- Ban Ki-Moon
Ban Ki-moon (born June 13 1944 in Eumseong, North Chungcheong, Korea) is a South Korean diplomat and the current Secretary-General of the United Nations. He succeeded Kofi Annan in this capacity on January 1 2007. Ban was the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea from January 2004 to November 1 2006. On October 13 2006, he was elected to be the eighth Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly and was sworn in on December 14 2006.
- Bernard Kouchner
Bernard Kouchner is a French politician, diplomat, and doctor. He is co-founder of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Doctors of the World. He is currently the French minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the Fillon government.
- Shimon Peres
"' (born Szymon Perski"' on August 2, 1923 in eastern Poland) is the 9th President of the State of Israel. He is a senior Israeli statesman with a political career spanning more than 65 years. He joined the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until June 13, 2007, the day he was elected President of Israel.
- Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minster, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party. Barak served as the 10th Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. After losing the 2001 election, Barak embarked on a business career. On June 12, 2007, he completed a political comeback by winning election to the Labor Party leadership. He was appointed as Israeli Minister of Defence, …
- Li Zhaoxing
Li Zhaoxing (Traditional Chinese:李肇星, Simplified Chinese:李肇星, Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Zhàoxīng, Wade-Giles: Li Chao-hsing) was the foreign minister of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2007. He was born in Shandong province and graduated from Peking University in 1964. He worked as a diplomat in Africa before becoming Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1990 and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1995, ambassador to the United States in 1998, …
- Yang Jiechi
Yang Jiechi became the tenth foreign minister of the People's Republic of China on April, 27th 2007. He was born in Shanghai and attended Bath University and London School of Economics from 1973 to 1975. He previously worked as a diplomat in the United States and as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for Latin America and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
- Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer was German foreign minister and Vice Chancellor in the government of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. He was a leading figure in the German Green Party and according to opinion polls, he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left office on 22 November, 2005.
- Dominique de Villepin
Dominique René Galouzeau de Villepin simply known as Dominique de Villepin, is a French diplomat, politician and writer. He was Prime Minister of France, having served in that capacity from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007. A career diplomat, Villepin rose through the ranks of the French right as one of Jacques Chirac's protégés. He came into the international spotlight as Foreign Minister, with his opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, …
- Shinzo Abe
; born September 21 1954is the current Prime Minister of Japan, elected by a special session of the National Diet on September 26 2006. He is Japan's youngest post-World War II prime minister and the first born after the war. Abe was born into a political family, and studied political science in Japan, and had studied in the United States. He worked in the private sector until 1982 when he began work in several government jobs.
- Celso Amorim
Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim (born 3 June, 1942 in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil) has served as the Foreign Minister of Brazil since 2003. He served a previous term as Foreign Minister from 1993-1995 under President Itamar Franco. Before his appointment as Foreign Minister, Amorim served as Brazil's ambassador to the United Kingdom
- Tang Jiaxuan
Tang Jiaxuan (born January 17, 1938) was foreign minister of the People's Republic of China from 1998-2003. After various diplomatic postings in Japan, he became Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1991, Vice minister of foreign affairs in 1993 and Minister of foreign affairs from 1998 to 2003. He continues to serve on the State Council.
- Philippe Douste-Blazy
Philippe Douste-Blazy (born on 1 January, 1953) was the Foreign Minister of France in the cabinet of Dominique de Villepin. Douste-Blazy is also a cardiologist and Christian Democrat politician from Lourdes. Formerly from the UDF party, he joined the Union for a Popular Movement. His principal former elected positions were mayor of Lourdes and mayor of Toulouse. He studied medicine in Toulouse, where he had his first job in 1976.
- Amr Moussa
Amr Moussa is the current Secretary-General of the League of Arab Nations since his election to the position in May 2001. He is a former Egyptian Foreign Minister and diplomat He served as Cairo’s ambassador to India in 1967 and as Egypt’s ambassador to the United Nations in 1990. He was appointed Foreign Minister in the Ganzouri Cabinet in 1991 and remained in this position until 2001.
- Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century.
- Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Ahmed Aboul Gheit (born June 12 1942 in Heliopolis) has served as the Foreign Minister of Egypt since July 2004, since the government of Ahmed Nazif took office. Gheit previously served as Egypt's ambassador to the United Nations. In December 2005 he began mediating the Chad-Sudan conflict.
- Nyan Win
Nyan Win has been the foreign minister of Myanmar since September 19 2004. He is a major general in the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces).
- Syed Hamid Albar
Datuk Seri Syed Hamid bin Syed Jaabar Albar (born January 15, 1944), is a Malaysian politician and currently is the Malaysian foreign minister. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the main political party in the country. He was born in Kampong Malayu Air Hitam, Penang, Malaysia, to Tan Sri Syed Jaabar Albar, also a Malaysian politician. Albar is of Hadhrami Arab descent.
- Dimitrij Rupel
Dimitrij Rupel (born April 7, 1946 in Ljubljana) is a politician from Slovenia and current foreign minister of that country. Rupel studied at the University of Essex, the University of Ljubljana (where he got his bachelor's degree in world literature and sociology), and the Brandeis University (where he got a Ph.D. in sociology in 1976). During this time, he has published literary works, journalistic and critical articles, and has worked as a translator and editor.
- Michel Barnier
Michel Barnier is a conservative French politician. Michel Barnier was born in La Tronche in the Isère "département" of the Rhône-Alpes "région", in France. He graduated from the École supérieure de commerce de Paris in 1972. He was elected to the House of Representatives as a deputy for the Savoie in 1978 and served in this function until 1993.
- Abdullah Gül
Abdullah Gül is the deputy prime minister, foreign minister of Turkey, and presidential candidate.
