List of state leaders by date

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This is a list of state leaders, showing current heads of state and heads of government where different, ordered by the date they assumed the office.

States where Head of State differs from Head of Government are mainly parliamentary systems. Often a leader holds both positions 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 contains approximately 350 people.

Contents 1 List of state leaders by date of assuming office 1.1 1940s 1.2 1950s 1.3 1960s 1.4 1970s 1.5 1980s 1.6 1990 to 1995 1.7 1996 to 1999 1.8 2000 1.9 2001 1.10 2002 1.11 2003 1.12 2004 1.13 2005 1.14 2006 1.15 2007 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] List of state leaders by date of assuming office

[edit] 1940s

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
June 9, 1946	Bhumibol Adulyadej	Thailand	King

[edit] 1950s

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
February 6, 1952	Elizabeth II	Australia	Queen
		Canada	Queen
		New Zealand	Queen
		United Kingdom	Queen
		Jamaica	Queen from August 6, 1962
		Barbados	Queen from November 30, 1966
		Bahamas	Queen from July 10, 1973
		Grenada	Queen from February 7, 1974
		Papua New Guinea	Queen from September 16, 1975
		Solomon Islands	Queen from July 7, 1978
		Tuvalu	Queen from October 1, 1978
		Saint Lucia	Queen from February 22, 1979
		Belize	Queen from September 21, 1981
		Antigua and Barbuda	Queen from November 1, 1981
		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Queen from September 19, 1983
		Saint Kitts and Nevis	Queen from September 19, 1983
February 16, 1959	Fidel Castro	Cuba	President of the Councils of State and of Ministers[1]

[edit] 1960s

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
1 January 1962	Malietoa Tanumafili II	Samoa	O le Ao o le Malo
October 5, 1967	Sir Hassanal Bolkiah	Brunei	Sultan and Prime Minister
November 28, 1967	Omar Bongo	Gabon	President
September 1, 1969	Muammar al-Qaddafi	Libya	Leader of the Revolution (de facto head of state)

[edit] 1970s

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
1970	Sheikh Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa	Bahrain	Prime Minister
July 23, 1970	Qaboos ibn Sa’id Al ‘Bu Sa’id	Oman	Sultan and Prime Minister
January 14, 1972	Margrethe II	Denmark	Queen
September 15, 1973	Carl XVI Gustaf	Sweden	King
November 22, 1975	Juan Carlos I	Spain	King
August 30, 1976	Mohamed Abdelaziz	Western Sahara (SADR)	President[2]
November 11, 1978	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom	Maldives	President
August 3, 1979	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	Equatorial Guinea	President
September 10, 1979	José Eduardo dos Santos	Angola	President

[edit] 1980s

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
March 4, 1980	Robert Mugabe	Zimbabwe	President[3]
April 30, 1980	Beatrix	Netherlands	Queen
October 14, 1981	Hosni Mubarak	Egypt	President
November 6, 1982	Paul Biya	Cameroon	President
March 22, 1984	Nursultan Nazarbayev	Kazakhstan	Chairman of the Council of Ministers : March 22, 1984 — July 27, 1989 First secretary of the Communist Party : June 22, 1989 — August 22, 1991 Chairman of the Supreme Soviet : February 22, 1990 — April 24, 1990 President : April 24, 1990 —
April 3, 1984	Lansana Conté	Guinea	President
1985	Samdech Hun Sen	Cambodia	Prime Minister
January 29, 1986	Yoweri Museveni	Uganda	President
April 25, 1986	Mswati III	Swaziland	King
October 15, 1987	Blaise Compaoré	Burkina Faso	President
November 7, 1987	Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	Tunisia	President
January 7, 1989	Akihito	Japan	Emperor
June 4, 1989	Ali Khamenei	Iran	Supreme Leader Ayatollah[4]
June 30, 1989	Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir	Sudan	President
November 13, 1989	Hans-Adam II	Liechtenstein	Sovereign Prince

