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List of current heads of state and government

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This is a list of current heads of state and government, showing heads of state and heads of government
where different, mainly in parliamentary systems; often a leader is both in presidential systems or dictatorships.
Some states have semi-presidential systems where the head of government role is fulfilled by both the listed
head of government and the head of state.

The list includes the names of the recently elected or appointed heads of state who will take office on an
appointed date.

Contents
1 States recognised by the United Nations
2 States recognised by at least one United Nations member
3 States not recognised by any United Nations members
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

States recognised by the United Nations

State Head of state Head of government

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai
Albania President Bamir Topi Prime Minister Sali Berisha
Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia
Co-Prince Joan Enric Vives Sicília
Representative Nemesi Marquès Oste
Andorra Prime Minister Jaume Bartumeu
Co-Prince Nicolas Sarkozy
Representative Christian Frémont
Angola President José Eduardo dos Santos
Antigua and Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer
Barbuda Governor General Dame Louise Lake-Tack
Argentina President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Armenia President Serzh Sargsyan Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan

Australia Queen Elizabeth II[1][2][3] Prime Minister Julia Gillard

Governor General Quentin Bryce
Austria President Heinz Fischer Chancellor Werner Faymann
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev Prime Minister Artur Rasizade

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Bahamas Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham

Governor General Sir Arthur Foulkes
Prime Minister Khalifa ibn Salman
Bahrain King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa
Al Khalifa
Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Barbados Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Freundel Stuart

Governor General Sir Clifford Husbands
Prime Minister Mikhail
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko
Myasnikovich
Belgium King Albert II Prime Minister Yves Leterme

Belize Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Dean Barrow

Governor General Sir Colville Young
Benin President Yayi Boni
Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck Prime Minister Jigme Thinley
Bolivia President Evo Morales
Presidency:[4]
Bosnia and Nebojša Radmanović (Chairman) Prime Minister Nikola Špirić
Herzegovina Željko Komšić (Member)
Bakir Izetbegović (Member)
Botswana President Ian Khama
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff
Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
Bulgaria President Georgi Parvanov Prime Minister Boyko Borisov
Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré Prime Minister Tertius Zongo
Burma
President Thein Sein
(Myanmar)
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza
Cambodia King Norodom Sihamoni Prime Minister Hun Sen
Cameroon President Paul Biya Prime Minister Philémon Yang

Canada Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Governor General David Johnston
Cape Verde President Pedro Pires Prime Minister José Maria Neves
Central African Prime Minister Faustin-Archange
President François Bozizé
Republic Touadéra
Prime Minister Emmanuel
Chad President Idriss Déby
Nadingar
Chile President Sebastián Piñera
China, People's
President Hu Jintao Premier Wen Jiabao
Republic of

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Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos

President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi
Comoros
President-elect Ikililou Dhoinine
Congo-
President Denis Sassou Nguesso
Brazzaville
Congo-Kinshasa President Joseph Kabila Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito
Costa Rica President Laura Chinchilla
Disputed:
Disputed:
Côte d'Ivoire Prime Minister Gilbert Aké /
President Laurent Gbagbo / Alassane Ouattara
Guillaume Soro
Croatia President Ivo Josipović Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor
Cuba President Raúl Castro
Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias
Czech Republic President Václav Klaus Prime Minister Petr Nečas
Prime Minister Lars Løkke
Denmark Queen Margrethe II
Rasmussen
Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed
Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh
Dileita
Dominica President Nicholas Liverpool Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican
President Leonel Fernández
Republic
East Timor President José Ramos-Horta Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão
Ecuador President Rafael Correa
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
Egypt Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf

El Salvador President Mauricio Funes

Prime Minister Ignacio Milam
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Tang
Eritrea President Isaias Afewerki
Estonia President Toomas Hendrik Ilves Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
Ethiopia President Girma Wolde-Giorgis Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
Acting Prime Minister Frank
Fiji President Epeli Nailatikau Bainimarama
Finland President Tarja Halonen Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi
France President Nicolas Sarkozy Prime Minister François Fillon
Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba Prime Minister Paul Biyoghé Mba
Gambia President Yahya Jammeh
Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri

