List of current heads of state and government

This is a list of current heads of state and government, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems; often a leader is both in presidential systems. Some states have semi-presidential systems where the head of government role is fulfilled by both the listed head of government and the head of state.

The list includes the names of the recently elected or appointed heads of state who will take office on an appointed date.

States recognised by the United Nations

State	Head of state	Head of government
Afghanistan	President Hamid Karzai
Albania	President Bamir Topi	Prime Minister Sali Berisha
Algeria	President Abdelaziz Bouteflika	Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia
Andorra	Co-Prince Joan Enric Vives Sicília Representative Nemesi Marquès Oste Co-Prince Nicolas Sarkozy Representative Christian Frémont	Prime Minister Antoni Martí
Angola	President José Eduardo dos Santos
Antigua and Barbuda	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Dame Louise Lake-Tack	Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer
Argentina	President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Armenia	President Serzh Sargsyan	Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan
Australia	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2][3] Governor-General Quentin Bryce	Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Austria	President Heinz Fischer	Chancellor Werner Faymann
Azerbaijan	President Ilham Aliyev	Prime Minister Artur Rasizade
Bahamas	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Arthur Foulkes	Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham
Bahrain	King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa	Prime Minister Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa
Bangladesh	President Zillur Rahman	Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Barbados	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Acting Governor-General Elliot Belgrave	Prime Minister Freundel Stuart
Belarus	President Alexander Lukashenko	Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich
Belgium	King Albert II	Prime Minister Yves Leterme
Belize	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Colville Young	Prime Minister Dean Barrow
Benin	President Yayi Boni	Prime Minister Pascal Koupaki
Bhutan	King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck	Prime Minister Jigme Thinley
Bolivia	President Evo Morales
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Presidency:[4] Željko Komšić (Chairman) Bakir Izetbegović (Member) Nebojša Radmanović (Member)	Prime Minister Nikola Špirić
Botswana	President Ian Khama
Brazil	President Dilma Rousseff
Brunei	Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
Bulgaria	President Georgi Parvanov President-elect Rosen Plevneliev	Prime Minister Boyko Borisov
Burkina Faso	President Blaise Compaoré	Prime Minister Luc-Adolphe Tiao
Burma (Myanmar)	President Thein Sein
Burundi	President Pierre Nkurunziza
Cambodia	King Norodom Sihamoni	Prime Minister Hun Sen
Cameroon	President Paul Biya	Prime Minister Philémon Yang
Canada	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor General David Johnston	Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Cape Verde	President Jorge Carlos Fonseca	Prime Minister José Maria Neves
Central African Republic	President François Bozizé	Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Chad	President Idriss Déby	Prime Minister Emmanuel Nadingar
Chile	President Sebastián Piñera
China, People's Republic of	President Hu Jintao	Premier Wen Jiabao
Colombia	President Juan Manuel Santos
Comoros	President Ikililou Dhoinine
Republic of the Congo	President Denis Sassou Nguesso
Democratic Republic of the Congo	President Joseph Kabila	Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito
Costa Rica	President Laura Chinchilla
Côte d'Ivoire	President Alassane Ouattara	Prime Minister Guillaume Soro
Croatia	President Ivo Josipović	Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor
Cuba	President Raúl Castro
Cyprus	President Dimitris Christofias
Czech Republic	President Václav Klaus	Prime Minister Petr Nečas
Denmark	Queen Margrethe II	Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Djibouti	President Ismail Omar Guelleh	Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita
Dominica	President Nicholas Liverpool	Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican Republic	President Leonel Fernández
East Timor	President José Ramos-Horta	Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão
Ecuador	President Rafael Correa
Egypt	Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Mohamed Hussein Tantawi	Prime Minister Essam Sharaf
El Salvador	President Mauricio Funes
Equatorial Guinea	President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	Prime Minister Ignacio Milam Tang
Eritrea	President Isaias Afewerki
Estonia	President Toomas Hendrik Ilves	Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
Ethiopia	President Girma Wolde-Giorgis	Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
Fiji	President Epeli Nailatikau	Acting Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama
Finland	President Tarja Halonen	Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen
France	President Nicolas Sarkozy	Prime Minister François Fillon
Gabon	President Ali Bongo Ondimba	Prime Minister Paul Biyoghé Mba
Gambia	President Yahya Jammeh
Georgia	President Mikheil Saakashvili	Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri
Germany	President Christian Wulff	Chancellor Angela Merkel
Ghana	President John Atta Mills
Greece	President Karolos Papoulias	Prime Minister Lucas Papademos
Grenada	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Carlyle Glean	Prime Minister Tillman Thomas
Guatemala	President Álvaro Colom President-elect Otto Pérez Molina
Guinea	President Alpha Condé	Prime Minister Mohamed Said Fofana
Guinea-Bissau	President Malam Bacai Sanhá	Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior
Guyana	President Bharrat Jagdeo	Prime Minister Sam Hinds
Haiti	President Michel Martelly	Prime Minister Garry Conille
Honduras	President Porfirio Lobo Sosa
Hungary	President Pál Schmitt	Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
Iceland	President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson	Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
India	President Pratibha Patil	Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Indonesia	President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Iran	Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei	President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iraq	President Jalal Talabani	Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Ireland	President Michael D. Higgins	Taoiseach Enda Kenny
Israel	President Shimon Peres	Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Italy	President Giorgio Napolitano	Prime Minister Mario Monti
Jamaica	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen	Prime Minister Andrew Holness
Japan	Emperor Akihito	Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda
Jordan	King Abdullah II	Prime Minister Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh
Kazakhstan	President Nursultan Nazarbayev	Prime Minister Karim Massimov
Kenya	President Mwai Kibaki	Prime Minister Raila Odinga
Kiribati	President Anote Tong
Kuwait	Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah	Prime Minister Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah
Kyrgyzstan	President Roza Otunbayeva President-elect Almazbek Atambayev	Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev
Laos	President Choummaly Sayasone	Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong
Latvia	President Andris Bērziņš	Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis
Lebanon	President Michel Suleiman	Prime Minister Najib Mikati
Lesotho	King Letsie III	Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili
Liberia	President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Libya	Chairman of the National Transitional Council Mustafa Abdul Jalil	Acting Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib
Liechtenstein	Prince Hans-Adam II Prince-Regent Alois	Prime Minister Klaus Tschütscher
Lithuania	President Dalia Grybauskaitė	Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius
Luxembourg	Grand Duke Henri	Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker
Macedonia	President Gjorge Ivanov	Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski
Madagascar	President Andry Rajoelina	Prime Minister Omer Beriziky
Malawi	President Bingu wa Mutharika
Malaysia	Yang di-Pertuan Agong Mizan Zainal Abidin Yang di-Pertuan Agong-designate Abdul Halim	Prime Minister Najib Razak
Maldives	President Mohamed Nasheed
Mali	President Amadou Toumani Touré	Prime Minister Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé
Malta	President George Abela	Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi
Marshall Islands	President Jurelang Zedkaia
Mauritania	President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz	Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
Mauritius	President Sir Anerood Jugnauth	Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam
Mexico	President Felipe Calderón
Micronesia, Federated States of	President Manny Mori
Moldova	Acting President Marian Lupu	Prime Minister Vlad Filat
Monaco	Prince Albert II	Minister of State Michel Roger
Mongolia	President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj	Prime Minister Sükhbaataryn Batbold
Montenegro	President Filip Vujanović	Prime Minister Igor Lukšić
Morocco	King Muhammad VI	Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi
Mozambique	President Armando Guebuza	Prime Minister Aires Ali
Namibia	President Hifikepunye Pohamba	Prime Minister Nahas Angula
Nauru	President Sprent Dabwido
Nepal	President Ram Baran Yadav	Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai
Netherlands	Queen Beatrix	Prime Minister Mark Rutte
New Zealand	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae	Prime Minister John Key
Nicaragua	President Daniel Ortega
Niger	President Mahamadou Issoufou	Prime Minister Brigi Rafini
Nigeria	President Goodluck Jonathan
North Korea	Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong-Il
	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam Eternal President Kim Il-sung[5]	Premier Choe Yong-rim
