List of current presidents

The is a list of presidential positions, and the current office holders:

States recognised by the United Nations

Country	President		Since
Afghanistan	President	Ashraf Ghani	29 September 2014
Albania	President	Bujar Nishani	24 July 2012
Algeria	President	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	27 April 1999
Angola	President	José Eduardo dos Santos	21 September 1979
Argentina	President	Mauricio Macri	10 December 2007
Armenia	President	Serzh Sargsyan	9 April 2008
Austria	Federal President	Heinz Fischer	8 July 2004
Azerbaijan	President	Ilham Aliyev	31 October 2003
Bangladesh	President	Abdul Hamid	20 March 2013
Belarus	President	Alexander Lukashenko	20 July 1994
Benin	President	Thomas Boni Yayi	6 April 2006
Bolivia	President	Evo Morales	22 January 2006
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Chairman	Dragan Čović	17 July 2015
Botswana	President	Ian Khama	1 April 2008
Brazil	President	Dilma Rousseff	1 January 2011
Bulgaria	President	Rosen Plevneliev	22 January 2012
Burkina Faso	Acting President	Michel Kafando	18 November 2014
Burundi	President	Pierre Nkurunziza	26 August 2005
Cameroon	President	Paul Biya	6 November 1982
Cape Verde	President	Jorge Carlos Fonseca	9 September 2011
Central African Republic	Acting President	Catherine Samba-Panza	23 January 2014
Chad	President	Idriss Déby	2 December 1990
Chile	President	Michelle Bachelet	11 May 2014
China	President	Xi Jinping	14 March 2013
Colombia	President	Juan Manuel Santos	7 August 2010
Comoros	President	Ikililou Dhoinine	26 May 2011
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	President	Joseph Kabila	17 January 2001
Congo, Republic of the	President	Denis Sassou Nguesso	25 October 1997
Costa Rica	President	Luis Guillermo Solís	8 May 2014
Croatia	President	Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović	19 February 2015
Cuba	President	Raúl Castro	24 February 2008
Cyprus	President	Nicos Anastasiades	28 February 2013
Czech Republic	President	Miloš Zeman	8 March 2013
Dominica	President	Charles Savarin	2 October 2013
Dominican Republic	President	Danilo Medina	16 August 2012
East Timor	President	Taur Matan Ruak	20 May 2012
Ecuador	President	Rafael Correa	15 January 2007
Egypt	President	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	8 June 2014
El Salvador	President	Salvador Sánchez Cerén	1 June 2014
Equatorial Guinea	President	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	3 August 1979
Eritrea	President	Isaias Afwerki	27 April 1991
Estonia	President	Toomas Hendrik Ilves	9 October 2006
Ethiopia	President	Mulatu Teshome	7 October 2013
Fiji	President	Ratu Epeli Nailatikau	30 July 2009
Finland	President	Sauli Niinistö	1 March 2012
France	President	François Hollande	15 May 2012
Gabon	President	Ali Bongo Ondimba	16 October 2009
Gambia	President	Yahya Jammeh	22 July 1994
Georgia	President	Giorgi Margvelashvili	17 November 2013
Germany	Federal President	Joachim Gauck	18 March 2012
Ghana	President	John Dramani Mahama	24 July 2012
Greece	President	Prokopis Pavlopoulos	13 March 2015
Guatemala	President	Jimmy Morales	14 January 2016
Guinea	Acting President	Alpha Condé	21 December 2010
Guinea-Bissau	Acting President	José Mário Vaz	23 June 2014
Guyana	President	David Granger	16 May 2015
Haiti	President	Michel Martelly	14 May 2011
Honduras	President	Juan Orlando Hernández	10 May 2012
Hungary	President	János Áder	27 January 2014
Iceland	President	Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson	1 August 1996
India	President	Pranab Mukherjee	25 July 2012
Indonesia	President	Joko Widodo	20 October 2014
Iran	President	Hassan Rouhani	3 August 2013
Iraq	President	Fuad Masum	24 July 2014
Ireland	President	Michael D. Higgins	11 November 2011
Israel	President	Reuven Rivlin	24 July 2014
Italy	President	Sergio Mattarella	3 February 2015
Ivory Coast	President	Alassane Ouattara	4 December 2010
Kazakhstan	President	Nursultan Nazarbayev	16 December 1991
Kenya	President	Uhuru Kenyatta	9 April 2013
Kiribati	President	Anote Tong	10 July 2003
Kyrgyzstan	President	Almazbek Atambayev	1 December 2011
Laos	President	Choummaly Sayasone	21 March 2006
Latvia	President	Raimonds Vējonis	8 July 2015
Lebanon	Acting President	Tammam Salam	25 May 2014
Liberia	President	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	18 January 2006
Libya	Chairman	Aguila Saleh Issa	5 August 2014
Lithuania	President	Dalia Grybauskaitė	12 July 2009
Macedonia	President	Gjorge Ivanov	12 May 2009
Madagascar	President	Hery Rajaonarimampianina	25 January 2014
Malawi	President	Peter Mutharika	31 May 2014