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Germany President Christian Wulff Chancellor Angela Merkel

Ghana President John Atta Mills
Prime Minister George
Greece President Karolos Papoulias
Papandreou

Grenada Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Tillman Thomas

Governor General Sir Carlyle Glean
Guatemala President Álvaro Colom
Prime Minister Mohamed Said
Guinea President Alpha Condé
Fofana
Prime Minister Carlos Gomes
Guinea-Bissau President Malam Bacai Sanhá
Júnior
Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo Prime Minister Sam Hinds
Prime Minister Jean-Max
Haiti President René Préval
Bellerive
Honduras President Porfirio Lobo Sosa
Hungary President Pál Schmitt Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister Jóhanna
Iceland President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Sigurðardóttir
India President Pratibha Patil Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iraq President Jalal Talabani Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Ireland President Mary McAleese Taoiseach Enda Kenny
Prime Minister Benjamin
Israel President Shimon Peres
Netanyahu
Italy President Giorgio Napolitano Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

Jamaica Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Bruce Golding

Governor General Sir Patrick Allen
Japan Emperor Akihito Prime Minister Naoto Kan
Jordan King Abdullah II Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev Prime Minister Karim Massimov
Kenya President Mwai Kibaki Prime Minister Raila Odinga
Kiribati President Anote Tong
Prime Minister Nasser
Kuwait Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah
Prime Minister Almazbek
Kyrgyzstan President Roza Otunbayeva
Atambayev

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Prime Minister Thongsing

Laos President Choummaly Sayasone
Thammavong
Prime Minister Valdis
Latvia President Valdis Zatlers
Dombrovskis
Prime Minister Saad Hariri
Lebanon President Michel Suleiman Prime Minister-designate Najib
Mikati
Lesotho King Letsie III Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili
Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Guide of the Revolution Muammar al-Gaddafi
Libya Secretary General of the General People's Prime Minister Baghdadi
Congress Mohamed Abu Al-Quasim al-Zwai Mahmudi

Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II Prime Minister Klaus Tschütscher

Prince-Regent Alois
Lithuania President Dalia Grybauskaitė Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius
Prime Minister Jean-Claude
Luxembourg Grand Duke Henri
Juncker
Macedonia President Gjorge Ivanov Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski
Prime Minister Albert Camille
Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina
Vital
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika
Malaysia Yang di-Pertuan Agong Mizan Zainal Abidin Prime Minister Najib Razak
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed
Mali President Amadou Toumani Touré Prime Minister Modibo Sidibé
Malta President George Abela Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi
Marshall Islands President Jurelang Zedkaia
Prime Minister Moulaye Ould
Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Mohamed Laghdaf
Mauritius President Anerood Jugnauth Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam
Mexico President Felipe Calderón
Micronesia,
President Manny Mori
Federated States of
Moldova Acting President Marian Lupu Prime Minister Vlad Filat
Monaco Prince Albert II Minister of State Michel Roger
Prime Minister Sükhbaataryn
Mongolia President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Batbold
Montenegro President Filip Vujanović Prime Minister Igor Lukšić
Morocco King Muhammad VI Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi

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Mozambique President Armando Guebuza Prime Minister Aires Ali

