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Chair and presiding officer of the General Assembly

Not to be confused withSecretary-General of the United Nations.

President of the United Nations General Assembly
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Incumbent Annalena Baerbock since 9 September 2025
United Nations General Assembly
Style	Her Excellency
Status	Presiding officer
Member of	General Assembly
Residence	New York City (International Territory)
Seat	United Nations Headquarters
Appointer	Member states of General Assembly
Term length	One year
Constituting instrument	Charter of the United Nations
Inaugural holder	Paul-Henri Spaak
Formation	1946
Website	un.org/en/ga/

Thepresident of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in theUnited Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The president is the chair and presiding officer of the General Assembly.

Election

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A map of the world showing the home countries of presidents of the United Nations General Assembly up until the 76th session of the General Assembly in 2021–22, with historical member states in inset.

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The session of the assembly is scheduled for every year starting in September—any special, or emergency special, assemblies over the next year will be headed by the president of theUNGA.

The presidency rotates annually between the fivegeographic groups:African,Asia-Pacific,Eastern European,Latin American and Caribbean, andWestern European and other States.^[1]

Because of their powerful stature globally, some of the largest, most powerful countries have never held the presidency, including the fivepermanent members of the United Nations Security Council andJapan.

A few countries had a national elected as president of UNGA twice:Argentina,Chile,Ecuador,Germany,Hungary andNigeria; all the other member states had a national holding this office once (not counting additional special and emergency special sessions of UNGA and also not considering that the then separateEast Germany held the presidency once during theCold War).In addition to the president,a slate of 21 vice-presidents are elected for each General Assembly session. The vice-presidents have the same powers and duties as the president, and the president may designate one of them to cover his absence from any meeting or part thereof.^[2]^[3]

List of presidents

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Year elected	Name of president^[4] (Birth–Death)	UN member state	Region	Sessions
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)	FYR 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

Abbreviations

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Pre-1966

COS:Commonwealth Seat
EAS:Eastern European andAsian Seat
LAS:Latin American Seat
MES:Middle Eastern Seat
WES:Western European Seat

Since 1966

Africa:African Group
Asia-Pacific:Asian Group, since 2011 theAsia-Pacific Group^[6]
EEG:Eastern European Group
GRULAC:Latin American and Caribbean Group
WEOG:Western European and Others Group

References

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^"About the General Assembly".United Nations. Retrieved7 March 2022.
^"Who are the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly?".Dag Hammarskjöld Library. United Nations. Retrieved1 April 2024.
^"UNGA: Rules of procedure". United Nations. Retrieved1 April 2024.
^"Past Presidents".General Assembly of the United Nations. Retrieved7 March 2022.
^"Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar Elected President of General Assembly's Sixty-Sixth Session; Vice-Presidents, Main Committee Chairs Also Named".United Nations. 22 June 2011. Retrieved7 March 2022.
^"Asian Group of Nations at UN Changes Its Name to Asia-Pacific Group".Radio New Zealand. 1 September 2011. Retrieved7 March 2022.

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v t e Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly
1940s	Spaak ( BEL) Aranha ( BRA) Arce ( ARG) Evatt ( AUS) Rómulo ( PHI)
1950s	Entezam ( IRI) Nervo ( MEX) Pearson ( CAN) Pandit ( IND) Van Kleffens ( NED) Maza ( CHI) Ortega ( CHI) Wan ( THA) Munro ( NZL) C. Malik ( LIB) Belaúnde ( PER)
1960s	Boland ( IRL) Slim ( TUN) Khan ( PAK) Rodriguez ( VEN) Quaison-Sackey ( GHA) Fanfani ( ITA) Pazhwak ( AFG) Mănescu ( ROM) Catalán ( GUA) Brooks ( LBR)
1970s	Hambro ( NOR) A. Malik ( INA) Trepczyński ( POL) Benites ( ECU) Bouteflika ( ALG) Thorn ( LUX) Amerasinghe ( SRI) Mojsov ( YUG) Liévano ( COL) Salim ( TAN)
1980s	Von Wechmar ( BRD) Kittani ( IRQ) Hollai ( HUN) Illueca ( PAN) Lusaka ( ZAM) Piniés ( ESP) Choudhury ( BAN) Florin ( DDR) Caputo ( ARG) Garba ( NGR)
1990s	De Marco ( MLT) Shihabi ( KSA) Ganev ( BUL) Insanally ( GUY) Essy ( CIV) Freitas ( POR) Razali ( MAS) Udovenko ( UKR) Opertti ( URU) Gurirab ( NAM)
2000s	Holkeri ( FIN) Han ( KOR) Kavan ( CZE) Hunte ( LCA) Ping ( GAB) Eliasson ( SWE) Al-Khalifa ( BAH) Kerim ( MKD) D'Escoto ( NIC) Treki ( LIB)
2010s	Deiss ( SUI) Nasser ( QAT) Jeremić ( SRB) Ashe ( ANT) Kutesa ( UGA) Lykketoft ( DEN) Thomson ( FIJ) Lajčák ( SVK) Espinosa ( ECU) Muhammad-Bande ( NGA)
2020s	Bozkir ( TUR) Shahid ( MDV) Kőrösi ( HUN) Francis ( TTO) Yang ( CMR) Baerbock ( DEU)

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