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List of University of Sussex alumni

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This is a list of notable alumni of the University of Sussex.

Politicians[edit]

Hilary Benn, Labour Party Member of Parliament

Festus Mogae, President of Botswana

Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa

Guy Scott, President of Zambia

Peter Kyle, British Labour Politician and member of British Parliament

Kemi Badenoch, Conservative Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden

Marina Baker, Liberal Democrat politician in Lewes

Enele Sopoaga, former Prime Minister of Tuvalu

Tony Baldry, former Conservative Member of Parliament for Banbury

Hilary Benn, Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds Central, former Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lloyd Russell-Moyle, British Labour politician and Member of British Parlimaent

Ben Bradshaw, Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter, former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Isatou Touray, Vice-president of The Republic of The Gambia

Carlos Alvarado Quesada, president of Costa Rica

Simon Busuttil, Maltese Member of the European Parliament

David Lee Camp, U.S. member of the House of Representatives^[1]

Bernard Coard, minister and deputy prime minister of Grenada

Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka

Rob Davies, minister of the Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa

Bogolo Kenewendo, Economist and youngest-ever government minister of Botswana

Michael Fabricant, Conservative Member of Parliament for Lichfield

Andrew George, former Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives

Philip Gould, Lord Gould, Life peer and adviser to the Labour Party

Peter Hain, former Labour Member of Parliament for Neath and Secretary of State for Wales

Sir Jonathan Faull, former British official in the European commission and current chair of European Public Affairs at Brunswick and Professor at King's College London

David Hallam, former Labour Member of the European Parliament, author

Musa Hitam, former deputy prime minister of Malaysia

David Lepper, former Labour Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion

Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa

James McMurdock, Reform UK Member of Parliament for South Basildon and East Thurrock

Festus Mogae, President of Botswana

Caroline Nokes, Conservative Member of Parliament for Romsey and Southampton North

Dan Norris, former Labour Member of Parliament for Wansdyke, North East Somerset and Mayor of the West of England (2021 - present)

Sherry Rehman, Senator, Pakistan (2015–Present)

Matt Rodda. Labour Member of Parliament for Reading East

George Saitoti, Kenyan politician

Martin Salter, former Labour Member of Parliament for Reading West

Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz, Tunku Temenggong of Kedah

Guy Scott, President of Zambia

Mateusz Szczurek, Finance Minister of Poland

Euclid Tsakalotos, Greek finance minister, (2015 – Present)

Geoffrey Van Orden, Conservative MEP for East of England 1999-2019, formerly Brigadier, British Army

Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament

Alan Woods, Trotskyist activist

Mohammad Shtayyeh, Prime Minister of the State of Palestine

Dame Froyla Tzalam GCMG, Governor-General of Belize (2021–present)

Scientists[edit]

Adrian Bird CBE FRS, Director of Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh

Brenda Boardman MBE , policy development related to fuel poverty

Amir Caldeira, Brazilian quantum physicist

David Clary FRS, President, Magdalen College, Oxford

Dave Cliff, computer scientist

Peter Coles, astrophysicist

Ian H. S. Cullimore, computer scientist

Anthony R. Dickinson FRS, neuroscientist

Lesley Fallowfield, cancer psychologist

Philip Ingham FRS, developmental biologist

Francesca M. Kerton, chemistry professor

Adam Kilgarriff, corpus linguist, lexicographer and the co-author of the Sketch Engine corpus management system

Sir Peter Knight FRS, Principal of the Faculty of Natural Sciences Imperial College London

Georgina Mace CBE FRS, Director, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London

Elizabeth F. Churchill, Director of User experience at Google and Vice President-elect of the Association for Computing Machinery

Dimitri Nanopoulos, quantum physicist

Becky Parker, physicist and physics teacher

Armando J. L. Pombeiro, Portuguese chemical engineer

Rohan Pethiyagoda, taxonomist

Anil Seth, neuroscientist

Nalin de Silva, theoretical physicist, philosopher, professor

Mark Steedman, cognitive scientist

Tim Sumner, experimental physicist

Benjamin J Whitaker, chemist

Academics[edit]

Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic and Social Commission

Abdalla Uba Adamu, professor, media scholar

Daniele Archibugi, economic and political theorist

Shamshad Akhtar, development economist, diplomat, former governor of State Bank of Pakistan

Maria Balshaw, director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and Manchester Art Gallery

Alan Carter, philosopher

Cheung Kam Ching, philosopher

Norman Davies, historian

Kay Firth-Butterfield, professor and author

Gabriella Gibson, British medical entomologist and professor

Paul Gilroy, professor and cultural critic

A. C. Grayling, philosopher

Paul Hirst, professor

Mary James, educator

Calestous Juma, professor

Reetika Khera, economics professor

Robert Hugh Layton, Emeritus Professor at Durham University

István Mészáros, professor

Paul Morris, educationalist

Timothy O'Shea, vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh

Nick Rees-Roberts, professor

Reza Shah-Kazemi, author

Guy Standing, development economist

Tim Sumner, professor

Lucy Worsley, historian and curator

Ayman Zohry, expert on migration studies

Writers and broadcasters[edit]

