- Kofi Annan
Annan must also be commended for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and for his sustained advocacy to increase access to drugs and diagnostics for poor people especially in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. The United Nations and Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2001, one of the highest accolades he had received during his career as secretary-general.
- 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.
- Javier Solana
JAVIER SOLANA President of Madariaga European Foundation Dr. Javier Solana was born in Madrid on 14 July, 1942. He is married to Concepción Giménez and has two children. He has a Doctorate in Physics, and was a Fullbright scholar at several American universities. A Professor of Solid-state Physics at Madrid Complutense University, he is the author of over thirty publications in his field. He is a member of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome.
- Boutros Ghali
Boutros Ghali ; (Born 1846 - February 20, 1910) was a Coptic Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910. He was accused of favouring the British in the Denshawai incident and on February 20, 1910, Ghali was assassinated by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, a young pharmacology graduate who had just returned from the United Kingdom. His grandson Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was named after him, …
- 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.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996.
- Jan Egeland
Jan Egeland (born 1957 in Norway) was the United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from June 2003 to December 2006. Egeland was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and succeeded Kenzo Oshima. He traveled extensively, drawing attention to humanitarian emergencies. Egeland will take up the position as director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs on September 1, 2007.
- 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.
- Lakhdar Brahimi
Lakhdar Brahimi (born January 1, 1934 in Algeria) was a veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He retired from his duties at the end of 2005. Brahimi 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. He was the United Nations special representative for Afghanistan and Iraq. Before his appointment in 2001 by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, …
- Jan Eliasson
Jan Kenneth Eliasson (born 17 September 1940) is a Swedish diplomat with connections to the Social Democratic party. He is the former President of the United Nations General Assembly and was Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs since April 24, 2006 until October 6 2006. He is currently the United Nations Secretary General Special Envoy to Darfur, Sudan.
- Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (born June 23, 1937) is a former President of Finland (1994-2000) and a UN diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work. Currently he is the UN representative and mediator during the Vienna peace talks that will determine the final status of Serbia's southern province, Kosovo (which has been under UN administration since 1999). In his proposal to the UN Security Council he has recommended supervised independence for Kosovo.
- U Thant
U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen for the post when his predecessor Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in an air crash in September 1961. 'U' is an honorific in Burmese, roughly equal to 'Mister'. Thant was his only name. In Burmese he was known as Pantanaw U Thant, a reference to his home town of Pantanaw.
- Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905 - September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.
- Maurice Strong
Maurice F. Strong, (his first name is pronounced "Morris"), PC, CC, OM (born April 29, 1929, in Oak Lake, Manitoba) is an industrialist and public servant who was the Secretary-General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), better known as the Earth Summit. Maurice Strong is currently in the People's Republic of China. Together with George Soros he is attempting to organize export of the Chery automobile.
- Lee Hsien Loong
Lee Hsien Loong (born February 10 1952) is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore. He also serves as the Minister for Finance. Lee Hsien Loong is the eldest son of Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and is married to Ho Ching, who is the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the government-owned Temasek Holdings.
- Ian Martin
Ian Martin is a human rights activist who has been involved in a number of Human Rights organisation. He is currently the Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Nepal for Support to the Peace Process. He has been: *Secretary-General of Amnesty International from 1986 to 1992. *Director-General of The UN/OAS International Civilian Mission in Haiti 1993 and 1994-5. *Chief of the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda 1995-96.
- Yoshio Utsumi
Mr. Yoshio Utsumi (ITU Secretary-General)
- Trygve Lie
Trygve Halvdan Lie (July 16, 1896 - December 30, 1968) was a Norwegian politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. Lie was born in Oslo (then Kristiania) on 16 July 1896. Lie's father, Martin, left the family to work as a carpenter in the United States and his mother, Hulda, ran a boarding house.
- 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.
- Walter Schwimmer
Walter Schwimmer is a politician and diplomat from Austria. After being a member of the Austrian Parliament (National Council) for 28 years, serving as chairperson of several committees (Justice, Health, Housing and Construction)and deputy leader of his political group (ÖVP - Austrian People's Party), he was elected secretary general of the Council of Europe. His term of office was from September 1 1999 until September 1, 2004.
- Brian Urquhart
Sir Brian Edward Urquhart KCMG MBE (born 28 February 1919) is a former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations. Urquhart was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a member of the staff involved in the setting-up of the United Nations in 1945, and has advised every Secretary-General of the United Nations since its inception. His main fields of interest and operation at the UN have been conflict resolution and peacekeeping.
- Kenzo Oshima
Kenzo Oshima is the Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations. He is the former United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. He is the recipient of a law degree from Tokyo University. Before his appointment to the UN office, he was the Ambassador of Japan to Australia from September 2003 to December 2004. In mid-January 2001, Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed him head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
- Chee Soon Juan
Dr. Chee Soon Juan (born 1962) is the Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). He is known for his opposition and numerous confrontation with the ruling People's Action Party (PAP). Chee is a neuropsychologist and received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1990. He joined SDP in 1992 and later took over the Secretary-General position from founder Chiam See Tong who left to join the Singapore People's Party.
