I was an AFS exchange student in 1974/75. Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, was an AFSer in 1973/74. Here is a message from her congratulating AFS to its 75th anniversary.

I would not be the person I am today, not even close, if I had not had the AFS experience, studying one year in an American High School as a teenager. The AFS year was by far the most pivotal experience of my life.