Editing London School of Economics (section)

== '''Notable people''' ==

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File:Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.jpg|[[B. R. Ambedkar]], The chief architect of the [[Constitution of India|Indian Constitution]] and India's 1st [[Minister of Law and Justice|Minister of Law]].
File:Jomo Kenyatta 1966-06-15.jpg|[[Jomo Kenyatta]], [[President of Kenya]] (1964–1978).
File:President K. R. Narayanan.jpg|[[K. R. Narayanan]], [[President of India]] (1997–2002).
File:Romano Prodi in Nova Gorica (2c).jpg|[[Romano Prodi]], [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (1996–1998; 2006–2008) and [[President of the European Commission]] (1999–2004).
File:Photo by Tsai Ing-wen.jpg|[[Tsai Ing-wen]], [[President of Republic of China]] ([[Taiwan]]) (2016–2024).
File:Pierre Elliot Trudeau-2.jpg|[[Pierre Trudeau]], [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (1968–1979; 1980–1984).
File:Tharman Shanmugaratnam Official photo 2023.tif|[[Tharman Shanmugaratnam]], the 9th President of Singapore.
File:Mwai Kibaki 2011-07-08.jpg|[[Mwai Kibaki|Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of Kenya]] (2002–2013).
File:Kim Campbell (cropped).jpg|[[Kim Campbell]], [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (1993).
File:George Soros 47th Munich Security Conference 2011 crop.jpg|[[George Soros]], billionaire investor, philanthropist and political activist.
File:Kamisese Mara.jpg|[[Kamisese Mara]], founding father and [[Prime Minister of Fiji]] (1970–1987; 1987–1992).
File:Official portrait of Rachel Reeves crop 2.jpg|[[Rachel Reeves]] [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] of the United Kingdom.
File:David Rockefeller, 1984 (cropped).jpg|[[David Rockefeller]] Former Chairman and CEO of [[Chase Bank|Chase Bank.]]
File:Paulvolcker.jpg|[[Paul Volcker]];12th Chair of the [[Federal Reserve|Federal Reserve of the United States]].
File:Robert Rubin headshot.jpg|[[Robert Rubin]], 70th U.S. [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] during the Clinton administration.
File:Yang Jiechi Japan 2020.jpg|[[Yang Jiechi]]; Former [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (China)|Foreign Minister of China]] (2007-2013).
File:Tarō Asō 20170920.jpg|[[Tarō Asō]], Former [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (2008-2009); [[Deputy Prime Minister of Japan|Deputy Prime Minister]] and [[Minister of Finance (Japan)|Minister of Finance]] (2012-2021).
File:Yemi Osinbajo 2017-05-27.jpg|[[Yemi Osinbajo]], [[Vice President of Nigeria]] (2015-2023).
File:Portrait of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2025.jpg|[[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.|Robert F. Kennedy Jr]], 26th U.S. [[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services|Secretary of Health and Human Services]] in the Trump Cabinet (2025-present).
File:Sir David Attenborough (cropped).jpg|[[David Attenborough]], English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and writer.
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The LSE has a long list of notable alumni and staff, spanning the fields of all scholarship provided by the school. Since 1990, the London School of Economics has educated 24 heads of state or government, the second highest of any university in the United Kingdom after the University of Oxford.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |title = LSE People |url = http://www.lse.ac.uk/About-LSE/LSE-people |access-date = 30 December 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Weale |first=Sally |last2=correspondent |first2=Sally Weale Education |date=2025-02-24 |title=UK universities educate the most national leaders globally, analysis shows |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/24/uk-universities-educate-the-most-national-leaders-globally-analysis-shows |access-date=2025-05-20 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>The school has over 50 fellows of the [[British Academy]] on its staff, while other notable former staff members include [[Brian Barry]], [[Christopher Greenwood]], [[Maurice Cranston]], [[Anthony Giddens]], [[Harold Laski]], [[Ralph Miliband]], [[Michael Oakeshott]], [[William Phillips (economist)|A. W. Philips]], [[Karl Popper]], [[Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins|Lionel Robbins]], [[Susan Strange]], [[Bob Ward (communications director)|Bob Ward]] and [[Charles Webster (historian)|Charles Webster]]. [[Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury|Mervyn King]], the former [[Governor of the Bank of England]], is also a former professor of economics.