[edit] 1990 to 1995

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
April 24, 1990	Nursultan Nazarbayev	Kazakhstan	current office : President : April 24, 1990 — He is in continuous power since March 22, 1984 (see this date above)
May 22, 1990	Ali Abdullah Saleh	Yemen	President[5]
December 2, 1990	Idriss Déby	Chad	President of Patriotic Salvation Movement (military ruler) :      December 2, 1990 — December 4, 1990 Head of State : December 4, 1990 — President : March 4, 1991 —
January 17, 1991	Harald V	Norway	King Regent for his father Olav V since June 1990
May 28, 1991	Meles Zenawi	Ethiopia	Interim President : May 28, 1991 — August 22, 1995 Prime Minister : August 23, 1995 —
May 29, 1991	Isaias Afewerki	Eritrea	Secretary-general of the Provisional Government : May 29, 1991 — May 24, 1993 President : May 24, 1993 —
August 31, 1991	Islam Karimov	Uzbekistan	President[6]
April 23, 1992	Sr. Gen. Than Shwe	Myanmar	Chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (Head of State) :      April 23, 1992 — November 15, 1997 Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (Head of State) :      November 15, 1997 —
October 9, 1992	Sam Hinds	Guyana	Prime Minister : October 9, 1992 — March 17, 1997 President : March 6, 1997 — December 19, 1997 Prime Minister : December 22, 1997 — August 9, 1999 Prime Minister : August 11, 1999 —
November 18, 1992	Zentani Muhammad az-Zentani	Libya	General secretary of the General People's Congress (nominal Head of State)
November 20, 1992	Imomali Rakhmonov	Tajikistan	President[7]
June 10, 1993	Sir James Carlisle	Antigua and Barbuda	Governor-General
August 9, 1993	Albert II	Belgium	King
November 17, 1993	Sir Colville Young	Belize	Governor-General
July 22, 1994	Yahya Jammeh	The Gambia	Chairman of Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (military ruler) :      July 22, 1994 — September 28, 1996 Head of State : September 28, 1996 — President : October 18, 1996 —
July 8, 1994	Kim Jong Il	North Korea	de facto leader : July 8, 1994 — Chairman of the National Defence Commission : April 9, 1993 — The late Kim Il Sung has been designated "Eternal President" of North Korea and the post of President has not been filled since his death on July 8, 1994. The post of Chairman of the National Defence Commission (chief of the Army) was declared "the highest post of the state" on September 5, 1998.
July 20, 1994	Aleksandr Lukashenko	Belarus	President
September 7, 1994	Owen Arthur	Barbados	Prime Minister
January 20, 1995	Jean-Claude Juncker	Luxembourg	Prime Minister
May 17, 1995	Jacques Chirac	Andorra	Co-Princes
		France	President
June 22, 1995	Keith Mitchell	Grenada	Prime Minister
June 27, 1995	Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani	Qatar	Emir
July 7, 1995	Denzil Douglas	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Prime Minister
August 22, 1995	Meles Zenawi	Ethiopia	current office : Prime Minister : August 23, 1995 — He is in continuous power since May 28, 1991 (see this date above)
October 31, 1995	Moritz Leuenberger	Switzerland	Swiss Federal Council [8]

