page_title: List of University of Sussex alumni
section_title: Politicians
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Sussex alumni / Politicians
caption_attribution_description: English: Festus Mogae
context_page_description: This is a list of notable alumni of the University of Sussex.
context_section_description: Peter Kyle, British Labour Politician and member of British Parliament
  Kemi Badenoch, Conservative Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden
  Marina Baker, Liberal Democrat politician in Lewes
  Enele Sopoaga, Prime minister of Tuvalu
  Tony Baldry, former Conservative Member of Parliament for Banbury
  Hilary Benn, Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds Central, former Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  Lloyd Russell-Moyle, British Labour politician and Member of British Parlimaent
  Ben Bradshaw, Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter, former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
  Isatou Touray, Vice-president of The Republic of The Gambia
  Carlos Alvarado Quesada, president of Costa Rica
  Simon Busuttil, Maltese Member of the European Parliament
  David Lee Camp, U.S.  member of the House of Representatives
  Bernard Coard, minister and deputy prime minister of Grenada
  Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
  Rob Davies, minister of the Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa
  Bogolo Kenewendo, Economist and youngest-ever government minister of Botswana
  Michael Fabricant, Conservative Member of Parliament for Lichfield
  Andrew George, former Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives
  Philip Gould, Lord Gould, Life peer and adviser to the Labour Party
  Peter Hain, former Labour Member of Parliament for Neath and Secretary of State for Wales
  Sir Jonathan Faull, former British official in the European commission and current chair of European Public Affairs at Brunswick and Professor at King's College London
  David Hallam, former Labour Member of the European Parliament, author
  Musa Hitam, former deputy prime minister of Malaysia
  David Lepper, former Labour Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion
  Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa
  Festus Mogae, President of Botswana
  Caroline Nokes, Conservative Member of Parliament for Romsey and Southampton North
  Dan Norris, former Labour Member of Parliament for Wansdyke, North East Somerset
  Sherry Rehman, Senator, Pakistan (2015–Present)
  Matt Rodda. Labour Member of Parliament for Reading East (UK Parliament constituency)
  George Saitoti, Kenyan politician
  Martin Salter, former Labour Member of Parliament for Reading West
  Guy Scott, President of Zambia
  Mateusz Szczurek, Finance Minister of Poland
  Euclid Tsakalotos, Greek finance minister, (2015 – Present)
  Geoffrey Van Orden, Conservative MEP for East of England 1999-2019, formerly Brigadier, British Army
  Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament
  Alan Woods, Trotskyist activist
  Mohammad Shtayyeh, Prime Minister of the State of Palestine
caption: Festus Mogae, President of Botswana
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