927 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Clash of Civilizations |
Glenn H. Hutchins |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Co-Founder, Silver Lake Partners |
Joel Hyatt |
Attorney |
c. 1950 |
|
Hyatt Legal Services |
Martin Indyk |
Diplomat |
c. 1951 |
|
US Ambassador to Israel, 1995-97, 2000-01 |
Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
Kenneth Jacobs |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Lazard North America |
James A. Johnson |
Business |
24-Dec-1943 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1991-98 |
Suzanne Nora Johnson |
Business |
14-May-1957 |
|
Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 2004-07 |
Ann Dibble Jordan |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Professor, University of Chicago |
Michael H. Jordan |
Business |
13-Jun-1936 |
25-May-2010 |
CEO of EDS, 2003-07 |
Arnold Kanter |
Government |
27-Feb-1945 |
10-Apr-2010 |
Under Secy. of State for Political Affairs, 1991-93 |
Robert A. Katzmann |
Judge |
22-Apr-1953 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
Breene M. Kerr |
Business |
27-Jan-1929 |
2-Sep-2015 |
Kerr Consolidated, Inc. |
Marie L. Knowles |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CFO of ARCO, 1996-2000 |
Lawrence J. Korb |
Author |
9-Jul-1939 |
|
The Joint Chiefs of Staff |
Thomas G. Labrecque |
Business |
17-Sep-1938 |
16-Oct-2000 |
CEO of Chase Manhattan, 1990-96 |
Nicholas R. Lardy |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Senior fellow, Institute for International Economics |
Robert Z. Lawrence |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 |
Flynt Leverett |
Government |
6-Mar-1958 |
|
Former National Security Council staffer |
Jacob J. Lew |
Government |
29-Aug-1955 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury |
John P. Lewis |
Economist |
18-Mar-1921 |
19-May-2010 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1963-64 |
Samuel W. Lewis |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1930 |
10-Mar-2014 |
US Ambassador to Israel, 1977-85 |
James Thomas Lynn |
Government |
27-Feb-1927 |
6-Dec-2010 |
US HUD Secretary, 1973-75 |
Paul W. MacAvoy |
Economist |
21-Apr-1934 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76 |
Thomas E. Mann |
Government |
10-Sep-1944 |
|
Brookings Institution |
Jessica Tuchman Mathews |
Government |
1946 |
|
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
Donald F. McHenry |
Diplomat |
13-Oct-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 1979-81 |
John E. McLaughlin |
Government |
15-Jun-1942 |
|
Deputy Director CIA, 2000-04 |
Robert McNamara |
Government |
9-Jun-1916 |
6-Jul-2009 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68 |
James C. Miller III |
Economist |
25-Jun-1942 |
|
Conservative economist |
Ron Nessen |
Government |
25-May-1934 |
|
Gerald Ford's press secretary |
Janne E. Nolan |
Educator |
28-Dec-1951 |
|
Defense and foreign policy analyst |
Edwin G. Nourse |
Economist |
20-May-1883 |
7-Apr-1974 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 |
Michael O'Hanlon |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
|
Brookings Institution |
Arthur M. Okun |
Economist |
28-Nov-1928 |
23-Mar-1980 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-69 |
Gilbert S. Omenn |
Business |
30-Aug-1941 |
|
Professor, University of Michigan |
Peter R. Orszag |
Government |
16-Dec-1968 |
|
Beltway economist |
Alfred E. Osborne, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1946 |
|
Management Professor, UCLA |
Henry D. Owen |
Diplomat |
26-Aug-1920 |
5-Nov-2011 |
US Ambassador at Large, 1977-81 |
William A. Owens |
Military |
8-May-1940 |
|
Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs, 1994-96 |
Mark R. Parris |
Diplomat |
1950 |
|
US Ambassador to Turkey, 1997-2000 |
Bill Paxon |
Politician |
29-Apr-1954 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1989-99 |
Frank H. Pearl |
Business |
27-May-1943 |
4-May-2012 |
CEO of Perseus LLC |
Merton J. Peck |
Economist |
17-Dec-1925 |
1-Mar-2013 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69 |
Susan M. Phillips |
Educator |
23-Jan-1944 |
|
Dean, GWU School of Business |
Victor Pinchuk |
Business |
14-Dec-1960 |
|
Billionaire, Interpipe Corporation |
Kenneth Pollack |
Scholar |
1966 |
|
Brookings Institution |
Bill Poole |
Economist |
19-Jun-1937 |
|
President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
John Edward Porter |
Politician |
