List of heads of state educated in the United States
This is a list of non-American heads of state who have received their undergraduate or postgraduate education from American colleges and universities.
Head of State | Country | Term(s) of Office | University | Graduation |
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Hun Manet | ![]() |
2023-present | New York University | 2002 - MA, Economics |
José Ramos-Horta | ![]() |
2022–present | Antioch University, Columbia University | 1984 - MA, Peace Studies, Post-graduate courses in American Foreign Policy[1] |
Rodrigo Chaves Robles | ![]() |
2022–present | Ohio State University | BA, MA, Economics, 1994 - PhD, Agricultural Economics[2] |
Kiril Petkov | ![]() |
2021–present | Harvard University | Master of Business Administration |
Maia Sandu | ![]() |
2021–present | Harvard University | 2010 – diploma, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University – MD |
Mokgweetsi Masisi | ![]() |
2018–present | Florida State University | 1991 - MA, Social Science Education[3] |
Salome Zourabichvili | ![]() |
2018–present | Columbia University | Master's Degree[4] |
Tsai Ing-wen | ![]() |
2016–present | Cornell University | Master of Laws at Cornell University Law School in 1980 |
Philippe of Belgium | ![]() |
2013–present | Stanford University | 1985 - MA, Political Science [5] |
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović | ![]() |
2015–2020 | George Washington University | Fulbright scholar on pre-doctoral research in international relations and security policy at George Washington University in 2003 [6] |
Hastings Banda | ![]() |
1961–1994 | Central State University, Indiana University, University of Chicago, Meharry Medical College | 1925 – diploma, 1931 – BA, University of Chicago, 1937 – MD |
Albert II | ![]() |
2005–present | Amherst College | 1977–1981 BA, Political Science[7] |
Nnamdi Azikiwe | ![]() |
1963–1966 | Howard University, Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), University of Pennsylvania | |
Laura Chinchilla | ![]() |
2010–2014 | Georgetown University | Masters in public policy |
Shinzō Abe | ![]() |
2006–2007, 2012–2020 | University of Southern California | Public policy |
Mary Robinson | ![]() |
1990–1997 | Harvard University | LLM from Harvard Law School |
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer | ![]() |
2004–2005 | American University, George Washington University | Masters from George Washington University |
Rafael Correa | ![]() |
2007–2017 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 1999 (Master of Science in Economics), 2001 (PhD in Economics) |
Yingluck Shinawatra | ![]() |
2011–2014 | Kentucky State University | 1990 (MS in Public Administration) |
Hafizullah Amin | ![]() |
September–December 1979 | Columbia University | 1962 (PhD in Education) |
Jamshid Amuzegar | ![]() |
1977–1978 | Cornell University | PhD |
Corazon Aquino | ![]() |
1986–1992 | College of Mount Saint Vincent | 1953 (degree in French) |
Arnulfo Arias | ![]() |
1940–1941, 1949–1951, 1968 | University of Chicago,[8] Harvard | MD from Harvard |
Ehud Barak | ![]() |
1999–2001 | Stanford University | 1978 (Masters in engineering-economic systems) |
José Manuel Barroso | ![]() |
2002–2004 | Georgetown University | 1998 (research for a PhD) |
Marek Belka | ![]() |
2004–2005 | Columbia University, University of Chicago | attended classes |
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | ![]() |
1987–2011 | Senior Intelligence School (Maryland), School for Anti-Aircraft Field Artillery (Texas) | training |
Benazir Bhutto | ![]() |
1988–1990, 1993–1996 | Harvard University | 1973 (political science) |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | ![]() |
1971–1973 | University of Southern California, University of California, Berkeley | 1950 (B.A. in political science from Berkeley) |
Enrique Bolaños | ![]() |
2002–2007 | Saint Louis University[9] | 1962 (B.A. in industrial engineering) |
Felipe Calderón | ![]() |
2006–2012 | Harvard University | Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government |
Juan Manuel Santos | ![]() |
2010–2018 | University of Kansas[10] Harvard University |
Bachelor in Economics and Business Administration Masters in Political Science from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government |