Namibia President Hifikepunye Pohamba Prime Minister Nahas Angula
Nauru President Marcus Stephen
Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal
Netherlands Queen Beatrix Prime Minister Mark Rutte
Queen Elizabeth II[1][2]
New Zealand Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand Prime Minister John Key
Governor General-designate Jerry Mateparae
Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega
Chairman of the Supreme Council for the Prime Minister Mahamadou
Niger
Restoration of Democracy Salou Djibo Danda
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan
Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong-Il
North Korea Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme
People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam Premier Choe Yong-rim
Eternal President Kim Il-sung[5]
Norway King Harald V Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
Oman Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari
Gillani
Palau President Johnson Toribiong
Panama President Ricardo Martinelli
Papua New Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Sir Michael
Guinea Governor General Michael Ogio Somare
Paraguay President Fernando Lugo
Prime Minister José Antonio
Peru President Alan García
Chang
Philippines President Benigno Aquino III
Poland President Bronisław Komorowski Prime Minister Donald Tusk
Portugal President Aníbal Cavaco Silva Prime Minister José Sócrates
Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim
Qatar Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
bin Jaber Al Thani
Romania President Traian Băsescu Prime Minister Emil Boc
Russia President Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
Rwanda President Paul Kagame Prime Minister Bernard Makuza
Saint Kitts and Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Denzil Douglas
Nevis Governor General Sir Cuthbert Sebastian

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Saint Lucia Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Stephenson King

Governor General Dame Pearlette Louisy
Saint Vincent and Queen Elizabeth II[1][2]
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
the Grenadines Governor General Sir Frederick Ballantyne
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono
Samoa O le Ao o le Malo Tufuga Efi
Sailele Malielegaoi
Captain Regent Giovanni Francesco Ugolini
San Marino
Captain Regent Andrea Zafferani
São Tomé and
President Fradique de Menezes Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada
Príncipe
Saudi Arabia King Abdullah
Prime Minister Souleymane
Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade
Ndéné Ndiaye
Serbia President Boris Tadić Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković
Seychelles President James Michel
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma
Singapore President Sellapan Ramanathan Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Slovakia President Ivan Gašparovič Prime Minister Iveta Radičová
Slovenia President Danilo Türk Prime Minister Borut Pahor

Solomon Islands Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Danny Philip

Governor General Sir Frank Kabui
Prime Minister Mohamed
Somalia President Sharif Ahmed
Abdullahi Mohamed
South Africa President Jacob Zuma
South Korea President Lee Myung-bak Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik
South Sudan President-elect Salva Kiir Mayardit
Prime Minister José Luis
Spain King Juan Carlos I
Rodríguez Zapatero
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir
Suriname President Dési Bouterse
Prime Minister Barnabas Sibusiso
Swaziland King Mswati III
Dlamini
Sweden King Carl XVI Gustaf Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt
Federal Council[6]: Micheline Calmy-Rey (Pres.), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (VP),
Switzerland Doris Leuthard, Ueli Maurer, Didier Burkhalter, Simonetta Sommaruga, Johann
Schneider-Ammann
Syria President Bashar al-Assad Prime Minister Mohamed al-Otari

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Tajikistan President Emomalii Rahmon Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov

Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda
Thailand King Bhumibol Adulyadej Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva
Togo President Faure Gnassingbé Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo
Prime Minister Siale'ataonga
Tonga King George Tupou V
Tu'ivakano
Trinidad and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-
President George Maxwell Richards
Tobago Bissessar
Tunisia Acting President Fouad Mebazaa Prime Minister Beji Caid el Sebsi
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Turkey President Abdullah Gül
Erdoğan
Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

Tuvalu Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister Willy Telavi

Governor General Iakoba Italeli
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi
Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych Prime Minister Mykola Azarov
United Arab Prime Minister Mohammed bin
President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Emirates Rashid Al Maktoum
United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Prime Minister David Cameron
United States President Barack Obama
Uruguay President José Mujica
Prime Minister Shavkat
Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov
Mirziyoyev
Vanuatu President Iolu Abil Prime Minister Sato Kilman
President of the Governorate
Vatican City Pope Benedict XVI
Giovanni Lajolo
Venezuela President Hugo Chávez
Vietnam President Nguyễn Minh Triết Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
Prime Minister Ali Mohammed
Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh
Mujur
Zambia President Rupiah Banda
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai

States recognised by at least one United Nations member

State Head of state Head of government

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Abkhazia President Sergei Bagapsh Prime Minister Sergei Shamba

