Distinguished Alumni

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.

The Honorable Alexander De Croo
Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium
ISH-DC Alumnus, 1990’s

ISH-DC honored 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 Deputy Prime Minister

His Excellency Geir H. Haarde
Ambassador of Iceland, Former Prime Minister
ISH-DC Alumnus, 1970’s

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

Distinguished

Adi Putra Darmawan People’s Consultative Assembly of Indonesia	Geir Lundestad Professor of History at the University of Oslo & Director of the Nobel Institute of Oslo
Andreas Falke Director of the German-American Institute in Nuremburg	Gunther Engelhardt Professor at the University of Hamburg
Apichart Chinwanno Ambassador of Thailand	Hafizullah Emadi Reporter Kabul Daily Times & Consultant to Focus Humanitarian Assistance
Arthur Atiwane President of the Red Cross Society in Swaziland	His Excellency Geir H. Haarde Ambassador of Iceland
Babace Diagno Director General of Radio and Television Senegal	Jean-Pierre Peypouquet Professor of Geology and Oceanography at the University of Bordeaux in France
Cehn Ker Deputy Director of the Ministry of Defense in Singapore	Josephine Lao Journalist at Bloomberg News in Hong Kong
Dell Higgie New Zealand Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism	Juan Bautista del Rosario Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama
Derek Briggs Professor of Earth Science at Yale University	Julian Gutt Founder of New Species Biosciences and Marian Animal Ecology at the Alfred Wegener Institute
Dr. Manfred Dauses Professor at University of Bamberg	Mong-il Chung Chairman of Hyundai Venture Investment Corporation
Dr. Matthias Dembinski Senior Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt	Mr. Timothy Cabot Founder of Alacrity Material Technology
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 at George Washington University	Petter Jakob Bjerve Former Minister of Finance, Norway
Dr. Noel Brown President of Friends of the United Nations	Raya Haffar Al Hassan Former Finance Minister of Lebanon
Eugenio Dimaria International Journalist with New York Times and Associate Press		Yukiko Koyanagi Professor of Art History at the Institute of Franco-Japanese in Kyushis, Japan

(In alphabetical order)