Prior to 1970

Assumed Leader State Office

Office

6 February Elizabeth II Antigua and Barbuda Queen: 1 November 1981 – present

1952

Australia Queen

The Bahamas Queen: 10 July 1973 – present

Barbados Queen: 30 November 1966 – present[3]

Belize Queen: 21 September 1981 – present[3]

Canada Queen

Grenada Queen: 7 February 1974 – present[3]

Jamaica Queen: 6 August 1962 – present[3]

New Zealand Queen

Papua New Guinea Queen: 16 September 1975 – present[4]

Saint Kitts and Nevis Queen: 19 September 1983 – present[3]

Saint Lucia Queen: 22 February 1979 – present[3]

Saint Vincent and the Queen: 27 October 1979 – present[3]

Grenadines

Solomon Islands Queen: 7 July 1978 – present[3]

Tuvalu Queen: 1 October 1978 – present[3]

United Kingdom Queen

4 October Hassanal Bolkiah Brunei Sultan: 4 October 1967 – present

1967[5] Prime Minister: 1 January 1984 – present

1970s
Assumed Leader State Office
Office
19 January Prince Khalifa bin Salman Bahrain[8] Prime Minister
1970[6] Al Khalifa[7]

23 July 1970[9] Qaboos bin Said al Said Oman[10] Sultan: 23 July 1970 – present
Prime Minister: 2 January 1972 – present

14 January Margrethe II Denmark Queen

1972

15 September Carl XVI Gustaf Sweden King

1973

30 June 1975 Paul Biya Cameroon Prime Minister: 30 June 1975 – 6 November
1982
President: 6 November 1982 – present

3 August 1979 Teodoro Obiang Nguema Equatorial Guinea Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council: 3
Mbasogo[11] August 1979 – 25 August 1979
Chairman of the Supreme Military Council: 25 August
1979 – 12 October 1982
President: 12 October 1982 – present

10 September José Eduardo dos Santos Angola[12] Acting President: 10 September 1979 – 21
1979 September 1979
President: 21 September 1979 – present

1980s
Assumed Leader State Office
Office

18 April 1980 Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe Prime Minister: 18 April 1980 – 31 December
1987
President: 31 December 1987 – present

13 October Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Iran President: 13 October 1981 – 2 August 1989
1981 Supreme Leader: 4 June 1989 – present

26 August Hans-Adam II Liechtenstein Prince-regent: 26 August 1984 – 13 November 1989

1984 Reigning Prince: 13 November 1989 – present [13]

14 January Hun Sen Cambodia[14] Prime Minister: 14 January 1985 – 2 July 1993
1985 Co-Equal Prime Minister: 2 July 1993 – 21
September 1993
Second Prime Minister: 21 September 1993 – 30
November 1998
Prime Minister: 30 November 1998 – present

29 January Yoweri Museveni Uganda President[15]

1986

25 April 1986 Mswati III Swaziland King

7 January Akihito Japan Emperor
1989

30 June 1989 Omar al-Bashir Sudan President of the Revolutionary Command Council for
National Salvation: 30 June 1989 – 16 October 1993
President: 16 October 1993 – present

1990s
Assumed Leader State Office
Office

22 February Nursultan Nazarbayev Kazakhstan[17] Chairman of the Supreme Soviet: 22

1990[16] February 1990 – 24 April 1990
President: 24 April 1990 - present

1 June 1990 Harald V Norway Prince-regent: 1 June 1990 – 17 January 1991

King: 17 January 1991 – present [18]

2 December Idriss Déby Chad President of the Patriotic Salvation Movement: 2

1990 December 1990 – 4 December 1990
President of the Council of State: 4 December 1990
– 4 March 1991
President: 4 March 1991 – present

27 April 1991[19] Isaias Afwerki Eritrea Secretary-General of the Provisional Government: 27

April 1991 – 23 May 1993
President: 23 May 1993 - present

19 November Emomali Rahmon Tajikistan Acting Chairman of the Supreme Council: 19

1992 November 1992 – 27 November 1992
Chairman of the Supreme Council: 27
November 1992 – 16 November 1994
President: 16 November 1994 – present

