27 Notable alumni of
London Metropolitan University
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London Metropolitan University is 1594th in the world, 550th in Europe, and 101st in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 27 notable alumni from London Metropolitan University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sadiq Khan
- Occupations
- solicitorlawyerpolitician
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Sir Sadiq Aman Khan is a British politician serving as the third and current mayor of London since 2016. He was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting from 2005 until 2016. A member of the Labour Party, Khan is on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat.
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Daniela Ruah
- Occupations
- film directormodeltelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah Olsen is an American-Portuguese actress and film director best known for playing NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye in the CBS police procedural series NCIS: Los Angeles.
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AJ Tracey
- Occupations
- singersongwriterdancerrapperrecord producer
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Ché Wolton Grant, known professionally as AJ Tracey, is a British rapper and record producer from Ladbroke Grove, London. Tracey rose to popularity in 2016 and was listed by The Guardian in a list of "best new acts to catch at festivals in 2016".
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Maimie McCoy
- Occupations
- film actoractorstage actor
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Mary McCoy, professionally known as Maimie McCoy is an English actress. She portrayed Milady de Winter in The Musketeers (2014–2016), and is the female lead in the ITV reboot series Van der Valk (2020–).
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Julie Bindel
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- feministactivistjournalist
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Julie Bindel is an English radical feminist writer. She co-founded Justice for Women, which helps women who have been prosecuted for assaulting or killing violent male partners.
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Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II
- Enrolled in London Metropolitan University
- Graduated with diploma in management and administration
- Occupations
- consultantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II is the sixteenth Asantehene, king of the Asante people and traditional ruler of the Asante Kingdom in Ghana. He was enstooled on 26 April 1999, succeeding his uncle Otumfuo Opoku Ware II, and is the custodian of the Golden Stool, the sacred symbol of Asante unity and authority.
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Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi
- Occupations
- police officer
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Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi is an Emirati police officer and a Major General of the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Interior serving as the current and 30th President of Interpol since 25 November 2021. He was elected by the general assembly of Interpol on 24 November 2021. Al Raisi is the first Arab to be elected as the President of Interpol and the first President of Interpol from the Middle East since its foundation in 1923.
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Edmund “Ed” Husain
- Occupations
- autobiographer
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Edmund “Ed” Husain (born 25 December 1974) is a published British American author, co-founder of the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam Foundation, Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). As a political advisor he has worked with leaders and governments across the world. Husain's work at CFR focuses primarily on U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East generally, and specifically at the intersection of Arab-Israeli relations after the Abraham Accords, the geopolitical interplay of Arab Gulf states, China-Muslim world dynamics, and Islamist terrorism. At Columbia and Georgetown Universities, he teaches classes on global security, Arab-Israeli peace, Race, Religion, and Terrorism, and the shared intellectual roots of the West and Islam.
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Houda Nonoo
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- diplomatpolitician
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Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo is a Bahraini politician who served as the Bahraini Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2013. She was appointed to the position by Foreign Affairs Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa. Nonoo is the first Jew, and the third woman, to be appointed ambassador of Bahrain. She is also the first Jewish ambassador of any Middle Eastern Arab country, and the first female Bahraini ambassador to the United States.
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Ouissem Belgacem
- Enrolled in London Metropolitan University
- 2008-2010 graduated with bachelor's degree in mass communication and marketing
- Occupations
- writerentrepreneurassociation football player
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Ouissem Belgacem is a French former high-performance athlete and writer of Tunisian origin. He played football for Toulouse FC from the ages of 13 to 18 years old. He published his first autobiographical novel, Adieu ma honte, in 2021. Belgacem often raises awareness about homophobia in the field of football, which he had to leave to live his sexuality freely.
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Conor McGinn
- Occupations
- politician
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Conor Patrick McGinn is a British and Irish politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens North from 2015 to 2024.
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Inger Andersen
- Occupations
- economistUnited Nations officialenvironmentalist
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Inger Andersen is a Danish economist and environmentalist. In February 2019, she was appointed as the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
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Toolz
- Occupations
- radio personality
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Tolu Oniru, popularly known as Toolz, is a Nigerian radio personality, talk show host, and presenter. She hosts The Midday Show on The Beat 99.9 FM. Toolz aka Tolu Oniru-Demuren became the acting Program Director of The Beat 99.9 FM in 2020.
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Lola Shoneyin
- Occupations
- novelistpoetwriter
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Lola Shoneyin is a Nigerian poet and author who launched her debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, in the UK in May 2010. Shoneyin has forged a reputation as an adventurous, humorous and outspoken poet (often classed in the feminist mould), having published three volumes of poetry. Her writing delves into themes related to female sexuality and the difficulties of domestic life in Africa. In April 2014 she was named on the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature. Lola won the PEN Award in America as well as the Ken Saro-Wiwa Award for prose in Nigeria. She was also on the list for the Orange Prize in the UK for her debut novel, The Secret of Baba Segi's Wives, in 2010. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria, where she curates and runs the annual Aké Arts and Book Festival. In 2017, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper.