Alberto Fujimori | ![]() |
1990–2000 | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee | 1971 (MS in Mathematics) |
Toomas Hendrik Ilves | ![]() |
2006–2016 | Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania | Masters in psychology |
Kostas Karamanlis | ![]() |
2004–2009 | Tufts University | master's degree and doctorate in political sciences, international relations and diplomatic history |
Karl Carstens | ![]() |
1979–1984 | Yale University | 1949 (Master of Laws) |
Ahmed Chalabi | ![]() |
September 2003 | MIT, University of Chicago | 1965 (Bachelors in Math from MIT), 1969 (PhD in Math from Chicago) |
Sanford B. Dole[11] | Hawaii | 1894–1900 | Williams College[12] | attended classes |
Mario García Menocal | ![]() |
1913-1921 | Cornell University | 1888 in the College of Engineering |
Václav Klaus | ![]() |
2003-2013 | Cornell University | Attended Cornell in 1969 |
François Duvalier | ![]() |
1957–1971 | University of Michigan | studied public health |
Ricardo Arias Espinosa | ![]() |
1955–1956 | Georgetown University | 1935 (Walsh School of Foreign Service) |
Ricardo de la Espriella | ![]() |
1982–1984 | Stanford University | Economics |
Vicente Fox | ![]() |
2000–2006 | Harvard University | attended classes |
Alberto Fujimori | ![]() |
1990–2000 | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee | 1969 (master's degree in mathematics) |
Goh Chok Tong | ![]() |
1990–2004 | Williams College | 1967 (MA in Development Economics) |
Ernesto de la Guardia Navarro | ![]() |
1956–1960 | Dartmouth College | Masters in Finance |
Jorge Illueca | ![]() |
February–October 1984 | Harvard University, University of Chicago | 1955 (Law)[13] |
Cheddi Jagan | ![]() |
1992–1997 | Howard University Dental School, and Northwestern University | |
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | ![]() |
2006–2018 | Madison Business College, University of Colorado, Harvard University | 1964 (BBA in Accounting from Madison), 1970 (economics diploma from Colorado), 1971 (Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government) |
Uhuru Kenyatta | ![]() |
2013–2022 | Amherst College | 1985 (Political science) |
William Lyon Mackenzie King | ![]() |
1921–1926, 1926–1930, 1935–1948 | University of Chicago, Harvard University | 1898 (MA in political economy from Harvard), 1909 (PhD from Harvard) |
Ricardo Lagos | ![]() |
2000–2006 | Duke University | 1962 (PhD) |
Hastings Banda | ![]() |
Prime Minister of Malawi (1964–1966), President of Malawi (1966–1994) | University of Chicago | Ph.B. 1931 |
José P. Laurel | ![]() |
1943–1945 | Yale University | 1920 (Law) |
Salvador Laurel[14] | ![]() |
February–March 1986 | Yale University | 1953 (LL.M.), 1960 (Law) |
Lee Hsien Loong | ![]() |
2004–present | Harvard University | 1980 MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government |
Lee Teng-Hui | ![]() |
1988–2000 | Iowa State University; Cornell University | 1953 (Master's degree in agricultural economics); 1968 (PhD in agricultural economics) |
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | ![]() |
2001–2010 | Georgetown University | attended 1964–1966 |
Golda Meir | ![]() |
1969–1974 | Milwaukee State Normal School | graduate |
Mireya Moscoso | ![]() |
1999–2004 | Miami-Dade College | Interior design diploma |
Benjamin Netanyahu | ![]() |
1996–1999, 2009–2021 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University | B.Sc in Architecture from MIT, MBA from MIT |
Kwame Nkrumah | ![]() |
1957–1966 | Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), University of Pennsylvania | 1939 (BA from Lincoln), 1942 (MS in Education from Penn), 1943 (MA in Philosophy from Penn) |
Olof Palme | ![]() |
1969–1976, 1982–1986 | Kenyon College | 1948 (BA) |
Andreas Papandreou | ![]() |
1981–1989, 1993–1996 | Harvard University | 1943 (PhD in economics)[15] |
Ernesto Pérez Balladares | ![]() |
1994–1999 | University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania | 1969 (Masters in Economics from Notre Dame), 1970 (Masters in Marketing from Pennsylvania) |
Fidel V. Ramos | ![]() |
1992–1998 | United States Military Academy, University of Illinois | 1950 (West Point), 1951 (Master's degree in Civil Engineering from Illinois) |
Syngman Rhee | ![]() |