[edit] 1996 to 1999

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
January 1, 1996	Sir Cuthbert Sebastian	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Governor-General
February 7, 1996	Letsie III	Lesotho	King
March 11, 1996	John Howard	Australia	Prime Minister
June 1, 1996	Sir Clifford Husbands	Barbados	Governor-General
July 20, 1996	Artur Rasizadə	Azerbaijan	Acting Prime Minister : July 20, 1996 — November 26, 1996 Prime Minister : November 26, 1996 — August 4, 2003 Acting Prime Minister for İlham Əliyev : August 6, 2003 — November 4, 2003 Prime Minister : November 4, 2003 —
August 1, 1996	Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson	Iceland	President
August 8, 1996	Sir Daniel Williams	Grenada	Governor-General
October 18, 1996	Yahya Jammeh	The Gambia	current office : President : October 18, 1996 — He is in continuous power since July 22, 1994 (see this date above)
October 29, 1996	Sheikh Abdullah ibn Khalifa Al Thani	Qatar	Prime Minister
March 20, 1997	Robert Kocharian	Armenia	Prime Minister : March 20, 1997 — April 10, 1998 Acting President : February 4, 1998 — April 9, 1998 President : April 9, 1998 —
May 2, 1997	Tony Blair	United Kingdom	Prime Minister
June 26, 1997	Bertie Ahern	Ireland	Taoiseach
September 19, 1997	Dame Pearlette Louisy	Saint Lucia	Governor-General
October 15, 1997	Denis Sassou-Nguesso	Congo, Republic of the	de facto Leader : October 15, 1997 — October 25, 1997 President : October 25, 1997 —
November 11, 1997	Mary McAleese	Ireland	President
March 10, 1998	Ahmad Tejan Kabbah	Sierra Leone	President
March 30, 1998	Pascal Couchepin	Switzerland	Swiss Federal Council[8]
April 1, 1998	Festus Mogae	Botswana	President
May 29, 1998	Pakalitha Mosisili	Lesotho	Prime Minister
August 28, 1998	Said Musa	Belize	Prime Minister
September 5, 1998	Kim Yong Nam	North Korea	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Performing ceremonial head of state functions only. The "highest post of the state" has been declared on September 5, 1998 to be the post of Chairman of the National Defence Commission hold by Kim Jong Il since April 9, 1993.
November 23, 1998	Tuila'epa Sailele Malielegaoi	Samoa	Prime Minister
November 24, 1998	Émile Lahoud	Lebanon	President
February 2, 1999	Hugo Chávez	Venezuela	President[9]
February 7, 1999	Abdullah II	Jordan	King
April 27, 1999	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	Algeria	President
May 8, 1999	Ismail Omar Guelleh	Djibouti	President
May 29, 1999	Olusegun Obasanjo	Nigeria	President
June 14, 1999	Thabo Mbeki	South Africa	President
July 8, 1999	Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga	Latvia	President
July 12, 1999	Guy Verhofstadt	Belgium	Prime Minister
July 23, 1999	Muhammad VI	Morocco	King
August 9, 1999	Bharrat Jagdeo	Guyana	Prime Minister : August 9, 1999 — August 11, 1999 President : August 11, 1999 —
August 11, 1999	Sam Hinds	Guyana	current office : Prime Minister : August 11, 1999 — He is in continuous power since October 9, 1992 (see this date above)
September 1, 1999	Sellapan Ramanathan	Singapore	President
October 12, 1999	Pervez Musharraf	Pakistan	President
November 17, 1999	Mohamed Ghannouchi	Tunisia	Prime Minister
December 10, 1999	Helen Clark	New Zealand	Prime Minister
December 20, 1999	Akil Akilov	Tajikistan	Prime Minister
December 22, 1999	Tandja Mamadou	Niger	President
December 31, 1999	Vladimir Putin	Russia	President

[edit] 2000

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
January 1	Hama Amadou	Niger	Prime Minister
10 January	Kessai Note	Marshall Islands	President
February 18	Stjepan Mesić	Croatia	President
March 1	Tarja Halonen	Finland	President
March 8	Bernard Makuza	Rwanda	Prime Minister
March 24	Paul Kagame	Rwanda	President
April 1	Abdoulaye Wade	Senegal	President
May 16	Ahmet Necdet Sezer	Turkey	President
May 20	Chen Shui-bian	Taiwan (Republic of China)	President
July 13	Josefa Iloilo	Fiji	President[10]
July 17	Bashar al-Assad	Syria	President
August 1	Moshe Katsav	Israel	President
August 12	Ronald Venetiaan	Suriname	President
October 7	Henri	Luxembourg	Grand Duke
October 26	Laurent Gbagbo	Côte d'Ivoire	President
November 7	Paramanga Ernest Yonli	Burkina Faso	Prime Minister
December 31	Samuel Schmid	Switzerland	Swiss Federal Council[8]

[edit] 2001

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
January 1	Tommy Remengesau	Palau	President
January 7	John Kufuor	Ghana	President
January 20	Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo	Philippines	President
January 20	George W. Bush	United States	President
January 26	Joseph Kabila	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	President
February 1	José Maria Neves	Cape Verde	Prime Minister
March 4	Dileita Mohamed Dileita	Djibouti	Prime Minister
March 22	Pedro Pires	Cape Verde	President
March 29	Ralph Gonsalves	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Prime Minister
March 31	Abdul Qader Bajamal	Yemen	Prime Minister
April 5	Otmar Hasler	Liechtenstein	Head of Government
April 7	Vladimir Voronin	Moldova	President
April 19	Vasile Tarlev	Moldova	Prime Minister
June 4	Gyanendra	Nepal	King[11]
September 3	Fradique de Menezes	São Tomé and Príncipe	President
October 8	Girma Wolde-Giorgis	Ethiopia	President
November 27	Anders Fogh Rasmussen	Denmark	Prime Minister
December 24	Patrick Manning	Trinidad and Tobago	Prime Minister

