- Peter Mackay
Peter Gordon MacKay, PC, QC, MP (born September 27, 1965) serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova, Nova Scotia, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. MacKay was the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party). On October 15, 2003, he and Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper agreed to merge the two parties, forming the Conservative Party of Canada.
- Lloyd Axworthy
Lloyd Norman Axworthy, PC, OC, OM, Ph.D, MA (born December 21, 1939, in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian politician. He is best known for having served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Axworthy is currently President of the University of Winnipeg. He is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specificially on the link between exclusion, poverty and law.
- Bill Graham
William C. "Bill" Graham, PC, QC, LL.D, D.U., B.A.(Hon.), (born March 17, 1939, in Montreal, Quebec) is a former Canadian politician. In 2006, he was Canada's Leader of the Opposition as well as the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada between the resignation of Paul Martin and the election of Stephane Dion as his successor.
- 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.
- 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.
- Winston Peters
Winston Raymond Peters, PC, (born April 11, 1945) is a New Zealand politician and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, outside cabinet. He is also the leader of the New Zealand First political party.
- Pierre Pettigrew
Pierre Stewart Pettigrew, PC, (born April 18, 1951) is a Canadian politician. Born in in Quebec City, Pettigrew has a BA in Philosophy from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (1972) and an M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University (1976). Prior to politics, Pettigrew was Vice-President of Samson Bélair/Deloitte & Touche in Montreal from 1985 to 1995, where he acted as a business consultant to companies with dealings in international markets.
- Manouchehr Mottaki
Manouchehr Mottaki is the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During the 2005 presidential election, he was the campaign manager of Ali Larijani, the right-conservative candidate. Mottaki holds a master's degree in international relations from the University of Tehran and a bachelor's degree from Bangalore University in India. Before becoming a minister in Ahmadinejad's cabinet, he served as Ambassador to Turkey and Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
- Maxime Verhagen
Maxime Jacques Marcel Verhagen (Maastricht, 14 september 1956) is a Dutch politician. He is the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Christian Democratic Appeal party (CDA) in the fourth Balkenende cabinet.
- Monte Solberg
Monte Kenton Solberg PC, MP (born September 17, 1958 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian Member of Parliament, representing the riding of Medicine Hat in the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is the current Minister of Human Resources and Social Development. He has also served as Critic for Foreign Affairs, National Revenue, and Human Resources Development.
- Massimo D'Alema
Massimo D'Alema (born April 20, 1949) is an Italian politician, currently Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. He is also a journalist, a former national secretary of the PDS, Partito Democratico della Sinistra, and he was the first President of the Council of Ministers coming from Italian Communist Party.
- Jan Petersen
Jan Petersen is a Norwegian politician. He is Candidate of Law 1973 from the University of Oslo, member of the Parliament since 1981, leader of the Conservative Party from 1994 to 2004 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from October 2001 to October 2005 in a coalition government led by Kjell Magne Bondevik from the Christian Democratic Party.
- Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Schröder was a West German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany) party. He held federal office as Minister of the Interior (1953-1961) and as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1961-1966) in the cabinets of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and of Ludwig Erhard. From 1966 to 1969 he served as Minister of Defence under Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger. In 1969 Gerhard Schröder ran for the Office of the Federal President, …
- Eugene Chien
Eugene You-hsin Chien (b. February 4, 1946) is a politician and diplomat of the Republic of China on Taiwan. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1968. He travelled to the United States to earn a Master of Science (1971) and Ph.D. (1973) in aeronautics & astronautics from New York University.
- İsmail Cem
İsmail Cem İpekçi was a Turkish politician, journalist, statesman and former minister of foreign affairs. İsmail Cem finished high school at Robert College in İstanbul in 1959 and graduated from the Law School at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 1963. He earned in 1983 a master's degree in sociology of politics at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris, France.
- Don McKinnon
Donald Charles McKinnon, PC, (born February 27, 1939) is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. He is currently Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- Dan McTeague
Daniel P. "Dan" McTeague, PC, MP, BA (Hons.) (born October 16, 1962 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is the Canadian Member of Parliament for the Ontario riding of Pickering—Scarborough East. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada and was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs tasked with protecting Canadians Abroad, until the Liberals lost the 2006 election.
- Seyoum Mesfin
Seyoum Mesfin (born January 1949) is the current Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Seyoum Mesfin was born in Tigray Province. Seyoum has a science training and academic background, gained first at Bahar Dar Polytechnic Institute and later from his four-year tenure at the Science Faculty of Addis Ababa University. He started managing the conduct of Ethiopia’s diplomacy following the overthrow in May 1991 of the Derg, …
- Miguel Ángel Moratinos
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé is a Spanish diplomat and politician, a member of the Socialist Workers' Party. He currently serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (since April 18 2004). Between 1996 and 2003, Moratinos was the European Union Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process. For the year 2007, Moratinos is the Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- Gianfranco Fini
Gianfranco Fini (born January 3, 1952) is an Italian politician. Fini was born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. He is separated from his wife Daniela di Sotto and has one daughter, holds a degree in psychology and is a journalist by trade (since 1979). He ran for the mayorship of Rome in 1993 but was defeated by Francesco Rutelli. He is the leader of the conservative National Alliance (AN - "Alleanza Nazionale").
