- Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 - 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the concession of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler, marked by the Munich Agreement in 1938. In the same year he also gave up the Irish Free State Royal Navy ports.
- Alice Rivlin
Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4, 1931 in Philadelphia) is an economist, a former U.S. Cabinet official, and an expert on the budget. Rivlin is an alumna of The Madeira School, earned a B.A. at Bryn Mawr College in 1952 and earned a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1958. She has been affiliated several times with the Brookings Institution, including stints from 1957-66, 1969-1975, 1983-1993, and 1999-present.
- Chet Edwards
Thomas Chester "Chet" Edwards (born November 24, 1951) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing a district based in Waco, Texas. He represented Texas's 11th District from 1991 to 2005, and since 2005 has represented the 17th District. A resident of Waco, his district includes the town of Crawford, the home of President George W. Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch, …
- Jeb Hensarling
Jeb Hensarling (born May 29, 1957), American politician, has been the Republican congressman representing the Texas 5th congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives since 2003. Hensarling was born in Stephenville, Texas, and grew up on the family farm in College Station. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in economics. In 1982 he earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
- Mark Murray
Mark Murray is president of Meijer and was the third president of Grand Valley State University, serving from 2001 to 2006. He received his master's degree in Labor and Industrial Relations and his bachelor's degree in Economics from Michigan State University. Prior to his tenure at Grand Valley, he served in Michigan state government. His positions were: treasurer, budget director, director of the Department of Management and Budget, …
- Les Aspin
Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. (July 21, 1938 - May 21, 1995) was a United States Congressman from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994.
- George P. Shultz
George Pratt Shultz (born December 13, 1920) served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989.
- Stephen Slivinski
Stephen Slivinski is the director of budget studies at the Cato Institute. He has previously worked for the Tax Foundation, the James Madison Institute and the Goldwater Institute. He has written extensively on the United States Congress's spending practices, and published a book on Republican budget policy in 2006.
- David Safavian
David Safavian , the Bush administration's former top procurement official and a former chief of staff for the General Services Administration, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in October after he was found guilty of covering up his dealings with Abramoff. Safavian is appealing his June 2006 conviction.
- Michaele Schreyer
Michaele Schreyer (born Cologne, 9 August 1951) was a commissioner of the European Commission from September 1999 to November 2004. She was in charge of the budget portfolio. A citizen of Germany, she had a background in the German Green Party.
- Warren Chisum
Warren Darrel Chisum (born July 4, 1938) is a staunchly conservative Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from the Panhandle city of Pampa, a community of some 20,000 people and the seat of Gray County. He has served in the state House since 1989. A key lieutenant of Speaker Thomas Russell "Tom" Craddick, Sr., of Midland, Chisum is the incoming 2007 chairman of the budget-writing House Appropriations Committee.
- Peter Hutchinson
Peter Hutchinson (born December 17, 1949) is an American politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Minnesota. He ran as an Independent candidate for Governor of Minnesota in 2006. He received the endorsement of the Independence Party of Minnesota. Hutchinson was born in Faribault, Minnesota, but moved to Rochester, New York with his family at a young age. He attended Dartmouth College, where he received a bachelor's degree in government and urban studies, …
- Christine Vachon
Christine Vachon (b. 1962, Manhattan, New York City) is an American movie producer known for producing challenging, independent films which also happen to be commercially successful. Vachon came to prominence as the producer of a number of films with a Queer theme in the early 1990s, and has been called the "godmother" of New Queer Cinema, although she herself resists the title.
- Philip Cooney
Philip Cooney is the former chief of staff for President George W. Bush's Council on Environmental Quality and a former energy industry lobbyist (American Petroleum Institute). In a position that may be viewed as requiring scientific training, Cooney is a lawyer and holds a bachelors degree in economics. Prior to working for the Bush Administration, Cooney was a lawyer and lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute, a petroleum and gas lobbying organization which has, …
- Max Sandlin
Max A. Sandlin, Jr. (born September 29, 1952), American politician, is a former Democratic Congressman representing Texas's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2005. Sandlin was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of fiscally moderate Democrats in Congress. Born in Texarkana, Arkansas, Sandlin earned Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from Baylor University, …
- Henry Bellmon
Henry Louis Bellmon (born September 3, 1921) is an American Republican politician from Oklahoma. He was a member of the Oklahoma Legislature, twice the Governor of Oklahoma, the first Republican to hold the office, and a two-term United States Senator.
