World leaders in 2011

Everyone who held a state’s top posts at some point in 2011, in the order they held them. Names are from Wikipedia’s list of state leaders and appear only where the person’s Wikidata record agrees on the post and the years. What happened in 2011 →

Major powers in 2011

United StatesUnited States history

President: Barack Obama

United KingdomUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime Minister: David Cameron

RussiaRussia history

President: Dmitry Medvedev
Prime minister: Vladimir Putin

ChinaChina history

General Secretary; paramount leader: Hu Jintao
President: Hu Jintao
Premier: Wen Jiabao

FranceFrance history

President: Nicolas Sarkozy
Prime minister: François Fillon

GermanyGermany history

President: Christian Wulff
Chancellor: Angela Merkel

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Akihito
Prime minister: Naoto Kan, then Yoshihiko Noda

IndiaIndia history

President: Pratibha Patil
Prime minister: Manmohan Singh

Africa

AlgeriaAlgeria history

President: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Prime Minister: Ahmed Ouyahia

AngolaAngola history

President: José Eduardo dos Santos

BeninBenin history

President: Thomas Boni Yayi
Prime minister: Pascal Koupaki

BotswanaBotswana history

President: Ian Khama

Burkina FasoBurkina Faso history

President: Blaise Compaoré
Prime minister: Tertius Zongo, then Luc-Adolphe Tiao

BurundiBurundi history

President: Pierre Nkurunziza

CameroonCameroon history

President: Paul Biya
Prime minister: Philémon Yang

Cape VerdeCape Verde history

President: Pedro Pires, then Jorge Carlos Fonseca
Prime minister: José Maria Neves

Central African Republic

President: François Bozizé
Prime minister: Faustin-Archange Touadéra

ChadChad history

President: Idriss Déby
Prime minister: Emmanuel Nadingar

Comoros

President: Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, then Ikililou Dhoinine

Democratic Republic of the CongoDemocratic Republic of the Congo history

President: Joseph Kabila
Prime minister: Adolphe Muzito

DjiboutiDjibouti history

President: Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
Prime minister: Dileita Mohamed Dileita

EgyptEgypt history

President: Hosni Mubarak
Prime minister: Ahmed Nazif, then Ahmed Shafik, then Essam Sharaf, then Kamal Ganzouri

Equatorial Guinea

President: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Prime minister: Ignacio Milam Tang

EritreaEritrea history

President: Isaias Afwerki

EswatiniEswatini history

King: Mswati III
Prime minister: Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini

EthiopiaEthiopia history

President: Girma Wolde-Giorgis
Prime minister: Meles Zenawi

GabonGabon history

President: Ali Bongo Ondimba

GambiaGambia history

President: Yahya Jammeh

GhanaGhana history

President: John Atta Mills

GuineaGuinea history

President: Alpha Condé
Prime minister: Mohamed Said Fofana

Guinea-Bissau

President: Malam Bacai Sanhá
Prime minister: Carlos Gomes Júnior

High Transitional Authority: Madagascar

President: Andry Rajoelina

Ivory CoastIvory Coast history

President: Laurent Gbagbo, then Alassane Ouattara
Prime minister: Guillaume Soro
disputed prime minister: Gilbert Aké

KenyaKenya history

President: Mwai Kibaki
Prime minister: Raila Odinga

LesothoLesotho history

King: Letsie III
Prime minister: Pakalitha Mosisili

LiberiaLiberia history

President: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution: Muammar Gaddafi
Prime minister: Baghdadi Mahmudi

Madagascar: Fourth RepublicMadagascar history

Prime minister: Omer Beriziky

Madagascar: Third Republic

Prime minister: Albert Camille Vital

MalawiMalawi history

President: Bingu wa Mutharika

MaliMali history

President: Amadou Toumani Touré
Prime minister: Modibo Sidibé, then Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé

MauritaniaMauritania history

President: Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Prime minister: Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf

