1897: Professor L. H. Bailey, Cornell University, M.A.C. Class of 1882 (June 18), Ithaca, New York
1898: Pearl Kedzie, M.A.C, East Lansing, Michigan
1899: A.S. Draper, President, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
1900: Booker T. Washington (June 15), Tuskegee, Alabama
1901: J.B. Johnson, Professor, C.E. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1902: W.O. Thompson, President, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1903: Fred J. Miller, Editor of American Machinist
1904: H.C. White, President Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Athens, Georgia
1905: Honorable Charles E. Townsend, U.S. Representative, Concord, Michigan
1906: Honorable George H. Maxwell, Attorney, Journalist, and President of the National Irrigation Association, California
1907: Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America
1908: Miss Jane Addams, Hull House Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1909: Dr. Charles Sumner Howe, President, Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio
1910: Dr. James B. Angell, President Emeritus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1911: Dr. James K. Patterson, President Emeritus, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky
1912: Dr. A Ross Hill, President, Missouri University, Columbia, Missouri
1913: Dr. Ida M. Tarbell, Teacher, Investigative Journalist, and Author, the History of the Standard Oil Company
1914: The Honorable Thomas Mott Osborne, Auburn, New York
1915: Chancellor David Starr Jordan, Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, California
1916: Dr. William Oxley Thompson, President, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1917: Dr. Samuel M. Crothers, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1918: Dr. Liberty H. Bailey, Ithaca, New York
1919: Dr. Robert M. Wenley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1920: Dean Harry Luman Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1921: Honorable Woodridge N. Ferris, Big Rapids, Michigan
1922: David Friday, President of M.A.C, East Lansing, Michigan
1923: Dr. John W. Laird, President of Albion College, Albion, Michigan
1924: Dexter Simpson Kimball, Dean of the College of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1925: Honorable Frank O. Lowden, Republican President Candidate 1924, Chicago, Illinois
1926: Dr. Francis J. McConnell
1927: Dr. W. W. Diehl, Class of ’87
1928: Dr Eugene Davenport, ’78 Dean and Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
1929: Dr. Paul Frank Voelker, President, Battle Creek College, Battle Creek, Michigan
1930: Dr. Gordan Jennings Laing, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1931: Dr. Charles R. McKenny, President, Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Michigan
1932: Dr. Glen Frank, President, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1933: Dr. W. D. Henderson, Director of University Extension, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1934: Dr. Ernest O. Melby, Professor of Education, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1935: Professor Edwin Mims, Head of Department of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
1936: Dr. Gordon Laing, Professor in the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1937: William G. Cameron, Ford Motor Company
1938: The Honorable Frank Murphy, Governor of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan
1939: Dr. Howard C. Elliott, President, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
1940: Dr. Allen A. Stockdale, Speakers' Bureau, National Association of Manufacturers, New York
1941: Dr. Raymond A. Kent, President, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
1942: Dr. John J. Tiver, President, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
1943: Dr. C.A. Dykstra, President, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1944: Dr. Howard L. Bevis, President, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1945: Dr. Franklin B. Snyder, President, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1946: Dr. Edmund E. Day, President, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1947: Dr. James L. Morrill, President, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota
1948: Charles F. Kettering, General Motors Engineer, Detroit, Michigan
1949: The Honorable David Lilienthal, Chairman, United States Atomic Commission
1950: The Honorable Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States, Washington, D.C.
