Year elected | Image | Name of president [4] (Birth–Death) | UN member state | Region | Sessions |
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1946 | | Paul-Henri Spaak (1889–1972) | Belgium | WES | First |
1947 | | Oswaldo Aranha (1894–1960) | Brazil | LAS | First special Second |
1948 | | José Arce (1881–1968) | Argentina | LAS | Second special |
1948 | | Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965) | Australia | COS | Third |
1949 | | Carlos P. Romulo (1898–1985) | Philippines | EAS | Fourth, First Asian president |
1950 | | Nasrollah Entezam (1900–1980) | Iran | EAS | Fifth |
1951 | | Luis Padilla Nervo (1894–1985) | Mexico | LAS | Sixth |
1952 | | Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972) | Canada | COS | Seventh |
1953 | | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900–1990) | India | COS | Eighth, First woman president |
1954 | | Eelco van Kleffens (1894–1983) | Netherlands | WES | Ninth |
1955 | | José Maza Fernández (1889–1964) | Chile | LAS | Tenth |
1956 | | Rudecindo Ortega Mason (1896–1962) | Chile | LAS | First emergency special Second emergency special |
1956 | | Wan Waithayakon (1891–1976) | Thailand | EAS | Eleventh |
1957 | | Leslie Munro (1901–1974) | New Zealand | COS | Twelfth Third emergency special |
1958 | | Charles Malik (1906–1987) | Lebanon | MES | Thirteenth |
1959 | | Víctor Andrés Belaúnde (1893–1966) | Peru | LAS | Fourteenth Fourth emergency special |
1960 | | Frederick Boland (1904–1985) | Ireland | WES | Fifteenth Third special |
1961 | | Mongi Slim (1908–1969) | Tunisia | MES | Sixteenth, First African president |
1962 | | Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (1893–1985) | Pakistan | COS | Seventeenth Fourth special |
1963 | | Carlos Sosa Rodríguez (1912–1997) | Venezuela | LAS | Eighteenth |
1964 | | Alex Quaison-Sackey (1924–1992) | Ghana | COS | Nineteenth |
1965 | | Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999) | Italy | WES | Twentieth |
1966 | | Abdul Rahman Pazhwak (1919–1995) | Afghanistan | Asia | Twenty-first Fifth special Fifth emergency special |
1967 | | Corneliu Mănescu (1916–2000) | Romania | EEG | Twenty-second |
1968 | | Emilio Arenales Catalán (1922–1969) | Guatemala | GRULAC | Twenty-third |
1969 | | Angie Brooks (1928–2007) | Liberia | Africa | Twenty-fourth |
1970 | | Edvard Hambro (1911–1977) | Norway | WEOG | Twenty-fifth |
1971 | | Adam Malik (1917–1984) | Indonesia | Asia | Twenty-sixth |
1972 | | Stanisław Trepczyński (1924–2002) | Poland | EEG | Twenty-seventh |
1973 | | Leopoldo Benites (1905–1996) | Ecuador | GRULAC | Twenty-eighth Sixth special |
1974 | | Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937–2021) | Algeria | Africa | Twenty-ninth Seventh special |
1975 | | Gaston Thorn (1928–2007) | Luxembourg | WEOG | Thirtieth |
1976 | | Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe (1913–1980) | Sri Lanka | Asia | Thirty-first |
1977 | | Lazar Mojsov (1920–2011) | Yugoslavia | EEG | Thirty-second Eighth special Ninth special Tenth special |
1978 | | Indalecio Liévano (1917–1982) | Colombia | GRULAC | Thirty-third |
1979 | | Salim Ahmed Salim (born 1942) | United Republic of Tanzania | Africa | Thirty-fourth Sixth emergency special Seventh emergency special Eleventh special |
1980 | | Rüdiger von Wechmar (1923–2007) | Federal Republic of Germany | WEOG | Thirty-fifth Eighth emergency special |
1981 | | Ismat T. Kittani (1929–2001) | Iraq | Asia | Thirty-sixth Seventh emergency special—Continuation Ninth emergency special Twelfth special |
1982 | | Imre Hollai (1925–2017) | Hungary | EEG | Thirty-seventh |
1983 | | Jorge Illueca (1918–2012) | Panama | GRULAC | Thirty-eighth |
1984 | | Paul J. F. Lusaka (1935–1996) | Zambia | Africa | Thirty-ninth |