Helen Boaden, former BBC director

Ian McEwan, novelist and screenwriter

Patrick Allen, award-winning author and teacher

Becky Anderson, CNN International correspondent and presenter

Desi Anwar, journalist, news presenter

David Baboulene, travel writer and story theorist

Mark Barrowcliffe, novelist

Helen Boaden, former director of BBC Radio

Tommy Boyd, broadcaster

Edward Kamau Brathwaite, author

Estelle Akofio-Sowah, businesswoman and Google country manager

Shantanu Gupta, author and political analyst

Peter Brimelow, journalist and author

Emily Buchanan, BBC World Affairs correspondent

Michael Buerk, BBC journalist and newsreader

Richard Calder, novelist

Duncan Campbell, investigative journalist, consultant, producer and forensic expert

Lord Richard Cecil, journalist and adventurer (died 1978)

Paul Evans, poet

Simon Fanshawe, writer, broadcaster

Darius Fisher, producer, director

Connie Glynn, writer and YouTuber

Philippa Gregory, novelist

Charlotte Greig, novelist and musician

Claudia Hammond, writer, broadcaster

Patrick Hicks, novelist and poet

Tobias Hill, novelist and poet

Alan Jenkins, poet

Gabriel Josipovici, renowned contemporary British author

Merfyn Jones professor, historian, broadcaster; governor of the BBC; vice-chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor

Robin Lustig, broadcaster

Marina Mahathir, leader in many non-governmental organizations

Sarra Manning, writer

Howard Marks, Welsh author, former teacher and drug smuggler

Ian McEwan, novelist

Andrew Morton, journalist and writer

Dermot Murnaghan, television presenter and journalist

Clive Myrie, BBC News presenter and journalist

Kim Newman, journalist and writer

Chris Paling, novelist

Ashley Pharoah, television writer

Nigel Planer, actor, novelist, playwright

Heydon Prowse, BAFTA award winner BBC journalist, activist, satirist and director

Jolyon Rubinstein, BAFTA award winner actor, writer, producer and director

Chris Ship, Deputy Political Editor of ITV News

Alexandra Shulman, editor of Vogue

Julia Somerville, broadcaster

Zoe Strimpel, journalist, writer, historian

Steve Coll, author and 1990 Pulitzer prize winner

Shirley Thomas, professor, broadcaster

Srđa Trifković, historian and journalist

Janice Turner, writer for The Times

Musicians and entertainers[edit]

John Altman, film composer

John Altman, award-winning film composer, music arranger, orchestrator, and conductor

Tony Banks, keyboard player with Genesis

Beardyman, beatboxer

Frankie Boyle, comedian

Daniel Catán, composer

Graham Clark, jazz/rock violinist ex-Gong

Mo Foster, session musician (bass guitar)

Mark Hollis, lead singer of Talk Talk

Marcus Hamblett, composer and musician

Billy Idol, musician

Jem, singer-songwriter

Steve Knightley, singer-songwriter

Cariad Lloyd, comedian and actress

Ophelia Lovibond, actress

Mura Masa, electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist, studied English Literature

Bob Mortimer, comedian

Sara Pascoe, stand-up comedian and author

Grant Serpell, former drummer with Sailor and Affinity

Cristian Vogel, electronic musician

Jessie Ware, singer-songwriter

Josephine Wiggs, bassist with The Breeders

Louis Russell, Tall Man

Diplomats[edit]

Rebeca Grynspan, Head of United Nations Development Programme

Rebeca Grynspan, former UN Under-Secretary-General and UN UNDP head and former vice president of Costa Rica

Renée Jones-Bos, Dutch diplomat and ambassador to the United States

Jamie Shea, Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations of NATO

Savenaca Siwatibau, Fijian academic leader, civil service administrator

Roberto Valent, United Nations diplomat

Jesoni Vitusagavulu, Fijian diplomat and ambassador to the United States

Jawhar Sircar, Indian public administrator and former CEO of Prasar Bharati^[2]

Sports[edit]

Rosalie Birch, England Test cricketer, part of Ashes winning team 2005
Brendan Foster, former distance runner, founder of the Great North Run, and currently a BBC athletics commentator
Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala, mountaineer and first Sri Lankan and fourth women in the world to reach the peak of Mount Everest
Ralf Rangnick, Former Interim Manager of Manchester United F.C., Head Coach of the Austria national football team^[3]
Virginia Wade, Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Champion, 1977

Business[edit]

Keith Skeoch, CEO of Standard Life

Jeremy Coller, CEO of Coller Capital, a British private equity firm

Liam Hackett, activist, founder and CEO Ditch the Label

Maikanti Baru, engineer, former chief, Nigeria's state oil firm; Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

Harriet Lamb, CEO of International Alert

Nancy Okail, Executive Director, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy; expert on human rights

Raj Rajaratnam, hedge fund CEO, Galleon Group; convicted of insider trading

Simon Segars, CEO of ARM Holdings plc, electronic engineer

Sir Keith Skeoch, chief executive (CEO) of Standard Life

Noel Tata, industrialist

Zhang Xin, entrepreneur and CEO of SOHO China

Others[edit]

Michael Attenborough, director
Linda Bellos, adviser
Michael Fuller, Chief Constable of Kent Police
Bruno Heller, screenwriter and actor
Fatou Jeng, Gambian climate activist
Naomie Kremer, artist
Claire Oboussier, artist
David Pecaut, American-born Canadian civic activist and consultant

References[edit]

^ "CAMP, David Lee, (1953 - )". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 14 October 2012.

^ UNESCO. "Tagore, Neruda and Césaire". Retrieved 24 July 2021.

^ "'He obviously saw football as a career option' - Manchester United boss Ralf Rangnick's time in Sussex non-league". 29 November 2021.

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