- Mompati Merafhe
Lieutenant General Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe (born 1936) is a Botswana politician. He is a Lieutenant-General and has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country since 1994.
- Cheikh Tidiane Gadio
Cheikh Tidiane Gadio (born 16 September 1956 in Saint-Louis, Senegal) has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal since April 2000. In November 2002 he became Minister of State in charge of Foreign Affairs. At the African Union summit in Accra, Ghana in early July 2007, where leaders discussed whether a United States of Africa should be created immediately or gradually, Gadio expressed Senegal's stance in favor of immediate creation, …
- Rama Yade
Rama Yade is a French politician. She was a national secretary at UMP in charge of Francophonie. She is currently the State Secretary in charge of foreign affairs and human rights (under the authority of the minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Kouchner). She graduated from the Institut d'études politiques in 2000, and then worked at the Paris Town Hall and the French National Assembly before becoming administrator at the French Senate in 2002.
- Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet politician and diplomat, was a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to the 1950s, when he was dismissed from office by Nikita Khrushchev. He was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 (also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) and the Molotov cocktail was named after him.
- Władysław Bartoszewski
Władysław Bartoszewski – Polish politician, social activist, professor of history, journalist, writer, Auschwitz inmate, soldier of the Home Army (Polish resistance organization during the World War II), Polish underground activist, participant of the Warsaw Uprising, twice nominated for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, bachelor of The Order of the White Eagle, honorary citizen of Israel. __
- Antonio Martino
Antonio Martino (born December 22, 1942 in Messina) is an Italian politician, who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1994 and Italian Minister of Defense from 2001 to 2006. He is a founding member of Forza Italia, holding party card no. 2.
- Kamal Kharazi
Seyed Kamal Kharazi, was the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs as appointed by President Mohammad Khatami, serving for eight years from August 20, 1997 to August 24, 2005. He was replaced by Manouchehr Mottaki, as appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
- André Ouellet
André Ouellet PC (born April 6, 1939) is the former president of Canada Post, and a long time Liberal politician in Canada. First elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1967 by-election, Ouellet served in a number of different positions in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. Ouellet represented the safe Liberal seat of Papineau in Montreal for almost thirty years.
- Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (born May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and lawyer. Yatsenyuk is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine as of March 21, 2007. Yatsenyuk finished his education at the Chernivtsi University (1996), and the Chernivtsi Trade-Economics Institute of the Kiev National Trade-Economics Institute (2001). From December 1992 to September 1997 — law firm "Yurek Ltd.," based in Chernivtsi.
- Ali Akbar Velayati
Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati is an Iranian politician and a pediatrician, currently an Advisor in International Affairs to the Supreme Leader. He was the Foreign Minister of Iran for about 16 years (December 15, 1981 - August 20, 1997), making him the longest-serving Foreign Minister in Iranian history. Velayati served for two terms under Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi from 1981 to 1988 and then two more terms under President Hashemi Rafsanjani from 1988 to 1997.
- Luís Amado
Luís Filipe Marques Amado is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal in the government led by the Socialist Party. Before replacing Diogo Freitas do Amaral as Minister of Foreign Affairs on June 30 2006, Amado was the Minister of Defence. He accepted the EU presidency for Portugal, on June 30, 2007.
- Momodu Koroma
Momodu Koroma is a Sierra Leonean politician. He is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP). He became Foreign Minister in May 2002, as part of a new cabinet appointed following President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's re-election earlier in the month. Koroma had previously been Minister of Presidential Affairs.
- Hikmet Çetin
Hikmet Çetin is a Turkish politician, former minister of foreign affairs and was leader of the Republican People's Party for a short time. He served also as the Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
- Krzysztof Skubiszewski
Krzysztof Jan Skubiszewski is a Polish politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989-1993) as well as an established scholar in the field of international law. He served in the successive cabinets of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Jan Olszewski and Hanna Suchocka. He was the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Third Republic of Poland. An acclaimed international lawyer, he currently serves as the President of Iran-US International Claims Tribunal.
- Petre Roman
Petre Roman (b. July 22, 1946 in Bucharest) is a Romanian politician, former Prime Minister of Romania from 1989 to 1991, when his government was overthrown by the intervention of the miners led by Miron Cozma. He was also the president of the Senate from 1996 to 1999 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2000. He is now leader of the Democratic Force party, which he founded after leaving the Democratic Party in 2003.
- Monyane Moleleki
Monyane Moleleki (born 1951) is the Minister of Natural Resources of Lesotho. He has been a minister in the Lesotho government for a long time, and has also been Minister of Information and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Moleleki was Minister of National Resources in 1994, when he was briefly kidnapped along with three other ministers by soldiers on April 14; another minister, Deputy Prime Minister Selometsi Baholo, was killed in this incident.
- Yigal Allon
Yigal Allon (born October 10, 1918, died February 29, 1980), commander of the Palmach, was an Israeli politician, serving as one of the leaders of Mapai and the Alignment, acting Prime Minister of Israel, member of Knesset and government minister from the tenth through the seventeenth Knessets. Alon was born in Kfar Tavor and studied at the Kadoori Agricultural High School. As a young man he joined the Jewish Settlement Police as a police officer.
- Ilyas Akhmadov
Ilyas Khamzatovich Akhmadov served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from the Chechen rebel government. He currently resides in the United States, where he was granted political asylum.