In the political arena notable alumni and staff include 53 past or present heads of state, 20 members of the current [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|British House of Commons]] and 46 members of the current [[House of Lords]]<!-- check lords -->. Former British Prime Minister [[Clement Attlee]] taught at the school from 1912 to 1923. In recent British politics, former LSE students include [[Virginia Bottomley]], [[Yvette Cooper]], [[Edwina Currie]], [[Frank Dobson]], [[Margaret Hodge]], [[Robert Kilroy-Silk]], former UK Labour Party leader [[Ed Miliband]] and former UK Liberal Democrats leader [[Jo Swinson]]. Internationally, the current and first female president of the European Commission [[Ursula von der Leyen]], Brazilian defence minister [[Celso Amorim]], Costa Rican President [[Óscar Arias]], former Japanese Prime Minister [[Taro Aso]], Queen [[Margrethe II of Denmark]], President of India [[K. R. Narayanan]], [[President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)]] [[Tsai Ing-wen]], Italian prime minister and president of the European Commission, [[Romano Prodi]], French Foreign Minister and president of the Constitutional Council [[Roland Dumas]]<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.fayard.fr/auteurs/roland-dumas |title = Roland Dumas |date = 4 June 2013 |website = www.fayard.fr |access-date = 11 August 2019 |archive-date = 11 August 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190811114326/https://www.fayard.fr/auteurs/roland-dumas |url-status = live }}</ref> as well as Singapore's President [[Tharman Shanmugaratnam]] all studied at LSE. A notable number of LSE students have also played a role in the [[Barack Obama]] administration, including [[Pete Rouse]], [[Peter R. Orszag]], [[Mona Sutphen]], [[Paul Volcker]] and [[Jason Furman]].<ref>{{cite web |title = Obama's LSE alumni – 2009 |url = http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2009/ObamasLSEalumni.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111114032826/https://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2009/ObamasLSEalumni.aspx |archive-date = 14 November 2011 |access-date = 23 October 2011 |publisher = London School of Economics }}</ref> Physician [[Vanessa Kerry]] and American journalist [[Susan Rasky]] are also alumnae of the LSE. Notable American [[Monica Lewinsky]] pursued her MSc in Social Psychology at the LSE.Current leader of the opposition of the Sri Lankan government [[Sajith Premadasa]] also studied there.

Business people who studied at LSE include the CEO of [[AirAsia]] [[Tony Fernandes]],  former CEO of [[General Motors]] [[Daniel Akerson]], director of [[Louis Vuitton]] [[Delphine Arnault]], founder of [[easyJet]] [[Stelios Haji-Ioannou]], CEO of [[Abercrombie & Fitch]] [[Michael S. Jeffries]], Greek business magnate [[Spiros Latsis]], American banker [[David Rockefeller]], CEO of [[Newsmax Media]] [[Christopher Ruddy]], founder of advertising agency [[Saatchi and Saatchi]] [[Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi|Maurice Saatchi]], hedge fund managers [[George Soros]] and [[Michael Platt (finance)|Michael Platt]] and [[Andreas Utermann]], former CEO of [[Allianz Global Investors]].

The LSE has also produced many notable lawyers and judges, including [[Manfred Lachs]] (former President of the [[International Court of Justice]]), [[Dorab Patel]] (former Justice of the [[Supreme Court of Pakistan]]), [[Mónica Feria Tinta]] (British-Peruvian barrister specialising in international law), [[Anthony Kennedy]] (former Justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]), chief architect of the Indian Constitution and jurist [[B. R. Ambedkar]].

A survey by employment specialists Emolument.com found that it on average took LSE graduates 11.6 years in the workforce to begin earning base salaries in excess of £500,000; the shortest timespan of any university in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web |title = Which UK universities breed the most successful business leaders? |url = https://www.emolument.com/career_advice/best_university_for_successful_business_leaders |access-date = 2021-04-24 |website = www.emolument.com |language = en |archive-date = 24 April 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210424194959/https://www.emolument.com/career_advice/best_university_for_successful_business_leaders |url-status = usurped }}</ref>

Convicted British terrorist, [[Omar Saeed Sheikh]], studied statistics at LSE, but did not graduate. He served five years in an Indian prison for kidnapping British tourists in 1994. In 2002, he was arrested and convicted in the kidnapping and murder of [[Daniel Pearl]]. ''The Guardian'' reported that Sheikh came into contact with radical Islamists at the LSE.<ref name="The Guardian 15 July 2002">{{cite news |last = Jeffery |first = Simon |title = Omar Sheikh: The path from public school in London to Pakistan's death row |url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/15/pakistan.simonjeffery |date = 15 July 2002 |newspaper = The Guardian |location = London |access-date = 19 January 2015 |archive-date = 10 July 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230710221734/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/15/pakistan.simonjeffery |url-status = live }}</ref>

===Faculty and Nobel laureates===
{{Main list|List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the London School of Economics}}

As of 2024, 20 Nobel Prize laureates in economics, peace and literature are recognised by the school as being LSE alumni and staff.<ref name="auto" />
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File:Clement Attlee.PNG|[[Clement Attlee]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (1945–1951). [Nominated for 1955 Peace Prize - none awarded]
File:Leonid Hurwicz.jpg|[[Leonid Hurwicz]] – [[Nobel laureate]] in Economics – studied at LSE with [[Nicholas Kaldor]] and [[Friedrich Hayek|F. A. Hayek]]
File:Coase_scan_10_edited.jpg|[[Ronald Coase]] – awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] in 1991
File:Christopher Pissarides.jpg|[[Christopher A. Pissarides]] – awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] in 2010 – currently [[Regius Professor]] of Economics at LSE
File:Amartya Sen NIH.jpg|[[Amartya Sen]], Indian economist, former professor and [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel laureate]]
File:Juan Manuel Santos in 2018.jpg|[[Juan Manuel Santos]], former [[president of Colombia]] and recipient of the [[2016 Nobel Peace Prize]]
File:Karl Popper2.jpg|[[Karl Popper]], [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] in [[logic]] and [[scientific method]]
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