17 November Sir Colville Young Belize Governor-General[2]

1993

20 July 1994 Alexander Lukashenko Belarus President

7 February Letsie III Lesotho King[20]

1996

19 September Dame Pearlette Louisy Saint Lucia Governor-General[2]

1997

25 October Denis Sassou Nguesso Republic of the Congo President[21]

1997

3 March 1998 Henri Luxembourg Prince-regent: 3 March 1998 – 7 October 2000

Grand Duke: 7 October 2000 – present

5 September Kim Yong-nam North Korea President of the Presidium of the Supreme
1998 People's Assembly[22]
23 November Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Samoa Prime Minister
1998 Malielegaoi

7 February Abdullah II Jordan King

1999

6 March 1999 Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Bahrain[8] Emir: 6 March 1999 – 14 February 2002
Khalifa King: 14 February 2002 – present

27 April 1999 Abdelaziz Bouteflika Algeria President

8 May 1999 Ismaïl Omar Guelleh[23] Djibouti President

23 July 1999 Mohammed VI Morocco King

9 August 1999 Vladimir Putin Russia Acting Prime Minister: 9 August 1999 – 16 August
1999
Prime Minister: 16 August 1999 – 7 May
2000
Acting President: 31 December 1999 – 7 May 2000
President: 7 May 2000 – 7 May 2008
Prime Minister: 8 May 2008 – 7 May 2012
President: 7 May 2012 – present

2000–2004
Assumed Leader State Office
Office

24 March 2000 Paul Kagame Rwanda Acting President: 24 March 2000 – 22 April 2000
President: 22 April 2000 – present

17 July 2000 Bashar al-Assad[24] Syria President

17 January 2001 Joseph Kabila[25] Democratic Republic of Acting President: 17 January 2001 – 26 January
the Congo 2001
President: 26 January 2001 – present

29 March 2001 Ralph Gonsalves Saint Vincent and the Prime Minister
Grenadines

2 September Sir Frederick Ballantyne Governor-General[2]

2002

14 March 2003 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Turkey Prime Minister: 14 March 2003 – 28 August
2014
President: 28 August 2014 – present

12 May 2003 Archbishop Joan Enric Andorra Episcopal Co-Prince[26]

Vives Sicília

22 May 2003[27] Filip Vujanović Montenegro[28] President[29]

13 July 2003 Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Kuwait Prime Minister: 13 July 2003 – 29 January
Al-Jaber Al-Sabah 2006
Emir: 29 January 2006 – present

4 August 2003 Ilham Aliyev[30] Azerbaijan Prime Minister: 4 August 2003 – 4

November 2003[31]
President: 31 October 2003 – present

6 August 2003 Artur Rasizade Acting Prime Minister: 6 August 2003 – 4 November
2003
Prime Minister: 4 November 2003 –
present [32]

29 October 2003 Abdelkader Taleb Omar Sahrawi Arab Democratic Prime Minister
Republic

11 December Shavkat Mirziyoyev Uzbekistan Prime Minister: 11 December 2003 – 14

2003 December 2016
Acting President: 8 September 2016 – 14 December
2016
President: 14 December 2016 – present

8 January 2004 Roosevelt Skerrit Dominica Prime Minister

12 August 2004 Lee Hsien Loong[33] Singapore Prime Minister

15 August 2004 Hereditary Prince Alois Liechtenstein Regent[13]

14 October 2004 Norodom Sihamoni Cambodia King

3 November Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed United Arab Emirates President

2004 Al Nahyan[34]

2005–2009
Assumed Leader State Office
Office

15 January Mahmoud Abbas Palestine President [35]

2005

31 March Albert II Monaco Prince-regent: 31 March 2005 – 6 April 2005

2005 Sovereign Prince: 6 April 2005 – present

4 May 2005 Faure Gnassingbé[36] Togo President [37]

11 August Salva Kiir Mayardit South Sudan[39] President of the Government: 30 July 2005 – 9
2005[38] July 2011
President: 9 July 2011 - present

26 August Pierre Nkurunziza Burundi President

2005
22 November Angela Merkel Germany Chancellor
2005

16 January Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia President

2006

22 January Evo Morales Bolivia President

2006

11 February Sheikh Mohammed bin United Arab Emirates Prime Minister

2006 Rashid Al Maktoum[40]

31 July 2006 Raúl Castro[41] Cuba Acting President of the Council of State and Acting
President of the Council of Ministers: 31 July 2006 – 24
February 2008
Acting First Secretary of the Communist Party: 31 July
2006 – 19 April 2011
President of the Council of State and President of
the Council of Ministers: 24 February 2008 –
present
First Secretary of the Communist Party: 19 April
2011 – present