[edit] 2002

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
January 2	Levy Mwanawasa	Zambia	President
January 22	Georgi Parvanov	Bulgaria	President
February 14	Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa	Bahrain	King
May 3	Perry Christie	Bahamas	Prime Minister
May 6	Marc Ravalomanana	Madagascar	President
May 20	Xanana Gusmão	East Timor	President
July 22	Jan Peter Balkenende	Netherlands	Prime Minister
July 24	Alfred Moisiu	Albania	President
July 25	Abdul Kalam	India	President
August 5	Sir Michael Somare	Papua New Guinea	Prime Minister
August 7	Álvaro Uribe	Colombia	President
September 2	Sir Frederick Ballantyne	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Governor-General
September 6	Iajuddin Ahmed	Bangladesh	President
October 9	Driss Jettou	Morocco	Prime Minister
December 22	Janez Drnovšek	Slovenia	President
December 30	Mwai Kibaki	Kenya	President
December 31	Micheline Calmy-Rey	Switzerland	Swiss Federal Council (President of the Confederation 2007)[8]

[edit] 2003

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
January 1	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Brazil	President
February 25	Roh Moo Hyun	Korea, South	President
February 28	Tassos Papadopoulos	Cyprus	President
February 28	Václav Klaus	Czech Republic	President
March 13	François Bozizé	Central African Republic	President
March 14	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Turkey	Prime Minister
March 15	Hu Jintao	China, People's Republic of	President
16 March	Wen Jiabao	China, People's Republic of	Premier
March 17	George Maxwell Richards	Trinidad and Tobago	President
May 11	Joseph Urusemal	Federated States of Micronesia	President
May 12	Joan Enric Vives Sicília	Andorra	Co-Princes
May 22	Filip Vujanović	Montenegro	President
May 25	Néstor Kirchner	Argentina	President
24 June	Matti Vanhanen	Finland	Prime Minister
July 10	Anote Tong	Kiribati	President
August 11	Michael Jeffery	Australia	Governor-General
August 15	Nicanor Duarte	Paraguay	President
3 September	Pak Pong Ju	Korea, North	Premier
September 10	Muhammad Naji al-Otari	Syria	Prime Minister
October 2	Nicholas Liverpool	Dominica	President
October 7	Sir Anerood Jugnauth	Mauritius	President
October 29	Abdelkader Taleb Oumar	Western Sahara (SADR)	Prime Minister[2]
October 31	Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi	Malaysia	Prime Minister
October 31	İlham Əliyev	Azerbaijan	President
November 4	Artur Rasizadə	Azerbaijan	current office : Prime Minister : November 4, 2003 — He is in continuous power since July 20, 1996 (see this date above)
November 26	Themba Dlamini	Swaziland	Prime Minister
December 19	Sergey Sidorsky	Belarus	Prime Minister
December 23	Ivo Sanader	Croatia	Prime Minister
December 31	Christoph Blocher	Switzerland	Swiss Federal Council[8]
December 31	Hans-Rudolf Merz	Switzerland	Swiss Federal Council[8]

