Heads of state and government •
Nazim al-Qudsi (1927), former
president of Syria, 1961–1963 •
Micheline Calmy-Rey (Licence 1968), former
president of Switzerland •
Kurt Furgler (1948), former
president of Switzerland •
Jafar Hassan (PhD 2000), prime minister of
Jordan •
Kamil Idris (PhD 1984),
prime minister of Sudan •
Michel Kafando (1972), interim
president of Burkina Faso, 2014–2015 •
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, fourth
president of Tanzania •
Alpha Oumar Konaré, former
president of Mali, 1992–2002;
chairperson of the African Union Commission, 2003–2008 •
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1980) •
Boy Rozendal (1957),
prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles, 1971–1975
Ministers •
Delia Albert, secretary of foreign affairs of the
Philippines •
Youssouf Bakayoko (Certificate 1971), foreign affairs minister of
Côte d'Ivoire • Elvis Mutiri Wa Bashara (
fr) (1998), minister of tourism of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and member of the
National Assembly (Democratic Republic of the Congo) • Achille Bassilekin III, (
fr), minister of small and medium-sized enterprises, social economy and crafts of
Cameroon •
Benjamin Bounkoulou, minister of foreign affairs of the
Republic of Congo •
Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste (DEA 1990), minister of foreign and religious affairs of
Haiti •
Sibusiso Bengu (PhD 1974), minister of education of
South Africa; first black vice-chancellor of a South African university (
Fort Hare University) •
István Bibó (PhD 1935), minister of state of
Hungary •
Martin Coiteux (PhD 1991),
Quebec's minister of public safety, municipalities and responsible for Montreal •
Patricia Espinosa (DEA 1987), secretary of foreign affairs of
Mexico and executive secretary of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change •
Abul Fateh (Fellow 1962–1963), first foreign minister of
Bangladesh •
Baba Gana Kingibe (did not graduate), minister of foreign affairs, minister of internal affairs, minister of power and steel of
Niger and
Secretary to the Government of the Federation •
He Yafei (DEA 1987), vice-minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
China •
Manouchehr Ganji (PhD 1960), education minister of
Iran •
Ana Gervasi, minister of foreign affairs of
Peru •
Bonaya Godana (PhD 1984), foreign minister of
Kenya, 1998–2001 •
Parker T. Hart (Certificate 1936), former
United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs •
Annemarie Huber-Hotz (1975),
federal chancellor of Switzerland, 2000–2007 •
Sandra Kalniete (1995), minister of foreign affairs of
Latvia, 2002–2004,
Member of the European Parliament •
Manuel Tello Macías, secretary of foreign affairs of
Mexico •
Paul Martin Sr., foreign minister of
Canada, 1963–1968 •
Tshiunza Mbiye (DEA 1967), minister of economy of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo •
Teodor Meleșcanu (PhD 1973), minister of foreign affairs of
Romania, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service and former minister of defense •
Ram Niwas Mirdha, cabinet minister in
India •
Kamel Morjane (DEA 1976), defense minister and foreign minister of
Tunisia, 2005–2011 •
Marie-Ange Lukiana Mufwankolo, minister of gender, women and children and minister of labor for the
Democratic Republic of Congo •
Saïd Ben Mustapha (1961), foreign minister of
Tunisia, 1997–1999 •
Kristiina Ojuland (1992), foreign minister of
Estonia and member of the
European Parliament •
Andrzej Olechowski, minister of finance and minister of foreign affairs of
Poland •
Marco Piccinini, minister of finance and economy of
Monaco •
Francisco Rivadeneira (1995), minister of foreign commerce of
Ecuador • Shri Shumsher K. Sheriff,
Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha of
India •
Albert Tévoédjrè, minister of information of
Benin • Ernst Theilen (
de), state secretary at the Ministry of the Interior and Sport of the German state of
Rhineland-Palatinate •
Tôn Thất Thiện (PhD 1963), cabinet minister and public intellectual in
Vietnam •
Omar Touray (DEA 1992, PhD 1995), former secretary of foreign affairs of
the Gambia •
Joseph Tsang Mang Kin (1968), minister of arts and culture of
Mauritius; poet •
Raph Uwechue (DEA 1964), minister of health of
Nigeria •
Gheorghe Vlădescu-Răcoasa (PhD 1928), minister of minority nationalities of
Romania •
Henry Tumukunde (MA 2013), minister of security of
Uganda Public officials •
Marco Aguiriano (Licence), secretary of state for the
European Union •
Shara L. Aranoff (Fulbright 1984–1985), chairman of the
U.S. International Trade Commission •
T. H. Bagley (PhD 1950), high-level
CIA counterintelligence officer •
Hendrik Cornelis (1933),
Governor-General of the