1 August Doris Leuthard Switzerland Federal Councilor: 1 August 2006 – present

2006 President: 1 January 2010 – 31 December 2010
President: 1 January 2017 – present[42]

5 December Frank Bainimarama Fiji Acting President: 5 December 2006 – 4 January 2007[43]
2006 Acting Prime Minister: 5 January 2007 – 22 September
2014
Prime Minister: 22 September 2014 – present

14 December Jigme Khesar Namgyel Bhutan King

2006 Wangchuck

21 December Gurbanguly Turkmenistan Acting President: 21 December 2006 – 14 February 2007

2006 Berdimuhamedow President: 14 February 2007 – present

10 January Daniel Ortega Nicaragua President [44]

2007

26 March Serzh Sargsyan Armenia Prime Minister: 26 March 2007 – 9 April 2008
2007 President: 9 April 2008 – present

7 September Bako Sahakyan Artsakh[45] President

2007

17 September Ernest Bai Koroma Sierra Leone President

2007

8 February Dean Barrow Belize Prime Minister

2008

1 April 2008 Ian Khama[46] Botswana President

7 May 2008 Dmitry Medvedev Russia President: 7 May 2008 – 7 May 2012
Prime Minister: 8 May 2012 – present

23 October Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini Swaziland Prime Minister[47]

2008

1 January Ueli Maurer Switzerland Federal Councilor: 1 January 2009 – present

2009 President: 1 January 2013 – 31 December
2013[42]

6 January Sheikh Hasina[48] Bangladesh Prime Minister[49]

2009

26 February Sir Patrick Allen Jamaica Governor-General[2]

2009

26 March Valentin Inzko Bosnia and Herzegovina High Representative

2009

31 March Benjamin Netanyahu Israel Prime Minister[50]

2009

3 April 2009 Najib Razak[51] Malaysia Prime Minister

9 May 2009 Jacob Zuma South Africa President

12 May 2009 Gjorge Ivanov Macedonia President

30 June 2009 Philémon Yang Cameroon Prime Minister

7 July 2009 Sir Frank Kabui Solomon Islands Governor-General[2]

12 July 2009 Dalia Grybauskaitė Lithuania President

5 August Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Mauritania President [52]

2009

16 October Ali Bongo Ondimba[53] Gabon President

2009

1 November Didier Burkhalter Switzerland Federal Councilor: 1 November 2009 – present

2009 President: 1 January 2014 – 31 December
2014[42]

2010–2011
Assumed Leader State Office
Office
16 April 2010 Sir Iakoba Italeli Tuvalu Governor-General[2]

29 May 2010 Viktor Orbán Hungary Prime Minister[54]

27 July 2010 Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Somaliland President

7 August 2010 Juan Manuel Santos Colombia President

12 August Dési Bouterse Suriname President[55]

2010

1 October David Johnston Canada Governor General[2]

2010

14 October Mark Rutte Netherlands Prime Minister

2010

23 October Freundel Stuart Barbados Prime Minister

2010

1 November Johann Schneider-Ammann Switzerland Federal Councilor: 1 November 2010 –

2010 present
President: 1 January 2016 – 31
December 2016[42]

Simonetta Sommaruga Federal Councilor: 1 November 2010 –

present
President: 1 January 2015 – 31
December 2015[42]

10 November Bakir Izetbegović[56] Bosnia and Presidency Member: 10 November 2010

2010 Herzegovina – present
Chairman of the Presidency: 10 March
2012 – 10 November 2012
Chairman of the Presidency: 10 March
2014 – 17 November 2014
Chairman of the Presidency: 17 March
2016 – 17 November 2016[57]