1951: The Honorable Nelson A. Rockefeller, Chairman, International Advisory Board, New York City, New York
1951-F: Dr. W.W. Whitehouse, President, Albion College, Albion, Michigan
1952-W: Dr. C.L. Anspach, President, Central Michigan College, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 1952-S: Paul G. Hoffman, Director of the Ford Foundation. Los Angeles, California
1952-F: Dr. John S. Everto, President, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan
1953-W: Dr. Paul V. Sangren, President, Western Michigan College, Kalamazoo, Michigan 1953-S: Dr. Frederick L. Hovde, President of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
1953-F: Dr. Eugene Elliott, President, Eastern Michigan College, Ypsilanti, Michigan
1954-W: Dr. John S. Harker, President, Alma College, Alma, Michigan
1954-S: Dr. Arthur S. Adams, President, American Council on Education, Durham, New Hampshire
1954-F: Dr. Harry Newburn, President, Education, Television and Radio Center, Eugene, Oregon
1955-W: Dr. James W. Miller, Controller for the State of Michigan
1955-S: Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C.
1955-F: Dr. Jon A. Dawson, President, Adrian College
1956-W: Dr. Welmer K. Hicks, President, Kalamazoo College
1956-S: Dr. Virgil M. Hancher, President, State University of Iowa
1956-F: Dean Charles E. Odegaard, College of Literature, University of Michigan
1957-W: Dr. L. Dale Faunce, Vice President, Western Michigan College
1957-S: The Honorable Richard M. Nixon, Vice President of the United States
1957-F: Reverend Robert D. Swanson, President, Alma College
1958-W: Dr. John Van Pelt, President, Michigan College of Mining and Technology 1958-S: The Honorable Adlai E. Stevenson
1958-F: Dr. Edgar Harden, Northern State College
1959-W: Dr. Gus Turbeville, President, Northland College
1959-S: The Right Honorable John G. Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada
1959-F: Dr. Irwin J. Lubbers, President, Hope College
1960-W: Dr. Victor F. Spathelf, President, Ferris Institute
1960-S: The Honorable Harry S. Truman, Thirty-third President of the United States
1960-F: Dr. A.L. Knoblauch, President, Western Illinois University
1961-W: Dr. Louis W. Norris, President, Albion College 1961-S: General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
1961-F: George Romney, President, American Motors Corporation
1962-W: Stephen S. Nisbet, President, Constitutional Convention
1962-S: The Honorable Michael J. Mansfield, United States Senator from Montana
1962-F: Dr. Samuel Miller Brownell, Superintendent of Public Schools, Detroit
1963-W: The Very Reverend Laurence V. Britt, President, University of Detroit
1963-S: The Honorable Frederick Russell Kappel, Chairman of the Board, A.T. & T.
1963-F: Mr. Durward B. Varner, Chancellor of Oakland University
1964-W: Walter P. Reuther, President, United Auto Workers and Vice President, AFL-CIO 1964-S: Dr. John W. Gardner, President, Carnegie Corporation
1964-F: The Honorable Philip A. Hart, United States Senator from Michigan
1965-W: The Honorable Gerald R. Ford, United States Representative, Fifth District, Michigan 1965-S: The Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States
1965-F: The Honorable John C. Mackie, Member of Congress, Seventh District of Michigan
1966-W: The Honorable Martha W. Griffiths, Member of Congress, 17th District of Michigan 1966-S: The Honorable Hubert H. Humphrey, Vice President of the United States
1966-F: Stephen J. Wright, President of the United Negro College Fund
1967-W: O. Meredith Wilson, President, University of Minnesota
1967-S: President John A. Hannah, Michigan State University
1967-F: Robben W. Fleming, President-Designate, University of Michigan
1968-W: Dr. Logan Wilson, President, American Council on Education
1968-S: Dr. Benjamin Eligah Mays, President Emeritus, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
1968-F: The Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, President, Notre Dame University
1969-W: Dr. Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
1969-S: Dr. Calvin Hastings Plimpton, President, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
1969-F: Dr. Kingman Brewster, Jr., President of Yale University
1970-W: William David McElroy, Director, National Science Foundation
1970-S: Mrs. Esther Peterson (Oliver A.), Legislative Representative for Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO
1970-F: Durward B. Varner, Chancellor, University of Nebraska
1971-W: The Honorable Wade H. McCree, Jr., Judge, United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, Detroit