Belgian Congo •
Íñigo Salvador Crespo (DES 1994), state attorney general of
Ecuador •
Patricia Danzi (CAS 2001), director general of the
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation •
Jack Fahy,
United States government official and suspected spy during World War II •
Vivek Joshi (MA, PhD),
Election Commissioner of India •
Mary Dublin Keyserling, United States economist who faced loyalty allegations during the
Red Scare •
Thorsten V. Kalijarvi, United States
Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs •
Signe Krogstrup (PhD 2003), governor at the
Central Bank of Denmark •
Annemarie Huber-Hotz, former
Federal Chancellor of Switzerland •
Carlos Lopes (MA), High representative of the Commission of the
African Union, former
United Nations under secretary-general and executive secretary of the
Economic Commission for Africa •
Andréa Maechler (DEA 1994), deputy general manager of the
Bank for International Settlements,
Swiss National Bank's first female board member •
Robert McFarlane (Licence),
United States National Security Advisor, 1983–1985 • Isabel Rochat (
fr) (licence 1981), member of the
Council of State of Geneva • Alexandre Roig (
es), president of
Argentina's Instituto Nacional de Asociativismo y Economía Social •
Jean-Pierre Roth (PhD 1975), former chairman of the
Swiss National Bank •
André Simonazzi (Licence 1992), vice-chancellor of the
Swiss Federal Council •
Robert-Jan Smits, director-general for research at the
European Commission •
William L. Stearman (MA, PhD 1960), United States government official, aviator and author •
Jean-Luc Vez, head of
Switzerland's
Federal Office of Police • René-Jean Wilhelm (PhD 1983), co-author of the
Geneva Conventions •
Vinay Mohan Kwatra, foreign secretary of India •
James M. Wilson Jr. (1939), United States assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs, 1975–1977 •
Marcelo Zabalaga (DEA 1977), ex-president of the
Central Bank of Bolivia Judges •
Georges Abi-Saab (PhD 1967), judge at the
International Court of Justice and the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda •
Ann Aldrich (1951),
United States federal judge •
Julio A. Barberis (1964), judge at the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights •
Marc Bossuyt (PhD 1975), president of the
Constitutional Court (Belgium) •
María Teresa Infante Caffi (PhD 1979), judge at the
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea •
Pablo Sandonato de León (MIS 2008, PhD 2013), judge at the Administrative Tribunal of the
Organization of American States •
Maurice Kamga (DEA 1997, PhD 2003), judge at the
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea •
Giorgio Malinverni (PhD 1965), judge at the
European Court of Human Rights •
Erik Møse, former president of the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 2003–2007 •
Fatsah Ouguergouz (PhD 1991), judge at the
African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights •
Andreas Paulus (1991), judge at the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany •
Christos Rozakis (visiting scholar 1985–1986), president of the Administrative Tribunal of the
Council of Europe •
Íñigo Salvador Crespo (DES 1994) chief magistrate of the
Court of Justice of the Andean Community •
Max Sørensen (PhD 1946), former judge at the
European Court of Justice, 1973–1979, and at the
European Court of Human Rights, 1980–1981 •
Nina Vajić (DEA), judge at the
European Court of Human Rights •
Robert Yorke Hedges (DEA 1927),
Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia •
Abdulqawi Yusuf (PhD 1980), ex-president of the
International Court of Justice Elected officials and politicians •
Antony Alcock (PhD 1968),
Northern Ireland politician •
Michael D. Barnes (DEA 1966),
United States Congressman, 1979–1987 •
Eliyahu Ben-Elissar (PhD 1969), member of
Israel's Knesset and ambassador •
Tarcísio Burity (PhD), former governor of
Paraíba,
Brazil •
Marie Barbey-Chappuis (licence 2004), mayor of
Geneva •
Damien Cottier, member of the Swiss
National Council •
Jan Christiaanse, member of the
Senate of
The Netherlands •
Fernand Corbat, member of the Swiss
National Council •
Jacques-Simon Eggly, member of the Swiss
National Council •
Kurt Furgler, member of the
Swiss Federal Council •
Enrico Franzoni (licence), member of the Swiss
National Council •
Molly Gray (LLM 2016),
Vermont's 82nd lieutenant governor •
Antonio Hodgers (licence 1999, DEA 2003), Swiss politician •
Hans Lindqvist (licence 1972), member of the
European Parliament •
François Lumumba, Congolese politician, leader of a faction of the
Mouvement National Congolais-Lumumba •
Mauricio Mulder (DEA 1985), member of
Peru's Congress •
Jacques Myard (PhD), member of the
National Assembly of France • Alexandra Perina-Werz (
