UN Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs

The UN's list of senior government officials in all of its member states.

The Protocol and Liaison Service maintains a list of Heads of State, Heads of Government, and Ministers for Foreign Affairs of all Member States based on the information provided by the Permanent Missions.

Note: This crawler uses an LLM-based approach to extract the data from the PDF file. We are still working on improving the quality of that process in order to ensure the highest possible accuracy.

Data overview

Entities:
Total1,579
Searchable1,046
Targets523
Entity types:
Positions523
People523
Countries:
194 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:United Nations Protocol Service (DGACM)

The Protocol and Liaison Service within the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM) serves the protocol needs of the Secretariat, including those of the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary-General and the President of the General Assembly.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Core Data
Information:www.un.org
Source data:www.un.org · PDF
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: monthly
Last processed:2025-07-14 14:35:31 · v. 20250714143531-bqr
Last change:

Bulk download

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities786.32 KB
names.txtTarget names text file41.76 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format602.69 KB
source.pdfSource data736.46 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON783.42 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV111.21 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
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Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Win MyintPersonMyanmar
of JapanPersonJapan
M Touhid HossainPersonBangladesh
Same as Prime MinisterPersonFiji
Raraofaraavitika RasataPersonMadagascar
Anthony Albanese, MPPersonAustralia
Marco A. RubioPersonUnited States of America
Jotham Napat, MPPersonVanuatu
Kristrún FrostaðóttirPersonIceland
Sam Mostyn, ACPersonAustralia
Abdoulkader Houssein OmarPersonDjibouti
Mauro Luiz Icker VieiraPersonBrazil
Maxin RyzhenkovPersonBelarus
Russell Mmsio Dlamini, MPPersonEswatini
Ltaher S M ElbaourPersonLibya