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Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021, Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister.
Nicolás Maduro
Nicolás Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician and former union leader who became President of Venezuela in 2013. On 3 January 2026, US forces captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores; they were transported to the US and charged with drug trafficking to which they pleaded not guilty. Although he was de facto removed from power, according to the Venezuelan government and interim president Delcy Rodríguez, he is still the de jure president of Venezuela. Prior to his presidency, he served as the vice president of Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez from 2012 to 2013 and as minister of foreign affairs from 2006 to 2012.
Yair Lapid
Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), Former Prime Minister of Israel in 2022 and Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party
Tzipi Livni
Israeli politician, former Israeli Foreign Minister and former leader of the Coalition: Zionist Union together with Isaac Herzog from 2015 to 2019
Dmytro Kuleba
Ukrainian diplomat and politician (born 1981)
Valerii Zaluzhnyi
Ukrainian military officer (born 1973)
Israel Katz
Minister of Defense of Israel (born 1955)
Mahmoud Jibril
Libyan politician (1952-2020)
Mohamed al-Menfi
Libyan politician
Ali Zeidan
Libyan politician (born 1950)
Walid Muallem
Syrian politician, foreign minister (1941-2020)
Gideon Sa'ar
Israeli politician
Najla Mangoush
Libyan politician and lawyer
Gabi Ashkenazi
Israeli military officer and politician
Vadym Prystaiko
Ukrainian diplomat
Lakhdar Brahimi
Algerian envoy
Aureliu Ciocoi
Moldovan diplomat
Eli Cohen
Minister of Energy of Israel
Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva
Uzbekistani diplomat
Andrii Melnyk
Ukrainian diplomat
Abdulla Shahid
Maldivian politician
Abdul Ati al-Obeidi
Libyan politician and diplomat
Serhii Kyslytsia
Ukrainian diplomat
Hédi Annabi
Tunisian diplomat (1943-2010)
Louise Fréchette
Canadian diplomat and public servant
Sima Sami Bahous
Jordanian diplomat
Ali Treki
Libyan diplomat (1937-2015)
Houda Nonoo
Bahraini diplomat
Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya
Rwandan politician
Leila Zerrougui
Algerian legal expert
Karine Kazinian
Armenian diplomat (1955–2012)
Abdel Rahman Shalgham
Libyan politician and diplomat
Maria Ubach
politician of Andorra
Alicia Bárcena Ibarra
Mexican diplomat
Altai Kölgınov
Kazakh politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2022–), Mayor of Astana (2019–2022)
Yevhen Yenin
Ukrainian diplomat
Leonidas Donskis
Lithuanian academic and politician (1962-2016)
Volodymyr Yelchenko
Ukrainian diplomat
Hissein Brahim Sem Taha
Secretary-General of Organization of Islamic Cooperation
Kairat Abdrakhmanov
Kazakh politician
Anita Orbán
Hungarian politician and manager
Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani
Bahraini engineer and retired lieutenant general (born 1954)
João Bernardo de Miranda
Angolan politician
Rosario Green
Mexican politician (1941-2017)
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
President of the United Nations General Assembly
François Lonseny Fall
Guinean diplomat
Bintou Keita
UN diplomat from Guinea
Michael Moussa Adamo
Gabonese politician and diplomat (1961–2023)
Aksoltan Ataýewa
Turkmenistan diplomat and politician (born 1944)
Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware
Ghanaian diplomat
Roya Rahmani
Afghan diplomat
Ashour Bin Khayal
Libyan politician
Aïchatou Boulama Kané
female politician from Niger
Sandra Botha
South African politician, ambassador of South Africa to the Czech Republic
Céline Yoda
Burkinabe politician
Ali Abd-al-Aziz al-Isawi
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the National Transitional Council of Libya
Ali Aujali
Libya's Ambassador to the United States who resigned during Libyan Civil War
Sinknesh Ejigu
Ethiopian politician
Catalina Devandas Aguilar
Costa Rican diplomat
Hunaina al-Mughairy
ambassador