MauritiusMauritius history

President: Anerood Jugnauth
Prime minister: Navin Ramgoolam

MoroccoMorocco history

King: Mohammed VI
Prime Minister: Abbas El Fassi, then Abdelilah Benkirane

MozambiqueMozambique history

President: Armando Guebuza
Prime minister: Aires Ali

NamibiaNamibia history

President: Hifikepunye Pohamba
Prime minister: Nahas Angula

National Transitional Council of Libya

Acting Prime minister: Mahmoud Jibril, then Ali Tarhouni, then Abdurrahim El-Keib

NigerNiger history

Chairman of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy: Salou Djibo
President: Mahamadou Issoufou
Prime minister: Mahamadou Danda, then Brigi Rafini

NigeriaNigeria history

President: Goodluck Jonathan

Republic of Somaliland

President: Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud

Republic of the CongoRepublic of the Congo history

President: Denis Sassou Nguesso

RwandaRwanda history

President: Paul Kagame
Prime minister: Bernard Makuza, then Pierre Habumuremyi

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

President: Mohamed Abdelaziz
Prime Minister: Abdelkader Taleb Omar

São Tomé and Príncipe

President: Fradique de Menezes, then Manuel Pinto da Costa
Prime minister: Patrice Trovoada

SenegalSenegal history

President: Abdoulaye Wade
Prime minister: Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye

Seychelles

President: James Michel

Sierra LeoneSierra Leone history

President: Ernest Bai Koroma

South AfricaSouth Africa history

President: Jacob Zuma

South SudanSouth Sudan history

President: Salva Kiir Mayardit

SudanSudan history

President: Omar al-Bashir

TanzaniaTanzania history

President: Jakaya Kikwete
Prime minister: Mizengo Pinda

TogoTogo history

President: Faure Gnassingbé
Prime minister: Gilbert Houngbo

Transitional Federal Government of the Republic of Somalia

President: Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
Prime minister: Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, then Abdiweli Mohamed Ali

TunisiaTunisia history

President: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, then Moncef Marzouki
Acting President: Fouad Mebazaa
Prime minister: Mohamed Ghannouchi, then Beji Caid Essebsi
Head of government: Hamadi Jebali

Uganda

President: Yoweri Museveni
Prime minister: Apolo Nsibambi, then Amama Mbabazi

ZambiaZambia history

President: Rupiah Banda, then Michael Sata

Zimbabwe

President: Robert Mugabe
Prime minister: Morgan Tsvangirai

Americas

Antigua and Barbuda

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Baldwin Spencer

ArgentinaArgentina history

President: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

BahamasBahamas history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Hubert Ingraham

BarbadosBarbados history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Freundel Stuart

BelizeBelize history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Dean Barrow

BoliviaBolivia history

President: Evo Morales

BrazilBrazil history

President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, then Dilma Rousseff

CanadaCanada history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Stephen Harper

ChileChile history

President: Sebastián Piñera

ColombiaColombia history

President: Juan Manuel Santos Calderón

Costa RicaCosta Rica history

President: Laura Chinchilla

CubaCuba history

President of the State Council: Raúl Castro
President of the Council of Ministers: Raúl Castro

Dominica

President: Nicholas Liverpool
Prime minister: Roosevelt Skerrit

Dominican RepublicDominican Republic history

President: Leonel Fernández

EcuadorEcuador history

President: Rafael Correa

El SalvadorEl Salvador history

President: Mauricio Funes

Grenada

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Tillman Thomas

GuatemalaGuatemala history

President: Álvaro Colom

GuyanaGuyana history

President: Bharrat Jagdeo, then Donald Ramotar
Prime minister: Sam Hinds

HaitiHaiti history

President: René Préval, then Michel Martelly
Prime minister: Jean-Max Bellerive, then Garry Conille

HondurasHonduras history

President: Porfirio Lobo Sosa

JamaicaJamaica history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Bruce Golding, then Andrew Holness

