- served as governor of the state of Mexico from 2005 to 2011
- born in Atlacomulco, Mexico, a city 55 miles northwest from the capitol of Mexico
- Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple's 3 children
- married to soap opera actor Angelica Rivera
XI Jinping (China is a communist state)
- served as governor of Fujian fro 1999 to 2002
- served as governor of Zhejiang between 2002 and 2007
- first leader to have a Ph.D
- only received one vote against him in the election
- son of revolutionary veteran, one of the communist party's founding fathers
- Married folk singer Peng Liyuan
- have a daughter who is attending Harvard University in the US
Pranab Mukherjee
- was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India
- was also Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1985.
- rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and adjudged the pest parliamentarian in 1997
- taught political science at the Vijayanagar College and worked as a journalist before entering politics
Hamid Karazi
- chosen for a two-year term as Interim President during the 2002 loya
- After the 2004 presidential election, Karzai was declared winner and became President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- knows many languages, Persian, Peshto, Hindi, French, and English
- Warned the US that the Taliban were connected with al Qaeda and that there was a plot or an imminent attack on the US but his warnings went unheeded.
Joachim Gauck (preident)
- During the Peaceful Revolution, he was a co-founder of the New Forum opposition movement in East Germany
- He was nominated as the candidate of the SPD and the Greens for President of Germany in the 2010 election, but narrowly lost to Christian Wulff
Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany)
- graduated from the University of Leizpig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a Ph.D in quantum chemistry from the German Academy of sciences in Berlin in 1986
- has been chancellor since November 2005
- earned the top spot on the FORBES list of most powerful women in the world for eight of the past 10 years
Queen Elizabeth II
- Elizabeth was born in London and educated privately at home
- Her father was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. Her mother was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
David Cameron (Prime Minister)
- at the age of seven he was packed off to Heatherdown a high exclusive preparatory school
- his first child who was disabled died in 2009
- is the youngest prime minister in 200 years
- bikes to work everday
Francois Hollande
- no previous experience in a national government position
- the mother of his four children, Segolene Royal, with whom he shared a 30 year relationship
- born in 1954 in the city of Rouen the an extreme right physician father and progressive social worker mother.
- has been divorced twice
- opposed Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1960's and served three years in prison where she was repeatedly tourchered
- underwent chemotherapy of lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission
- she has a degree in economics
Nicolas Maduro Moros
- previously the Vice President of Venezuela and the Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Hugo Chávez.
- before he took a charge in government he was a bus driver
- was introduced to Huge Chavez in 1992 and Chavez was imprisoned for an attempted coup and Maduro began campaigning for Chavez's release
Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud
Ruhani (president)
Shimon Peres (president)
- was one of many sons of Ibn Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia
- In 1961 he became mayor of Mecca
- has fathered 22 children the youngest when he was 79
- he is worth about 21 billion dollars
- was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king
- in 2011 he granted woman the right to vote and run in future municipal elections
- his kingdom practices strict separations of the sexes (woman can't drive)
Ali Hoseini-Khamenei (supreme leader)
- was the victim of an attempted assassination in June 1981 that paralyzed his right arm
- served as the President of Iran from 1981 to 1989
- in 1963 took part in street protests against the US. - backed Shah of Iran
- has held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council
- was just elected in June 2013
- has been openly critical of the outgoing president saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "careless, uncalculated and unstudied remarks" has cost the country dearly
- won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize
- In 2005, he was voted the 11th-greatest Israeli of all time
- born in Belarus, to escape the persecution of Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934
- when Arab forces launched their attack on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from abroad
- organized Israels' nuclear program and is regarded as the father of Israel's atomic bomb
- in 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own prime minister
Netanyahu (prime minister)
- lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-1958 and again in 1963-1967
- his brother Jonathan was killed, in July 197, in the course of the Entebbe Operation
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