Head of State |
Country |
Term(s) of Office |
University |
Graduation |
Hastings Banda |
Malawi |
1961-1994 |
Central State University, Indiana University, University of Chicago Meharry Medical College |
1925- diploma, 1931- BA, University of Chicago, 1937-MD |
Nnamdi Azikiwe |
Nigerian |
1963–1966 |
Howard University, Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), University of Pennsylvania |
|
Laura Chinchilla |
Costa Rica |
2010–present |
Georgetown University |
Masters in public policy |
Mary Robinson |
Ireland |
1990–1997 |
Harvard University |
LLM from Harvard Law School |
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer |
Iraq |
2004–2005 |
American University, George Washington University |
Masters from George Washington University |
Rafael Correa |
Ecuador |
2007–present |
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
1999 (Master of Science in Economics), 2001(PhD in Economics) |
Yingluck Shinawatra |
Thailand |
2011–present |
Kentucky State University |
1990 (MS in Public Administration) |
Hafizullah Amin |
Afghanistan |
September–December 1979 |
Columbia University |
1962 (PhD in Education) |
Jamshid Amuzegar |
Iran |
1977–1978 |
Cornell University |
PhD |
Corazon Aquino |
Philippines |
1986–1992 |
College of Mount Saint Vincent |
1953 (degree in French) |
Arnulfo Arias |
Panama |
1940–1941, 1949–1951, 1968 |
University of Chicago,[2] Harvard |
MD from Harvard |
Ehud Barak |
Israel |
1999–2001 |
Stanford University |
1978 (Masters in engineering-economic systems) |
José Manuel Barroso |
Portugal |
2002–2004 |
Georgetown University |
1998 (research for a PhD) |
Marek Belka |
Poland |
2004–2005 |
Columbia University, University of Chicago |
attended classes |
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali |
Tunisia |
1987–2011 |
Senior Intelligence School (Maryland), School for Anti-Aircraft Field Artillery (Texas) |
training |
Benazir Bhutto |
Pakistan |
1988–1990, 1993–1996 |
Harvard University |
1973 (political science) |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
Pakistan |
1971–1973 |
University of Southern California, University of California, Berkeley |
1950 (B.A. in political science from Berkeley) |
Enrique Bolaños |
Nicaragua |
2002–2007 |
Saint Louis University[3] |
1962 (B.A. in industrial engineering) |
Felipe Calderón |
Mexico |
2006–2012 |
Harvard University |
Masters in Public Administration |
Juan Manuel Santos |
Colombia |
2010–present |
Harvard University |
Masters in Political Science |
Alberto Fujimori |
Peru |
1990–2000 |
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
1971 (MS in Mathematics) |
Toomas Hendrik Ilves |
Estonia |
2006–present |
Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania |
Masters in psychology |
Kostas Karamanlis |
Greece |
2004–2009 |
Tufts University |
master's degree and doctorate in political sciences, international relations and diplomatic history |
Karl Carstens |
West Germany |
1979–1984 |
Yale University |
1949 (Master of Laws) |
Ahmed Chalabi |
Iraq |
September 2003 |
MIT, University of Chicago |
1965 (Bachelors in Math from MIT), 1969 (PhD in Math from Chicago) |
Sanford B. Dole[4] |
Hawaii |
1894–1900 |
Williams College[5] |
attended classes |
François Duvalier |
Haiti |
1957–1971 |
University of Michigan |
studied public health |
Ricardo Arias Espinosa |
Panama |
1955–1956 |
Georgetown University |
1935 (Walsh School of Foreign Service) |
Ricardo de la Espriella |
Panama |
1982–1984 |
Stanford University |
Economics |
Vicente Fox |
Mexico |
2000–2006 |
Harvard University |
attended classes |
Alberto Fujimori |
Peru |
1990-2000 |
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
1969 (master's degree in mathematics) |
Goh Chok Tong |
Singapore |
1990–2004 |
Williams College |
1967 (MA in Development Economics) |
Ernesto de la Guardia Navarro |
Panama |
