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Also known as: UN
The table provides a chronological list of the secretaries-general of the UN.
name | country of origin | period of service | |
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*Acting secretary-general from Nov. 3, 1961. | |||
Trygve Lie | Norway | Feb. 1, 1946–April 10, 1953 | |
Dag Hammarskjöld | Sweden | April 10, 1953–Sept. 18, 1961 | |
U Thant* | Myanmar (Burma) | Nov. 30, 1962–Dec. 31, 1971 | |
Kurt Waldheim | Austria | Jan. 1, 1972–Dec. 31, 1981 | |
Javier Pérez de Cuellar | Peru | Jan. 1, 1982–Dec. 31, 1991 | |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali | Egypt | Jan. 1, 1992–Dec. 31, 1996 | |
Kofi Annan | Ghana | Jan. 1, 1997–Dec. 31, 2006 | |
Ban Ki-Moon | South Korea | Jan. 1, 2007–Dec. 31, 2016 | |
António Guterres | Portugal | Jan. 1, 2017– |