4 December Alassane Ouattara Ivory Coast President[58]

2010

21 December Alpha Condé Guinea President

2010

19 January Nguyễn Phú Trọng Vietnam General Secretary of the Communist

2011 Party

7 April 2011 Mahamadou Issoufou Niger President[59]

Brigi Rafini Prime Minister

2 August 2011 Peter O'Neill Papua New Guinea Prime Minister

9 September Jorge Carlos Fonseca Cape Verde President

2011

1 October Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello Vatican City President of the Governorate

2011

11 November Michael D. Higgins Ireland President

2011

14 November Almazbek Atambayev Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister: 14 November 2011 – 1

2011 December 2011[60]
President: 1 December 2011 – present

23 November Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi Yemen Acting President: 23 November 2011 – 25

2011 February 2012[61]
President: 25 February 2012 – present[62]

4 December Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Kuwait Prime Minister

2011 Hamad Al-Sabah

17 December Kim Jong-un[63] North Korea Supreme Leader[22][64]

2011

21 December Mariano Rajoy Spain President of the Government

2011

2012–2013
Assumed Leader State Office
Office

1 January Alain Berset Switzerland Federal Councilor[42]

2012

1 March 2012 Sauli Niinistö Finland President

18 March 2012 Tupou VI Tonga King[65]

2 April 2012 Macky Sall Senegal President[66]

4 April 2012 Robert Fico Slovakia Prime Minister[67]

10 May 2012 János Áder Hungary President

20 July 2012 Josep Maria Mauri Andorra Personal Representative of the Episcopal Co-
Prince[26]
16 August Danilo Medina Dominican Republic President
2012

20 August Hailemariam Desalegn Ethiopia Acting Prime Minister: 20 August 2012 – 21

2012 September 2012
Prime Minister: 21 September 2012 –
present

15 November Xi Jinping China General Secretary of the Communist

2012 Party: 15 November 2012 – present
President: 14 March 2013 – present

1 December Enrique Peña Nieto Mexico President

2012

4 December Hage Geingob Namibia Prime Minister: 4 December 2012 – 21

2012 March 2015[68]
President: 21 March 2015 – present

22 December Borut Pahor Slovenia President[69]

2012

26 December Shinzō Abe[70] Japan Prime Minister[71]

2012

17 January Tommy Remengesau[72] Palau President[73]

2013

20 February Keith Mitchell Grenada Prime Minister[74]

2013

28 February Nicos Anastasiades Cyprus President

2013

5 March 2013 Nicolás Maduro Venezuela Acting President: 5 March 2013 – 19 April 2013
President: 19 April 2013 – present

8 March 2013 Miloš Zeman Czech Republic President[75]

11 March 2013 Joseph Muscat Malta Prime Minister

13 March 2013 Pope Francis Vatican City Sovereign

14 March 2013 Abdul Hamid Bangladesh Acting President: 14 March 2013 – 24 April 2013
President: 24 April 2013 – present

15 March 2013 Li Keqiang China Premier of the State Council

18 March 2013 Anthony Carmona Trinidad and Tobago President

27 March 2013 Adrian Hasler Liechtenstein Head of Government

1 April 2013 Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed Djibouti Prime Minister

Pak Pong-ju North Korea Premier of the Cabinet[76]

9 April 2013 Uhuru Kenyatta[77] Kenya President

30 April 2013 Willem-Alexander Netherlands King

7 May 2013 Dam e Cécile La Grenade Grenada Governor-General[2]

6 June 2013 Rami Hamdallah Palestine Prime Minister

11 June 2013 Baron Waqa Nauru President

25 June 2013 Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Qatar Emir

Thani

26 June 2013 Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Prime Minister

Khalifa Al Thani

21 July 2013 Philippe Belgium King

29 July 2013 Tshering Tobgay Bhutan Prime Minister

1 August 2013 Enele Sopoaga[78] Tuvalu Acting Prime Minister: 1 August 2013 – 5 August
2013
Prime Minister: 5 August 2013 – present

3 August 2013 Hassan Rouhani Iran President

15 August Horacio Cartes Paraguay President

2013

4 September Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Mali President[79]

2013

9 September Mamnoon Hussain Pakistan President

2013

15 September Edi Rama Albania Prime Minister

2013

2 October Charles Savarin Dominica President

2013
7 October Mulatu Teshome Ethiopia President
2013

16 October Erna Solberg Norway Prime Minister

2013

17 November Giorgi Margvelashvili Georgia President

2013

Abdulla Yameen[80] Maldives President

23 November Kokhir Rasulzoda Tajikistan Prime Minister

2013

4 December Xavier Bettel Luxembourg Prime Minister

2013

2014
Assumed Leader State Office
Office

20 January Domenty Kulumbegov South Ossetia Acting Prime Minister: 20 January 2014 – 2 April
2014
Prime Minister: 2 April 2014 – present