- Tertius Zongo
Tertius Zongo (born 18 May 1957) has been the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso since June 2007. Zongo was born in Koudougou. He has an extensive background in economics and accounting. He became Deputy Minister for Budget and Planning, under the Minister of the Economy, Finances, and Planning, in June 1995; in February 1996 he became government spokesman in addition to his role as Deputy Minister, and he remained government spokesman until November 2000.
- Arthur Davis
Arthur "Art" Davis (June 14 1905 - May 9 2000) was an animator and a director for Warner Brothers' Termite Terrace cartoon studio. He got his start at a young age at the New York studio of Max Fleisher, and is reputed to have been the first in-betweener in the animation industry. Another of his distinctions was that he tapped out the famous "bouncing ball" of the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" cartoons of the 1920s. While one of the Fleischer brothers played the ukulele, …
- Catherine Guy-Quint
Catherine Guy-Quint (born 1 September 1949 in Poitiers) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for central France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the Committee on Budgets. She is also chair of the delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee, a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, …
- Michael P. Jackson
On March 10, 2005, Michael P. Jackson was confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In this role, Mr. Jackson serves as DHS’ chief operating officer, with responsibility for managing day-to-day operations. Mr. Jackson served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) from May 2001 to August 2003. As Deputy Secretary, Mr.
- Jay Hammond
Jay Sterner Hammond was an American Republican politician who was Governor of Alaska from 1974 to 1982. He was born in Troy, New York in 1922. He studied petroleum engineering at Penn State University, where he was a member of Triangle Fraternity. He later served as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II, and in China, until 1946.
- Kenneth W. Dam
Kenneth W. Dam (born 1932) served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (the second highest official in the United States Department of the Treasury) from 2001 to 2003, where he specialized in international economic development. He is currently a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and a professor emeritus and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Kenneth Dam graduated from the University of Kansas in 1954, …
- Nancy-Ann Min Deparle
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle was sworn in as Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration November 10, 1997. The HCFA Administrator, a key health policy advisor to the HHS Secretary and other top Administration officials, directs the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which help provide health insurance coverage for more than 67 million Americans at a cost of more than $320 billion annually.
- Douglas H. Ginsburg
Judge Ginsburg is a graduate of Cornell University and of the University of Chicago Law School (1973), where he was the Articles Editor of the Law Review. He was law clerk to Hon. Carl G. McGowan on the D.C. Circuit, and to Justice Thurgood of the U.S. Supreme Court before joining the Harvard Law School Faculty (1975-83).
- André Cools
André Cools was a Belgian socialist politician who was assassinated at Liège. His nickname was "Le maître de Flémalle" (Flémalle's master). While the police was investigating the assassination, several scandals involving André Cools became public (like the Agusta-affair). He was Belgian budget minister from 1968 to 1971, Deputy Prime Minister from 1969 to 1972, head of the Belgian Socialist Party from 1973 to 1978, …
- Bill Orton
William (Bill) Orton (born September 22, 1948) is a U.S. Democratic Party politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Utah from 1991 to 1997. Born in Ogden, Utah, Orton is a devout Mormon. He attended Brigham Young University, from which he earned his undergraduate degree and his Juris Doctor. In 1966, he was hired by the Internal Revenue Service, and in 1979, he returned to Utah to set up a private law practice.
- Toshihiro Nagoshi
Toshihiro Nagoshi is a video game producer and designer for Sega. Nagoshi is in charge of Sega's New Entertainment R&D #1 studio. Nagoshi headed Sega AM4/Amusement Vision before NE R&D #1 was formed. He is best known as the producer and director of the Super Monkey Ball series, excluding Super Monkey Ball Adventure. His credits also include "Virtua Striker", "Daytona USA", and "Spikeout".
