List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Name Degree Year Notability
Tadatoshi Akiba PhD - Mathematics 1970 Mayor of Hiroshima ; recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award
Kofi Annan SM - Management 1972 Former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Pedro Aspe PhD - Economics 1978 Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit
Virgilio Barco SB - Civil Engineering 1943 Colombian president
Youssef Boutros Ghali PhD - Economics 1981 Former Egyptian Minister of Finance
Ahmed Chalabi SB - Mathematics 1965 Controversial Iraqi politician ; deputy prime minister of Iraq
Asim Dasgupta PhD- Economics 1975 Former Finance Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal
Harold Demuren PhD - Aeronautical Engineering 1975 Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ; first African elected as President of ICAO General Assembly
Mario Draghi PhD - Economics 1977 President of the European Central Bank
José Figueres Ferrer 1926 President of Costa Rica
Pervez Hoodbhoy MS - Solid-State Physics , PhD - Nuclear Physics 1973 , 1978 Faculty member at the Quaid-e-Azam University since 1973 ; renowned nuclear research scientist in Pakistan
C.D . Howe 1907 Canadian politician and cabinet minister
Janet Keeping SB - Architecture 1971 Lawyer ; faculty member at the University of Calgary ; Leader of the Green Party of Alberta
Uzi Landau PhD - Engineering 1976 National Infrastructure Minister of Israel
Mao Chi-kuo PhD 1982 Former Premier of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) ( 2014-2016 )
David Miliband SM Political Science 1990 British politician , Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Yahya Muhaimin Ph.D 1982 Former Minister of Education and Culture , Republic of Indonesia
Mohammad Ali Najafi SM - Mathematics 1979 Former Vice President of Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu SB - Architecture , SM - Management 1975 , 1976 Prime Minister of Israel
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala MCP - City Planning , PhD - Urban Studies & Planning 1978 , 1981 Finance Minister of Nigeria ( 2003-2006 ) ( 2011-2015 ) , Foreign Minister of Nigeria ( 2006 )
Politics and public service -- International
As a celebration of the new MIT building dedicated to nanotechnology laboratories in 2018, a special silicon wafer was designed and fabricated with an image of the Great Dome. This One.MIT image is composed of more than 270,000 individual names, comprising all the students, faculty, and staff at MIT during the years 1861-2018. A special website was set up to document the creation of a large wall display in the building, and to facilitate the location of individual names in the image.