[edit] 2004

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
January 8	Roosevelt Skerrit	Dominica	Prime Minister
January 14	Óscar Berger	Guatemala	President
January 25	Mikhail Saakashvili	Georgia	President
March 3	Vojislav Koštunica	Serbia	Prime Minister
March 5	Mikhail Fradkov	Russia	Prime Minister
March 10	Kostas Karamanlis	Greece	Prime Minister
March 23	Lawrence Gonzi	Malta	Prime Minister
March 24	Baldwin Spencer	Antigua and Barbuda	Prime Minister
April 4	Edward Fenech Adami	Malta	President
April 14	James Michel	Seychelles	President
April 17	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero	Spain	President of the Government
April 21	Macky Sall	Senegal	Prime Minister
April 29	Ousmane Issoufi Maïga	Mali	Prime Minister
May 12	Branko Crvenkovski	Macedonia, Republic of	President
May 22	Manmohan Singh	India	Prime Minister
May 24	Bingu wa Mutharika	Malawi	President
June 1	Antonio Saca	El Salvador	President
June 15	Ivan Gašparovič	Slovakia	President
June 22	Ludwig Scotty	Nauru	President
June 29	Sir Paulias Matane	Papua New Guinea	Governor-General
July 1	Horst Köhler	Germany	President
July 7	Sir Nathaniel Waena	Solomon Islands	Governor-General
July 8	Heinz Fischer	Austria	President
July 11	Boris Tadić	Serbia	President
July 12	Valdas Adamkus	Lithuania	President
July 14	Ahmed Nazif	Egypt	Prime Minister
August 12	Lee Hsien Loong	Singapore	Prime Minister
August 15	Alois	Liechtenstein	Prince-Regent
August 16	Leonel Fernández	Dominican Republic	President
August 16	Kalkot Mataskelekele	Vanuatu	President
August 28	Shaukat Aziz	Pakistan	Prime Minister
September 1	Martín Torrijos	Panama	President
September 29	Ferenc Gyurcsány	Hungary	Prime Minister
October 14	Norodom Sihamoni	Cambodia	King
October 14	Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed	Somalia	President
October 19	Soe Win	Myanmar	Prime Minister
October 20	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Indonesia	President
3 November	Ali Muhammad Ghedi	Somalia	Prime Minister
November 3	Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan	United Arab Emirates	President
December 2	Aigars Kalvītis	Latvia	Prime Minister
December 3	Janez Janša	Slovenia	Prime Minister
December 7	Hamid Karzai	Afghanistan	President
December 8	Ephraïm Inoni	Cameroon	Prime Minister
December 11	Ham Lini	Vanuatu	Prime Minister
December 21	Traian Băsescu	Romania	President
December 29	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu	Romania	Prime Minister

[edit] 2005

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
January 15	Mahmoud Abbas	Palestine (Disputed area)	President
January 23	Viktor Yushchenko	Ukraine	President
February 2	Armando Guebuza	Mozambique	President
February 17	Zurab Nogaideli	Georgia	Prime Minister
March 1	Tabaré Vázquez	Uruguay	President
March 12	Karolos Papoulias	Greece	President
March 12	José Sócrates	Portugal	Prime Minister
March 21	Hifikepunye Pohamba	Namibia	President
March 24	Kurmanbek Bakiyev	Kyrgyzstan	President
April 6	Jalal Talabani	Iraq	President[12]
April 6	Albert II	Monaco	Sovereign Prince
April 13	Andrus Ansip	Estonia	Prime Minister
April 15	Filoimea Telito	Tuvalu	Governor-General
April 19	Benedict XVI	Vatican City	Pope
May 4	Faure Gnassingbé	Togo	President
May 30	Albert Pintat	Andorra	Head of Government
May 31	Dominique de Villepin	France	Prime Minister
June 1	Jean-Paul Proust	Monaco	Minister of State
June 13	Élie Doté	Central African Republic	Prime Minister
June 24	Nambaryn Enkhbayar	Mongolia	President
July 5	Navin Ramgoolam	Mauritius	Prime Minister
July 19	Fouad Siniora	Lebanon	Prime Minister
August 1	Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	King and Prime Minister
August 3	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	Iran	President
August 3	Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall	Mauritania	Chairman of the Military Council for Justice and Democracy
August 5	László Sólyom	Hungary	President
August 7	Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar	Mauritania	Prime Minister
August 17	Sergey Stanishev	Bulgaria	Prime Minister
August 26	Pierre Nkurunziza	Burundi	President
September 3	Sali Berisha	Albania	Prime Minister
September 27	Michaëlle Jean	Canada	Governor General
October 1	João Bernardo Vieira	Guinea-Bissau	President
October 17	Jens Stoltenberg	Norway	Prime Minister
November 19	Mahinda Rajapakse	Sri Lanka	President
November 25	Angela Merkel	Germany	Chancellor
November 27	Marouf al-Bakhit	Jordan	Prime Minister
December 21	Amadou Toumani Touré	Mali	President
December 21	Jakaya Kikwete	Tanzania	President
December 23	Lech Kaczyński	Poland	President