1971-S: Alan Pifer, President, Carnegie Corporation
1971-F: John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Harvard University
1972-W: Vernon E. Jordon, Jr., Executive Director, National Urban League
1972-S: Osborn Elliott, Chairman of the Board, Newsweek
1972-F: Elliot Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
1973-W: Miss Nancy Hanks, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts 1973-S: Walter Cronkite, Managing Editor, CBS Evening News
1973-F: Mrs. Barbara Ward, International Economist
1974-W: Robben W. Fleming, President, University of Michigan
1974-S: The Honorable Edward W. Brooke, Massachusetts, the United States Senate
1974-F: Van Cliburn, Pianist
1975-W: The Honorable James G. O'Hara, Representative, the State of Michigan, the United States House of Representatives
1975-S: Katherine Graham, Publisher of the Washington Post
1975-F: Clark Kerr, Chairman, Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education
1976-W: Russel E. Train, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. 1976-S: George W. Ball, Partner, Lehman Brothers, Inc. and former Under Secretary of State
1976-F: Martha Griffiths, Former United States Congresswoman, and Attorney
1977-W: John A. Meyers, Publisher of Sports Illustrated
1977-S: The Honorable Andrew J. Young, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1977-F: Dr. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., President, Michigan State University
1978-W: Thomas A. Bartlett, President, Association of American Universities
1978-S: The Honorable Thomas S. Foley, Representative, State of Washington, United States House of Representatives
1978-F: Richard C. Atkinson, Ph.D., Director, National Science Foundation
1979-W: Gene F. Jankowski, President, CBS Broadcast Group
1979-S: John A. Hannah, President Emeritus, Michigan State University
1979-F: Walter Adams, Former President, Distinguished Professor in Economics, Michigan State University
1980-W: Co-speakers: Eric John Berglund, Honors Graduate, 1978, and Diane Ellen Adunczyk, Honors Graduate, 1979
1980-S: Edgar L. Harden, President Emeritus, Michigan State University
1980-F: The Honorable William D. Ford, United States Congressman
1981-W: Peter S. Carlson, John A. Hannah Professor, Michigan State University 1981-S: Francis James McDonald, President, General Motors
1981-F: Co-speakers: Benjamin Streeter, III, Honors Graduate, 1976 and Ann Waldron, Honors Graduate, 1980
1982-W: David K. Scott, Ph.D., John A. Hannah Professor in Nuclear Science, Michigan State University 1982-S: The Honorable William G. Milliken, Governor of the State of Michigan
1982-F: Co-speakers: Steven A. Polio, Honors Graduate, 1977, 1980, and Susan Finkbiner Bartz, Honors Graduate, 1980
1983-W: Dr. Guy L. Bush, Professor in Evolutionary Biology
1983-S: The Honorable James J. Blanchard, Governor of the State of Michigan
1983-F: Co-speakers: Craig A. Fedore, Honors Graduate, 1978, and Pamela K. Withrow, Honors Graduate, 1975
1984-W: Linda Wagner, Professor of English, Michigan State University
1984-S: M. Peter McPherson, Administrator, Agency for International Development
1984-F: Co-speakers: Judith Brown-King, Graduate, 1983, and Steven P. Spivey, Graduate, 1977
1985-W: Daniel R. Ilgen, John A. Hannah Professor in Psychology & Management
1985-S: Richard H. Austin, Secretary of State, State of Michigan
1985-F: Co-speakers: Michael McConnell, Honors Graduate, 1976, and Mary Norton McConnell, Honors Graduate, 1977
1986-W: Martin J. Bukovac, Distinguished Professor, Department of Horticulture
1986-S: John DiBiaggio, President, Michigan State University
1986-F: Co-speakers: Valente Espinoza, Graduate, 1985, and David Hales, Graduate, 1984
1987-W: Ruth Hamilton, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
1987-S: Joe H. Stroud, Editor, Detroit Free Press
1987-F: Harold T. Shapiro, President, University of Michigan 1988-W: The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson
1988-S: Robert L. Clodius, President, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
1988-F: Clifton R. Wharton, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund
1989-W: Darlene C. Hine, Hannah Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University
1989-S: Lauro F. Cavazos, United States Secretary of Education 1989-F: Stevland Morris (Stevie Wonder)
1990-W: Abel B. Sykes, Jr., President, Lansing Community College
1990-S: Lee A. Iacocca, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Chrysler Corporation 1990-F: Molly K. Brennan, Rhodes Scholar, Class of 1982