MexicoMexico history

President: Felipe Calderón

NicaraguaNicaragua history

President: Daniel Ortega

PanamaPanama history

President: Ricardo Martinelli

ParaguayParaguay history

President: Fernando Lugo

PeruPeru history

Constitutional President: Alan García Pérez, then Ollanta Humala
Prime Minister: José Antonio Chang, then Rosario Fernández, then Salomón Lerner Ghitis, then Oscar Valdés

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Denzil Douglas

Saint Lucia

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Stephenson King, then Kenny Anthony

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Queen: Elizabeth II

SurinameSuriname history

President: Dési Bouterse

Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago history

President: George Maxwell Richards
Prime minister: Kamla Persad-Bissessar

United StatesUnited States history

President: Barack Obama

UruguayUruguay history

President: José Mujica

VenezuelaVenezuela history

President: Hugo Chávez

Asia

Afghanistan

President: Hamid Karzai

BahrainBahrain history

King: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Prime minister: Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa

BangladeshBangladesh history

President: Zillur Rahman
Prime minister: Sheikh Hasina

BhutanBhutan history

Druk Gyalpo: Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Prime minister: Jigme Thinley

BruneiBrunei history

Sultan: Hassanal Bolkiah

Burma/Myanmar: State Peace and Development Council (1997–2011)

Chairman: Than Shwe
Prime minister: Thein Sein

CambodiaCambodia history

King: Norodom Sihamoni
Prime minister: Hun Sen

ChinaChina history

General Secretary; paramount leader: Hu Jintao
President: Hu Jintao
Premier: Wen Jiabao

CyprusCyprus history

President: Demetris Christofias

IndiaIndia history

President: Pratibha Patil
Prime minister: Manmohan Singh

IndonesiaIndonesia history

President: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

IranIran history

Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
President: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

IraqIraq history

President: Jalal Talabani
Prime minister: Nouri al-Maliki

IsraelIsrael history

President: Shimon Peres
Prime minister: Benjamin Netanyahu

JapanJapan history

Emperor: Akihito
Prime minister: Naoto Kan, then Yoshihiko Noda

JordanJordan history

King: Abdullah II
Prime minister: Samir Rifai, then Marouf al-Bakhit, then Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh

KazakhstanKazakhstan history

President: Nursultan Nazarbayev

KuwaitKuwait history

Emir: Sabah IV
Prime minister: Nasser Al-Mohammed, then Jaber Al-Mubarak

Kyrgyzstan

President: Roza Otunbayeva, then Almazbek Atambayev
Prime minister: Almazbek Atambayev, then Ömürbek Babanov
Acting Prime minister: Ömürbek Babanov

LaosLaos history

General Secretary: Choummaly Sayasone
President: Choummaly Sayasone
Prime minister: Thongsing Thammavong

LebanonLebanon history

President: Michel Suleiman
Prime minister: Saad Hariri, then Najib Mikati

MalaysiaMalaysia history

Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, then Abdul Halim of Kedah
Prime minister: Najib Razak

Maldives

President: Mohamed Nasheed

MongoliaMongolia history

President: Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Prime minister: Sükhbaataryn Batbold

NepalNepal history

President: Ram Baran Yadav
Prime minister: Madhav Kumar Nepal, then Jhala Nath Khanal, then Baburam Bhattarai

North KoreaNorth Korea history

General Secretary: Kim Jong-il
Premier: Choe Yong-rim

Northern Cyprus

President: Derviş Eroğlu
Prime minister: İrsen Küçük

OmanOman history

Sultan: Qaboos bin Said

PakistanPakistan history

President: Asif Ali Zardari
Prime minister: Yousaf Raza Gillani

PhilippinesPhilippines history

President: Benigno Aquino III

QatarQatar history

Emir: Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Prime minister: Hamad bin Jassim

Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2011–present)Myanmar history

President: Thein Sein

Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia history

King: Abdullah

SingaporeSingapore history

President: S. R. Nathan, then Tony Tan
Prime minister: Lee Hsien Loong

South KoreaSouth Korea history

President: Lee Myung-bak
Prime minister: Kim Hwang-sik

Sri LankaSri Lanka history

President: Mahinda Rajapaksa
Prime minister: D. M. Jayaratne

State of Palestine

President: Mahmoud Abbas
Prime minister: Salam Fayyad

Syria

President: Bashar al-Assad
Prime minister: Muhammad Naji al-Otari, then Adel Safar

