International House Berkeley

Notable Alumni mong the more than 60,000 residents who have lived at International House, there are many who have achieved prominence in areas of intellectual, political and social life. Today's residents share meals in the dining room, relax in the Great Hall, and participate in auditorium events as did these distinguished alumni, some of whom are listed below with positions they hold or have held: A Trail Blazers Ambassadors Daima Lockhart Clark, Scholar of African philosophy and religion John Kenneth Galbraith, Professor of Economics at Harvard, author, and Ambassador to India Edith Simon Coliver, First woman Field Office Director for the Asia Foundation. The annual Festival of Cultures at International House was endowed by Coliver and is dedicated in her memory Robert C.F. Gordon, U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius Maggie Gee, Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the first Chinese-American women pilots Sergio Alejo Rapu Haoa, First native islander to serve as governor of Easter Island Tetsuo Kondo, Minister of Labor in Japan Heraldur Kroyer, Ambassador of Iceland to the U.S. Abdul Majid, Ambassador of Afghanistan to U.S. Wissanu Kreangam, Deputy Prime Minister, Thailand Robey Lal, Country Manager for The International Air Transport Association (IATA) in India. Mauricio Cardenas Santa Maria, Minister of Economic Development, Colombia Michael Okeyo, Ambassador of Kenya to the U.S. Milton Marks, California state Assemblyman and Senator Andres Petricevic, Bolivian Cabinet Member and Ambassador to the U.S. Sudarmo Martonagoro, Foreign Minister of Indonesia Widjojo Nitisastro, Minister of State, Indonesia Joao Baptista Pinheiro, Ambassador of Brazil to the U.S. Ogbonnaya Onu, Governor of Abia, Nigeria, and presidential candidate Wendell Lipscomb, First African American to complete residency at Kaiser Hospital, psychiatrist, trainer of Tuskegee Airmen Joan Plaisted, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands Pauli Murray, Attorney, poet, first African-American woman Episcopalian Minister United Nations Staff Sir Desmond Rea, Chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board Abdelkader Abbadi, U.N. Deputy Director for Political Affairs Elsie Gardner Ricklefs, Chair of Hupa Tribe, California Sandeep Pandey, Recognized for his commitment to transforming the lives of India's marginalized poor Victor Santiago Pineda, Disability rights activist Emmett Rice, Berkeley's first African-American firefighter and later a member of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board Julianne Cartwright Traylor, Chair of Amnesty International USA, first African-American woman to hold this position Khatharya Um, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, first Cambodian woman in the U.S. to earn a doctorate Delbert Wong, First Chinese American Judge in the continental U.S. Nobel Laureates Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961 Owen Chamberlain, Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 Willis Lamb, Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 Julian Schwinger, Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 Glenn Seaborg, Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1951 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973 Kenneth Taylor, Canadian Ambassador to Iran Jan Egeland, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Venkataram Ramakrishna, Director, South East Asia Regional Bureau for Health Promotion and Education Martin Rosen, Co-founder and President, Trust for Public Land Takehiro Nakamura, U.N. Environment Programme Officer Emil Salim, Indonesian Minister for Population and Environment, Professor of Economics, University of Indonesia Sadako Nakamura Ogata, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees James C.Y. Soong, Governor, Taiwan Provincial Government Public Service Vicenzo Visco, Minister of Finance, Italy Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, nonresident member and dining room staff Pete Wilson, Governor of California W. Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury, U.S., former dining room staff colleague of Ali Bhutto (above) Jerry Brown, Governor of California, Mayor of Oakland Soon Cho, Mayor of Seoul, Korea and Former Deputy Prime Minister Jeymoon Chung, National Assemblyman and Chair of Foreign Relations Committee, Korea Vernon Ehlers, Representative to Congress from Michigan Marcos Espinal, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership Royal Families Adriana Gianturco, Director of the Department of Transportation in California Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway Laurent Benoît Baudouin, Prince of Belgium Laura Castillo Sena de Gurfinkel, Minister of Education, Venezuela Pyoung Hoon Kim, Senior Protocol Secretary to the President, Republic of Korea Oona King, Member of Parliament, U.K. 16 Laura Zegna, Chair of Italy's Special Olympics Organizing Committee Law Rose Bird, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court Barnet Cooperman, Judge L.A. Superior Court Adrian Kragen, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley, argued cases before the Supreme Court George Kraw, Advisory Committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Ernst Pakuscher, Chief Judge of the Federal Patent Court in Germany Stefan Riesenfeld, Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Leigh Steinberg, Leading sports attorney Sanford Svetcov, Partner with the Appellate Practice Group of Lerach Coughlin, SF Wakefield Taylor, California Court of Appeal in SF Raymond Terlizzi, Magistrate Judge of the District of AZ

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