25 January Hery Rajaonarimampianina Madagascar President

27 January Juan Orlando Hernández Honduras President

29 January Bohuslav Sobotka Czech Republic Prime Minister

11 March Michelle Bachelet Chile President [81]

28 March Sir Peter Cosgrove Australia Governor-General[2]

4 April Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca Malta President

27 April Aleksandar Vučić Serbia Prime Minister: 27 April 2014 – 30 May

2017
President: 31 May 2017 – present

8 May Luis Guillermo Solís Costa Rica President

22 May Prayut Chan-o-cha Thailand Leader of the National Council for Peace and
Order: 22 May 2014 – 25 August 2014
Prime Minister: 25 August 2014 – present

26 May Narendra Modi India Prime Minister

31 May Peter Mutharika[82] Malawi President

1 June Salvador Sánchez Cerén El Salvador President

7 June Petro Poroshenko Ukraine President

8 June Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Egypt President

13 June Gaston Browne Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister

15 June Andrej Kiska Slovakia President

19 June Felipe VI Spain King

23 June José Mário Vaz Guinea-Bissau President

1 July Juan Carlos Varela Panama President

6 July Mohammed Dionne Senegal Prime Minister

8 July Dame Marguerite Pindling[83] The Bahamas Governor-General[2]

24 July Fuad Masum Iraq President

Reuven Rivlin Israel President

14 August Sir Rodney Williams Antigua and Barbuda Governor-General[2]

20 August Yahya Ould Hademine Mauritania Prime Minister

8 September Haider al-Abadi Iraq Prime Minister

18 September Miro Cerar Slovenia Prime Minister

Ruhakana Rugunda Uganda Prime Minister

25 September Raul Khajimba Abkhazia President [84]

29 September Ashraf Ghani Afghanistan President

Abdullah Abdullah Chief Executive

3 October Stefan Löfven Sweden Prime Minister

11 October Charles Michel Belgium Prime Minister

20 October Joko Widodo Indonesia President

17 November Dragan Čović Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Member: 17 November 2014 –
present [85]
Chairman of the Presidency: 17 July 2015
– 17 March 2016
Chairman of the Presidency: 17 July 2017
– present [57]

Mladen Ivanić Presidency Member: 17 November 2014 –

present
Chairman of the Presidency: 17 November
2014 – 17 July 2015
Chairman of the Presidency: 17 November
2016 – 17 July 2017[57]

29 November Patrice Trovoada São Tomé and Príncipe Prime Minister[86]

9 December Manasseh Sogavare Solomon Islands Prime Minister[87]

21 December Klaus Iohannis Romania President

27 December Andrei Kobyakov Belarus Prime Minister

30 December ʻAkilisi Pōhiva Tonga Prime Minister

31 December Beji Caid Essebsi Tunisia President [88]

2015
Assumed Leader State Office
Office

9 January Maithripala Sirisena Sri Lanka President

Ranil Wickremesinghe Prime Minister [89]

15 January Filipe Nyusi Mozambique President

19 January Carlos Agostinho do Rosário Prime Minister

23 January Salman Saudi Arabia King and Prime Minister

25 January Edgar Lungu Zambia President

3 February Sergio Mattarella Italy President

11 February Denis Zvizdić Bosnia and Herzegovina Chairman of the Council of Ministers

18 February Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović Croatia President

Timothy Harris Saint Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister

1 March Tabaré Vázquez Uruguay President [90]

13 March Prokopis Pavlopoulos Greece President

21 March Saara Kuugongelwa Namibia Prime Minister

1 April Antoni Martí Andorra Head of Government [91]

30 April Mustafa Akıncı Northern Cyprus President

11 May Peter M. Christian Federated States of President

Micronesia

16 May David A. Granger Guyana President

20 May Moses Nagamootoo Prime Minister

Sir Tapley Seaton Saint Kitts and Nevis Acting Governor-General: 20 May 2015 – 2
September 2015
Governor-General: 2 September 2015 – present[2]

29 May Juha Sipilä Finland Prime Minister

Muhammadu Buhari Nigeria President [92][93]

