UN Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs

The UN's list of senior government officials in all of its member states.

The Protocol and Liaison Service maintains a list of Heads of State, Heads of Government, and Ministers for Foreign Affairs of all Member States based on the information provided by the Permanent Missions.

Note: This crawler uses an LLM-based approach to extract the data from the PDF file. We are still working on improving the quality of that process in order to ensure the highest possible accuracy.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total1,653
Searchable1,097
Targets551
Entity types:
People551
Positions546
Countries:
194 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:United Nations Protocol Service (DGACM) · United Nations

The Protocol and Liaison Service within the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM) serves the protocol needs of the Secretariat, including those of the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary-General and the President of the General Assembly.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:www.un.org
Source data:www.un.org · PDF
Tags:list.pep · list.pep.bulk
Coverage:added · frequency: monthly
Last processed:
2026-09-14 13:09:33 · v. 20260914130933-gqx · change statistics...
Last change:

Bulk download 

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities841.25 KB
names.txtTarget names text file42.6 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format630.43 KB
source.pdfSource data816.15 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON839.79 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV120.31 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:

Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Shisask PhuangketkeowPersonThailand
Mohammad Ishaq DarPersonPakistan
Lauofo MetiPersonSamoa
Raymond Ndong SimaPersonGabon
Patrick Allen , ON, GCMG, CD, KStJPersonJamaica
Musalia Mudavadi , E.G.H.PersonKenya
Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-SabahPersonKuwait
Feleti Teo , OBEPersonTuvalu
Marcella Liburd , GCMG, JPPersonSaint Kitts and Nevis
Ratu Naqamaca Tawakecolati LalabalavuPersonFiji
Uchralt Nyam-OsorPersonMongolia
of JapanPersonJapan
Takachi SanaePersonJapan
Stanley Kendrick John , KCPersonSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
Constant Serges BoundaPersonCongo-Brazzaville
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