US CIA World Leaders

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

From the CIA web site:

The CIA publishes and updates the online directory of World Leaders and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments weekly. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States. Regimes with which the United States has no diplomatic exchanges are indicated by the initials NDE. Governments are listed according to the most commonly used version of each country’s name. The spelling of the personal names in this directory follows transliteration systems generally agreed upon by US Government agencies, except in the cases in which officials have stated a preference for alternate spellings of their names.

NOTE: Although the head of the central bank is listed for each country, in most cases he or she is not a Cabinet member. Ambassadors to the United States and Permanent Representatives to the UN, New York, have also been included.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total16,743
Searchable10,935
Targets5,308
Entity types:
Positions5,627
People5,308
Countries:
199 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · United States
Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:www.cia.gov
Source data:www.cia.gov · JSON
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:
2026-10-26 21:57:05 · v. 20261026215705-gww · 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 entities7.73 MB
names.txtTarget names text file240.99 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format6.84 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON7.73 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV894.19 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
Álvaro Vargas LlosaPersonPeru · Spain
Baudelaire Ndong EllaPersonGabon
Carlos Pedro MARCELO Blanco QuintanillaPersonBolivia
Christian Andres MORALES BurgosPersonBolivia
Ricardo Eric SANINES ChavezPersonBolivia
Williams Jose BASCOPEPersonBolivia
KO KO LWINPersonMyanmar
Axel Jesson AYENOUEPersonGabon
Emmanuel EYEGHE NZEPersonGabon
Georges Christian WAZAPersonGabon
Jacqueline ILOGUE, Épse BIGNOUMBAPersonGabon
Lambert MOUVINDE MILLOTPersonGabon
Olivier MOUCKOCKOPersonGabon
Raïssa NANA, Épse GHOGHOPersonGabon
Stephen OLOUNA MOUBAPersonGabon
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