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Secretary-Generals of the United Nations

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  • António Guterres
    António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, born 30 April 1949, is a Portuguese former politician who was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002. He also served for a time as President of the Socialis...
  • Ban Ki-moon
    Ki-moon (Hangul: 반기문; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean statesman and politician who is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a c...
  • Kofi Annan, 7th Secretary-General of The United Nations (1938 - 2018)
    Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recip...
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922 - 2016)
    Boutros-Ghali (بطرس بطرس غالى Buṭrus Buṭrus Ghālī , Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [%CB%88bot%C9%BEos ˈɣæːli]; born 14 November 1922) is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-...
  • Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Secretary-General of United Nations (1920 - 2020)
    Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar y de la Guerra KCMG ([xa%CB%88%CE%B2je%C9%BE ˈperez ðe ˈkweʝaɾ]; born January 19, 1920) is a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Na...

Acting Secretary-General - Gladwyn Jebb (1900–1996) - 24 October 1945 – 1 February 1946

Secretary-Generals of the United Nations

  1. Trygve Lie (1896–1968) - 2 February 1946 – 10 November 1952
  2. Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) - 10 April 1953 – 18 September 1961
  3. Thant (1909–1974) - 30 November 1961 – 31 December 1971
  4. Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007) - 1 January 1972 – 31 December 1981
  5. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920–2020) - 1 January 1982 – 31 December 1991
  6. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922–2016) - 1 January 1992 – 31 December 1996
  7. Kofi Annan (1938–2018) - 1 January 1997 – 31 December 2006
  8. Ban Ki-moon (born 1944) - 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2016
  9. António Guterres (born 1949) - 1 January 2017 –