[edit] 2006

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
January 4	Ehud Olmert	Israel	Prime Minister[13]
January 5	Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum	United Arab Emirates	Prime Minister
January 16	Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf	Liberia	President
January 20	Jean Eyeghe Ndong	Gabon	Prime Minister
January 22	Evo Morales	Bolivia	President
January 25	Miyeegombo Enkhbold	Mongolia	Prime Minister
January 25	Su Tseng-chang	Taiwan (Republic of China)	Premier
January 27	Manuel Zelaya	Honduras	President
January 29	Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah	Kuwait	Emir
February 1	Arthur Dion Hanna	Bahamas	Governor-General
February 6	Stephen Harper	Canada	Prime Minister
February 7	Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah	Kuwait	Prime Minister
February 15	Kenneth Hall	Jamaica	Governor-General
March 5	Baghdadi Mahmudi	Libya	Prime Minister
March 9	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Portugal	President
March 11	Michelle Bachelet	Chile	President
March 29	Ismail Haniya	Palestine (Disputed area)	Prime Minister
March 30	Portia Simpson Miller	Jamaica	Prime Minister
March 30	Dr. Feleti Sevele	Tonga	Prime Minister
April 6	Yayi Boni	Benin	President
April 21	Tomé Vera Cruz	São Tomé and Príncipe	Prime Minister
April 25	Girija Prasad Koirala	Nepal	Prime Minister since 16 December 2006 also the interim head of state[11]
May 4	Manasseh Sogavare	Solomon Islands	Prime Minister
May 8	Óscar Arias	Costa Rica	President
May 14	René Préval	Haiti	President
May 15	Giorgio Napolitano	Italy	President
May 17	Romano Prodi	Italy	Prime Minister
May 20	Nouri al-Maliki	Iraq	Prime Minister
May 24	Abdelaziz Belkhadem	Algeria	Prime Minister
May 26	Ahmed Abdallah Sambi	Comoros	President
June 8	Bouasone Bouphavanh	Laos	Prime Minister
June 8	Choummaly Sayasone	Laos	President
June 9	Jacques-Édouard Alexis	Haiti	Prime Minister
June 15	Geir Haarde	Iceland	Prime Minister
June 26	José Ramos Horta	East Timor	acting Prime Minister : June 26, 2006 — July 10, 2006 Prime Minister : July 10, 2006 —
June 27	Nguyễn Tấn Dũng	Vietnam	Prime Minister
June 27	Nguyễn Minh Triết	Vietnam	President
July 4	Gediminas Kirkilas	Lithuania	Prime Minister
July 4	Robert Fico	Slovakia	Prime Minister
July 14	Jarosław Kaczyński	Poland	Prime Minister
July 27	Fiorenzo Stolfi	San Marino	Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs
July 28	Alan García	Peru	President
July 28	Jorge Del Castillo	Peru	Prime Minister
August 1	Doris Leuthard	Switzerland	Swiss Federal Council[8]
August 4	Viktor Yanukovych	Ukraine	Prime Minister
August 14	Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea	Equatorial Guinea	Prime Minister
August 14	Apisai Ielemia	Tuvalu	Prime Minister
August 16	Mirek Topolánek	Czech Republic	Prime Minister
August 23	Anand Satyanand	New Zealand	Governor-General
August 28	Nikola Gruevski	Macedonia, Republic of	Prime Minister
September 7	Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk	Bhutan	Prime Minister
September 11	George Tupou V	Tonga	King
September 15	Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone	Vatican City	Secretary of State
September 15	Giovanni Lajolo	Vatican City	Governor
September 19	Sonthi Boonyaratglin	Thailand	Chief of the Administrative Reform Council[14]
September 20	Yawovi Agboyibo	Togo	Prime Minister
September 26	Shinzo Abe	Japan	Prime Minister
October 1	Antonio Carattoni	San Marino	Captains-Regent
October 1	Roberto Giorgetti	San Marino	Captains-Regent
October 1	Surayud Chulanont	Thailand	Prime Minister, interim Government
6 October	Fredrik Reinfeldt	Sweden	Prime Minister
October 9	Toomas Hendrik Ilves	Estonia	President
November 6	Nebojša Radmanović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Presidency[15]
	Haris Silajdžić
	Željko Komšić
November 10	Željko Šturanović	Montenegro	Prime Minister
December 1	Felipe Calderón	Mexico	President
December 13	Mizan Zainal Abidin	Malaysia	Yang di-Pertuan Agong
December 14	Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck	Bhutan	King
December 15	John Compton	Saint Lucia	Prime Minister
December 21	Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow	Turkmenistan	Acting President until 14 February 2007 President since 14 February 2007

