Our Alumni
These are some of our most well-known former students and Fellows.
Politicians and public officials
- Alan Beith, Baron Beith, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, 1992–2003
- Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of Ghana, 1969–1972
- Richard Bruton, Minister for Education and Skills of Ireland, 2016–present; Deputy Leader of Fine Gael, 2002–2010
- Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, 2013–present; former Governor of the Bank of Canada, 2008–2013
- Gamani Corea, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Donald Chapman, Baron Northfield, Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Northfield
- Harold Edwards, Member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Berowra
- John Fforde, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England, 1966–1970
- Geoffrey Gallop, former Premier of Western Australia, 2001–2006
- Kamal Hossain, former Law Minister and Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
- Patricia Hewitt, British Secretary of State for Health 2005–2007
- Austin Mitchell, Labour Member of Parliament, 1977–2015
- Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service, 2005–2011
- Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Chief Justice of Bangladesh, 1995
- Manmohan Singh (1960), former Prime Minister of India, 2004–2014
- Norman Warner, Baron Warner, life peer and former minister and civil servant
Academics
- Franklin Allen, Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School
- Patrick Baert, Professor of Social Theory at the University of Cambridge
- Jagdish Bhagwati (1957), University Professor at Columbia University
- James Belich, Beit Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Oxford
- Vernon Bogdanor, Research Professor, Institute for Contemporary British History, King's College London
- Simon Caney, Professor of Political Theory, Magdalen College, Oxford
- John Curtice, Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde
- Barun De, Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission, India, 2008–2011
- Huw Dixon, Professor of Economics, Cardiff Business School.
- Marty Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University (died in 2020)
- John Flemming, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, 1993–2003
- Amelia Fletcher, Chief Economist, Office of Fair Trading, 2001-2013, and singer-songwriter
- Sir Lawrence Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; member of the Iraq Inquiry
- Norman Geras, Professor Emeritus of Government, University of Manchester, UK
- Alan Gilbert, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, UK
- Leslie Green, Professor of Philosophy of Law, Oxford University
- Jerry A. Hausman, John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Gareth Stedman Jones, historian of England
- John Kay (economist), British economist and columnist
- Ruth Kinna, Professor of Political Theory, Loughborough University
- Jonathan Levin, American economist; Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2016–
- Derek Morris, former Chairman of the UK Competition Commission
- Barry Nalebuff, Milton Steinbach Professor of Management, SOM, Yale University
- Gyanendra Pandey, Professor of History, Emory University
- Prabhat Patnaik, Deputy Chairman, Kerala Planning Commission, India
- Hyun Song Shin, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics, Princeton University
- Robert Skidelsky (1961), Member of the House of Lords
- Richard Smethurst, Provost of Worcester College, Oxford
- Susan J. Smith, Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
- Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, President of the British Academy; former World Bank Chief Economist and author of the Stern Review
- Rick Trainor, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
- Sir Alan Walters, British economist
- Martin Wolf, chief economics correspondent of the Financial Times
Former Fellows
For a full list of Current Fellows, please see our People pages.
- Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, former Secretary of State for Transport
- Brian Barry
- Hugh Clegg
- Taslim Olawale Elias, former President of the International Court of Justice
- Marty Feldstein (died in 2020)
- W. M. Gorman
- Michael Herman, founder of the Oxford Intelligence Group
- Sir John Hicks (Nobel in Economics, died in 1989)
- Sir James Mirrlees (Nobel in Economics, died in 2019)
- Michael Oakeshott
- Avner Offer
- John Plamenatz (Research Fellow, 1951–1967)
- Ariel Rubinstein (now an Honorary Fellow)
- Amartya Sen (Nobel in Economics, now an Honorary Fellow)
- Manmohan Singh (now an Honorary Fellow)
- Sir John Vickers, British economist and chair of the Independent Commission on Banking
- Swapan Dasgupta, Indian journalist and Member of Parliament (Junior Research Fellow)