Maldives	President	Abdulla Yameen	17 November 2013
Mali	President	Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta	4 September 2013
Malta	President	Marie Louise Coleiro Preca	4 April 2014
Marshall Islands	President	Christopher Loeak	10 January 2012
Mauritania	President	Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz	5 August 2009
Mauritius	President	Ameenah Gurib	5 July 2015
Mexico	President	Enrique Peña Nieto	1 December 2012
Federated States of Micronesia	President	Peter M. Christian	11 May 2015
Moldova	President	Nicolae Timofti	23 March 2012
Mongolia	President	Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj	18 June 2009
Montenegro	President	Filip Vujanović	22 May 2003
Mozambique	President	Filipe Nyusi	15 January 2015
Myanmar	President	Htin Kyaw	30 March 2011
Namibia	President	Hage Geingob	21 March 2015
Nauru	President	Baron Waqa	11 June 2013
Nepal	President	Ram Baran Yadav	23 July 2008
Nicaragua	President	Daniel Ortega	10 January 2007
Niger	President	Mahamadou Issoufou	7 April 2011
Nigeria	President	Muhammadu Buhari	29 May 2015
North Korea	President
Pakistan	President	Mamnoon Hussain	9 September 2013
Palau	President	Tommy Remengesau	17 January 2013
Palestine	President	Mahmoud Abbas	8 May 2005
Panama	President	Juan Carlos Varela	1 July 2014
Paraguay	President	Horacio Cartes	15 August 2013
Peru	President	Ollanta Humala	28 July 2011
Philippines	President	Rodrigo Duterte	30 June 2016
Poland	President	Andrzej Duda	6 August 2015
Portugal	President	Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa	9 March 2016
Romania	President	Klaus Iohannis	21 December 2014
Russia	President	Vladimir Putin	7 May 2012
Rwanda	President	Paul Kagame	24 March 2000
San Marino	Captain Regent	Lorella Stefanelli Nicola Renzi	1 October 2015
São Tomé and Príncipe	President	Manuel Pinto da Costa	3 September 2011
Senegal	President	Macky Sall	2 April 2012
Serbia	President	Tomislav Nikolić	31 May 2012
Seychelles	President	James Michel	16 April 2004
Sierra Leone	President	Ernest Bai Koroma	17 September 2007
Singapore	President	Tony Tan	1 September 2011
Slovakia	President	Andrej Kiska	15 June 2014
Slovenia	President	Borut Pahor	22 December 2012
Somalia	President	Hassan Sheikh Mohamud	16 September 2012
South Africa	President	Jacob Zuma	9 May 2009
South Korea	President	Park Geun-hye	25 February 2013
South Sudan	President	Salva Kiir Mayardit	9 July 2011
Sri Lanka	President	Maithripala Sirisena	9 January 2015
Sudan	President	Omar al-Bashir	30 June 1989
Suriname	President	Dési Bouterse	12 August 2010
Switzerland	President	Johann Schneider-Ammann	1 January 2016
Syria	President	Bashar al-Assad	17 July 2000
Tajikistan	President	Emomalii Rahmon	19 November 1992
Tanzania	President	Jakaya Kikwete	21 December 2005
Togo	President	Faure Gnassingbé	4 May 2005
Trinidad and Tobago	President	Anthony Carmona	18 March 2013
Tunisia	President	Beji Caid Essebsi	31 December 2014
Turkey	President	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	28 August 2014
Turkmenistan	President	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	21 December 2006
Uganda	President	Yoweri Museveni	29 January 1986
Ukraine	President	Petro Poroshenko	7 June 2014
United States	President	Barack Obama	20 January 2009
Uruguay	President	Tabaré Vázquez	1 March 2015
Uzbekistan	President	Islam Karimov	1 September 1991
Vanuatu	President	Baldwin Lonsdale	22 September 2014
Venezuela	President	Nicolás Maduro	19 April 2013
Vietnam	President	Trần Đại Quang	2 April 2016
Yemen	President	Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi	27 February 2012
Zambia	President	Edgar Lungu	25 January 2015
Zimbabwe	President	Robert Mugabe	22 December 1987

States recognised by some United Nations member states

Country	President		Since
Abkhazia	President	Raul Khadjimba	25 September 2014
Kosovo	President	Hashim Thaçi	7 April 2016
Northern Cyprus	President	Mustafa Akıncı	30 April 2015
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	President	Mohamed Abdelaziz	30 August 1976
South Ossetia	President	Leonid Tibilov	19 April 2012
Taiwan	President	Tsai Ing-wen	20 May 2016

States recognised by no United Nations member states

Country	President		Since
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic	President	Bako Sahakyan	7 September 2007
Somaliland	President	Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo	27 July 2011
Transnistria	President	Yevgeny Shevchuk	30 December 2011

See also

• List of current heads of state and government
• List of current vice presidents
• List of current sovereign monarchs