5 June Ameenah Gurib Mauritius President

10 June Komi Sélom Klassou Togo Prime Minister

28 June Lars Løkke Rasmussen Denmark Prime Minister [94]

8 July Raimonds Vējonis Latvia President

6 August Andrzej Duda Poland President

9 September Keith Rowley Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister

15 September Malcolm Turnbull Australia Prime Minister

19 September Sherif Ismail Egypt Prime Minister

21 September Alexis Tsipras Greece Prime Minister [95]

29 October Bidhya Devi Bhandari Nepal President

4 November Justin Trudeau[96] Canada Prime Minister

5 November John Magufuli Tanzania President

12 November George Konrote Fiji President

16 November Beata Szydło Poland Prime Minister

20 November Kassim Majaliwa Tanzania Prime Minister

26 November António Costa Portugal Prime Minister

10 December Mauricio Macri Argentina President

29 December Roch Marc Christian Kaboré Burkina Faso President [97]

Mamady Youla Guinea Prime Minister

30 December Giorgi Kvirikashvili Georgia Prime Minister

2016
Assumed Leader State Office
Office

1 January Guy Parmelin Switzerland Federal Councilor[42]

13 January Paul Kaba Thieba Burkina Faso Prime Minister

14 January Jimmy Morales Guatemala President

20 January Pavel Filip Moldova Prime Minister

22 January Bounnhang Vorachith Laos General Secretary of the People's Revolutionary

Party: 22 January 2016 – present[98]
President: 20 April 2016 – present

28 January Hilda Heine Marshall Islands President

1 February Serge Telle Monaco Minister of State

11 February Māris Kučinskis Latvia Prime Minister

Charlot Salwai Vanuatu Prime Minister

13 February Albert Pahimi Padacké Chad Prime Minister

3 March Andrew Holness Jamaica Prime Minister[99]

9 March Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Portugal President

11 March Taneti Mamau Kiribati President

30 March Fayez al-Sarraj Libya Chairman of the Presidential Council and Prime
Minister[100]

Htin Kyaw Myanmar President

Faustin-Archange Touadéra Central African President[101]

Republic

2 April Simplice Sarandji Prime Minister

Trần Đại Quang Vietnam President

4 April Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr Yemen Prime Minister[102]

6 April Patrice Talon Benin President

Aung San Suu Kyi[103] Myanmar State Counsellor

7 April Hashim Thaçi Kosovo President[104]

Nguyễn Xuân Phúc Vietnam Prime Minister

13 April Olivier Mahafaly Madagascar Prime Minister

Solonandrasana

14 April Volodymyr Groysman Ukraine Prime Minister[105]

16 April Hüseyin Özgürgün Northern Cyprus Prime Minister[106]

20 April Thongloun Sisoulith Laos Prime Minister

22 April Ulisses Correia e Silva Cape Verde Prime Minister

23 April Clément Mouamba Republic of the Prime Minister

Congo

12 May Michel Temer Brazil Acting President: 12 May 2016 – 31 August 2016
President: 31 August 2016 – present

17 May Christian Kern Austria Federal Chancellor

Jawad Abu Hatab Syrian Arab Republic Prime Minister

(opposition)

20 May Tsai Ing-wen Taiwan President

24 May Binali Yıldırım Turkey Prime Minister

26 May Azali Assoumani Comoros President[107]

1 June Hani Al-Mulki[108] Jordan Prime Minister

7 June Allen Chastanet Saint Lucia Prime Minister

23 June Francisco Pascual Obama Equatorial Guinea Prime Minister

Asue

30 June Rodrigo Duterte Philippines President

3 July Imad Khamis Syria Prime Minister

7 July Jargaltulgyn Erdenebat Mongolia Prime Minister

12 July Brahim Ghali Sahrawi Arab General Secretary and President

Democratic Republic

13 July Theresa May United Kingdom Prime Minister

28 July Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Peru President[109]

1 August Guðni Th. Jóhannesson Iceland President

5 August Beslan Bartsits Abkhazia Prime Minister

27 August Youssef Chahed Tunisia Head of Government

3 September Evaristo Carvalho São Tomé and President[110]
Príncipe

8 September Bakhytzhan Sagintayev Kazakhstan Acting Prime Minister: 8 September 2016 – 9 September
2016
Prime Minister 9 September 2016 – present

