List of George Washington University faculty

• Hossein Askari – professor of international business
• Stuart Umpleby – cybernetician and a professor in the Department of Management and Director of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning in the School of Business
• Sandiaga Uno - Distinguished Research Professor in Residence in the School of Business,[3] Deputy Governor of Jakarta

• Peter Caws – Professor of Philosophy
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr – Founder and first president of the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, scholar of comparative religion
• Jane Shore – poet

Selected faculty

United States Attorney General Eric Holder served on the Board of Trustees.

Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. is a former Law Professor.

Edward Teller A nuclear physicist, Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb.

Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic studies, is a leading Iranian Islamic philosopher.

John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, served on the Board of Trustees in 1832.

President Ulysses Grant served as an honorary trustee from 1869 to 1877. His grandson was also a Trustee.

• Michael Barnett – University Professor
• Stephen Biddle – scholar and author on U.S. defense strategy
• Nathan J. Brown – former director of the Institute for Middle East Studies
• Amitai Etzioni – former president of the American Sociological Association
• Henry Farrell
• Martha Finnemore – leader of the constructivist school of international relations theory
• Leon Fuerth – former National Security Adviser to Vice President Al Gore
• Edward "Skip" Gnehm – former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia
• Karl Inderfurth – former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
• Mark R. Jacobson – military historian and scholar of U.S. national security policy former NATO advisor to David Petraeus and Stanley A. McChrystal
• Marc Lynch – director of the Institute for Middle East Studies
• Thomas E. McNamara – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
• Eric Newsom – former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
• Scott Pace – director of the Space Policy Institute
• Lawrence Wilkerson – former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell
• Stephen C. Smith – professor of economics and international affairs
• Ambassador Ronald D. F. Palmer – Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, U.S. Ambassador to Togo, 1976–78, to Malaysia, 1981–83, and to Mauritius 1986–89

• Dana Perino – former White House Press Secretary in the George W. Bush Administration
• Steven V. Roberts – journalist, writer, and commentator
• Frank Sesno – CNN correspondent

Steven Livingston -Professor of Media and Public Affairs & International Affairs

• Clarence Thomas, current Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States[4]
• Thomas Buergenthal – former professor of international and comparative law and jurisprudence, presently the American judge on the International Court of Justice
• Steve Charnovitz – professor of law, member of the Council on Foreign Relations
• Elizabeth Glass Geltman – professor of law
• Ambassador John W. McDonald – professor of law
• Spencer Overton – professor of law, former U.S. Attorney, top bundler for Barack Obama, member of President-elect Obama's Justice Department Review Team
• Jeffrey Rosen – professor of law, legal editor at The New Republic
• Jonathan Turley – Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law and frequent guest on news programs

• John B. Conway – professor of mathematics

• William DeVries – first surgeon to perform a successful permanent artificial heart implantation
• Richard Restak – clinical professor of neurology
• Paul Brindley – Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine
• Ferid Murad – University Professor, Nobel Laureate
• Gaetano R Lotrecchiano - Associate Professor, Clinical Research and Leadership
• Vanessa Northington Gamble - University Professor, chaired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee under then-President Bill Clinton

Political Management • Mark Kennedy – business executive, congressman, presidential appointee, introduced shapeholders to business strategy

• Eric H. Cline – professor of archaeology
• Anthony Yezer – professor of economics