TaiwanTaiwan history

President: Ma Ying-jeou
Premier: Wu Den-yih

TajikistanTajikistan history

President: Emomali Rahmon
Prime minister: Oqil Oqilov

ThailandThailand history

King: Bhumibol Adulyadej
Prime minister: Abhisit Vejjajiva, then Yingluck Shinawatra

Timor-Leste

President: José Ramos-Horta
Prime minister: Xanana Gusmão

TurkeyTurkey history

President: Abdullah Gül
Prime minister: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Turkmenistan

President: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates history

President: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Prime minister: Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

UzbekistanUzbekistan history

President: Islam Karimov
Prime minister: Shavkat Mirziyoyev

VietnamVietnam history

General Secretary: Nông Đức Mạnh, then Nguyễn Phú Trọng
President: Nguyễn Minh Triết, then Trương Tấn Sang
Prime minister: Nguyễn Tấn Dũng

YemenYemen history

Acting President: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Prime minister: Ali Muhammad Mujawar, then Mohammed Basindawa

Europe

Abkhazia

President: Sergei Bagapsh
Acting President: Alexander Ankvab
Prime minister: Sergei Shamba, then Leonid Lakerbaia

AlbaniaAlbania history

President: Bamir Topi
Prime minister: Sali Berisha

Andorra

Episcopal Co-Prince: Joan Enric Vives Sicília
French Co-Prince: Nicolas Sarkozy
Prime minister: Jaume Bartumeu, then Antoni Martí
Acting Prime minister: Pere López Agràs

ArmeniaArmenia history

President: Serzh Sargsyan
Prime minister: Tigran Sargsyan

AustriaAustria history

President: Heinz Fischer
Chancellor: Werner Faymann

AzerbaijanAzerbaijan history

President: Ilham Aliyev
Prime minister: Artur Rasizade

BelarusBelarus history

President: Alexander Lukashenko
Prime minister: Mikhail Myasnikovich

BelgiumBelgium history

King: Albert II
Prime minister: Yves Leterme, then Elio Di Rupo

Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina history

High Representative: Valentin Inzko
Chairman: Nikola Špirić, then Nebojša Radmanović, then Željko Komšić
Member: Željko Komšić, then Nebojša Radmanović, then Bakir Izetbegović

BulgariaBulgaria history

President: Georgi Parvanov
Prime minister: Boyko Borisov

CroatiaCroatia history

President: Ivo Josipović
Prime minister: Jadranka Kosor, then Zoran Milanović

Czech RepublicCzech Republic history

President: Václav Klaus
Prime Minister: Petr Nečas

DenmarkDenmark history

Queen: Margrethe II
Prime minister: Lars Løkke Rasmussen, then Helle Thorning-Schmidt

EstoniaEstonia history

President: Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Prime minister: Andrus Ansip

FinlandFinland history

President: Tarja Halonen
Prime minister: Mari Kiviniemi, then Jyrki Katainen

France: Fifth RepublicFrance history

President: Nicolas Sarkozy
Prime minister: François Fillon

Georgia

President: Mikheil Saakashvili
Prime minister: Nika Gilauri

GermanyGermany history

President: Christian Wulff
Chancellor: Angela Merkel

GreeceGreece history

President: Karolos Papoulias
Prime minister: George Papandreou, then Lucas Papademos

HungaryHungary history

President: Pál Schmitt
Prime minister: Viktor Orbán

IcelandIceland history

President: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Prime minister: Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

ItalyItaly history

President: Giorgio Napolitano
Prime minister: Silvio Berlusconi, then Mario Monti

LatviaLatvia history

President: Valdis Zatlers, then Andris Bērziņš
Prime minister: Valdis Dombrovskis

