Anil Ambani, chairman of Reliance Group.Nicolas Aguzin, CEO of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing.

Laurent Adamowicz, French entrepreneur lecturer author public health advocate.

Ronald Perelman, chairman and CEO of MacAndrews & Forbes Group, earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from Wharton.

George Taylor, considered the 'father of American arbitration' Department of Labor Hall of Honor inductee namesake of the Taylor Law.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, researcher in risk and uncertainty, originator of the Black Swan theory author of the Incerto.

Benn Steil, economist and writer senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations founder and editor of the journal International Finance).

Schwartz, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School

Steve Salbu, dean emeritus of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006–2014.

Ramchandran Jaikumar, Daewoo Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

Amos Eiran, president of the University of Haifa, Israel.

Mark Burstein, academic administrator at Lawrence University.

William Frederick Boulding, dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Baidyanath Misra, former vice-chancellor of the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology chairman of Odisha State Planning Board chairman of Odisha's First State Finance Commission.

As of 2018, there are approximately 99,000 alumni in over 150 different countries, including 79,280 in North America, 5,660 in Asia, 4,510 in Europe, 1,370 in the Caribbean and Latin America, 930 in Africa and the Middle East, and 380 in Australia and New Zealand.

View images of MIT alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends celebrating the spirit of the sesquicentennial.The list of notable Wharton School alumni are graduates of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Nearly 8,000 people gathered in Killian Court for the MIT150 finale, Toast to Tech, which was cohosted by the Association and the Office of Institute Events. The Class of 1954 sponsored the Lobby 7 design competition, which invited students to imagine the completion of the original plans for that space, as well as a performance on campus of Israel in Egypt by the Handel and Haydn Society. The MIT Alumni Association, founded in 1875, hosted 164 sesquicentennial events on five continents, including 55 Toast to IAP gatherings, 47 Charter Day events, and 14 Days of Service. Less than a decade later, Robert Taylor became the Institute's first black alumnus he became a vocal proponent of black education around the country and at MIT. The first female alumna, Ellen Swallow Richards, graduated in 1873 and helped establish an MIT lab dedicated to teaching women chemistry. Today, more than 9,500 alumni volunteer their services for the Institute each year, with many serving as class and club officers, educational counselors, fundraisers, and mentors. In the early 20th century, alumni pledged $200,000 and voted three to one against a plan to allow Harvard to acquire MIT, narrowly preserving the independence of the Institute. Alumni occupy 78 percent of the seats on the MIT Corporation and at least 33 percent of its visiting committees they interview prospective students and bring educational resources to their communities and each year they donate hundreds of millions of dollars.

A 2009 study found that currently active companies founded by MIT alumni employ about 3.3 million people and generate annual world sales of $2 trillion, producing the equivalent of the eleventh-largest economy in the world.Īlumni contributions strengthen MIT’s governance, community outreach, and financial health, as well.

MIT-trained engineers are responsible for developing a range of life-changing inventions, from the Ethernet to Campbell's soup to innovative cancer treatments.More than a third of the nation’s space flights have included MIT-educated astronauts.More than 26 alumni have won a Nobel Prize.MIT has reason to be extraordinarily proud of its accomplished, creative, philanthropic alumni, whose achievements have shaped the world in profound ways over the past 150 years.

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