List of INSEAD alumni
INSEAD has more than 60,000 alumni worldwide across its degrees, comprising more than 150 nationalities.
The MBA program has produced the second-highest number of Fortune 500 CEOs, behind Harvard Business School. It is amongst the largest 20 producers of ultra high-net-worth individuals across all educational institutions, and is also amongst the top 10 producers of billionaire alumni amongst global MBA programs. INSEAD's MBA alumni are fourth worldwide in terms of capital raised, founder count, and company count.
This list shows 17 INSEAD alumni as billionaires.
Academia
- William, Lord Hague, 106th Chancellor of University of Oxford, Former Leader of Conservative Party (UK), Former First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs of the UK.
- Helen Alexander, former Chancellor of the University of Southampton, former CEO of The Economist Group, first female President of Confederation of British Industry.
- Julie Battilana, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
- Ian Goldin, Professor and Founding Director at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford.
- Jean-Claude Larreche, Emeritus Professor, Alfred H. Heineken Chair of Marketing at INSEAD.
- Yoshihiro Kawai Professor at University of Tokyo, Chairman of OECD Insurance and Private Pension Committee, Secretary General of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors
- Ludovic Phalippou, Professor of Financial Economics, University of Oxford.
- Christian Terwiesch, Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Miklos Sarvary, the Carson Family Professor of Business and the faculty lead for the Media and Technology Program at Columbia Business School
- Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professorship of Finance at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge
- Soumitra Dutta, Dean of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, founding dean of SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University
- António Borges, Director of the European Department of the International Monetary Fund, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, Vice Governor of Banco de Portugal
- John Pollaers, Chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology
Finance
- Tidjane Thiam, Former CEO at Credit Suisse and Prudential.
- Paul Marshall, co-founder and chairman, Marshall Wace.
- António Horta Osório, Former CEO at Lloyds Banking Group and Former Chairman at Credit Suisse.
- Henry Engelhardt, Billionaire Founder of Admiral Group
- Susumu Fujimoto, Vice president Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. and MS&AD Insurance Group
- Andrea Rossi, CEO of AXA Investment Managers
- Hoi Tung, Chairman/CEO at China Ping An Insurance Overseas Holdings
- Lin Lily, Board of Directors member at Vanke, Former executive director, Vanke Overseas Investment Holding
- Charlie Nunn, CEO, Lloyds Banking Group.
- Nathalie Rachou, Board member of UBS and Euronext.
- Bernard Brenninkmeijer, Board member of Vatican Bank
- Shanu S.P. Hinduja, Chairperson of Hinduja Bank, Chair of the Hinduja Foundation, and Co-Chair and Director of Hinduja Global Solutions Inc.
- Claire Dumas, Group CFO of Société Générale
- Andrew Sillitoe, Partner, co-CEO, Apax Partners
- David Morin, Managing Director, Head of North America, Private Equity at PSP Investments.
- Andrea Scerch, President of Latin America and the Caribbean of Mastercard, Member of Management Committee
- Eimear Creaven, Co-President, Global Partnerships of Mastercard, Member of Management Committee
- Meyrick Douglas, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Prudential Financial
- Sandeep Dadlani, Executive Vice President, Chief Digital & Technology Officer, UnitedHealth Group
- Meera Sanyal, Former CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland, India.
- Roberto Buaron, Chairman and CEO of First Atlantic Capital
- Philip Hampton, Former Chairman, J Sainsbury; Royal Bank of Scotland Group
- Huw van Steenis, Vice Chair of Oliver Wyman, Former Head of European Financials Services Research, Morgan Stanley
- Driss Ben-Brahim, Special Situations, GLG Partners
- Andrea Orcel, Former CEO, Banco Santander, CEO, UniCredit
- Anne Richards, CEO, Fidelity International
- Kenneth Courtis, former Vice-Chairman Asia, Goldman Sachs, former Chief Economist Deutsche Bank
- Lucy Quist, Head of Change Leadership, Morgan Stanley
- Wiebe Draijer, CEO, Rabobank
- Federico Burgoni, Head, Group Strategy and Transformation of UOB
- Joshua Oigara, CEO of KCB Group.