1-Jun-1935 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1980-2001 |
Adam Posen |
Scholar |
? |
|
Institute for International Economics |
Trevor Potter |
Attorney |
24-Oct-1955 |
|
FEC Commissioner, 1991-95 |
Edward C. Prescott |
Economist |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
Dynamic macroeconomics |
Hugh B. Price |
Activist |
1941 |
|
President of the Urban League, 1994-2003 |
Steven Rattner |
Business |
5-Jul-1952 |
|
Quadrangle Group |
Diane Ravitch |
Government |
1-Jul-1938 |
|
Education reformer |
Robert D. Reischauer |
Administrator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of the Urban Institute |
Susan E. Rice |
Diplomat |
17-Nov-1964 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN |
Rozanne L. Ridgway |
Diplomat |
22-Aug-1935 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for Europe, 1985-89 |
Bruce Riedel |
Spy |
c. 1953 |
|
CIA Near East Asia Specialist |
Alice Rivlin |
Economist |
4-Mar-1931 |
|
Founding director, Congressional Budget Office |
Charles W. Robinson |
Business |
7-Sep-1919 |
20-May-2014 |
Deputy Secretary of State, 1976-77 |
James D. Robinson III |
Business |
19-Nov-1935 |
|
CEO of American Express, 1977-93 |
Judith Rodin |
Educator |
9-Sep-1944 |
|
President of UPenn, 1994-2004 |
J. Stapleton Roy |
Diplomat |
16-Jun-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to China, 1991-95 |
Warren Rudman |
Politician |
18-May-1930 |
19-Nov-2012 |
US Senator from New Hampshire, 1980-93 |
Haim Saban |
Business |
1944 |
|
Billionaire |
Jeffrey Sachs |
Economist |
5-Nov-1954 |
|
The End of Poverty |
Hal Saunders |
Government |
27-Dec-1930 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for the Near East, 1978-81 |
Henry B. Schacht |
Business |
16-Oct-1934 |
|
Former CEO of Cummins, Lucent |
Leonard D. Schaeffer |
Business |
28-Jul-1945 |
|
CEO of WellPoint, 1992-2004 |
Cynthia P. Schneider |
Scholar |
16-Aug-1953 |
|
US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1998-2001 |
Charles L. Schultze |
Economist |
12-Dec-1924 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1977-81 |
Bernard L. Schwartz |
Business |
12-Dec-1926 |
|
CEO of Loral Corporation, 1972-2006 |
Donna Shalala |
Government |
14-Feb-1941 |
|
Secretary of HHS, 1993-2001 |
Martin Shubik |
Economist |
24-Mar-1926 |
|
Economist and game theorist |
Helmut Sonnenfeldt |
Government |
c. 1938 |
|
Former NSC staffer |
Joan Spero |
Diplomat |
2-Oct-1944 |
|
Under Secretary of State, 1993-97 |
James B. Steinberg |
Government |
7-May-1953 |
|
Deputy Secretary of State |
Paula Stern |
Government |
31-Mar-1945 |
|
Chairman, Int'l. Trade Commission, 1984-86 |
Lawrence H. Summers |
Economist |
30-Nov-1954 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
Harold R. Swearer |
Educator |
13-Oct-1932 |
19-Oct-1991 |
President of Brown University, 1977-88 |
Strobe Talbott |
Government |
25-Apr-1946 |
|
Time journalist, Deputy Secy. of State |
Stuart Taylor, Jr. |
Journalist |
c. 1948 |
|
National Journal columnist |
Ruy Teixeira |
Author |
15-Dec-1951 |
|
The Emerging Democratic Majority |
Shibley Telhami |
Scholar |
c. 1952 |
|
Middle East scholar |
Larry D. Thompson |
Attorney |
15-Nov-1945 |
|
General Counsel of Pepsi |
John L. Thornton |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
President of Goldman Sachs, 1999-2003 |
Andrew H. Tisch |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Loews Corporation |
Vincent J. Trosino |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
President of State Farm Insurance, 1998-2006 |
Laura D. Tyson |
Economist |
28-Jun-1947 |
|
Dean of London Business School |
Peter S. Watson |
Government |
1953 |
|
CEO of OPIC, 2001-05 |
John C. Whitehead |
Business |
2-Apr-1922 |
7-Feb-2015 |
US Deputy Secretary of State, 1985-89 |
Juan Williams |
Pundit |
10-Apr-1954 |
|
Fox News commentator |
Stephen M. Wolf |
Business |
1941 |
|
Chairman of US Airways, 1996-2003 |
James Wolfensohn |
Business |
1-Dec-1933 |
|
World Bank president, 1995-2005 |
Howard Wolpe |
Government |
2-Nov-1939 |
25-Oct-2011 |
Congressman from Michigan, 1979-83 |
Paul Wonnacott |
Economist |
16-Mar-1933 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
Janet L. Yellen |
Economist |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
Federal Reserve Chair |
Daniel Yergin |
Author |
6-Feb-1947 |
|
The Prize |
Charles W. Yost |
Diplomat |
6-Nov-1907 |
21-May-1981 |
US Ambassador to the UN, 1969-71 |
Mort Zuckerman |
Business |
4-Jun-1937 |
|
Owner, New York Daily News |