Year elected
Image
Name of president[2] (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 (es )(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 (es )(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 (born 1944)
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 [3] (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