Commencement Speakers
Below is a chronological list of previous Commencement speakers from 2000 to present.
Kofi Annan
Secretary-General, United Nations
The Dalai Lama-Tenzin Gyatso
Buddhist Monk & Leader of the Tibetan people
Wolf Blitzer
Anchor, CNN's "Wolf Blitzer Reports" and Host, "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer"
SAIS Class of '72
William J. McDonough
President/CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
R. Nicholas Burns
U.S. Ambassador to NATO
SAIS Class of ‘80
Robert Rubin
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary
Mohamed ElBaradei
4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
David Manning
British Ambassador to the United States
SAIS Class of ‘72
Robert Zoellick
11th president of the World Bank Group
Ban Ki-moon
8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
John Hamre
President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
SAIS Class of ‘76 & ‘78
Josette Sheeran
Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme
Timothy Geithner
75TH U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
SAIS Class of ‘85
Christiane Amanpour
CNN’s Chief International Correspondent & ABC News’ Global Affairs Anchor
David Miliband
President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee & Former British Foreign Secretary
Henry M. Paulson Jr.
Founder and Chairman, The Paulson Institute; Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Wendy R. Sherman
Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Darren Walker
President of The Ford Foundation
Michèle Flournoy
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein
Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Fiona Hill
Former U.S. National Security Council Official
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director General, World Trade Organization
Lael Brainard
Vice Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Fareed Zakaria
American Journalist, Political Commentator, and Author. Host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS & Columnist for The Washington Post
David Miliband
President and CEO of International Rescue Committee
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