1985 | | Jaime de Piniés (1917–2003) | Spain | WEOG | Fortieth Thirteenth special |
1986 | | Humayun Rashid Choudhury (1928–2001) | Bangladesh | Asia | Forty-first Fourteenth special |
1987 | | Peter Florin (1921–2014) | German Democratic Republic | EEG | Forty-second Fifteenth special |
1988 | | Dante Caputo (1943–2018) | Argentina | GRULAC | Forty-third |
1989 | | Joseph Nanven Garba (1943–2002) | Nigeria | Africa | Forty-fourth Sixteenth special Seventeenth special Eighteenth special |
1990 | | Guido de Marco (1931–2010) | Malta | WEOG | Forty-fifth |
1991 | | Samir Shihabi (1925–2010) | Saudi Arabia | Asia | Forty-sixth |
1992 | | Stoyan Ganev (1955–2013) | Bulgaria | EEG | Forty-seventh |
1993 | | Rudy Insanally (1936–2023) | Guyana | GRULAC | Forty-eighth |
1994 | | Amara Essy (1944–2025) | Ivory Coast | Africa | Forty-ninth |
1995 | | Diogo de Freitas do Amaral (1941–2019) | Portugal | WEOG | Fiftieth |
1996 | | Razali Ismail (born 1939) | Malaysia | Asia | Fifty-first Tenth emergency special Nineteenth special |
1997 | | Hennadiy Udovenko (1931–2013) | Ukraine | EEG | Fifty-second Tenth emergency special—Continuation Twentieth special |
1998 | | Didier Opertti (born 1937) | Uruguay | GRULAC | Fifty-third Tenth emergency special—Continuation Twenty-first special |
1999 | | Theo-Ben Gurirab (1938–2018) | Namibia | Africa | Fifty-fourth Twenty-second special Twenty-third special Twenty-fourth special |
2000 | | Harri Holkeri (1937–2011) | Finland | WEOG | Fifty-fifth Tenth emergency special—Continuation Twenty-fifth special Twenty-sixth special |
2001 | | Han Seung-soo (born 1936) | South Korea | Asia | Fifty-sixth Tenth emergency special—Continuation Twenty-seventh special |
2002 | | Jan Kavan (born 1946) | Czech Republic | EEG | Fifty-seventh Tenth emergency special—Continuation |
2003 | | Julian Hunte (born 1940) | Saint Lucia | GRULAC | Fifty-eighth Tenth emergency special—Continuation |
2004 | | Jean Ping (born 1942) | Gabon | Africa | Fifty-ninth Twenty-eighth special |
2005 | | Jan Eliasson (born 1940) | Sweden | WEOG | Sixtieth |
2006 | | Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa (born 1952) | Bahrain | Asia | Sixty-first Tenth emergency special—Continuation |
2007 | | Srgjan Kerim (born 1948) | North Macedonia | EEG | Sixty-second |
2008 | | Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (1933–2017) | Nicaragua | GRULAC | Sixty-third |
2009 | | Ali Treki (1937–2015) | Libya | Africa | Sixty-fourth |
2010 | | Joseph Deiss (born 1946) | Switzerland | WEOG | Sixty-fifth |
2011 | | Nassir Al-Nasser [5] (born 1952) | Qatar | Asia-Pacific | Sixty-sixth |
2012 | | Vuk Jeremić (born 1975) | Serbia | EEG | Sixty-seventh (election) |
2013 | | John William Ashe (1954–2016) | Antigua and Barbuda | GRULAC | Sixty-eighth |
2014 | | Sam Kutesa (born 1949) | Uganda | Africa | Sixty-ninth Twenty-ninth special |
2015 | | Mogens Lykketoft (born 1946) | Denmark | WEOG | Seventieth Thirtieth special |
2016 | | Peter Thomson (born 1948) | Fiji | Asia-Pacific | Seventy-first (election) |
2017 | | Miroslav Lajčák (born 1963) | Slovakia | EEG | Seventy-second Tenth emergency special—Continuation |
2018 | | María Fernanda Espinosa (born 1964) | Ecuador | GRULAC | Seventy-third |
2019 | | Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (born 1957) | Nigeria | Africa | Seventy-fourth |
2020 | | Volkan Bozkır (born 1950) | Turkey | WEOG | Seventy-fifth |
2021 | | Abdulla Shahid (born 1962) | Maldives | Asia-Pacific | Seventy-sixth Eleventh emergency special |
2022 | | Csaba Kőrösi (born 1958) | Hungary | EEG | Seventy-seventh |
2023 | | Dennis Francis (born 1956) | Trinidad and Tobago | GRULAC | Seventy-eighth |
2024 | | Philémon Yang (born 1947) | Cameroon | Africa | Seventy-ninth |
2025 | | Annalena Baerbock (born 1980) | Germany | WEOG | Eightieth |