[edit] 2007

Assumed Office	Leader	State	Office
January 4	Nikola Špirić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Prime Minister
January 5	Commodore Frank Bainimarama	Fiji	Prime Minister
10 January	Karim Masimov	Kazakhstan	Prime Minister
January 10	Daniel Ortega	Nicaragua	President
11 January	Alfred Gusenbauer	Austria	Chancellor
12 January	Fakhruddin Ahmed	Bangladesh	Caretaker Prime Minister
15 January	Rafael Correa	Ecuador	President
20 January	Charles Rabemananjara	Madagascar	Prime Minister
February 26	Delwa Kassiré Koumakoye	Chad	Prime Minister
1 March	Lansana Kouyaté	Guinea	Prime Minister
9 March	Han Duck-soo	Korea, South	Prime Minister
29 March	Almazbek Atambayev	Kyrgyzstan	Prime Minister
29 March	Guillaume Soro	Côte d'Ivoire	Prime Minister
—	vacant	Armenia	Prime Minister
—	vacant	Guinea-Bissau	Prime Minister

[edit] References

1. ^ Castro has been state leader of Cuba since 1959, initially as President, as Prime Minister from July 1959, and as President of Council of State from Dec 1976.
2. ^ ^{a b} Western Sahara is largely occupied by Morocco, government in exile administers some territory.
3. ^ Prior to 1987, when he became executive President, Mugabe had been Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, defacto head of state, although there was another President at the time, Caanan Banana
4. ^ Khamenei was elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran by the Assembly of Experts on June 4, 1989. He was not as high-ranking a cleric as needed to assume the office, and was titled a temporary office holder until a constitutional amendment to allow a cleric of his then status to be elected as the Supreme Leader was put to referendum and became effective.
5. ^ Prior to the formation of Yemen in 1990, Saleh had been President of North Yemen since 1978. In 2005 he celebrated 27 years in office.
6. ^ Karimov was leader of Uzbekistan from 1989, but this was prior to independence in 1991
7. ^ Rakhmonov was Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of Tajikistan until November 16, 1994, then President
8. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} The Swiss Federal Council is a collective 7-member Head of State. The President of the Swiss Confederation serves solely in a primus inter pares capacity for one year.
9. ^ Chávez was temporarily deposed from the Venzeulan presidency during an unsuccessful coup April 11-13 2002
10. ^ Commodore Bainimarama acted for Josefa Iloilo following the December 2006 coup d'état from December 5, 2006 to January 4, 2007.
11. ^ ^{a b} Currently, the King of Nepal has no official constitutional role, as the role of head of state has been transferred to the Prime Minister as an interim arrangement until the Constituent Assembly to be elected in June 2007 decides on the fate of the Nepalese monarchy.^[1]
12. ^ From April 6, 2005 to April 22 2006 Talabani served as Transitional President of Iraq. On April 22, 2006, he was elected as the first President of Iraq under the country´s new Constitution
13. ^ Ehud Olmert was acting PM of Israel from Jan 4, 2006 and following the election was sworn in as PM on April 14, 2006
14. ^ In Thailand, the Administrative Reform Council was established following the September 2006 Military Coup.
15. ^ In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Presidency is a Tripartite council.

[edit] See also

• List of state leaders
• List of current foreign ministers
• List of national legislatures
• Lists of office-holders
• List of political parties
• List of women heads of state
• State leaders by year
• List of oldest state leaders
• List of youngest state leaders

[edit] External links

• Rulers.org List of rulers throughout time and places