1991-W: Gordon Hirabayashi, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada 1991-S: The Honorable John M. Engler, Governor, the State of Michigan
1991-F: Walter Adams, Former President, Distinguished Professor in Economics, MSU
1992-W: Harold (Red) Poling, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board, Ford Motor Company 1992-S: Walter E. Massey, Director, National Science Foundation
1992-F: Dick Beals, Voice Actor
1993-S: Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., Deputy Secretary of State, the United States 1993-F: Mary Fisher, Founder, Family AIDS Network
1994-S: Ernest Green, Managing Director, Lehman Brothers
1994-F: Peter A Seligmann, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Conservation International
1995-S: The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton, Forty-second President of the United States
1995-S: Ingrid Saunders Jones, Vice President of Corporate External Affairs for the Coca-Cola Company and Chairperson of the Coca-Cola Foundation
1995-F:
1996-S: Helen Thomas, United Press International, White House Bureau Chief
1996-F:
1997-S: William H. Gray, III, President and CEO, The College Fund/United Negro College Fund
1997-F:
1998-S: Gregory Kelser, Former Professional Basketball Player for the NBA, and Sports Broadcaster. Member of the 1979 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball National Championship Team.
1998-F:
1999-S: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize
1999-F: Stephen Jay Gould, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2000-S: James D. Wofensohn, President, The World Bank Group, Washington, D.C.
2000-F:
2001-S: Co-speakers:
2001-F:
2002-S: The Honorable Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America
2002-F:
2003-S: The Honorable Jennifer M. Granholm, 47th Governor of the State of Michigan
2003-F:
2004-S: Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, National Security Council,Washington, D.C.
2004-F:
2005-S: Maya Angelou, Best-Selling Author and Inaugural Poet, Civil Rights Activist, Educator, Historian, Actress, Playwright, Producer and Director.
2005-F:
2006-S: Berry Gordy, Founder of Motown Records
2006-F:
2007-S: Jaime A. Escalante, Author and Educator. His story, as a high school mathematics teacher in East Los Angeles, inspired the movie Stand and Deliver.
2007-F:
2008-S: The Honorable Gro Harlem Brundtland, Former Prime Minister, Norway, and Past Director-General, World Health Organization
2008-F: John B. McCoy, Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank One Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
2008-F: Jack Epps, Jr., Screenwriter, Associate Professor and Chairperson, Writing for Screen and Television, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, and English, BA ‘72, Michigan State University
2009-S: The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus, Nobel Peace Prize ‘84
2009-F:
2010-S: The Honorable Joseph P. Kennedy, II, Former US Congressman of Massachusetts, Founder, Chairperson and President, Citizens Energy Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts
2010-F:
2011-S: Steve “Woz” Wozniak, Apple Computer, Inc., co-founder
2011-F:
2012-S: The Honorable Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland
2012-F:
2013-S: Timothy Busfield, Emmy Award-Winning Actor, Executive Producer and Director in Television, Founder of Fantasy Theatre and Co-founder of B Street Theatre
2013-F:
2014-S: Azim Premji, Philanthropist and Chairman, Wipro Limited, Bangalore India
2014-F:
2015-S: Robert A. Chapek, Chairman, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Burbank, CA. MSU alumnus
2015-F:
2016-S: Mona Hanna-Attisha, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, College of Human Medicine, MSU, and Director, Pediatric Residency Program, Hurley Children’s Hospital, Flint, Michigan. MSU alumna
2016-F:
2017-S: Kirk Gibson, Founder of The Gibson Foundation, College Football Hall of Fame Honoree, Clarkston, Michigan
2017-F:
2018-S: Wanda Herndon, President, W Communications, Seattle, Washington, MSU alumna
2018-F:
2019-S: Kirk Cousins, Professional Athlete, National Football League, Holland, Michigan, MSU alumnus
2019-F:
2020-S: NO SPEAKER DUE TO COVID-19
2020-F:
2021-S: NO UNIVERSITY-WIDE SPEAKER DUE TO COVID-19
2021-F:
2022-S: Steven Smith, Sports Broadcasting Analyst, Atlanta, Georgia, MSU alumnus
2022-F:
2023-S: Lisa Cook, Governor, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Bank, Washington, D.C.