Liechtenstein

Prince: Hans-Adam II
Prime minister: Klaus Tschütscher

LithuaniaLithuania history

President: Dalia Grybauskaitė
Prime minister: Andrius Kubilius

LuxembourgLuxembourg history

Grand Duke: Henri
Prime minister: Jean-Claude Juncker

MaltaMalta history

President: George Abela
Prime minister: Lawrence Gonzi

MoldovaMoldova history

Acting President: Marian Lupu
Prime minister: Vlad Filat

Monaco

Prince: Albert II
Minister of state: Michel Roger

MontenegroMontenegro history

President: Filip Vujanović
Prime minister: Igor Lukšić

North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia history

President: Gjorge Ivanov
Prime minister: Nikola Gruevski

NorwayNorway history

King: Harald V
Prime minister: Jens Stoltenberg

PolandPoland history

President: Bronisław Komorowski
Prime minister: Donald Tusk

PortugalPortugal history

President: Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Prime minister: José Sócrates, then Pedro Passos Coelho

Republic of Artsakh

President: Bako Sahakyan
President of the National Assembly: Ashot Ghulian

Republic of Ireland

President: Mary McAleese, then Michael D. Higgins
Taoiseach: Brian Cowen, then Enda Kenny

Republic of KosovoKosovo history

Acting President: Jakup Krasniqi
President: Behgjet Pacolli, then Atifete Jahjaga
Prime minister: Hashim Thaçi

RomaniaRomania history

Prime minister: Emil Boc

RussiaRussia history

President: Dmitry Medvedev
Prime minister: Vladimir Putin

San Marino

Captains Regent: Giovanni Francesco Ugolini, then Andrea Zafferani, then Maria Luisa Berti, then Filippo Tamagnini, then Gabriele Gatti, then Matteo Fiorini

SerbiaSerbia history

President: Boris Tadić
Prime minister: Mirko Cvetković

SlovakiaSlovakia history

President: Ivan Gašparovič
Prime minister: Iveta Radičová

SloveniaSlovenia history

President: Danilo Türk
Prime minister: Borut Pahor

South Ossetia

President: Eduard Kokoity
Acting President: Vadim Brovtsev
Prime minister: Vadim Brovtsev

SpainSpain history

King: Juan Carlos I
Prime minister: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, then Mariano Rajoy

SwedenSweden history

King: Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime minister: Fredrik Reinfeldt

SwitzerlandSwitzerland history

President of the Confederation: Micheline Calmy-Rey

The Netherlands

Queen: Beatrix
Prime minister: Mark Rutte

Transnistria

President: Igor Smirnov, then Yevgeny Shevchuk

UkraineUkraine history

President: Viktor Yanukovych
Prime minister: Mykola Azarov

United KingdomUnited Kingdom history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime Minister: David Cameron

Vatican City

Sovereign: Benedict XVI
President of the Governorate: Giuseppe Bertello

Oceania

AustraliaAustralia history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Julia Gillard

Cook Islands, state in free association

Queen: Elizabeth II

Federated States of Micronesia

President: Manny Mori

FijiFiji history

President: Epeli Nailatikau
Acting Prime minister: Frank Bainimarama

Kiribati

President: Anote Tong

Marshall Islands

President: Jurelang Zedkaia

Nauru

President: Marcus Stephen, then Freddie Pitcher, then Sprent Dabwido

New ZealandNew Zealand history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: John Key

Palau

President: Johnson Toribiong

Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Michael Somare, then Peter O'Neill
Acting Prime minister: Sam Abal

SamoaSamoa history

O le Ao o le Malo: Tui Ātua Tupua Tamasese Efi
Prime minister: Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi

Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands history

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Danny Philip, then Gordon Darcy Lilo

TongaTonga history

King: George Tupou V
Prime minister: Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō

Tuvalu

Queen: Elizabeth II
Prime minister: Willy Telavi

VanuatuVanuatu history

President: Iolu Abil
Prime minister: Sato Kilman, then Serge Vohor
Acting Prime minister: Edward Natapei