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Mark Tedeschi
- Occupations
- photographerbarrister
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Mark Tedeschi, AM, KC is an Australian barrister, law professor, photographer and author. He is in private practice at Wardell Chambers in Sydney. He was formerly the Senior Crown prosecutor for New South Wales and the Head of Chambers of the Crown prosecutors. He was the founder and president of the Australian Association of Crown Prosecutors and is a visiting professor at the University of Wollongong. As a prosecutor, Tedeschi was best known for the prosecution of numerous high-profile cases in Australia, including the backpacker murders committed by Ivan Milat in the 1990s; several prosecutions he secured have been overturned and labelled miscarriages of justice. He has won numerous awards for his photography and has been featured in galleries throughout the world, including in the State Library of New South Wales, the New South Wales Art Gallery, the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, and the National Library in Canberra.
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Meral Hussein-Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece
- Occupations
- politician
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Meral Hussein Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece, OBE is a British Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a Liberal Democrat working peer on 28 May 2010. She was the Liberal Democrat Spokeswoman for Equalities from 2015 until 2016, under leader Tim Farron.
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Emilio Romano
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Mexico - Occupations
- lawyer
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Emilio Romano is a businessman and attorney. He is Managing Director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Mexico. He joins the financial firm from Telemundo, where he served as President since 2011. Prior to this, Romano was president and CEO of Grupo Puerta Alameda, a real estate development and investment company, as well as CEO of Grupo Mexicana de Aviación. He also served in several roles in the Mexican Ministry of Finance, including General Director of Tax Policy and Federal Fiscal Attorney.
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Yinka Ilori
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- designergraphic designerartist
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Olay Yinka Ilori is a British-Nigerian artist and designer known for his playful design language and the bold use of bright colours. His work includes architecture, public spaces and sculptural installations, interior design, graphic design, homewares, textiles, fashion, and furniture. He is a storyteller who uses design as a medium, often referencing his British and Nigerian heritage. The New York Times Style Magazine described Ilori as "one of '12 Talents Shaping the Design World'", and Abitare referred to him as belonging "to a more open-minded and inclusive generation that sees design as offering a possible response to social and environmental changes."
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Harshad Bhadeshia
- Occupations
- engineermetallurgist
- Biography
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Sir Harshad "Harry" Kumar Dharamshi Hansraj Bhadeshia FRS FREng FIMMM is an Indian-British metallurgist and Emeritus Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. In 2022 he joined Queen Mary University of London as Professor of Metallurgy.
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Adaora Onyechere
- Occupations
- television presenter
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Adaora Onyechere // is a Nigerian broadcast journalist, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, poet and author. She is a former co-anchor of Kakaaki, a daily talk show on Africa Independent Television. She currently hosts her own show, Talk to Adaora commonly known as Talk2Adaora on Kiss 99.9 FM Abuja. She is the founder of WEWE Network Afrique, a Pan-African organization. Talk2Adaora is a project of WEWE Network Afrique. She is also the CEO of Signature Heels Media.
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Zakia Hussein
- Born in
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Somalia - Occupations
- politician
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Zakia Hussein, also known as Zakia Hussein Ahmed, is a Somali politician who has made significant strides in the country's security forces, becoming a role model for women across Somalia. Zakia Hussein hails from the Surre sub-division of the wider Dir clan.
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Obi Emelonye
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
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Obi Emelonyelisten is a Nigerian film director. He is known for directing award-winning films such as Last Flight to Abuja (2012), The Mirror Boy (2011), and Onye Ozi (2013).
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Irenosen Okojie
- Occupations
- writer
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Irenosen Iseghohi Okojie MBE FRSL is a Nigerian-born novelist and short-story writer working in London, England. Her stories incorporate speculative elements and also make use of her West African heritage. Her first novel, Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask Award in 2016, and her story "Grace Jones" won the 2020 Caine Prize for African Writing. Okojie was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, and in 2020 was appointed a vice-chair of the RSL.
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Kurt Barling
- Enrolled in London Metropolitan University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
- Occupations
- television producerdocumentarianjournalistuniversity teacher
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J. Kurt Barling is a British professor of journalism at Middlesex University. He previously worked as a journalist for the BBC for 25 years and before that as a lecturer at the London School of Economics. In 1997, he won the CRE's Reporter of the Year award. He is also an author and has been an independent film producer.
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Lata Gouveia
- Occupations
- singerguitaristsinger-songwriter
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Lata is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He is a well-known Red Dirt artist in Oklahoma and a reference of Americana music in Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium and the north of France.
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Rainatou Sow
- Occupations
- activist
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Rainatou Sow is a Guinean woman who founded 'Make Every Woman Count': an organisation operated by a team of young women in Africa, America and Europe who use their passion and experience to promote rights and empowerment of women and girls. She is an campaigner for a peaceful and equitable world, a human rights and social justice advocate, and works to empower women and girls.
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Gibril Faal
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- businesspersonuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Gibril Faal OBE is a British-Gambian business and development executive. In 2014, he was appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to international development, following a nomination by the Department for International Development (DfID). He is a visiting professor in practice at London School of Economics (Institute of Global Affairs). He was one of the global leaders who spoke at the 19 September 2016 UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants, joining select presidents, prime ministers and institution leaders to address the question of 'International cooperation'. Gibril serves as technical expert in the consultations and negotiations for the Global Compact on Migration. He was the Grand Rapporteur of the Tenth Summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in Berlin in June 2017. He co-moderated Common Space of the Eighth GFMD Summit in Istanbul in October 2015. He co-chaired the seventh GFMD) in Stockholm in May 2014. In 2013, he delivered two keynote addresses at the United Nations General Assembly. He was selected to speak on behalf of global civil society and joined the UN Secretary General to open the High Level Dialogue on Migration and International Development.
