International Student House has over 80 years of history with more than 15,000 alumni from over 140 countries.
Many of our distinguished alumni have gone one to achieve successful careers in their respective governments, corporate and non-profit sectors.
His Excellency Geir H. Haarde
Ambassador of Iceland, Former Prime Minister
ISH-DC Alumnus, 1970’s
Ambassador Haarde accepting our Distinguished Alumnus Award at ISH-DC
ISH-DC honored Ambassador Haarde with our distinguished alumnus award in 2015
Ambassador Haarde has also hosted ISH-DC alumni and friends at his residence on more than one occasion
The Honorable Alexander De Croo
Prime Minister of Belgium
ISH-DC Alumnus, 1990’s
Prime Minister De Croo (then Deputy Prime Minister) speaking at the Belgian Ambassador’s residence with ISH-DC resident scholar Ali Can moderating the discussion
ISH-DC honored Prime Minister De Croo with our distinguished alumnus award in 2018, during which His Excellency Dirk Wouters, Ambassador of Belgium, hosted ISH-DC at his residence for a reception with the then Deputy Prime Minister
Petter Jakob Bjerve, former Minister of Finance, Norway
Derek Briggs, Professor of Earth Science, Yale University
Dr. Noel Brown, President, Friends of the United Nations
Dr. Nathan J. Brown, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and Director for Middle East Studies, George Washington University
Mr. Timothy Cabot, Founder, Alacrity Material Technology
Apichart Chinwanno, Ambassador of Thailand
Mong-il Chung, Chairman, Hyundai Venture Investment Corporation
Adi Putra Darmawan, People’s Consultative Assembly of Indonesia
Dr. Manfred Dauses, Professor, University of Bamberg
Dr. Matthias Dembinski, Senior Research Fellow, Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt
Babace Diagno, Director General, Radio and Television, Senegal
Eugenio Dimaria, International Journalist with New York Times and Associate Press
Juan Bautista del Rosario, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
Gunther Engelhardt, Professor, University of Hamburg
Hafizullah Emadi, Reporter Kabul Daily Times, Consultant to Focus Humanitarian Assistance
Andreas Falke, Director, German-American Institute, Nuremburg
Julian Gutt, Founder of New Species, Biosciences and Marian Animal Ecology, Alfred Wegener Institute
His Excellency Geir H. Haarde, Ambassador of Iceland
Raya Haffar Al Hassan, Former Finance Minister of Lebanon
Dell Higgie, New Zealand Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism
Yukiko Koyanagi, Professor of Art History, Institute of Franco-Japanese, Kyushu, Japan
Josephine Lao, journalist, Bloomberg News, Hong Kong
Geir Lundestad, Professor of History, University of Oslo and Director of the Nobel Institute of Oslo.
Cehn Ker, Deputy Director, Ministry of Defense, Singapore
Arthur Atiwane, President, Red Cross Society, Swaziland
Jean-Pierre Peypouquet, Professor of Geology and Oceanography, University of Bordeaux, France
