- Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General
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Two Commonwealth Deputy Secretaries-General assist the Secretary-General in running the Commonwealth Secretariat, which is the central institution of the Commonwealth of Nations. They are assigned an aspect of the Commonwealth's function to address particularly: one to economic affairs and the other to political affairs.
They are elected by the Commonwealth Heads of Government, like the Secretary-General. However, as their terms overlap with those of the Secretary-General, and don't coincide with Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGMs), the Heads of Government are represented through their respective High Commissioners in London.[1]
Currently, the two Deputy Secretaries-General are Jamaica's Ransford Smith (economic) and Botswana's Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba (political), since 2006 and 2008 respectively.
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Lists of Deputy Secretaries-General
Economic
Name Country Start End Tilak E. Gooneratne Sri Lanka
1965 1970 Geoffrey Wilson United Kingdom
1971 1971 Hunter Wade New Zealand
1972 1974[2] Incomplete C. John Small Canada
1979 1983 Peter Marshall United Kingdom
1983 1988 Peter Unwin United Kingdom
1989 1993 Humphrey Maud United Kingdom
1993 1999 Veronica Sutherland United Kingdom
1999 2001 Winston Cox Barbados
2001 2006 Ransford Smith Jamaica
2006 Incumbent Political
Name Country Start End Incomplete A. L. Adu Ghana
1966 1970 M. A. Husain India
1970 1978 Emeka Anyaoku Nigeria
1977 1983 Position vacant 1983 1983 Emeka Anyaoku Nigeria
1983 1990 Anthony Siaguru Papua New Guinea
1990 1995 Krishnan Srinivasan India
1995 2002 Florence Mugasha Uganda
2002 2008 Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba Botswana
2008 Incumbent Footnotes
- ^ Doxey, Margaret (January 1979). "The Commonwealth Secretary-General: Limits of Leadership". International Affairs 55 (1): 67–83.
- ^ McIntyre, W. David (November 2001). "'Viewing the Iceberg from Down Under': A New Zealand Perspective". Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 39 (3): 95–112. doi:10.1080/713999565.
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