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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 or dictatorships. 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.

[edit] States recognized 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 Jaume Bartumeu
Angola	President José Eduardo dos Santos	Prime Minister Paulo Kassoma
Antigua and Barbuda	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General 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] Governor General Quentin Bryce	Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
Austria	President Heinz Fischer	Chancellor Werner Faymann
Azerbaijan	President Ilham Aliyev	Prime Minister Artur Rasizade
Bahamas	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General Arthur Dion Hanna	Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham
Bahrain	King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah	Prime Minister Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah
Bangladesh	President Zillur Rahman	Prime Minister Hasina Wazed
Barbados	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General Clifford Husbands	Prime Minister David Thompson
Belarus	President Alexander Lukashenko	Prime Minister Sergey Sidorsky
Belgium	King Albert II	Prime Minister Yves Leterme
Belize	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General Colville Young	Prime Minister Dean Barrow
Benin	President Yayi Boni
Bhutan	King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck	Prime Minister Jigme Thinley
Bolivia	President Evo Morales
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Chairman of the Presidency Željko Komšić^[2] Presidency Member Nebojša Radmanović Presidency Member Haris Silajdžić	Prime Minister Nikola Špirić
Botswana	President Ian Khama
Brazil	President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Brunei	Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
Bulgaria	President Georgi Parvanov	Prime Minister Boyko Borisov
Burkina Faso	President Blaise Compaoré	Prime Minister Tertius Zongo
Burma	Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Than Shwe	Prime Minister 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] Governor General Michaëlle Jean	Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Cape Verde	President Pedro Pires	Prime Minister José Maria Neves
Central African Republic	President François Bozizé	Prime Minister Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Chad	President Idriss Déby	Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas
Chile	President Michelle Bachelet
China	President Hu Jintao	Premier Wen Jiabao
Colombia	President Álvaro Uribe
Comoros	President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi
Congo-Brazzaville	President Denis Sassou-Nguesso
Congo-Kinshasa	President Joseph Kabila	Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito
Costa Rica	President Óscar Arias
Croatia	President Stjepan Mesić	Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor
Cuba	President Raúl Castro
Cyprus	President Dimitris Christofias
Czech Republic	President Václav Klaus	Prime Minister Jan Fischer
Denmark	Queen Margrethe II	Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen
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	President Hosni Mubarak	Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif
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	Interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama
Finland	President Tarja Halonen	Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
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 Horst Köhler	Chancellor Angela Merkel
Ghana	President John Atta Mills
Greece	President Karolos Papoulias	Prime Minister George Papandreou
Grenada	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General Carlyle Glean	Prime Minister Tillman Thomas
Guatemala	President Álvaro Colom
Guinea	President Moussa Dadis Camara	Prime Minister Kabiné Komara
Guinea-Bissau	President Malam Bacai Sanhá	Prime Minister Carlos Gomes
Guyana	President Bharrat Jagdeo	Prime Minister Sam Hinds
Haiti	President René Préval	Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive
Honduras	President Roberto Micheletti President-elect Porfirio Lobo Sosa
Hungary	President László Sólyom	Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai
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	Jalal Talabani (Pres.),^[3] Adil Abdul Mahdi (VP), Tariq al-Hashimi (VP)	Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
Ireland	President Mary McAleese	Taoiseach Brian Cowen
Israel	President Shimon Peres	Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Italy	President Giorgio Napolitano	Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Ivory Coast	President Laurent Gbagbo	Prime Minister Guillaume Soro
Jamaica	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General Patrick Allen	Prime Minister Bruce Golding
Japan	Emperor Akihito	Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama
Jordan	King Abdullah II	Prime Minister Samir Rifai
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 Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah
Kyrgyzstan	President Kurmanbek Bakiyev	Prime Minister Daniar Usenov
Laos	President Choummaly Sayasone	Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh
Latvia	President Valdis Zatlers	Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis
Lebanon	President Michel Sleiman	Prime Minister Saad Hariri
Lesotho	King Letsie III	Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili
Liberia	President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Libya	Guide of the Revolution Muammar al-Gaddafi
Libya	Secretary General of the General People's Congress Imbarek Shamekh	Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi
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 of the High Authority of Transition Andry Rajoelina	Prime Minister Vital Albert Camille
Malawi	President Bingu wa Mutharika
Malaysia	Yang di-Pertuan Agong Mizan Zainal Abidin	Prime Minister Najib Razak
Maldives	President Mohamed Nasheed
Mali	President Amadou Toumani Touré	Prime Minister Modibo 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 Anerood Jugnauth	Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam
Mexico	President Felipe Calderón
Micronesia	President Manny Mori
Moldova	Acting President Mihai Ghimpu	Prime Minister Vlad Filat
Monaco	Prince Albert II	Minister of State Jean-Paul Proust
Mongolia	President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj	Prime Minister Sükhbaataryn Batbold
Montenegro	President Filip Vujanović	Prime Minister Milo Đukanović
Morocco	King Muhammad VI	Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi
Mozambique	President Armando Guebuza	Prime Minister Luisa Diogo
Namibia	President Hifikepunye Pohamba	Prime Minister Nahas Angula
Nauru	President Marcus Stephen
Nepal	President Ram Baran Yadav	Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal
Netherlands	Queen Beatrix	Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende
New Zealand	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General Anand Satyanand	Prime Minister John Key
Nicaragua	President Daniel Ortega
Niger	President Tandja Mamadou	Prime Minister Ali Badjo Gamatié
Nigeria	President Umaru Yar'Adua
North Korea	Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong-il
North Korea	Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam Eternal President Kim Il-sung^[4]	Premier Kim Yong-il
Norway	King Harald V	Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
Oman	Sultan Qaboos
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] Governor General Paulias Matane	Prime Minister Michael Somare
Paraguay	President Fernando Lugo
Peru	President Alan García	Prime Minister Javier Velásquez
Philippines	President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Poland	President Lech Kaczyński	Prime Minister Donald Tusk
Portugal	President Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Prime Minister José Sócrates
Qatar	Emir Hamad bin Khalifa	Prime Minister Hamad ibn 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 Bernard Makuza
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General Cuthbert Sebastian	Prime Minister Denzil Douglas
Saint Lucia	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General Pearlette Louisy	Prime Minister Stephenson King
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General 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 Francesco Mussoni Captain Regent Stefano Palmieri
São Tomé and Príncipe	President Fradique de Menezes	Prime Minister Joaquim Rafael Branco
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 Sellapan Ramanathan	Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Slovakia	President Ivan Gašparovič	Prime Minister Robert Fico
Slovenia	President Danilo Türk	Prime Minister Borut Pahor
Solomon Islands	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General Frank Kabui	Prime Minister Derek Sikua
Somalia	President Sharif Ahmed	Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke
South Africa	President Jacob Zuma
South Korea	President Lee Myung-bak	Prime Minister Chung Un-chan
Spain	King Juan Carlos I	Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Sri Lanka	President Mahinda Rajapaksa	Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
Sudan	President Omar al-Bashir
Suriname	President Ronald Venetiaan
Swaziland	King Mswati III	Prime Minister Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
Sweden	King Carl XVI Gustaf	Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt
Switzerland	Hans-Rudolf Merz (Pres.),^[5] Doris Leuthard (VP), Moritz Leuenberger, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Ueli Maurer, Didier Burkhalter
Syria	President Bashar al-Assad	Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al-Otari
Tajikistan	President Emomalii Rahmon	Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov
Tanzania	President Jakaya Kikwete	Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda
Thailand	King Bhumibol Adulyadej	Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva
Togo	President Faure Gnassingbé	Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo
Tonga	King George Tupou V	Prime Minister Feleti Sevele
Trinidad and Tobago	President George Maxwell Richards	Prime Minister Patrick Manning
Tunisia	President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi
Turkey	President Abdullah Gül	Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkmenistan	President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Tuvalu	Queen Elizabeth II^[1] Governor General Filoimea Telito	Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia
Uganda	President Yoweri Museveni	Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi
Ukraine	President Viktor Yushchenko	Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
United Arab Emirates	President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
United Kingdom	Queen Elizabeth II	Prime Minister Gordon Brown
United States	President Barack Obama
Uruguay	President Tabaré Vázquez President-elect José Mujica
Uzbekistan	President Islam Karimov	Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Vanuatu	President Iolu Abil	Prime Minister Edward Natapei
Vatican City	Sovereign Benedict XVI	President of the Governorate Giovanni Lajolo
Venezuela	President Hugo Chávez
Vietnam	President Nguyễn Minh Triết	Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
Yemen	President Ali Abdullah Saleh	Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Mujawar
Zambia	President Rupiah Banda
Zimbabwe	President Robert Mugabe	Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai

[edit] States recognized by at least one United Nations member

State	Head of state	Head of government
Abkhazia	President Sergei Bagapsh	Prime Minister Alexander Ankvab
Kosovo	President Fatmir Sejdiu	Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi
Northern Cyprus	President Mehmet Ali Talat	Prime Minister Derviş Eroğlu
Palestinian National Authority	(disputed) President either Mahmoud Abbas or Aziz Duwaik^[6]	(disputed) Prime Minister either Salam Fayyad or Ismail Haniyeh^[7]
South Ossetia	President Eduard Kokoity^[8]	Prime Minister Vadim Brovtsev
Republic of China (Taiwan)	President Ma Ying-jeou	Premier Wu Den-yih
Western Sahara	President Mohamed Abdelaziz	Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Oumar

[edit] States not recognized 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 Dahir Riyale Kahin
Transnistria	President Igor Smirnov

[edit] Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o In the Commonwealth realms (with the exception of the United Kingdom), the head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, is represented by a Governor General.
^ The three-member presidency is the head of state collectively.
^ The Presidency Council serves as the collective head of state with the president at its head.
^ 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.
^ The seven member Swiss Federal Council is the collective Head of State of the Swiss Confederation. Within the Council, the President of the Swiss Confederation serves solely in a primus inter pares capacity for one year.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Rulers.org List of rulers throughout time and places
[1] List of official websites for heads of state

[ER2-0] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o In the Commonwealth realms (with the exception of the United Kingdom), the head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, is represented by a Governor General.

[1] The three-member presidency is the head of state collectively.

[2] The Presidency Council serves as the collective head of state with the president at its head.

[3] 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.

[4] The seven member Swiss Federal Council is the collective Head of State of the Swiss Confederation. Within the Council, the President of the Swiss Confederation serves solely in a primus inter pares capacity for one year.

[Palestine-5] 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.

[Palestine2-6] 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.

[7] 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.

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