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Matteo Renzi
Italian politician (born 1975)
Juan Manuel Santos
president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018
Claudia Sheinbaum
president of Mexico since 2024
Sauli Niinistö
Finnish politician and the 12th President of Finland (2012-2024)
Romano Prodi
Italian politician and economist (born 1939)
Joachim Gauck
German Protestant pastor and politician, Federal President of Germnay 2012–2017 (born 1940)
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Spanish politician
Gro Harlem Brundtland
29th Prime Minister of Norway
Tarja Halonen
President of Finland from 2000 to 2012 (born 1943)
Naoto Kan
94th Prime Minister of Japan
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank
Sonia Gandhi
Indian politician
María Corina Machado
Venezuelan politician, activist and Nobel laureate (born 1967)
Klaus Iohannis
President of Romania from 2014 to 2025
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO
José Manuel Barroso
Portuguese politician (born 1956)
Václav Klaus
President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013
Yukio Hatoyama
Prime Minister of Japan from 2009 to 2010
John Howard
Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007
Sahle-Work Zewde
President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Erna Solberg
Prime Minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021
Nigel Farage
British politician
Steven Chu
American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate (born 1948)
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Icelandic politician, 4th President of Iceland