2023-F:
2024-S: Mark Dantonio, Former Head Football Coach, Michigan State University, Fort Meyers, Florida
1970-S: Boger
1970-S: Boger
1970-F: Von Tersch
1971-W: Lee
1971-S: Armistead
1971-F: Louhi
1972-W: Hawley
1972-S: Oyer
1972-F: Sullivan
1972(3)-W: Harrison
1972(3)-S: Carlin
1973
1974-F: Rohman
1975-W: Banks
1975-S: Green
1975-F: Muelder
1976-W: Lund
1976-S: Magen
1976-F: Lewis
1977-W: Byerrum
1977-S: None
1977-F: Welser
1978-W: Bettinghaus
1978-S: None
1978-F: Andrew
1979-W: Weston
1979-S: None
1979-F: Goldhammer
1980-W: Anderson
1980-S: None
1980-F: Vlasin
1981-W: Lewis
1981-S: None
1981-F: Lund
1982-W: Smuckler
1982-S: None
1982-F: Sullivan
1983-W: Gullahorn
1983-S: Chapin
1983-F: Hollingsworth
1984-W: Von Tersch
1984-S: Nickerson
1984-F: Steidle
1985-W: Smuckler
1985-S: Lanier
1985-F: Blosser
1986-W: Tolbert
1986-S: Winder
1986-F: Andrew
1987-W: Von Tersch
1987-S: Cantlon
1987-F: Hoppensteadt
1988-W: Miller
1988-S: Eadie
1988-F: Chapin
1989-W: Steidle
1989-S: Stemple
1989-F: Darden
1990-W: Davis
1990-S: Smuckler
1990-F: Pierre
1991-W: Abbett
1991-S: Lim
1991-F: Corey
1992-W: Imig
1992-S: Frank Press, President, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
1992-F: John Brademas, President Emeritus, New York University, New York City, New York
1993-S: William H. Cunningham, Chancellor, The University of Texas System, Austin, Texas
1993-F: A. Alfred Taubman, Chairman, The Taubman Co., Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1994-S: David A. Bromley, Sterling Professor of Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 1994-F: KunMo Chung, President, Institute for Advanced Engineering, Seoul, Korea
1995-S: Neal F. Lane, Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, Virginia
1995-F: Andree Roaf, State Supreme Court Associate Justice, Little Rock, Arkansas
1996-S: Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California
1996-F: Homer AlfredNeal, Interim President, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1997-S: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1997-F: Mary Lowe Good, Former Under Secretary for Technology, US Dept of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
1998-S: Vernon J. Ehlers, US Congress, Third District Representative, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1998-F: C. Peter Magrath, President, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), Washington, D.C.
