Wikidata State Enterprise, Institution and Party Leadership

The people who run or oversee public bodies and political parties: the chief executives, chairs and board members of state-owned enterprises; the heads and boards of public institutions such as central banks, regulators, public broadcasters and government agencies; the leadership of international organisations; and the chairs, secretaries-general and executive committees of political parties. International anti-money-laundering standards, including the FATF Recommendations and the EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (2024/1624), treat these roles as prominent public functions, which makes the people who hold them politically exposed persons (PEPs).

Wikidata, a knowledge base edited by volunteers, records an organisation's leadership on the organisation's own entry. A body is included when its entry describes it as state-owned, links it to a government that owns or oversees it, or identifies it as a central bank, regulator, public broadcaster or political party, and when it is an international organisation that OpenSanctions tracks. Companies owned by municipalities are not included. Positions at bodies linked only to another country's government, and lesser party offices, are reviewed by OpenSanctions analysts before their holders are treated as PEPs. The dataset covers current office holders and those who left office within the period set by the OpenSanctions PEP methodology.

Coverage depends on whether a body's Wikidata entry names its leaders, and varies considerably between countries and kinds of organisation.