Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey The head of state is the President of the Republic and has a largely ceremonial role. The president is elected for a five-year term by direct elections. Executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers which make up the government, while the legislative power is vested in the More →
Ralph Everard Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Date of Birth: 8 August 1946 Marital Status: Married Education: 1966-69: B.Sc. Economics, UWI 1969-71: M.Sc. Government, UWI 1971-74: Ph.D. Government, Victoria Univ. of Manchester, England 1981: Degree of Utter Barrister, Gray’s Inn, London, England Professional/Political Career: 1974-76: Lecturer, Dept. of Government, UWI 1980: Visiting Professor, Queen’s College, City University of More →
Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General of Saint Lucia Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy was born in the southern village of Laborie and attended the Laborie Girls’ Primary and Mixed Infants School, from which she proceeded on a Javouhey Scholarship to St Joseph’s Convent in January 1960. On completion of her secondary education, she joined the staff of St Joseph’s More →
Denzil Llewellyn Douglas, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis Born Denzil Llewellyn Douglas on January 14, 1953, in St. Kitts and Nevis Education: University of the West Indies, BSc, Surgery, 1977; BSc, Medicine, 1984. Memberships: SKNLP National Executive, Young Labour representative 1979; St. Kitts Amateur Football Association, secretary, 1979; St. Kitts and Nevis Medical Association, president, late 1980s; St. More →
Qaboos bin Said Al-Said, Sultan of Oman (b. Salalah, Oman, 18 Nov. 1940) Omani; Sultan 1970 – From the age of 16, Qaboos was educated in Britain, first privately, then at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He subsequently served on an operational tour of duty with the British army in Germany. On return to Oman, his domineering and reactionary father More →
Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg’s government was appointed by the King on 17 October 2005. It is a majority government representing the Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party. Jens Stoltenberg was born in Oslo on 16 March 1959. He is married to Ingrid Schulerud. They have two children. Mr. Stoltenberg is Candidatus Oeconomiae More →
John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key is: Prime Minister Party Leader Ministerial Services Minister of Tourism Minister in Charge of the NZ Security Intelligence Service Minister Responsible for the GCSB John Key was born in Auckland but moved to Christchurch when a child. He was educated at Burnside High School and then gained a B.Comm More →
Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India India’s fourteenth Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh is rightly acclaimed as a thinker and a scholar. He is well regarded for his diligence and his academic approach to work, as well as his accessibility and his unassuming demeanour. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was born on September 26, 1932, in a village in the Punjab More →
Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark Date of Birth : 15 May 1964 Birth Place: Vejle, Denmark Political Party : Venstre Arrival in Power : 5 April 2009 Religion: Lutheran Profession: Politician Lars Lokke Rasmussen was born in Vejle, Denmark, in 1964. He is the current Prime Minister of Denmark. He obtained a law degree More →
Joseph Kabila, President of the Republic of Congo President; army officer Personal Information Born Joseph Kabila in either Tanzania or in eastern Congo, between 1968 and 1972; children: Josephine. Education: Received basic military training in Rwanda, 1995; attended university in Uganda, 1996. Religion: Christian. Military/Wartime Service: Trained in China, 1997. Career Major-general in DRC army and army chief of staff, More →
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper was sworn in as Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister on February 6, 2006. Mr. Harper was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1993 federal election as the Reform Party’s candidate in Calgary West. He left Parliament in 1997 to become Vice President (and later President) of the National Citizens’ Coalition, More →
Hon. Dean O. Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize The Hon. Dean O. Barrow was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Belize on Friday, February 8, 2008. Mr. Barrow was first elected to the House of Representatives at the 1984 general election as the United Democratic Party candidate in the Queen’s Square electoral division. He served as the Minister of More →
Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, is the AC Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia Quentin Bryce was born in Brisbane in 1942 and spent her early years in Ilfracombe, a small town in Central Western Queensland. In 1965, she graduated with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from The University of Queensland and, in the same More →