1999-S: Jean Chretien, Prime Minister, Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
1999-F: George F. Vande Woude, Director, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2000-S: Rita R. Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), College Park, Maryland
2000-F: Raymond Kurzweil, Chairman & CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc., Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts
2001-S: Wendy Baldwin, Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), New York City, New York
2001-F: Roger N.Beachy, President & Director, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri
2002-S: Peter C. Doherty, Nobel Prize, Chairman, Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
2002-F: Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, UN Development Programme (UNDP), New York City, New York
2003-S: Jane Lubchenco, Wayne & Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology, and OSU Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
2003-F: Lewis W.Coleman, President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, San Francisco, California
2004-S: Hernando de Soto, President, Institute of Liberty and Democracy, Lima, Peru
2004-F: Barbara Masekela, South African Ambassador to the United States, South African Embassy, Washington, D.C.
2005-S: Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland
2005-F: Jonathan K. S. Choi, President, Sun Wah Group, Hong Kong, SAR
2006-S: Paul Ehrlich, President, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford, California
2006-F: Deborah L. Wince-Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness, Washington, D.C.
2007-S: Julie L. Gerberding, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),Atlanta, Georgia
2007-F: Ian Wilmut, Director, Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
2008-S: Peter H. Raven, President, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri
2008-F: Steven W. Squyres, Scientific Principal Investigator, Mars Exploration Rovers; and Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2009-S: Dan Rather, Award-winning Journalist and News Anchor, New York City, New York
2009-F: Robert Tjian, President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, and Professor, University of California, Berkley, California
2010-S: Daniel G. Nocera, The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2010-F: Elinor Ostrom, Co-recipient 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Distinguished Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2011-S: Roger W. Ferguson Jr., President and CEO, TIAA-CREF, New York, New York
2011-F: Emilio F. Moran, Professor of Environmental Sciences, and Director, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2012-S: Subra Suresh, Director, National Science Foundation
2012-F: The Honorable Thomas James Vilsack, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture
2013-S: Richard Ford, PEN/Faulkner Award and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Independence Day, and Mellon Professor, Columbia University, New York, New York, and English, B.A. 1966, Michigan State University
2013-F: Mary Sue Coleman, President, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2014-S: Norman R. Augustine, Retired Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland
2014-F: Teresa A.Sullivan, President, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
2015-S: Andrew N. Liveris, President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan
2015-F: Patricia Mucci LoRusso, D.O., Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of Innovative Medicine, Yale Cancer Center, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. MSU alumna.
2016-S: Ellen D. Williams, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E), US Department of Energy, Washington, D.C.
2016-F: Michael T. Longaker, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S., Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor, School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. MSU alumnus. Member of the 1979 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball National Championship Team.
2017-S: Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation, New York, New York
2017-F: Michael VanRooyen, Chairman, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director, The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, MSU alumnus
2018-S: Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
2018-F: Jane Harman, Director, President and CEO, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
2019-S: Gretchen Whitmer, Governor, State of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, MSU alumna
2019-F: Tawana Kupe, Vice Chancellor and Principal, University of Pretoria, South Africa
2020-S: NO SPEAKER DUE TO COVID-19
2020-F: Marta Tienda, Professor, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, MSU alumna 2021-S: Ray Scott, President & CEO, Lear Corporation, Southfield, Michigan, MSU alumnus, and Iwan Syahril, Director General of Teachers and Educational Personal, Ministry of Education and
Culture, The Republic of Indonesia, MSU alumnus
2021-F: September – Robert Grubbs, Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
December – Gary Peters, United States Senator, United States Senate, Oakland County, Michigan, MSU alumnus and Celeste Clark, Principal, Abraham Clark Consulting, LLC, Longwood, Florida, MSU alumna
2022-S: Ronald Goldsberry, Consultant, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Linda Hubbard, President & CEO, Carhartt, Inc., Dearborn, Michigan, MSU alumna
2022-F: William Clark, Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2023-S: Jill Hruby, Under Secretary, Energy Nuclear Security of the United States, Washington, D.C. and Anthony Fauci, Former Director National Institutes of Health
2023-F: John Hildebrand, Regents Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
2024-S: April Clobes, President and CEO, Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, East Lansing, Michigan, MSU alumna and Bolaji Balogun, CEO, Chapel Hill Denham, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria