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