- Ursula Plassnik
Ursula Plassnik (born May 23 1956 in Klagenfurt) is an Austrian diplomat and politician. She has been Foreign Minister of Austria since October 2004.
- Yoriko Kawaguchi
Yoriko Kawaguchi is a Japanese politician. She was born in Tokyo. She holds a B.A. in international relations from the University of Tokyo, and a master's in economics from Yale University. She was the minister of the environment of Japan from 2000 until 2002 and the foreign minister of Japan from February 2002 until September 2004. She was reappointed to the post of foreign minister after a cabinet reshuffle in September 2003, …
- Hassan Wirajuda
Hassan Wirajuda (born July 9, 1948 in Tangerang, Banten) is the foreign minister of Indonesia since 2001.
- Shlomo Ben-Ami
Shlomo Ben-Ami (born July 17 1943) is an Israeli diplomat, politician and historian. Ben-Ami was born in Tangier, Morocco to Sephardic Jewish parents. He immigrated to Israel in 1955. He was educated at Tel-Aviv University and Oxford University (England) from which he received a Ph.D. in History. He was a historian at Tel-Aviv University from the mid-1970s, serving as head of the School of History from 1982 to 1986. His initial field of study was Spanish history, …
- Golda Meir
Golda Meir (born Golda Mabovitz on 3 May 1898, died December 8, 1978, also known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956), was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labour, Foreign Minister, and then as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from March 17, 1969, to June 3, 1974. As the BBC put it, Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet was coined for Margaret Thatcher.
- Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh (born January 3 1938) is an Indian politician. He is from the Indian State of Rajasthan and was an officer in the Indian Army in the 1960s and is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy (India), Khadakwasla. He served as Finance minister in the short-lived government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which lasted just from May 16 1996, to June 1 1996. After Vajpayee became Prime Minister again two years later, he became Minister for External Affairs of India, …
- Louis Michel
Mr. Louis Michel , European Union Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid
- Nabil Shaath
Nabil Shaath (also spelled Sha'ath, born 1938), a senior Palestinian official, has held the following titles: *Palestinian chief negotiator *Palestinian cabinet minister *Palestinian International Co-operation Minister *Planning Minister for the Palestinian National Authority *Acting Prime Minister of the PNA Shaath served as the Palestinian Authority's first ever foreign minister from April 2003 to February 2005.
- Lakshman Kadirgamar
Sri Lankabhimanya Hon. Lakshman Kadirgamar PC (April 12, 1932 - August 12, 2005) was a Sri Lankan politician. After a distinguished career as a lawyer and international humanitarian, he was appointed as foreign minister of Sri Lanka in 1994 by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. He achieved international prominence in this position due his wide ranging condemnation of the LTTE and his efforts to have then banned internationally.
- Yevgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov is a Russian politician and a former Prime Minister of Russia. He was also the last Speaker of the Soviet of the Union of the Supreme Soviet, and the Russian Foreign Minister responsible for changing the foreign policy from largely unconditional support of the United States to a more nationalist defense of Russia's interests. Primakov was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR.
- Micheline Calmy-Rey
Micheline Calmy-Rey (born July 8, 1945) is a Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2003. She is head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (the Swiss foreign minister) and President of the Confederation for 2007.
- Yossi Beilin
Dr. Yossef ("Yossi") Beilin is a leftist Israeli politician, Knesset member, and a former deputy foreign minister and justice minister within the Israeli Labour Party. He is currently chairman of Meretz-Yachad. He is best known for his involvement with the Oslo accords, the Geneva Initiative and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in general.
- Yitzhak Shamir
Shamir first described a meeting he had recently had with a Vermont-based psychoanalyst, the nephew of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. The nephew prided himself on the fact that his closest friends were Palestinians, and that he rejected the idea of a Jewish "tribal" identity, preferring to view all human beings as brethren. Shamir observed, "That is the last thing the bosses want.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of Independent India. He was also a key figure in International politics in the post-war period, and was one of the founding figures of the non-alignment. Popularly referred to as Panditji ("Scholar"), Nehru was also a writer, scholar and amateur historian, …
- Abba Eban
Abba Eban (born February 2, 1915, died November 17, 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician. Born with the name Aubrey Solomon Meir in Cape Town, South Africa, Eban moved to England at an early age. He was educated at St Olave's Grammar School before studying Classics and Oriental languages at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating with a "Triple-Starred First", he researched Arabic and Hebrew as a Fellow of Pembroke College from 1938-1939.
- Ieng Sary
Ieng Sary (born 1922 or 1925) was a powerful figure in the Khmer Rouge. He was the deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979 and held several senior positions in the Democratic Kampuchea party from 1979 until his defection to the government in 1996.
- Abdul Sattar
Abdul Sattar was the Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1999 to 2002.Mr Abdul Sattar, is currently closely associated with Pakistan Observer News.
- Erkki Tuomioja
Erkki Sakari Tuomioja (born 1 July 1946) was the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland between 2000 and 2007. He is currently a member of the Finnish Parliament. He is regarded to be one of the most widely read politicians still active on the political stage in Finland. Tuomioja is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, although his political views are thought to be more to the left than the party line. He is also a member of ATTAC.
- Qian Qichen
Qian Qichen is a Chinese diplomat and communist political figure. He served as Chinese foreign minister from April 1988 to March 1998. He was born in Jiading, Shanghai and joined the Communist Party of China in 1942. After leaving school in 1955, he served as a diplomat in Moscow and other places. He served for a while as ambassador to Guinea.
- Hor Namhong
Hor Namhong (born November 15, 1935) is the foreign minister of Cambodia since 1998. He was also foreign minister from 1990 until 1993. He is a member of the Cambodian People's Party. Date / Place of Birth: 15 November 1935, Phnom Penh Marital Status: Married, 5 Children