de), former member of the
Grand Council of Bern •
Hans-Gert Pöttering (PhD), former president of the
European Parliament, 2007–2009 •
Meta Ramsay, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale, former British intelligence officer and member of
Britain's
House of Lords •
Emrys Roberts, president of the British Liberal Party, 1963–1964 •
Wilson dos Santos (1972), representative of the National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola to Portugal •
Yukari Sato, member of
Japan's
National Diet •
Saki Scheck, member of the first parliament of the second republic of
Ghana •
Henri Schmitt (1949), member of the Swiss
National Council and member of the
European Parliament •
Veiko Spolītis (DEA 2003), member of the parliament of
Latvia •
Carlo Sommaruga (1985), member of the
Council of States (Switzerland) •
Alexandra Thein, German politician and member of the
European Parliament • Egidijus Vareikis (
lt), member of the
Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania •
Robert F. Wagner Jr.,
mayor of New York City • Béatrice Wertli (
fr) (Licence), secretary-general of the
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland •
Arlette Zakarian (executive MA), state spokeswoman for
Austria expatriates members of the political party
NEOS Diplomacy •
Márcia Donner Abreu (DEA), ambassador of Brazil, Secretary for Bilateral Negotiations in Asia, the Pacific and Russia •
Livia Leu Agosti, chief negotiator of Switzerland for European Union talks and former ambassador to Iran and France •
John A. Baker Jr., United States diplomat,
Director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs •
William M. Bellamy (certificate), United States ambassador to Kenya • Wilfried Bolewski (
de) (DEA 1972), ambassador of Germany to Jamaica • Nadia Burger (
de) (PhD 1996), ambassador of Canada to Indonesia and Timor-Leste • Linus von Castelmur (1992) (
de), ambassador of Switzerland to the Democratic Republic of Congo, India and South Korea • Chanan Cidor (
de), Israeli ambassador •
Violet Conolly (1932), authority on Soviet Russia at the British
Foreign Office •
Arlette Conzemius (DEA), Swiss permanent representative to NATO •
Jean-Jacques de Dardel (DEA, PhD 1980), Swiss ambassador to China •
Shelby Cullom Davis (PhD 1934), US ambassador to Switzerland, 1969–1975; philanthropist • Kwami Christophe Dikenou (
de) (1978), Togo's ambassador to Germany •
Patrick Eyers (1954), Britain's ambassador to the
German Democratic Republic • Elyes Ghariani (
de), Tunisia's ambassador to Germany •
Andreas Guibeb, Namibia's ambassador to Germany •
Niels Hansen (Diplomat) (license 1951, PhD 1955), German ambassador to Israel and to NATO •
Vagn Hoffmeyer Hoelgaard (1938), Danish ambassador •
Claude Heller (DEA), ambassador of Mexico to the United Nations • Véronique Hulmann (
de), Swiss ambassador to Kyrgyzstan and Macedonia •
Klaus-Peter Klaiber (1967), EU special representative to Afghanistan and German ambassador to Australia •
Tamara Kunanayakam (DEA 1982), ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office in Geneva •
Egriselda López (MA 2018), Permanent representative of El Salvador to the United Nations in New York •
Maira Mariela Macdonal Alvarez, Bolivian diplomat and one of the Vice-Presidents of the
United Nations Human Rights Council •
Hermann Meyer-Lindenberg (PhD 1935), ambassador of Germany to Spain, and ambassador to Italy •
A.H.M. Moniruzzaman (certificate 1989), ambassador of Bangladesh to Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg •
Anne Namakau Mutelo, ambassador of Namibia to Ethiopia •
Robert G. Neumann (1937), American ambassador and politician •
François Nordmann (DEA 1972), Swiss ambassador to France •
Jean-François Paroz, Swiss ambassador to Hungary •
Ana Cândida Perez (1992), Brazilian ambassador to Nigeria • Christian Prosl (
de), Austrian ambassador to Germany and the United States •
Egidio Reale (1929), Italian ambassador to Switzerland • Andrea Reichlin (
de), Swiss ambassador to Jordan and Malaysia •
Michael Reiterer (1985), ambassador of the
European Commission to Switzerland and professor of international politics at
Vrije Universiteit Brussel •
Oswaldo de Rivero, permanent representative of Peru to the United Nations in New York •
Patricia Elaine Joan Rodgers (1981), Bahamian diplomat •
Alfredo Rogerio Pérez Bravo (enrolled), Mexican ambassador to Algeria, Panama, Malaysia, Russia, Portugal, and New Zealand • Illa Salifou (
de), Niger ambassador to the United States • Andrea Rauber Saxer (
de), deputy head of the Permanent Swiss Mission to the OSCE • Pierre-Yves Simonin (
fr), ambassador of
Malta to the United Nations Office in Geneva •
Mohamed Shaker (PhD 1976), Egyptian ambassador •
