Secretaries-general of the United Nations

Secretaries-general of the United Nations

Table
Secretaries-general of the United Nations
name country of origin period of service
Trygve Lie (Lie, Trygve (Halvdan)) Norway Feb. 1, 1946–April 10, 1953
Dag Hammarskjöld (Hammarskjöld, Dag) Sweden April 10, 1953–Sept. 18, 1961
U Thant* (Thant, U) Myanmar (Burma) Nov. 30, 1962–Dec. 31, 1971
Kurt Waldheim (Waldheim, Kurt) Austria Jan. 1, 1972–Dec. 31, 1981
Javier Pérez de Cuellar (Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier) Peru Jan. 1, 1982–Dec. 31, 1991
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Boutros-Ghali, Boutros) Egypt Jan. 1, 1992–Dec. 31, 1996
Kofi Annan (Annan, Kofi) Ghana Jan. 1, 1997–Dec. 31, 2006
Ban Ki-moon South Korea Jan. 1, 2007–
*Acting secretary-general from Nov. 3, 1961.
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