- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Diogo Freitas do Amaral
Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral, GCC, GCSE, GCIH, usually referred to as either Freitas do Amaral or simply Freitas, is a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 March 2005 to 1 July 2006. He also served briefly as Prime Minister in an interim capacity in the early 1980s. In 1974, some months after the Carnation Revolution, …
- Józef Beck
Józef Beck was a Polish statesman, diplomat, military officer, and close associate of Józef Piłsudski. After the outbreak of World War I, Beck was a member of the clandestine Polish Military Organization ("Polska Organizacja Wojskowa", or "POW") founded in October 1914 by Piłsudski. In 1914-1917 Beck served in the First Brigade of the Polish Legions, and was aide to Piłsudski.
- Ernst Walch
Dr. Ernst Joseph Walch (born 12 May, 1956) has been a member of the Principality of Liechtenstein's government as Minister of Foreign Affairs since April 2001. He studied law in Innsbruck, where he earned his doctorate in 1980, and at the New York University School of Law, Graduate Division, Institute of Comparative Law, where he received his Master of Comparative Jurisprudence in 1981.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine (October 21, 1790 - February 28, 1869) was a French writer, poet and politician, born in Mâcon into French provincial nobility. He is famous for his partly autobiographical poem, "Le Lac" ("The Lake"), which describes in retrospect the fervent love shared by a couple from the point of view of the bereaved man. Lamartine was masterly in his use of French poetic forms.
- Hervé de Charette
Hervé de Charette is a conservative French politician. Deputy of Maine-et-Loire, he led a centerist component of the Union for French Democracy ("Union pour la démocratie française" or UDF). He served as the Minister of Housing in the government of Édouard Balladur from 1993 to 1995 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs in that of Alain Juppé from 1995 to 1997. In 2002, he joined the Union for a Popular Movement ("Union pour un mouvement populaire" or UMP).
- Raúl Roa
Raúl Roa García was a Cuban intellectual, politician and diplomat. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1959 to 1973. He was appointed after the Cuban Revolution, along with Fidel Castro. He kept good relations with other Latin American countries and he signed a anti hijacking agreement with the United States in 1973. His son, Raúl Roa Kouri, is also a diplomat and has served as Cuba's ambassador to the Holy See.
- Mümtaz Soysal
Mümtaz Soysal is a Turkish politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1994. He belongs to the Social Democratic People's Party.
- Yvon Delbos
Yvon Delbos was a French radical party politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Popular Front governments of Léon Blum and Camille Chautemps. Delbos was born in Dordogne, Aquitaine. During the Spanish Civil War, he worked alongside his British counterpart Anthony Eden in fleshing out the policy of non-intervention.
- Emre Gönensay
Emre Gönensay is a Turkish politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey in 1996 and belongs to the True Path Party.
- İlter Türkmen
İlter Türkmen is a Turkish diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey 1980-1983.
- Andrei Budberg
Count Andrei Yakovlevich Budberg was a Russian diplomat who served as Foreign Minister in 1806-07. His ancestors moved to Russia in the 16th century from Westphalia. Budberg was born in Riga and entered the military service in 1759. He participated in the Russo-Turkish war 1768-1774. In 1783 Budberg was promoted to podpolkovnik. The same year Riga governor-general Brown recommended Budberg to the Empress Catherine II as a diplomat.
- Jean Sauvagnargues
Jean Sauvagnargues was a French politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1974 to 1976.
- Maurice Schumann
Maurice Schumann (1911-1998) was a French politician and hero of the Second World War who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou in the 1960s and 1970s. Born to a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother, he converted to his mother's faith in 1937. During a meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Community in 1969, he stated France's conditions for Britain joining the community on its third application, …