1948–1960 | George Washington University, Harvard University, Princeton University | 1907 (GWU), 1909 (MA from Harvard), 1910 (PhD in politics from Princeton)[16] |
Joseph Jenkins Roberts | ![]() |
1848–1856, 1872–1876 | Norfolk Academy, Maury High School | |
Edward James Roye | ![]() |
1870–1871 | Ohio University | |
Carlos Salinas | ![]() |
1988–1994 | Harvard University | 1973 (MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government), 1976 (master's in Political Economics), 1976 (PhD in Political Economics and Government) |
Martín Torrijos | ![]() |
2004–2009 | 1987 (Political Science and Economics) | |
Pierre Trudeau | ![]() |
1968–1979
1980–1984 |
MA in Political Economy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government | |
Alvaro Magaña | ![]() |
1982–1984 | University of Chicago | A.M 1955 |
José Napoleón Duarte | ![]() |
1984–1989 | University of Notre Dame | B.S. in Engineering 1948 |
Ma Ying-jeou | ![]() |
2008–2016 | Harvard University | PhD |
Ernesto Zedillo | ![]() |
1994–2000 | Yale University | PhD |
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada | ![]() |
1993–1997, 2002–2003 | University of Chicago | 1952 |
Abdiweli Gaas | ![]() ![]() |
2011–2012 (Somalia), 2014–2019 (Puntland) | Vanderbilt University, Harvard University, George Mason University | MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government |
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero | ![]() |
1990–1994 | Mississippi State University | B.S. and M.S. in agricultural economics |
Mario Monti | ![]() |
2011–2013 | Yale University | M.Sc. in economics, 1968 |
Christopher Loeak | ![]() |
2011–2016 | Portland Community College,[17] Hawaii Pacific College, Gonzaga University School of Law | 1978 (Bachelor's from Hawaii Pacific), 1982 (JD from Gonzaga)[18] |
José Ramón Guizado | ![]() |
1955 | Vanderbilt University | B.E., 1920 |
Jamil Mahuad | ![]() |
1998 – 2000 | Harvard University | 1989 (MPA Masters of Public Administration) |
Notes
- "Columbia University World Leaders Forum - José Manuel Ramos-Horta". Archived from the original on 2017-03-23. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- "AEDE Alums Robert M. McClelland, Dr. Rodrigo A. Chaves and Joseph A. Shultz to be Honored by the CFAES Alumni Society". Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- "Florida State welcomes president of Botswana for official visit". 20 September 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- "SALOMÉ ZOURABICHVILI A PORTRAIT AND EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW". 9 March 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- "The Royal Family - The King". Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- "World Leaders Forum - Columbia University". Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- "A prince graduates". UPI. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
- "Arnulfo Arias Biography". www.BookRags.com. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- "Alum Elected President of Nicaragua By Wide Margin – Saint Louis University". Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- Esau, John (November 2012). "Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Visits Delta Upsilon Chapter at the University of Kansas". Delta Upsilon Quarterly. Indianapolis, IN: Delta Upsilon fraternity. 130 (4): 38–39. OCLC 6644516. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
- Dole served as President of the Republic of Hawaii.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-07-20. Retrieved 2006-08-09.
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- Laurel served as head of government as Prime Minister for one month until the position was eliminated.
- "Biographies". Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- "Syngman Rhee". Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- Loeak, Anono Lieom; Kiluwe, Veronica C.; Crowl, Linda (2004). Life in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. ISBN 9789820203648. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
- Loeak, Anono Lieom; Kiluwe, Veronica C.; Crowl, Linda (2004). Life in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. ISBN 9789820203648. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
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