- Breon Corcoran, CEO of IG Group.
- Lee Eun-ho, CEO of Lotte Insurance.
Healthcare and biotech
- André Hoffmann (businessman), Swiss billionaire businessman, vice chairman of Roche Holding.
- Wolfgang Marguerre, German billionaire founder and chairman of Octapharma.
- Helge Lund, chairman of BP, chairman of Novo Nordisk
- Yvonne Greenstreet, CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
- Franz Humer, former chairman of Roche and Diageo
- Bernard Broermann, billionaire founder of Asklepios Kliniken.
- Said Darwazah, CEO and chairman of Hikma Pharmaceuticals.
- Roch Doliveux, CEO of UCB
- Flemming Ørnskov, CEO of Galderma.
- Stefan Willich - Professor, Director of Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics at Charité, Founder and conductor of the World Doctors Orchestra.
- Jean-Marc Huët Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lonza Group, former CFO Unilever.
- Elcin Barker Ergun, CEO of Menarini Group
- Philippe Drouet, Chief Commercial Officer of CRISPR Therapeutics
- Que (Thanh) Dallara, Member of Executive Board, Executive Vice President and President for the Diabetes Operating Unit, Medtronic
- Carlos Jaureguizar, CEO of Sanitas and Bupa Europe&LatinAmerica
Energy and Mining
- Helge Lund, Chairmand of BP, Chairman of Novo Nordisk
- Jessica Uhl, President of GE Power, Former CFO of Royal Dutch Shell.
- Roustam Tariko, billionaire Founder & President of Russian Standard Corporation.
- Marius Kloppers, Former CEO of BHP.
- Jérôme Tolot, Executive Vice President of Engie
- Francesco Caio, CEO and Chairman of Saipem, CEO of Poste Italiane
- Noel Aoun, Chief Strategy Officer, TAQA
- Nabil Almessabi, Chief Corporate Officer of TAQA
- Stanley Huang Tian Guan,, CEO of Singapore Power Group
- Sam Laidlaw, Former CEO of Centrica
- Bernard Pinatel Member of Management Committee and President Downstream and President Marketing & Services, TotalEnergies
- Cedrik Neike Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO Siemens Digital Industries
- Ernestina Benedetto, EVP Strategy and Transformation, Member of Executive Board at Varo Energy
- Christoph Brand, CEO Axpo Group
- Josephine Wapakabulo, Former CEO of Uganda National Oil Company
- Mikkel Seidelin, Chief Commercial Officer of Teekay
- Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Mirvac Group, non-executive director of Rio Tinto and Macquarie Group.
Automotive and Transport
- Yasuhisa Fujita, President, Toyota Finance Corporation
- Robert Peugeot, Billionaire Vice Chairman of Stellantis
- Adam Chilinski, Chief Finance Officer of SAIC-GM, $20bn revenue JV between SAIC and General Motors
- Noel Tata, billionaire Chairman of Tata Trusts, which holds a 66% stake in Tata Sons, the parent company of the Tata Group.
- Heung-Soo Kim, Executive Vice President and Head of the Global Strategy Office of Hyundai Motor Group
- Nicolas Maure, EVP, Renault Group
- Nicolas Wertans, Senior Vice President, Global Sales, Renault Group
- Jasmmine Wong, Vice President, Mobility Abdul Latif Jameel/CEO Jameel Motors
- Yousef Hussein, Chief Commercial Officer Jameel Motors
- Dominique Signora, 5th CEO of Renault Samsung Motors
- Stephane Deblaise 6th CEO of Renault Samsung Motors
Defense and Aerospace
- Jean-Loïc Galle, COO and CPO Thales Group, former CEO of Thales Alenia Space
- Philippe Harache, Former Deputy CEO of Eurocopter/ Airbus Helicopters, largest helicopter manufacturer globally.
