Besides numerous politicians , diplomats , professors , judges , and high-ranking government officials at local , state , federal , and international level , the university 's noted alumni and faculty include President of Germany Roman Herzog ; Executive Director of UNEP and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Klaus Töpfer ; Federal Minister Wolfgang Bötsch ; First Mayor and Prime Minister of Hamburg Christoph Ahlhaus ; vice president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Ferdinand Kirchhof ; president of the Bundesbank Helmut Schlesinger ; president of the Federal Court of Auditors of Germany Dieter Engels ; Head of the German Chancellery Waldemar Schreckenberger ; president of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany Willi Geiger ; president of the Federal Employment business.employment_tenure of Germany Florian Gerster ; Executive Director of the Bundesbank Thilo Sarrazin ; Attorney General of Germany Alexander von Stahl ; Advocate General at the European Court of Justice Carl Otto Lenz ; former CEO and current Chairman of BASF Jürgen Strube ; and former CEO of Allianz Global Investors and current Chairman of the Deutsche Börse Group Joachim Faber .

In 2006 , President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo appointed him as Secretary of Labor and Employment business.employment_tenure a cabinet position vacated by Patricia Santo Tomas who was made Chairman of the Development Bank of the Philippines .

Founders of NWPC include such prominent women as Gloria Steinem , author , lecturer and founding editor of Ms. Magazine ; former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm ; former Congresswoman and current president of Women USA Bella Abzug ; Dorothy Height , president of the National Council of Negro Women ; Jill Ruckelshaus , U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner ; Ann Lewis , Political Director of the Democratic National Committee ; Elly Peterson , former vice-chair of the Republican National Committee ; LaDonna Harris , Indian rights leader ; Liz Carpenter , author , lecturer and former press secretary to Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson ; and Eleanor Holmes Norton , former chair of the Equal Employment business.employment_tenure Commission .

She received her Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1971 for a thesis titled `` Employment business.employment_tenure output and capital accumulation in an open economy : a disequilibrium approach '' under the supervision of James Tobin and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz , who later called Yellen one of his brightest and most memorable students .