US CIA World Leaders

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

From the CIA web site:

The CIA publishes and updates the online directory of World Leaders and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments weekly. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States. Regimes with which the United States has no diplomatic exchanges are indicated by the initials NDE. Governments are listed according to the most commonly used version of each country’s name. The spelling of the personal names in this directory follows transliteration systems generally agreed upon by US Government agencies, except in the cases in which officials have stated a preference for alternate spellings of their names.

NOTE: Although the head of the central bank is listed for each country, in most cases he or she is not a Cabinet member. Ambassadors to the United States and Permanent Representatives to the UN, New York, have also been included.

Data overview

Entities:
Total16,755
Searchable10,955
Targets5,340
Entity types:
Positions5,615
People5,340
Countries:
199 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · United States
Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:www.cia.gov
Source data:www.cia.gov · JSON
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:2026-02-20 21:57:01 · v. 20260220215701-nov
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 entities7.42 MB
names.txtTarget names text file239.46 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format7 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON7.4 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV929.27 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:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:

Recent additions

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

AddedNameTypeCountries
Mohamed Ahmed ASSOUMANIPersonComoros
Mohamed Nourouddine AFRAITANEPersonComoros
Moussa ABDEREMANEPersonComoros
Said Mohamed Ali SAIDPersonComoros
Ahmed Mohamed Oury DIALLOPersonGuinea
Cellou BALDEPersonGuinea
Facinet SYLLAPersonGuinea
Faya Francois BOUROUNOPersonGuinea
Ibrahima Sory II TOUNKARAPersonGuinea
Ismael NABEPersonGuinea
Kaite SALLPersonGuinea
Laye Sekou CAMARAPersonGuinea
Mourana SOUMAHPersonGuinea
Patricia Adeline LAMAPersonGuinea
Tamba Benoit KAMANOPersonGuinea
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