International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Netherlands Government; political career: Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Government of the Netherlands, 2017-2021; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Jan. 2022-; professional career: long career with UN and other international bodies, incl. Programme Manager and Head of Donor Relations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, 1994-97; International Org. for Migration, Geneva, 1998-2004; Senior UN Adviser, 2004-05; various roles, UNICEF, 2005-10, i…

Former Permanent Representative of Guinea, United Nations; political career: Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2005-06; Minister of International Co-operation, 2006-07; professional career: Amb. to Nigeria and Perm. Rep. of ECOWAS, 2002-05; Diplomatic Adviser to the President of Guinea, 2009-10; Amb. to Ethiopia, 2013-18, also Perm. Rep. to the African Union Commission, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Environment Programme; Permanent Representative of Guinea to the United Nations, 2018-2021.

Former Governor, Central Bank of Malawi; born: 1955; political career: Director of Policy and Planning, Ministry of Health; Principal Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, -2017; professional career: Governor, Central Bank of Malawi, 2017-19.

Minister of the Armed Forces, Government of Senegal; education: Univ. Abidjan; Univ. Dakar, Law, Philosophy; political career: Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, 2013; President of the Assembly of States Parties; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Citizens Abroad, 2017-19; Minister of the Armed Forces, 2019-; professional career: long career as human rights activist; Amnesty Int.; National Org. for the Defence of Human Rights (ONDH), vice-pres., 1987-95, pres., 1995-2000; founding mem., Union of Lawyers, 1982; founding mem., …

Diplomat; political career: Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, 2018-19; professional career: Researcher Associate, Instructor, Dept. of African American Studies, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, USA; Public Service Administrator, State of Illinois, 1997-2007; Exec. Dir., United African Organization, Chicago, USA, 2007-2017; Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, 2019-2021; Ambassador to Egypt, 2021-2022.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Sierra Leone; political career: Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gov. of Sierra Leone, 2023-; professional career: Petroleum engineer; Total E & PC Ltd; Lukoil Overseas Offshore Project; office address: Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation, Gloucester Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone; URL: http://www.statehouse-sl.org/ministryforeignaffairs.htm.

Governor, Central Bank of the Democratic Republic of Congo; professional career: Economist; long career at the IMF, incl. most recently: Dep. Div. Head and Head of Mission, Togo, 2003-04, Chad, 2004-05, Burkina Faso, 2009-12, Sierra Leone, 2012-2015, Cabo Verder, 2018-2021 ; Governor, Central Bank of the Democratic Republic of Congo, July 2021- (first woman to hold the role); office address: Banque Centrale du Congo, 563 Boulevard Col. Tshatshi, POB 2627, Gombe, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; URL: http://www.bcc.cd/.

Former President, Democratic Republic of Congo; parents: Laurent Kabila, former president of the DRC (dec’d); political career: President and Minister of Defence, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2001-19; professional career: former guerilla fighter; major-general and chief of staff, Congolese Army.

Former Governor, Bangladesh Bank; education: Univ. of Chittagong; National Academy for Planning and Development; National Defence College; Police Staff College; National Institute of Mass Communication; professional career: long-standing civil service career, incl. Dept. Commissioner and District Magistrate of Kishoreganj; Joint Sec., Ministry of Education; Dir-Gen., National Academy for Planning and Development; Dir.-Gen., Bangladesh Civil Services Administration Academy; Sec. Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Finance; …

Former Acting Caretaker Prime Minister, Government of Afghanistan; political career: Acting Prime Minister, Taliban Gov. of Afghanistan, 1996-2001; exile in Pakistan, 2001; Political Deputy to Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, 2021-23; Acting Caretaker prime minister, May-July 2023.

Former President, Burkina Faso; born: 1957; party: People's Movement for Progress; political career: Prime Minister, 1994-96; Leader of the Opposition; President, Dec. 2015-January 2022 (ousted in a coup); professional career: Banker.

Former President, Marshalls Island; born: 1951; political career: Minister of Health, 2013; Minister of Internal Affairs, 2014; President of the Marshall Islands, 2020-Jan. 2024.

Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Marshall Islands to the UN in New York; professional career: Amb. to Japan, 1997-2003; Field Service Consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2003-09; Amb. to Fiji, 2009-12; Perm. Rep. to the UN in New York, 2012-; office address: Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the UN, 800 Second Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10017, USA; phone: +1 212 983 3040 ; URL: http://www.un.int/marshallislands.

Former Governor-General, Solomon Islands; born: 1946, Solomon Islands; education: Law degree, Papua New Guinea, 1975; professional career: Attorney General, 1980-94; Chmn., Law Reform Commission, 1994, 2006-09; High Court Judge, 1998-2006; Governor-General, Solomon Islands, 2009-19.

Permanent Representative of Albania, UNESCO; professional career: career diplomat; First Sec., Permanent Mission to the UN, New York; Albanian Embassy in France, 2008; Ambassador and Permanent Delegate, United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2011-16; Permanent Rep. of Albania to the UN, June 2016-2021; Ambassador and Permanent Delegate, United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2021-; office address: UNESCO, 7 place Fontenoy, 75007 Paris, France.

Former Prime Minister, Government of Iraq; born: 1967; political career: Director, Iraqi National Intelligence Services, 2016; Prime Minister of Iraq, 2020-Oct. 2022; professional career: left Iraq, 1985; journalist; returned to Iraq, 2003; cofounder, Iraq Media Network; Dir., Iraq Memory Foundation; editor-in-chief, Newsweek Iraq, 2010-13; editor, Al-Monitor website.

Former Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment, Government of Cyprus; education: BSc. 1991, PhD. 1995, Univ. of Athens, Greece; political career: Minister of Health, 2007-08; Minister of Education and Culture, 2014-18; Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment, 2018-23; professional career: Dean of the School of Education and Head of the Nature Conservation Unit of Frederick Univ.; office address: House of Representatives, Dyiavaharlal Nehrou, Omerou Avenue, 1402 Nicosia, Cyprus.

Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, United Nations; born: 1942, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; education: Univ. de Paris I; Diplomatic Training, Geneva; Univ. of Bordeaux, Public Law; political career: Technical Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dir., International Orgs.; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, 1982-83; Interim President, Burkina Faso, Nov. 2014-15; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Co-operation, Nov. 2014-15; professional career: Amb. Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary, Perm. Rep. of Burkina Faso to the UN, 1998-2014; Spe…

Rwandan, President and Minister of Defence, Government of Rwanda; born: October 1957, Gitarama Prefecture, Central Rwanda; education: Secondary Sch., Uganda; Dip. Professional Management; Business Studies, Open Univ.; party: Chmn, Rwanda Patriotic Front, 1998-; political career: Vice-President and Minister of Defence, 1994-2000; Cmdr. and Chief of Security Forces; President and Minister of Defence, 2000-; professional career: Guerrilla Movement, 1981; Sr. Officer, Ugandan Army, 1986-90; Leader, Rwandan Patriotic Army, 1990; CO, Rwandan Patriotic Army; office address…

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the US; born: 1960; education: Princeton Univ., AB, summa cum laude; Worcester College, Oxford Univ., Princeton's Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow, M.Phil; Harvard Law School, JD, magna cum laude; professional career: law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva, US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, 1986-87; law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court of the US, 1987 term; associate, Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, 1989-91; Assist. Prof., Univ. of Chicago Law School, 1991, tenure professor of la…