13 Karen Karapetyan Armenia Prime Minister

September

28 Dame Patsy Reddy New Zealand Governor-General[2]

September

29 Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet Gabon Prime Minister

September

10 October Kersti Kaljulaid Estonia President

13 October Maha Vajiralongkorn Thailand King[111]

16 October Danny Faure Seychelles President

19 October Andrej Plenković Croatia Prime Minister

31 October Michel Aoun Lebanon President[112]

18 November Umaro Sissoco Embaló Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister

23 November Jüri Ratas Estonia Prime Minister

28 November Duško Marković Montenegro Prime Minister

12 December Paolo Gentiloni Italy President of the Council of Ministers

Bill English New Zealand Prime Minister

13 December Saulius Skvernelis Lithuania Prime Minister

Muhammad V Malaysia Yang di-Pertuan Agong

14 December Abdulla Aripov Uzbekistan Prime Minister

16 December Vadim Krasnoselsky Transnistria President

17 December Aleksandr Martynov Prime Minister

18 December Saad Hariri[113] Lebanon President of the Council of Ministers[114]

23 December Igor Dodon Moldova President

2017
Assumed Leader State Office
Office

7 January Nana Akufo-Addo[115] Ghana President

10 January Amadou Gon Coulibaly Ivory Coast Prime Minister

11 January Bjarni Benediktsson[116] Iceland Prime Minister

19 January Adama Barrow The Gambia President

20 January Donald Trump United States President

22 January Rumen Radev Bulgaria President

23 January Pravind Jugnauth[117] Mauritius Prime Minister

26 January Alexander Van der Bellen Austria Federal President

7 February Jovenel Moïse Haiti President

16 February Mohamed Abdullahi Somalia President[118]

Mohamed

28 February Sir Bob Dadae Papua New Guinea Governor-General[2]

1 March Hassan Ali Khayre Somalia Prime Minister

2 March Bakri Hassan Saleh Sudan Prime Minister

19 March Frank-Walter Steinmeier Germany President

21 March Jack Guy Lafontant Haiti Prime Minister

1 April Mimma Zavoli San Marino Captains Regent

Vanessa D'Ambrosio

5 April Saadeddine Othmani Morocco Head of Government

7 April Bruno Tshibala Democratic Republic of Prime Minister
the Congo

10 April Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïga Mali Prime Minister

21 April Anatoliy Bibilov South Ossetia President

4 May Boyko Borisov Bulgaria Prime Minister[119]

6 May Riad Seif Syrian Arab Republic President of the National Coalition
(opposition)

10 May Moon Jae-in South Korea President

11 May Hubert Minnis The Bahamas Prime Minister

14 May Emmanuel Macron Andorra French Co-Prince[26]

France President

15 May Édouard Philippe Prime Minister

Patrick Strzoda Andorra Personal Representative of the French Co-Prince[26]

20 May Francisco Guterres East Timor President

24 May Lenín Moreno Ecuador President

31 May Zoran Zaev Macedonia President of the Government

Lee Nak-yeon South Korea Prime Minister

7 June Sher Bahadur Deuba Nepal Prime Minister[120]

14 June Leo Varadkar Ireland Taoiseach

16 June Tom Thabane Lesotho Prime Minister[121]

29 June Mihai Tudose Romania Prime Minister

Ana Brnabić Serbia Prime Minister

1 July Sir Philip Greaves Barbados Acting Governor-General[2]

6 July Tallis Obed Moses Vanuatu President

10 July Khaltmaagiin Battulga Mongolia President

21 July Va'aletoa Sualauvi II Samoa O le Ao o le Malo

24 July Ilir Meta Albania President[122]

25 July Ram Nath Kovind India President

1 August Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Pakistan Interim Prime Minister

16 August Ahmed Ouyahia Algeria Prime Minister[123]

25 August Sapar Isakov Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister

30 August Edouard Ngirente Rwanda Prime Minister

8 September William Lai Taiwan President of the Executive Yuan

9 September Ramush Haradinaj Kosovo Prime Minister[124]

14 September Halimah Yacob Singapore President

15 September Mari Alkatiri East Timor Prime Minister[125]

17 September Mercedes Aráoz Peru Prime Minister

List of upcoming leaders

Taking Office Leader State Office

25 September João Lourenço Angola President-elect

2 October Julie Payette Canada Governor General-designate[2]