- Sara Tucker
Sara Martinez Tucker is the Under Secretary of Education at the U.S. Department of Education and former president and Chief Executive Officer of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. In 2005, TIME Magazine named her one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America; Town & Country ranked her among the young, new breed of philanthropists. As president and CEO of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, …
- Ganesh Chand
Dr. Ganeshwar Chand, better known as Ganesh Chand, is a Fijian academic and former politician of Indian descent. He is a founder of the University of Fiji and serves as a Trustee of the Fiji Institute of Applied Studies and as Editor of Fijian Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji <small>(source)</small>. From 1999 to 2006, Chand represented the Lautoka City Indian Communal Constituency, one of 19 reserved for Indo-Fijians, …
- George Ward Hunt
George Ward Hunt (30 July 1825 - 29 July 1877) was a British Conservative Party politician and statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1st and 2nd ministries of Benjamin Disraeli. He was born at Buckhurst in Berkshire, the only surviving son of a minister, and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1851, and 21 November of that year was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. He married Alice Eden, daughter of a bishop, in 1857, …
- Uschi Schreiber
Uschi Schreiber replaced Steve Buckland as the Director-General of Queensland Health on 27 July 2005 and was appointed for a period of up to fifteen months, along with two new Deputy Directors-Generals. Ms Schreiber was formerly Deputy Director-General in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.
- Wang Anshi
Wáng Ānshí (1021 - May 21, 1086) was a Chinese economist, statesman, chancellor and poet of the Song Dynasty who attempted some controversial, major socioeconomic reforms. These reforms constituted the core concepts and motives of the Reformists, while their nemesis, Chancellor Sima Guang, led the Conservative faction against them.
- Edgar Benson
Edgar John Benson, PC, FCA, B.Comm (born May 28 1923) is a retired Canadian politician and businessman. Benson was a chartered accountant by profession, and co-owner of a local radio station. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 general election as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston, Ontario. He entered the Cabinet of Prime Minister Lester Pearson in 1964 as Minister of National Revenue, and served concurrently, …
- John Suchet
John Suchet (born 29 March 1944, surname pronounced) is a British news reader and television presenter. He is most famous for being a newsreader for ITV News from 1972 until 2004. During this time, he presented "News at 12.30/News at One" and "News at Ten", but became best-known for his presenting the "Early Evening News" between 1992 (when it was introduced to replace the "News At 5:40") and 1999 when the bulletin was dropped.
- Ghezo
Ghezo was the ninth King of Dahomey (now Benin), considered one of the greatest of the twelve historical kings. He ruled from 1818 to 1858. His name before ascending to the throne was Gakpe. Ghezo's symbols are two birds on a tree, a buffalo, and a clay jar sieve with holes in it held by two hands, a symbol of unity. Ghezo is said to have used the sieve as a metaphor for the kind of unity needed for the country to defeat its enemies and overcome its problems; i.e., …
- Victor H. Fazio
Victor H. Fazio was named senior advisor at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in May 2005 after serving as senior partner at Clark & Weinstock since 1999. Prior to that, he served as a Member of Congress for 20 years representing California's third congressional district. During that time, he served as a member of the Armed Services, Budget and Ethics Committees and was a member of the House Appropriations Committee where he served as Subcommittee Chair or ranking member for 18 years.
- Ibrahima Kassory Fofana
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana is a former Guinean politician. Originally a civil servant in the Ministry for Co-operation, in 1990 Fofana became the Director for Public Investments. In 1994, he accepted President Lansana Conté offer to become the "Administrator and Controller of Major Works". Increasingly close to Conté, in 1996 he was delegated to the office of the Prime Minister, with responsibility for the national budget and the NGO sector.
- Jozo Radoš
Jozo Radoš is a Croatian centre-left politician. He was a member of the HSLS party which allied with SDP for the 2000 parliament elections which they won. Following this, Radoš became Croatian Minister of Defence in the government led by Ivica Račan. During his mandate as minister, the military budget was severely cut as part of a late post-war demilitarization. Mandatory military service was also cut from 12 to 6 months.
- Philip Snowden 1st Viscount Snowden
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden was a British politician and the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer. Snowden was born in Cowling in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father had been a weaver and a Chartist, and Snowden joined the Liberal Party and followed his parents in becoming a Methodist and a teetotaller. While researching a speech on the dangers of socialism, Snowden instead became convinced by the ideology, and joined the Independent Labour Party.
- Massimiliano Mauriello
In the last ten years of job experience developed a professional path focused on accounting/administrative roles, having been in charge of roles such as accountant, administrative, controller, mainly in multinational companies and taking part at some important projects.