UN Secretaries General

Below is the list of UN Secretaries General with detail like appointed year, secretary name and from nation. The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal organs of the United Nations. The Secretary-General also acts as the de facto spokesperson and leader of the United Nations.

Year	Name	Dates in office	Nation
1945	Gladwyn Jebb	24 October 1945 – 1 February 1946	United Kingdom
1946	Trygve Lie	1 February 1946 – 10 November 1952	Norway
1953	Dag Hammarskjold	10 April 1953 – 18 September 1961	Sweden
1961	U Thant	30 November 1961 – 31 December 1971	Burma
1972	Kurt Waldheim	1 January 1972 – 31 December 1981	Austria
1982	Javier Peres De Cuellar	1 January 1982 – 31 December 1991	Peru
1992	Dr. Boutros Boutros Ghali	1 January 1992 – 31 December 1996	Egypt
1997	Kofi Annan	1 January 1997 – 31 December 2006	Ghana
2007	Ban-Ki-Moon	1 January 2007– present	South Korea

The United Nations is unofficially divided into five geopolitical regional groupings. Depending on the UN context, regional groups control elections to UN-related positions, dividing up the pie on the basis of geographic representation, as well as coordinate substantive policy, and form common fronts for negotiations and voting.

UN Regional Group	Secretaries-General	Terms
Western European and Others	4	7
Eastern European Group	0	0
Latin American and Caribbean Group	1	2
Asian Group	2	3
African Group	2	3