United World Colleges - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Politics and Government

  • Douglas Alexander: British Member of Parliament and Shadow Foreign Secretary. From 2007 until 2010 he was Secretary of State for International Development in Gordon Brown's cabinet
  • Lene Feltman Espersen: former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
  • Paul Grimes, Australian Secretary of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
  • Eluned Morgan: Welsh politician, member of the House of Lords and former member of the European Parliament
  • Lindiwe Sisulu: Minister of Defence and Military Veterans in South Africa
  • Lousewies van der Laan: Dutch politician, Vice President of the European Liberal Democrats, Chief of Staff to the President of the International Criminal Court

Business

  • Pentti Kouri: Finnish economist and venture capitalist
  • Robert Milton: Chairman, President and CEO of ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. and Chairman of Air Canada
  • Jorma Ollila: former chairman and CEO of Nokia Corporation
  • Peter Sands: CEO of Standard Chartered

Arts

  • Nakkiah Lui: award winning indigenous playwright.
  • Sally El Hosaini (1976– ), Film-maker, Screen International’s UK Stars of Tomorrow 2009, winner of the 2012 World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival.
  • Anne Enright: Irish author, 2007 winner of the Man Booker Prize
  • Karen Mok: Hong-Kong singer, actress and songwriter, three-time Golden Melody Award-winner
  • Wangechi Mutu: Kenyan artist and 2010 Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year
  • Eric Khoo: film director from Singapore.

Academics

  • Jonathan Michie: Director of the Department for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg College, University of Oxford
  • Howard Newby: Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool
  • Federico Varese: Italian expert on organized crime, Professor of Criminology, Oxford University
  • Ghil'ad Zuckermann: Chair of Linguistics and Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shanghai International Studies University and Visiting Scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science

Misc

  • Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
  • Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
  • Zenani and Zindzi Mandela
  • Akihiko Hoshide: Japanese astronaut
  • Julie Payette: Canadian astronaut (1982)
  • Mayumi Raheem: Sri Lankan swimmer, three times gold medal winner at the 2006 South Asian Games
  • Saba Douglas-Hamilton: conservationist and TV presenter
  • Todd Sampson: CEO of Leo Burnett, Sydney, co-creator of the Earth Hour initiative
  • Paul Colton: Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Ireland
  • Kim Han-sol: Grandson of Kim Jong-il

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