Notable Graduates
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Politics & Government
Kimble Ainslie - Public policy analyst and former politician (University of Western Ontario)
Louise Arbor - Holds honorary doctorates from 27 universities all over the world. In 1996, Ms. Arbor was appointed by the UN Security Council as Chief Prosecutor for International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Ms Arbor now serves as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Université de Montréal)
Najib Balala - Kenyan Member of Parliament (University of Toronto)
Langhorne M. Bond - Administrator of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter (McGill University)
François Bourguignon - 1975, Chief Economist of the World Bank (University of Western Ontario)
George Brizan - Former Prime Minister of Grenada (Carleton University)
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski - Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman. United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter (McGill University)
Dr. Margaret Chan - Director-General Elect of WHO, appointed by the World Health Assembly on 9 November 2006. (Brescia University College)
Rt. Hon. Joe Clark - Former Prime Minister of Canada (Dalhousie University)
Adrian Cioroianu - Romanian Senator, Member of the European Parliament (Université Laval)
Romeo Dallaire - From 1993-94, Dallaire served as Force Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission(UNAMIR)during the Rwandan genocide a harrowing experience upon which he based his best-selling book, Shake Hands With the Devil. More recently, Dallaire was a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and joined the Canadian Senate in 2005. (Royal Military College of Canada)
Marc Garneau - President of the Canadian Space Agency Current Chancellor (Carleton University)
Maciej Giertych - Politician, a current Polish member of the European Parliament (since 2004), professor of dendrology, in Toronto got a PhD, father of Roman Giertych, Polish Minister of Education (University of Toronto)
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa - Canadian-born American academic and political figure. He was an English professor, served as president of San Francisco State University and then a United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. (University of Manitoba, McGill University)
Stephen Harper - Prime Minister of Canada (University of Calgary)
Donald James Johnston - Former Canadian politician, lawyer, and was Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1996 to 2006. (McGill University)
Stephen Lewis - Former Canadian Ambassador to the UN Security Council and UN Representative to Africa (University of Toronto)
James Thompson McCleary - United States Representative from Minnesota. (McGill University)
Gordon Osbaldeston - Former US/Canadian Trade Commissioner (University of Western Ontario)
Dan Senor - Spokesman for US Presidential Envoy Paul Bremer (University of Western Ontario)
Shirley M. Tilghman - President of Princeton University, member of the Board of Directors of Google (Université Laval)
Orville Alton Turnquest - Governor-General of the Bahamas (University of Western Ontario)
Dr. Vaira Vîíe-Freiberga - Current and first female President of Latvia. She was elected President of Latvia in 1999 and reelected in 2003. (McGill University)
Abdurrahman Wahid (also known as Gus Dur) - President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001, and founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB). (McGill University)
Michael Wilson - Canadian ambassador to the United States and former finance minister (University of Toronto)