- John Holland-Kaye, CEO, Heathrow Airport Holdings
- Dominik Asam, CFO of SAP, Former CFO Airbus
- Eva Berneke, CEO of Eutelsat
- Tony Wood, former CEO Rolls-Royce Aerospace, former CEO of Meggitt, Board member of Airbus
- Khalid Al Kaf, COO Yahsat
- Benoît Habert, Deputy CEO of Dassault Group
- Michael Wee, Group President of Asia Pacific, Parker Hannifin Corporation
Chemical and other industrial
- Jean-Pierre Berghmans, INSEAD MBA, CEO of Lhoist Group
- Michael Pragnell, founder and CEO, Syngenta, Former CEO of Zeneca Agrochemicals
- Cees van Lede, former chairman and CEO, Akzo Nobel
- Mikael Staffas, CEO Boliden
- Benoit Potier, CEO of Air Liquide
- Nicolas Changeur, CEO for services & solutions and chief marketing officer, member of executive committee, Aperam
Corporate services
- Charles Alexander Portes, Founder of ESR Group
- Raj Singh, MBA, Managing Partner, JLL Spark
- Mark Read, CEO of WPP
- Arthur Sadoun, CEO of Publicis.
- Colin Dyer, former CEO of JLL
- Rui Bastos Ernst & Young Global Risk Leader
Consumer goods and services
- Reinold Geiger, Austrian billionaire and Chairman of L'Occitane en Provence
- Patrick Cescau, Former CEO of Unilever, Chairman of InterContinental Hotels Group.
- Antoine Arnault, billionaire CEO of Christian Dior SE.
- Lindsay Owen-Jones, Chairman of L'Oréal
- Adam Goldstein, Former CEO of Royal Caribbean International, President and COO of Royal Caribbean Group.
- Grégoire de Spoelberch, Board member of Anheuser-Busch InBev
- Niels B. Christiansen, CEO of The Lego Group.
- Barbara Martin Coppola, CEO of Decathlon
- Jan Derck van Karnebeek, CEO of FrieslandCampina
- Emma Adamo, Director of Associated British Foods.
- Eugene Willemsen, Chief Executive Officer, Africa, Middle East, South Asia and International Beverages, PepsiCo
- Finn Rausing, billionaire Co-Owner of Tetra Laval.
- Roland Krueger, CEO of Dyson
- Hubert Sagnières, former CEO of Essilor, Vice-chairman of EssilorLuxottica
- Andreas Jacobs, billionaire former Chairman of INSEAD, former Chairman of Dr. Oetker and Louis Dreyfus Company.
- Philip Houzé, Former CEO of Monoprix, Chairman of executive board of Galeries Lafayette Group, Vice-Chairman Carrefour
- John Rogers, Board member of Grab Holdings, Former CFO Sainsbury's, CFO of WPP
- Patrick Firmenich, Vice Chair of DSM-Firmenich
- Charles Rolls, co-founder of Fever-Tree.
- Antonio M. Pérez, former CEO and Chairman of Eastman Kodak Company during its bankruptcy, known for "“What everyone should expect from Kodak is business as usual.”
- André Calantzopoulos, Chairman of Philip Morris International
- Philippe Schaus, CEO Moët Hennessy Chairman & CEO, DFS Group
- Dmitry Yevgenevich Strashnov, General Director of the Russian Post from 2013 to 2017
- Melanie Kreis, CFO of Deutsche Post.
- Mark A. Sarvary, Former President & CEO, Tempur Sealy International
- Gerry Ford (businessman), Founder of Caffe Nero.
- Mika Masuyama, Board member of Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd, Kokuyo Co., Ltd, Konoike Transport Co., Ltd
- Philippe Mellier, CEO of De Beers
- Al Cook, CEO of De Beers
- Phil Bentley, CEO of Mitie.
