Albert II, Prince of Monaco Full name: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Title: Prince of Monaco Marquis des Baux (His Serene Highness) Born: Monaco, March 14th, 1958 Parents: Rainier III Reigning Prince of Monaco (1923-2005) and 1956, Grace Kelly (1929-1982) Sisters: Caroline (1957, married) and Stéphanie (1965, divorced) Education and work: Lycée Albert I de Monaco until 1976; Amherst College, Massachussets More →
Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico A native of Morelia, Michoacán, President Felipe Calderón was born on August 18, 1962. He obtained a law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho, and an MA in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and in Public Administration from the University of Harvard. President Felipe Calderón occupied top positions in the party, such More →
Mohamed Ould Abd AZIZ, President of Mauritania General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (var. Muhammad Abdel-‘Aziz, Ould Abdelaziz, born 1956) is a Mauritanian military officer. He was a leading figure in the August 2005 coup that deposed President Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya, and in August 2008 he led another coup that toppled President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and Prime Minister Yahya More →
Edward Fenech-Adami, Former President of Malta Edward Fenech-Adami was elected President of the Republic on 4th April 2004. Edward Fenech-Adami was born in 1934, the son of a customs officer. He was educated at the Jesuits College and the University of Malta, where he first studied economics and the classics and later law. He was called to the bar in More →
Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Bin Haji Tun Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Bin Haji Tun Abdul Razak became the 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia on the 3rd of April 2009. He was born on 23rd July 1953 in Kuala Lipis, Pahang. Currently, Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib is the Member of Parliament for Pekan, Pahang. Dato’ More →
Andry Rajoelina, President of Madagascar On 17 March 2009, democratically elected President Marc Ravalomanana resigned and handed the reins of the government over to the military. The military in turn conferred the presidency on opposition leader Andry Rajoelina, who will head the High Transition Authority. Andry Nirina Rajoelina (born 1975) is a Malagasy politician and former professional DJ. He was More →
Gjorge Ivanov, President of Macedonia President Gjorge Ivanov was born on 2 May 1960 in Valandovo, a town in the Republic of Macedonia. After completing his elementary and high school education in Valandovo, he commenced studies in Law at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje. While at university Ivanov became politically active in liberal and reformist-oriented youth More →
Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxemburg Jean-Claude Juncker was born in Redange-sur-Attert in the west of Luxembourg on 9 December 1954 and spent his childhood and youth in Belvaux, in the south of the country, where his father was employed by one of the large steelworks. Life in this region, the stronghold of Luxembourg’s socialist and communist movements and its More →
Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania Born in Vilnius on March 1 1956, Dalia Grybauskaite attended the Secondary School of Salomeja Neris. At the age of 19 (in 1975-1976), she worked as an inspector at the personnel division of the National Philharmonic Society. In 1976, she entered the Zhdanov University in the then Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and graduated with a More →
Prince Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II was born on 14th February 1945, the eldest son of Prince Franz Joseph II von und zu Liechtenstein and Princess Gina. The name Hans-Adam forms an apt link between past and present: Prince Johann (Hans) Adam I – he reigned from 1699 until 1712 – was the founder of the Principality More →
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was born in central Monrovia in 1938 and has led a distinguished career spanning nearly four decades in the private and public domain in Liberia and internationally. She began her career in banking and economic and financial management in 1965 at the then Treasury Department in Liberia. In 1979, as Minister of More →
Letsie III, King of Lesotho His Majesty King Letsie III is the first son of the late King Moshoeshoe II and Queen Mother ‘Mamohato Bereng Seeiso. He was born at Scott Hospital in Morija on July 17 1963 and named Mohato Bereng Seeiso. He was christened into the Roman Catholic Church as David. He did part of his primary education More →
His Excellency General Michel Sleiman, President of the Republic of Lebanon General Michel Sleiman is the 12th President of the Republic of Lebanon Born on the 21st of November 1948, in Amchit – Jbeil Married to Mrs. Wafaa Sleiman, and has 3 children: Rita, Dentist, married to Engineer Wissam Baroudi, and has two children; Lara, Architect Engineer, married to Engineer More →
Choummaly Sayasone, President of Laos Lieutenant General Choummaly Sayasone (born March 6, 1936 in Attapu) is General Secretary of the communist Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. He was elected as General Secretary on March 21, 2006 by the party’s 8th Congress, succeeding Khamtai Siphandon, and he subsequently succeeded Siphandon as President on June More →
Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Former President of Kyrgyzstan Born on August 1, 1949 in the village Masadan (Teyit), Suzak district, Jalal-Abad region of Kyrgyz USSR. Childhood Kurmanbek Bakiev grew up in the little village of Masadan, with population of about 70-80 families. Later, his family moved close to the city of Jalal- Abad, and Kurmanbek went to the Russian school №3 there. More →