President Behgjet Pacolli Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi

Kosovo

Northern President Derviş Eroğlu Prime Minister İrsen Küçük

Cyprus
(disputed) President either: (disputed) Prime Minister either:
Palestine Mahmoud Abbas (West Bank) or Salam Fayyad (West Bank) or
Aziz Duwaik (Gaza Strip)[7] Ismail Haniyeh (Gaza Strip)[8]

Republic
President Ma Ying-jeou Premier Wu Den-yih
of China
(Taiwan)

Sahrawi
Arab President Mohamed Abdelaziz Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Oumar
Democratic
Republic
South
Ossetia President Eduard Kokoity[9] Prime Minister Vadim Brovtsev

States not recognised by any United Nations members

This list encompasses the leaders of geo-political entities that lack significant international recognition. The
degree of control these entities exert over their claimed territories may vary.

State Head of state Head of government

Nagorno- President Bako Sahakyan Prime Minister Arayik Harutyunyan

Karabakh

Somaliland President Ahmed Mahamoud Silanyo

Transnistria President Igor Smirnov

See also
List of heads of state by diplomatic precedence
List of current foreign ministers
List of current presidents of assembly
List of current dependent territory leaders
List of elected or appointed female heads of government
List of elected or appointed female heads of state

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List of national legislatures

Lists of office-holders
List of political parties
List of political parties by country, including current ruling parties
List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
List of state leaders by year
List of state leaders in 2011
Lists of state leaders
List of current Permanent Representatives to the United Nations

References
1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p The Royal Household. "Commonwealth members" (http://www.royal.gov.uk
/MonarchAndCommonwealth/Commonwealthmembers/MembersoftheCommonwealth.aspx) . Queen's Printer.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/Commonwealthmembers/MembersoftheCommonwealth.aspx.
Retrieved 18 February 2011.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Queen Elizabeth II is separately and equally monarch of 16 sovereign countries
sometimes known collectively as the Commonwealth realms. In each of these countries, with the exception of the
United Kingdom (where she predominately resides) she is represented by a governor-general (unhyphenated in
Canada as governor general) at national level. In some of these countries, opinion differs as to whether the Queen
or governor-general should be designated as head of state; there is no questioning of the Queen's position as
sovereign, above the governors-general, however.
3. ^ Williams, George (31 January 2008). "Speculation on Queen before any choice needs to be made"
(http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion-old/governor-general-is-still-boss/story-e6frfifo-1111115436569) . Herald
Sun. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion-old/governor-general-is-still-boss/story-e6frfifo-1111115436569.
Retrieved 18 February 2011.
4. ^ The three-member presidency is the head of state collectively.
5. ^ The Preface to the Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea states, "The DPRK and the entire
Korean people will uphold the great leader Comrade Kim Il-sung as the eternal President of the Republic, defend
and carry forward his ideas and exploits and complete the Juche revolution under the leadership of the Workers'
Party of Korea." Kim Il Sung died in 1994.
6. ^ The seven member Swiss Federal Council is the collective Head of State and the government of the Swiss
Confederation. Within the Council, the President of the Swiss Confederation serves solely in a primus inter pares
capacity for one year.
7. ^ Abbas's presidency expired on 9 January 2009 but he unilaterally extended his term for another year. Haniyeh, as
the Speaker of the House, would succeed Abbas were he to have died or been expelled from office. The two major
political parties in Palestine, Fatah and Hamas disagree about who the legitimate President currently is.
8. ^ As part of the Fatah-Hamas conflict, essentially a civil war, Abbas dismissed Haniyeh and chose Fayyed as PM
without parliamentary approval. The two major political parties in Palestine, Fatah and Hamas disagree about who
the legitimate Prime Minister currently is.
9. ^ On November 12, 2006 the Salvation Union of South Ossetia, opposing the leadership of Eduard Kokoity, held an
alternative presidential election, in which former South Ossetian Prime Minister Dmitry Sanakoyev was chosen as
the president of the alternative government of South Ossetia.

External links
Rulers.org List of rulers throughout time and places (http://www.rulers.org/)
List of official websites for heads of state (http://www.emilephaneuf.com/?p=164)
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