Returnee
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AFS term for a person who has gone abroad through AFS and returned home. According to the AFS International 2007 annual report, there are over 300,000 returnees worldwide.
Here are the scant beginnings of a list of famous and oughta-be-famous returnees. Please contribute to it!
- H.E. Weerasak Kowsurat - Minister of Tourism and Sports for Thailand; Returnee to Pennsylvania, USA, 1984-1985.
- Jan Eliasson - President of the U.N. General Assembly; AFS alumnus Sweden to U.S.
- Zalmay Khalizad - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; AFS alumnus from Afghanistan to the U.S., 1967
- Cesar Gaviria - President of Colombia, President of OAS; AFS alumnus from Colombia to U.S.
- Hans Dalgren - State Secretary of Foreign Affairs, AFS alumnus from Sweden to U.S.
- Christopher Bo Bramsen - Chief of Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; AFS alumnus from Denmark to U.S.
- R. Nicholas Burns - Under Secretary for Political Affairs U.S. Dept. of State; AFS alumnus from U.S. to Luxembourg
- Ricardo Fiegelist Schmidt - Ambassador of Chile to Syria; AFS alumnus from Chile to U.S.
- Motohide Yoshikawa - Ambassador of Japan to Spain; AFS alumnus Japan to U.S.
- Jorge Hernandez Alcerro - Minister of Government and Justice; AFS alumnus from Honduras to U.S.
- Hannu Himanen - Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; AFS alumnus from Finland to U.S.
- James H. Holmes - President & CEO of the American-Turkish Council, retired ambassador to Latvia; AFS alumnus from U.S. to Germany, 1960
- Rogelio Pfirter - Dir. Gen., Org. of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; AFS alumnus from Netherlands
- Lee Bollinger - President, Columbia University; AFS Alumnus from the U.S. to Brazil, 1963
- Bettina Gregory - Senior Correspondent, ABC News; AFS Alumna from the U.S. to South Africa, 1964
- Cady Coleman - Astronaut; AFS alumna from U.S. to Norway
- Bill Irwin - Tony Award-winning actor; AFS alumnus from U.S. to Northern Ireland, 1968
- Linda Wells - Editor-in-Chief, Allure magazine; AFS alumna from U.S. to Turkey, 1975
- Margaret Marshall - Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Massachusetts
- Helmut Panke - Chairman, BMW; AFS Alumnus from Germany to the U.S., 1965
- Andrea Jung - CEO of Avon; AFS Alumna from the U.S. to Norway, 1974
- Sharon Patrick - Former CEO of Martha Stewart Living; AFS Alumna from the U.S. to Germany, 1959
- Dr. Vishaka Desai, President of the Asia Society - AFS Alumna from India to the U.S., 1967
- Nicholas Burns - Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; AFS Alumnus from the U.S. to Luxembourg, 1973
- Wolfgang Ischinger - Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany; AFS Alumnus from Germany to the U.S., 1964
- R. James Woolsey, Former Director of the CIA - AFS Alumnus from the U.S. to Sweden, 1958
- Richard Engel - NBC News Reporter/Foreign Correspondent; AFS Alumnus from the U.S. to Italy, 1990
- Craig Wilson - USA Today Staff Writer; AFS Alumnus from the U.S. to the United Kingdom, 1966
- Dr. Mitch Besser - Founder and Medical Director, the Mother’s Programmes; AFS Alumnus from the U.S. to South Africa, 1972
- Catherine Coleman - Scientist and NASA Astronaut; AFS Alumna from the U.S. to Norway, 1979
- Dr. Jara Moserova - plastic surgeon, scientist, artist, playwright, translator, diplomat and politician; AFS alumna from Czechoslovakia to US, 1947
- Hans Schlegel - European Space Agency astronaut, physicist; AFS alumnus from Germany to US, 1968
- Beatrice Ask -- Minister for Justice, Sweden; AFS alumna from Sweden to US, 1974
