United Nations Secretariat
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Trygve Halvdan Lie
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 16 1896; d. December 30 1968.
Norway
1946 – 1952
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 29 1905; d. September 18 1961.
Sweden
1953 – 1961
U Thant
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 22 1909; d. November 25 1974.
Burma
1961 – 1971
Kurt Josef Waldheim
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 21 1918; d. June 14 2007.
Austria
1972 – 1981
Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 19 1920; d. March 4 2020.
Peru
1982 – 1991
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (*acting)
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 14 1922; d. February 16 2013.
Egypt
1992 – 1996
Kofi Atta Annan
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 8 1938; d. August 18 2018.
Ghana
1997 – 2006
Ban Ki-moon
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 13 1944.
Republic of Korea
2007 – 2016
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1949.
Portugal
2017 – present
United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 13 1954.
United Kingdom
2010 – 2015
United Nations Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping Operations
Kofi Atta Annan
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 8 1938; d. August 18 2018.
Ghana
1993 – 1996
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Louise Arbour
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1947.
Canada
2004 – 2008
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 30 1949.
Portugal
2005 – 2015
United Nations Security Council
President of the United Nations Security Council
Louis Yves Fortier
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 11 1935.
Canada
1989
United Nations General Assembly
President of the United Nations General Assembly
Paul-Henri Charles Spaak
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 25 1899; d. July 31 1972.
Belgium
1946 – 1947
Lester Bowles Pearson
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 23 1897; d. December 27 1972
Canada
1952 – 1953
Han Seung-soo
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 28 1936.
Republic of Korea
2001 – 2002
United Nations Agencies
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
Jacques de Larosière de Champfeu
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 12 1929.
1978 – 1987
Michel Camdessus
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1933.
1987 – 2000
Horst Köhler
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 22 1943; d. February 1 2025.
2000 – 2004
Anne Osborn Krueger (*acting)
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 12 1934.
2004
Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 18 1949.
2004 – 2007
Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 25 1949.
2007 – 2011
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 1 1956.
2011 – 2019
President of the World Bank Group
John Jay McCloy
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 31 1895; d. March 11 1989.
1947 – 1949
Robert Strange McNamara
Date of birth/date of death: b. June 9 1916; d. July 6 2009.
1968 – 1981
Barber Benjamin Conable, Jr.
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 2 1922; d. November 30 2003.
1986 – 1991
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 22 1943.
2005 – 2007
Jim Yong Kim
Date of birth/date of death: b. December 8 1959.
2012 – 2019
David Robert Malpass
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1956.
2019 – 2023
Chief Economist of the World Bank
Anne Osborn Krueger
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 12 1934.
1982 – 1986
Stanley Fischer
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 15 1943; d. May 31 2025.
1988 – 1990
Director-General of the World Health Organization
Gro Brundtland
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 20 1939.
1998 – 2003
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 21 1947.
2006 – 2017
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 3 1965.
2017 – present
Supreme Commander, United Nations Command
General Matthew Bunker Ridgway
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 3 1895; d. July 26 1993.
1951 – 1952
General Mark Wayne Clark
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 1 1896; d. April 17 1984
Military ranks: Promoted to Brigadier General, 1941. Promoted to Major General, 1942. Promoted to Lieutenant General, 1942. Promoted to General, 1945.
1952 – 1953