- Francis Deng
Dr Francis Mading Deng is Research Professor of International Politics, Law and Society at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he is also the Director of a newly established Center for Displacement Studies. He has served as Human Rights Officer in the United Nations Secretariat, as Ambassador of Sudan to Canada, the Scandinavian countries and the United States of America, and as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
- Hans Corell
Hans Corell (born July 7, 1939) is a Swedish diplomat. Between March 1994 and March 2004 he was Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations. In this capacity, he was head of the Office of Legal Affairs in the United Nations Secretariat. Before joining the United Nations in 1994, Corell was an Ambassador and Under-Secretary for Legal and Consular Affairs in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
- Yasushi Akashi
Yasushi Akashi (born January 19, 1931 in Hinai, Akita Prefecture) is a senior Japanese diplomat and United Nations administrator. As a politically appointed International Civil Servant at the Headquarters of the United Nations Secretariat in New York, he held positions as Under-Secretary-General of Public Information, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs and Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra is a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1 1982 to December 31 1991. In 1995, he ran unsuccessfully against Alberto Fujimori for President of Peru. He was President of the Council of Ministers, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 2000 until July 2001, during the turbulent period following Fujimori's resignation over corruption charges.
- Nafis Sadik
Dr. Sadik's expertise is in the areas of reproductive health and family, population and development, women, and gender and development. Her contributions to improving the health of women and children of the global community have brought her numerous international awards and honors, and several honorary degrees.
- Michel Rocard
Michel Rocard is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the "Revenu minimum d'insertion" (RMI), a social minimum welfare program for indigents. He is currently a member of the European Parliament.
- Walid Shoebat
Walid Shoebat is an American citizen, born to Palestinian father and American mother. By self definition, he is a former PLO terrorist. Shoebat came to public attention by becoming an ardent critic of Islam and supporter of Israel. He describes himself as a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation who took part in terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. He is the founder of the Walid Shoebat Foundation, …
- Anwarul Karim Chowdhury
Anwarul Karim Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi diplomat most noted for his work on development in the poorest nations, global peace and championing the rights of women and children. In a speech he gave in 2005, Mr. Chowdhury stated, "We should not forget that when women are marginalized, there is little chance for an open and participatory society." Mr.
- Alexander Yakovlev
Alexander Yakovlev was a long-serving tenured member of the United Nations procurement department (since 1985). He was involved in the oil-for-food scandal and had other allegations of impropriety. He is accused by the investigators of taking nearly $1 million in bribes, which also includes alleged illicit dealings with Compass Group PLC's subsidiary Eurest Support Services (ESS) and its terminated CEO Peter R. Harris and senior executive Andy Seiwert.
- Edward Mortimer
Edward Mortimer ; Born 22 December 1943 in Burford) was until January 2007 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is an author, journalist, and fellow of All Souls College Oxford. Mortimer is now Senior Vice President of The Salzburg Seminar. Before joining the United Nations he was a columnist and leader writer for the Financial Times. His books include: * "Roosevelt's Children." * "Faith and Power, …
- Adama Dieng
Adama Dieng (born May 22 1950, Senegal) is a former board member of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and a former registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Ibrahim Ahmed
Ibrahim Ahmed or Ibrahim Ahmad (1914-2000) was an Iraqi-Kurdish author; One of the founders and Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, from 1947-58. He was living in England after 1975. Ibrahim Ahmed was one of those who organized the famous demonstration against the then colonial power of Great Britain in Iraq, in front of the City Hall in the city Suleimani in 1930.
- Martin Ennals
Martin Ennals (1927 - 1991) was a British human rights activist. He served as the third Secretary-General of Amnesty International, between 1968 and 1980. He went on to help found the British human rights organisation ARTICLE 19, followed by International Alert in 1985. The Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, created in 1993, …
- Kenneth Kaunda
Dr. Kaunda was the first mainland Sub-Saharan head of state to allow free multi-party elections and relinquish power when he lost even before his constitutional mandate ended . Mathieu Kerekou of Benin had done so before but that was after his term had ended in March of 1991.
- Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
The North Atlantic Council appointed Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as NATO secretary general and Council chairman on 22 September 2003. De Hoop Scheffer assumed his post on 1 January 2004, succeeding Lord George Robertson of Britain. He is the third Dutchman to head the Alliance in its 54-year history. De Hoop Scheffer was born in Amsterdam on 3 April 1948. He graduated in law from Leiden University in 1974.
- Marc Grossman
Marc Grossman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 23, 2001 and sworn in as Under Secretary for Political Affairs on March 26, 2001. Ambassador Grossman has been a career Foreign Service Officer since 1976. He was Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources, from June 2000 to February 2001, and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, from August 1997 to May 2000. From November 1994 to June 1997, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey.
- Thant Myint-U
Thant Myint-U is an historian and a former United Nations official. He was born 31 January 1966 in New York city to Burmese parents and is the grandson of former UN Secretary-General U Thant. He was educated at Harvard, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in history from Cambridge University in 1996.