- József Váradi, co-founder and CEO of Wizz Air.
- Veranita Yosephine Sinaga, CEO Indonesia Air Asia
- Stephan DuCharme Chairman of Dia Supermarket
- Daniel Lalonde, Former CEO, SMCP Group
- Pierre Mauger, Chief Transformation Officer, Bunge
- Thomas Couteaudier, Chief Strategy Officer, Louis Dreyfus Company
- Sebastian James, CEO of Boots.
- Edward S. Mork, Former EVP and CEO Asia and Latin America Ahold NV, Former Board Member INSEAD, Former Board Member Firmenich
Conglomerate and others
- Fernando Zobel de Ayala, billionaire CEO of Ayala Corporation
- Paul Desmarais, Jr., Canadian Billionaire Chairman and Co-CEO of Power Corporation of Canada.
- Paul Desmarais III, Canadian Billionaire Chairman of Sagard, Businessman
- Ben Keswick, Executive Chairman of Jardine Matheson.
- Carolyn Fairbairn, Former Director-General of Confederation of British Industry
- Dag J. Opedal, Former CEO of Orkla Group.
Technology
Fintech
- Taavet Hinrikus, Billionaire Co-founder of unicorn payment company Wise
- Edward Wible, co-founder and CTO of decacorn Nubank
- Livia Martines Chanes, CEO Brazil, Nubank
- Yashish Dahiya, Founder and CEO of Policybazaar.
- Luis Basagoiti Marqués, Founder and CEO, Capchase
- Pierre-François Thaler, co-founder and CEO, sustainability finance unicorn Ecovadis
- Sergio Fogel, Uruguayan Billionaire Co-founder of unicorn dLocal
- Jeff Goldstein, President, PriceGrabber
- Steve Anavi Co-founder and President of unicorn Qonto
- Alexandre Prot, co-founder and CEO of unicorn Qonto
- Giles Andrews, Founder and CEO of unicorn neobank Zopa
- Cameron Stevens, Founder and CEO of Prodigy Finance, which started as class project at INSEAD
- Chen Amit, Founder and CEO of accounting unicorn Tipalti
- Niall Wass, COO at Wonga.com
Logistics Tech and E-commerce
- Ming Zeng, Chief Strategy Officer, Alibaba Group
- Chen Weiru, Chief Strategy Officer, Cainiao
- Barney Harford, Board member of United Airlines, former COO, Uber, former CEO Orbitz.
- Frédéric Mazzella, co-founder and chairman, BlaBlaCar
- Nicolas Brusson, co-founder and CEO, BlaBlaCar
- Julien Belliato, co-founder and COO, Electra (EV charging company)
- Sukru Dagdelen, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Gorillas
- Sandeep Varaganti, CEO JioMart
- David Nothacker, Founder and CEO of unicorn Sennder, which started as a class project at INSEAD
- Jaydeep Barman, Founder and CEO of Rebel Foods
- San Kim, Founder and CEO of, Korea and Japan
- Karl Gao, Chief Compliance Officer and Global General Counsel, Nio
Media and social network
- Bob van Dijk, CEO, Naspers
- Gary Wang, Founder and Former CEO Tudou, Founder Light Chaser Animation Studios
- Dominic Gallello Former CMO of Bumble
- Natalia Vodianova Russian model and co-founder of Locals.org
- Erik Wachtmeister Founder, aSmallWorld
Tech infrastructure and Telecom
Jay Patel RIP, CEO of Imimobile and latterly SVP, Cisco- Börje Ekholm, CEO of Ericsson.