1956–1960 |
Dartmouth College |
Masters in Finance |
Jorge Illueca |
Panama |
February–October 1984 |
Harvard University, University of Chicago |
1955 (Law)[6] |
Cheddi Jagan |
Guyana |
1992–1997 |
Howard University Dental School, and Northwestern University |
|
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
Liberia |
2006–present |
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 Harvard)
|
Uhuru Kenyatta |
Kenya |
2013–present |
Amherst College |
1985 (Political science) |
William Lyon Mackenzie King |
Canada |
1921–1926,
1926–1930, 1935–1948
|
University of Chicago,
Harvard University
|
1898 (MA in political economy from Harvard),
1909 (PhD from Harvard)
|
Ricardo Lagos |
Chile |
2000–2006 |
Duke University |
1962 (PhD) |
Hastings Banda |
Malawi |
Prime Minister of Malawi (1964–1966), President of Malawi (1966–1994) |
University of Chicago |
Ph.B. 1931 |
José P. Laurel |
Philippines |
1943–1945 |
Yale University |
1920 (Law) |
Salvador Laurel[7] |
Philippines |
February–March 1986 |
Yale University |
1953(LL.M.), 1960 (Law) |
Lee Hsien Loong |
Singapore |
2004–present |
Harvard University |
1980 (Master of Public Administration) |
Lee Teng-Hui |
Republic of China |
1988–2000 |
Iowa State University; Cornell University |
1953 (Masters degree in agricultural economics); 1968 (PhD in agricultural economics) |
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo |
Philippines |
2001–2010 |
Georgetown University |
attended 1964–1966 |
Golda Meir |
Israel |
1969–1974 |
Milwaukee State Normal School |
graduate |
Mireya Moscoso |
Panama |
1999–2004 |
Miami-Dade Community College |
Interior design diploma |
Benjamin Netanyahu |
Israel |
1996–1999, 2009–present |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University |
B.Sc in Architecture from MIT, MBA from MIT |
Kwame Nkrumah |
Ghana |
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 |
Sweden |
1969–1976, 1982–1986 |
Kenyon College |
1948 (BA) |
Andreas Papandreou |
Greece |
1981–1989, 1993–1996 |
Harvard University |
1943 (PhD in economics)[8] |
Ernesto Pérez Balladares |
Panama |
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 |
Philippines |
1992–1998 |
United States Military Academy, University of Illinois |
1950 (West Point), 1951 (Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from Illinois) |
Syngman Rhee |
South Korea |
1948–1960 |
George Washington University, Harvard University, Princeton University |
1907 (GWU), 1909 (MA from Harvard), 1910 (PhD in politics from Princeton)[9] |
Joseph Jenkins Roberts |
Liberia |
1848–1856, 1872–1876 |
Norfolk Academy, Maury High School |
Edward James Roye |
Liberia |
1870–1871 |
Ohio University |
Carlos Salinas |
Mexico |
1988–1994 |
Harvard University |
1973 (master's degree in Public Administration), 1976 (master's in Political Economics), 1976 (PhD in Political Economics and Government) |
Martín Torrijos |
Panama |
2004–2009 |
Texas A&M University
|
1987 (Political Science and Economics) |
Pierre Trudeau |
Canada |
1968–1979
1980–1984
|
Harvard University
|
MA in Political Economy |
Alvaro Magaña |
El Salvador |
1982–1984 |
University of Chicago |
A.M 1955 |
Ma Ying-jeou |
Taiwan |
2008–present |
Harvard University |
PhD |
Ernesto Zedillo |
Mexico |
1994–2000 |
Yale University |
PhD |
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada |
Bolivia |
1993–1997, 2002–2003 |
University of Chicago |
1952 |
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero |
Honduras |
1990–1994 |
Mississippi State University |
B.S. and M.S. in agricultural economics |
Mario Monti |
Italy |
2011–2013 |
Yale University |
M.Sc. in economics, 1968 |
Christopher Loeak |
Marshall Islands |
2011-present |
Portland Community College,[10] Hawaii Pacific College, Gonzaga University School of Law |
1978 (Bachelor's from Hawaii Pacific), 1982 (JD from Gonzaga)[11] |