Norway	King Harald V	Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
Oman	Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said
Pakistan	President Asif Ali Zardari	Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani
Palau	President Johnson Toribiong
Panama	President Ricardo Martinelli
Papua New Guinea	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Michael Ogio	Prime Minister Peter O'Neill
Paraguay	President Fernando Lugo
Peru	President Ollanta Humala	Prime Minister Salomón Lerner Ghitis
Philippines	President Benigno Aquino III
Poland	President Bronisław Komorowski	Prime Minister Donald Tusk
Portugal	President Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho
Qatar	Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani	Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani
Romania	President Traian Băsescu	Prime Minister Emil Boc
Russia	President Dmitry Medvedev	Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
Rwanda	President Paul Kagame	Prime Minister Pierre Habumuremyi
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Cuthbert Sebastian	Prime Minister Denzil Douglas
Saint Lucia	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Dame Pearlette Louisy	Prime Minister Stephenson King
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Frederick Ballantyne	Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves
Samoa	O le Ao o le Malo Tufuga Efi	Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
San Marino	Captain Regent Gabriele Gatti Captain Regent Matteo Fiorini
São Tomé and Príncipe	President Manuel Pinto da Costa	Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada
Saudi Arabia	King Abdullah
Senegal	President Abdoulaye Wade	Prime Minister Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye
Serbia	President Boris Tadić	Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković
Seychelles	President James Michel
Sierra Leone	President Ernest Bai Koroma
Singapore	President Tony Tan Keng Yam	Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Slovakia	President Ivan Gašparovič	Prime Minister Iveta Radičová
Slovenia	President Danilo Türk	Prime Minister Borut Pahor
Solomon Islands	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Frank Kabui	Prime Minister Gordon Lilo Darcy
Somalia	President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed	Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali
South Africa	President Jacob Zuma
South Korea	President Lee Myung-bak	Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik
South Sudan	President Salva Kiir Mayardit
Spain	King Juan Carlos I	Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Prime Minister-designate Mariano Rajoy
Sri Lanka	President Mahinda Rajapaksa	Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne
Sudan	President Omar al-Bashir
Suriname	President Dési Bouterse
Swaziland	King Mswati III	Prime Minister Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
Sweden	King Carl XVI Gustaf	Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt
Switzerland	Federal Council[6]: Micheline Calmy-Rey (Pres.), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (VP), Doris Leuthard, Ueli Maurer, Didier Burkhalter, Simonetta Sommaruga, Johann Schneider-Ammann
Syria	President Bashar al-Assad	Prime Minister Adel Safar
Tajikistan	President Emomalii Rahmon	Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov
Tanzania	President Jakaya Kikwete	Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda
Thailand	King Bhumibol Adulyadej	Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
Togo	President Faure Gnassingbé	Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo
Tonga	King George Tupou V	Prime Minister Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō
Trinidad and Tobago	President George Maxwell Richards	Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Tunisia	Acting President Fouad Mebazaa	Prime Minister Beji Caid el Sebsi Prime Minister-designate Hamadi Jebali
Turkey	President Abdullah Gül	Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkmenistan	President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Tuvalu	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2] Governor-General Sir Iakoba Italeli	Prime Minister Willy Telavi
Uganda	President Yoweri Museveni	Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi
Ukraine	President Viktor Yanukovych	Prime Minister Mykola Azarov
United Arab Emirates	President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
United Kingdom	Queen Elizabeth II[1][2]	Prime Minister David Cameron
United States	President Barack Obama
Uruguay	President José Mujica
Uzbekistan	President Islam Karimov	Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Vanuatu	President Iolu Abil	Prime Minister Sato Kilman
Vatican City	Pope Benedict XVI	President of the Governorate Giuseppe Bertello
Venezuela	President Hugo Chávez
Vietnam	President Trương Tấn Sang	Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
Yemen	President Ali Abdullah Saleh	Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Mujawar
Zambia	President Michael Sata
Zimbabwe	President Robert Mugabe	Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai

States recognised by at least one United Nations member

State	Head of state	Head of government
Abkhazia	President Alexander Ankvab	Prime Minister Leonid Lakerbaia
Kosovo	President Atifete Jahjaga	Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi
Northern Cyprus	President Derviş Eroğlu	Prime Minister İrsen Küçük
Palestine	(disputed) President either: Mahmoud Abbas (West Bank) or Aziz Duwaik (Gaza Strip)[7]	(disputed) Prime Minister either: Salam Fayyad (West Bank) or Ismail Haniyeh (Gaza Strip)[8]
China, Republic of (Taiwan)	President Ma Ying-jeou	Premier Wu Den-yih
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	President Mohamed Abdelaziz	Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar
South Ossetia	President Eduard Kokoity[9]	Prime Minister Vadim Brovtsev

States not recognised by any United Nations members

This list encompasses the leaders of geo-political entities that lack significant international recognition. The degree of control these entities exert over their claimed territories may vary.

State	Head of state	Head of government
Nagorno-Karabakh	President Bako Sahakyan	Prime Minister Arayik Harutyunyan
Somaliland	President Ahmed Mahamoud Silanyo
Transnistria	President Igor Smirnov

See also

• List of heads of state by diplomatic precedence
• List of current foreign ministers
• List of current presidents of assembly
• List of current Vice Presidents
• List of current dependent territory leaders
• List of elected or appointed female heads of government
• List of elected or appointed female heads of state
• Lists of office-holders
• List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
• List of current heads of government by time in office
• List of state leaders by year
• List of state leaders in 2011
• Lists of state leaders
• List of current Permanent Representatives to the United Nations

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} The Royal Household. "Commonwealth members". Queen's Printer. http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/Commonwealthmembers/MembersoftheCommonwealth.aspx. Retrieved 18 February 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} Queen Elizabeth II is separately and equally monarch of 16 sovereign countries sometimes known collectively as the Commonwealth realms. In each of these countries, with the exception of the United Kingdom (where she predominately resides) she is represented by a governor-general (unhyphenated in Canada as governor general) at national level. In some of these countries, opinion differs as to whether the Queen or governor-general should be designated as head of state; there is no questioning of the Queen's position as sovereign, above the governors-general, however.
3. ^ Williams, George (31 January 2008). "Speculation on Queen before any choice needs to be made". Herald Sun. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion-old/governor-general-is-still-boss/story-e6frfifo-1111115436569. Retrieved 18 February 2011. 
4. ^ The three-member presidency is the head of state collectively.
5. ^ The Preface to the Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea states, "The DPRK and the entire Korean people will uphold the great leader Comrade Kim Il-sung as the eternal President of the Republic, defend and carry forward his ideas and exploits and complete the Juche revolution under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea." Kim Il Sung died in 1994.
6. ^ The seven member Swiss Federal Council is the collective Head of State and the government of the Swiss Confederation. Within the Council, the President of the Swiss Confederation serves solely in a primus inter pares capacity for one year.
7. ^ Abbas's presidency expired on 9 January 2009 but he unilaterally extended his term for another year. Haniyeh, as the Speaker of the House, would succeed Abbas were he to have died or been expelled from office. The two major political parties in Palestine, Fatah and Hamas disagree about who the legitimate President currently is.
8. ^ As part of the Fatah-Hamas conflict, essentially a civil war, Abbas dismissed Haniyeh and chose Fayyed as PM without parliamentary approval. The two major political parties in Palestine, Fatah and Hamas disagree about who the legitimate Prime Minister currently is.
9. ^ On November 12, 2006 the Salvation Union of South Ossetia, opposing the leadership of Eduard Kokoity, held an alternative presidential election, in which former South Ossetian Prime Minister Dmitry Sanakoyev was chosen as the president of the alternative government of South Ossetia.

External links

• Rulers.org List of rulers throughout time and places
• List of official websites for heads of state