- Alexander Izosimov, Former CEO of Vimpelcom
- Nishant Batra, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, Nokia
- David A. Romna, Chief Marketing Officer of Lenovo
- André Almeida, Head of Investment and Portfolio Management of Deutsche Telekom, Board member T-Mobile
- Henrik Clausen, Chairman of TDC Net, former CEO of Bang & Olufsen
- R. Adam Norwitt, CEO of Amphenol
- Leane Woods, Chief HR Officer and Member of Executive Committee, Vodafone
- Kevin P. Ryan, Co-founder & Former CEO, DoubleClick, CEO, Gilt Groupe, Founder of MongoDB, Founder of Business Insider, Board member of Human Rights Watch
- Samir Arora, CEO & Chairman, NetObjects
- Dominique Trempont, CFO, NeXT Computer
- Suresh Sidhu, co-founder and the chief executive officer of EdgePoint, ASEAN telecom infrastructure company
Edtech
- Bin Yu, CFO of Edtech unicorn Lingochamp
Tech investment and Other
- Geoff Ralston, Former President, Y Combinator, Founder of RocketMail, which later becomes Yahoo!Mail,
- Oren Zeev, Israeli-American Billionaire Venture Capitalist
- Stephane Kurgan, Partner Index Ventures, Former COO, King.com, makers of Candy Crush
- Mark Pathy, Chairman of Stingray Group, astronaut.
- Yves-Michel Marti, Pioneer in Competitive Intelligence
- José Luis Cordeiro, Author, Futurist and Transhumanist
- George Bachiashvili, Businessman in Georgia, currently imprisoned under charges widely considered dubious
Nonprofit, law and government
Heads of state/government
- Johann Schneider-Ammann, President of Switzerland.
- Najib Mikati, Prime Minister of Lebanon and billionaire founder of Investcom.
- Jusuf Kalla, Former Vice President of Indonesia.
- Mamuka Bakhtadze, Prime Minister of Georgia.
- Wopke Hoekstra, EU Commissioner for Climate Change, Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
- Karien van Gennip, Former Second Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Dutch Minister of Social Affairs, Former CEO of ING France.
- Eric Wiebes, Former Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands.
Ministers and Members of Cabinet
- William Hague, Former Leader of Conservative Party (UK), Former First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs of the UK.
- Bill Morneau, Former Finance Minister, Government of Canada.
- Lee Yock Suan, Ministers of State, Labor, Education, Trade and Industry/Finance, in charge of Prime Minister's Office of Singapore
- Christopher Hui, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Hong Kong.
- Perry Lim, Former Chief of Defence Force.
- Conor Lenihan, Former Irish Minister of State.
- Jo Johnson, Former Minister of State, Member of Parliament Conservative Party (UK)
- Yoav Kisch, MBA, Former Israeli Minister of Education and Regional Cooperation
- Eric Wiebes, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
- Muriel Penicaud, Former Deputy CEO of Dassault Systèmes, French Minister of Labor
- Arnaud Montebourg,, Former French Minister of Economy, Industrial Renewal, and Digital Affairs
- Seamus O'Regan, Former Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs.
- Chris Liebenberg, Former Minister for Finance of South Africa
Members of Legislation
- Karl von Wogau, Member of European Parliament
- Bill Newton Dunn, Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1994, 1999 to 2014 and again from 2019 until the UK's withdrawal from the EU in 2020.
- Wolf Klinz, Member of the European Parliament
- Sam Rainsy, Member of Parliament of Cambodia.
- Tioulong Saumura, Member of Parliament of Cambodia.
- Elena Panaritis, Member of Greek parliament
- Oleksii Poroshenko, People's Deputy of Ukraine
- Einat Wilf Israeli Former Member of Knesset and Zionist
- Arvind Bellad Member of Legislative Assembly of Karnataka, India
- Rachel Ong, Member of Parliament of Singapore
- Luiz Philippe of Orléans-Braganza, Federal Deputy for São Paulo, CFO of Truth Social
Judges of Supreme Courts
- Lee Seiu Kin, a Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore.