Alvaro de Soto (DEA 1980), ambassador of Peru to France •
Zalman Shoval (DEA 1952), former Israeli ambassador to the US •
Luis Solari Tudela, ambassador of Peru to the United Kingdom •
Mohamed Ibrahim Shaker (PhD 1975), Egyptian ambassador •
Jenö Staehelin, first Swiss Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York • Godert Willem de Vos van Steenwijk (
nl), ambassador of the Netherlands to Hungary, Indonesia, Canada and Moscow •
Johan Swinnen (1973), Belgian ambassador to Rwanda during the
Rwandan genocide •
Hugo Tamm (1932), Swedish ambassador to Israel and South Africa •
Emanuel Treu (1945), Austrian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and resistance leader during World War Two •
Eduardo Ponce Vivanco (1984), Peruvian ambassador •
Christian Wenaweser, ambassador of Liechtenstein to the United Nations •
Claude Wild (licence), Swiss ambassador to Ukraine •
Rodrigo Alberto Carazo Zeledón (PhD 1997), ambassador of Costa Rica to the United Nations and ex-member of the
Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica Military • Lennart Bengtsson (
sv), brigadier general in the Swedish military •
Frederic J. Brown III (MA, 1963, PhD 1967), U.S. Army lieutenant general •
Stefan Kristiansson (1996), Swedish Army officer •
Bengt Liljestrand (1968), Swedish Army officer, chief of staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization and commander of the Second United Nations Emergency Force
United Nations and international organisations •
Arnauld Antoine Akodjènou (PhD 1988), head of the
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali •
Catarina de Albuquerque, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation •
Hédi Annabi, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Haiti •
Anthony Banbury (DEA 1993), United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support, Deputy Ebola Coordinator and Operation Crisis Manager •
Marcel André Boisard (PhD 1977), Under-Secretary General to the United Nations and former executive director of
United Nations Institute for Training and Research •
Arthur E. Dewey, former Assistant U.N. Secretary-General •
Edvard Hambro (PhD 1936), 25th President of the United Nations General Assembly, 1970–1971 •
Arthur Dunkel, director-general of
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1980–1993 •
Marcus Fleming, former deputy director of the research department of the
International Monetary Fund •
Giorgio Giacomelli, commissioner-general of the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East •
Rafael Grossi (PhD 1997), director-general of the
International Atomic Energy Agency •
Kamil Idris (PhD 1984), director-general of the
World Intellectual Property Organization, 1997–2008 •
Kaarina Immonen, U.N. official •
C. Wilfred Jenks, director-general of the
International Labour Organization, 1970–1973 •
Alexandre Kafka, executive director at the
International Monetary Fund •
Jakob Kellenberger (1974–1975), president of the
International Committee of the Red Cross, 2000–2012 •
Pierre Krähenbühl (licence), Commissioner-General of the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East •
Olivier Long (PhD 1943), director-general of the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1968–1980 •
Carlos Lopes (DEA), U.N. under secretary-general and executive secretary of the
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa •
Jonathan Lucas (PhD 1998), head of the
International Narcotics Control Board •
Tatiana Molcean, Moldovan diplomat and executive secretary of the
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe •
Jacques Moreillon (PhD 1971), former director-general of the
International Committee of the Red Cross •
Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations for Africa •
Bastiaan Quast (PhD 2016), Dutch-Swiss data scientist at the
International Telecommunication Union, known for
AI for Good and
ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health •
Arnold Rørholt (jurist) (1934), Norwegian jurist and refugee worker •
Cornelio Sommaruga (DEA 1961), former president of the
International Committee of the Red Cross •
Christian Strohal (1976), former director of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights • Eric Suy (
nl), U.N. under secretary-general for legal affairs and director-general of the
European Office of the United Nations in Geneva •
Mervat Tallawy, Egyptian politician, former U.N. under-secretary and executive secretary of the
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia •
Sérgio Vieira de Mello, former
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights •
Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, Togolese jurist,
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