Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of Russia (Re-elected on Mar 4, 2012. Took office on May 7, 2012) Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad on October 7, 1952. In 1975, he graduated with a degree in law from Leningrad State University. He later earned a Ph.D. degree in economics. After graduation, Mr. Putin was assigned to work in the KGB. From More →
François Hollande, President of France (elected on May 6, 2012) François Gérard Georges Hollande (born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who is the President-elect of France. He also served as the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008 and as a Deputy of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze’s 1st Constituency since 1997, and More →
János Áder, President of Hungary Áder grew up in the small town of Csorna in Győr-Moson-Sopron county. Beginning in 1978, he studied law for five years at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. From 1986 to 1990, he was a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Sociological Research Institute. Áder, who has More →
José Maria Vasconcelos, President of East Timor (elected on Apr 16, 2012) José Maria Vasconcelos, popularly known by his nom de guerre Taur Matan Ruak (Tetum for “Two Sharp Eyes”) is an East Timorese politician who was elected as President of East Timor in April 2012. Before entering politics, he was the Commander of the FALINTIL-Forças de Defesa de Timor-Leste More →
Leonid Tibilov, President of South Ossetia (Elected on Apr 8, 2012) Leonid Tibilov (born 28 March 1952 in Verkhny Dvan, Znaur district) is a South Ossetian politician who is the President-elect of South Ossetia after winning the 2012 South Ossetian presidential election. Leonid Tibilov is a former head of the KGB in South Ossetia from 1992 to 1998. He was then More →
His Excellency, Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi (Died on Apr 7, 2012. Vice President Joyce Banda becomes next President) His Excellency, Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika comes from Kamoto Village in Thyolo, southern Malawi. He officially became the President of the Republic of Malawi on May 24, 2004. He holds a PhD in Development Economics from the Pacific Western University, More →
Boris Tadic, President of Serbia (Resigned on Apr 5, 2012. The parliament speaker, Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, became Acting President) Boris Tadic was elected president of Serbia on June 27, 2004. A reformist politician from the Democratic party, Tadic defeated Tomislav Nikolic, a nationalist ally of Slobodan Milosevic, in a presidential run-off that was held after Nikolic fell short of a clear More →
Macky Sall, President of Senegal Macky Sall was born on 11 December 1961. Under President Abdoulaye Wade, Sall was Prime Minister of Senegal from April 2004 to June 2007 and President of the National Assembly of Senegal from June 2007 to November 2008. He was the Mayor of Fatick from 2002 to 2008 and has held that post again since More →
Anerood JUGNAUTH, President of Mauritius (Resigned on Mar 31, 2012. Vice President Monique Ohsan-Bellepeau is Acting President) Date of Birth 29 March 1930 Nationality Mauritian Address La Caverne, Vacoas, Mauritius Postal address State House, Le Réduit, Mauritius. Telephone 454-3021 / 454-3022 / 454-3023 Fax 466-0342 Marital status Spouse- Lady Sarojni Jugnauth Married with two children (Pravind and Shalini) Education Roman More →
Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali (Deposed in a military coup on Mar 22, 2012. Capt. Dioncounda Traoré becomes Interim President) Born Amadou Toumani Toure c. 1948 in Mpoti, Mali. Education: Received training as history and geography teacher in Bamako, graduated 1969; attended Ecole Militaire Interarmes, 1969-72; received further military training in Riazan, Soviet Union and Pau, France; attended Ecole Superieur More →
Nicolae Vasile Timofti, President of Moldova (elected on Mar 16, 2012) Originally from the village Ciutulesti, Soroca judetz. His parents are originally from the Cahul judetz, father – Vasile Tudor Timofti, Gotesti village, mother – Elena Petru Timofti (Bujac), Ciobalaccia village. His grandfather Tudor Timofti was forced to withdraw to the mines of Donbas in the ’40 under pressure of More →
Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi, President of Yemen (Elected on Feb 21, 2012) Field Marshal Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi (Arabic: عبد ربه منصور الهادي; born 1 September 1945) is a Yemeni politician who is the President of Yemen since 27 February 2012. He was previously the Vice President from 1994 to 2012. Between 4 June and 23 September 2011, he was the More →
Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow, President of Turkmenistan (Re-elected on Feb 12, 2012) Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhammedow, born June 29, 1957) has been the President of Turkmenistan since December 21, 2006, when he became acting president following the death of Saparmurat Niyazov. On February 14, 2007, Berdimuhammedow was named the winner of the presidential election held three days earlier, and immediately sworn into office. More →
Mohamed Waheed Hassan, President of Maldives (since Feb 7, 2012) Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik (born 3 January 1953) is the current President of the Maldives. He was sworn into office on 7 February 2012 upon the resignation of President Mohamed Nasheed. He was the first democratically elected Vice President of the Maldives, serving under Nasheed from 2008 to 2012. Born More →
Sauli Niinistö, President of the Republic of Finland (elected on Feb 5, 2012; takes office on Mar 1, 2012) Sauli Väinämö Niinistö (born 24 August 1948) is a Finnish politician of the National Coalition Party. He is the president-elect of Finland, and will assume office on 1 March 2012, becoming the first president from the National Coalition Party since Juho More →
Rosen Plevneliev, President of Bulgaria (elected on Oct 23, 2011. took office on Jan 22, 2012) Born in Gotse Delchev, Rosen Plevneliev studied at Blagoevgrad Mathematical and Natural Sciencies High School, from which he graduated in 1982. In 1989 he graduated from the Higher Mechanical-Electrotechnical Institute, Sofia, and in the same year become a fellow at the Institute for Microprocessing More →
Otto Pérez Molina, President of Guatemala (since Jan 14, 2012) Otto Fernando Pérez Molina (born 1 December 1950) is a Guatemalan politician and retired military officer who has been President of Guatemala since 14 January 2012. Standing as the Patriotic Party (Partido Patriota) candidate, he lost the 2007 presidential election but prevailed in the 2011 presidential election. During the 1990s, before More →
Ma Ying-jeou, President of Taiwan, the Republic of China (re-elected on Jan 14, 2012) On May 20, 2008, Ma Ying-jeou was inaugurated president of the Republic of China (ROC). During the presidential election Ma campaigned on a platform to revive Taiwan’s flagging economy and restore the core values of its society, namely that of benevolence, righteousness, diligence, honesty, generosity and More →
Raimundo Pereira, President of Guinea-Bissau (since Jan 9, 2012) Raimundo Pereira (born 9 February 1955) is a Guinea-Bissauan lawyer and politician who is serving as Interim President of Guinea-Bissau since 2011 following the departure of President Malam Bacai Sanhá for medical treatment abroad and carried on in this capacity after Sanha’s death. Pereira has been the President of the National More →