Royal and religious leaders
- Prince Jean of Luxembourg
- Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
- Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
- Count Leo-Ferdinand Henckel von Donnersmarck, President of the German Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
- Miguel Pais do Amaral, Portuguese Aristocrat and Entrepreneur
- Jan Dobrzenský z Dobrzenicz, Grand Master of the Orléans obedience of the Order of Saint Lazarus from 2010 to 2023
Central bankers
- Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of the Banque de France.
- Andrew Large, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the Bank of England.
- Sam Woods, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
- Abdulaziz Abanmi, Deputy Governor for Payments at the Saudi Central Bank.
- Karen Silk, Assistant Governor and General Manager of Economics, Financial Markets, and Banking at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
- Mhlabuhlangene Dlamini, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Eswatini.
Other politicians
- Jussi Pajunen, Mayor of Helsinki
- David Jaworsky, Mayor of Waterloo from 2014 to 2022
- Deemah AlYahya, Saudi Diplomat.
- Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director of Economic Development Board of Singapore
- Leila Hoteit, Human Capital Specialist, Senior Partner of Boston Consulting Group
- Wendy Alexander, Scottish Politician
- Arihia Bennett, New Zealand Māori Leader
- Nick Anstee, Former Lord Mayor of the City of London
- Sadia Khan, Former Commissioner of the Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan
- Tomoaki Shimada, Mayor of Kawachinagano City, Osaka Prefecture
Non-profit
- Patricia Moreira, former Managing Director of Transparency International
- Will Hutton, Former Principal, Hertford College, Oxford
- Jan Jananayagam, co-founder, Tamils Against Genocide.
- Karen Hitschke, CEO of Building Bridges, Former COO of WHO Foundation
- Ayhan Kose, Deputy Chief Economist of the World Bank Group
- Jonathan Coony, Global Lead for Green Competitiveness, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation, World Bank Group
- Joseph Comerford, a founder of INDEAVOR Club at INSEAD, UN humanitarian expert killed in action during Great Lakes Refugee Crisis
- Tariq Fancy, Founder, The Rumie Initiative
Media
- Ryoichi Ueda, Chairman of NHK, former president and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation
- Peter Job, Former CEO, Reuters
- Birger Magnus, Board member Harvard Business Publishing, Former Deputy CEO of Schibsted
- Marinella Soldi, Chairwoman of RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana
- Shinichiro Ishikawa, Founder and CEO, Gonzo
- Tom Ryan, CEO and president of Paramount Streaming and founder of Pluto TV.
- Mika Salmi, Former President of Global Media at MTV
- Helen Alexander, former CEO of The Economist Group, first female President of Confederation of British Industry, former Chancellor of the University of Southampton
- Alan Chan, former CEO of the Singapore Press Holdings.
- Lucy Chen, Chief Data and Strategy of South China Morning Post
- Virginie Calmels chief executive officer of Canal+ and Endemol.
- Peter Tonagh, Deputy Chair, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Peter Fudakowski, 2006 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film.
- Erin Meyer, Affiliate Professor at INSEAD and Co-author of No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
- Kelvin Teo, Winner of Reality Show Love Me Do Season 1.
- Julie Meyer, TV personality on Dragons' Den.
- Gunnar Dedio, Founder and CEO, LOOKSfilm.
- Bernice Liu, Canadian actress, singer, model.
- Raymond Khoury, Lebanese Author.
- Walter Kohl, German Businessman and Author.
- Roopak Saluja, Indian Media Entrepreneur.
- Jan Mojto, film producer.
- Patrick Mork, Motivational Speaker, Co-creator Google play, Podcast Host: Mork Unfiltered, Author of Step Back and LEAP, Pocketgamer Hall of Fame inductee
Sports
- Sypros Capralos, 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics polo contestant, President of Hellenic Olympic Committee, member of the International Olympic Committee.
- Cristina Teuscher, 1996 Summer Olympics, Swimming Gold Medalist, Former Head Coach for Yale Women Swimming
- Andy Anson, CEO, British Olympic Association