71 - Secretaries General of the United Nations

GK BY - SANJAY UTTAM

Secretaries General of the United Nations

Secretary-General	Dates in office	Country of origin	UN Regional Group	Reason of withdrawal
Gladwyn Jebb	24 October 1945 – 1 February 1946	United Kingdom	Western European & Others	Served as Acting Secretary-General until Lie's election
Trygve Lie	2 February 1946 – 10 November 1952	Norway	Western European & Others	Resigned
Dag Hammarskjöld	10 April 1953 – 18 September 1961	Sweden	Western European & Others	Died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), while on a peacekeeping mission to the Congo
U Thant	30 November 1961 – 31 December 1971	Burma	Asian	Declined to consider a third term.
Kurt Waldheim	1 January 1972 – 31 December 1981	Austria	Western European & Others	China vetoed his third term.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar	1 January 1982 – 31 December 1991	Peru	Latin American & Caribbean	Refused to be considered for a third term.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali	1 January 1992 – 31 December 1996	Egypt	African	The United States vetoed his second term.
Kofi Annan	1 January 1997 – 31 December 2006	Ghana	African	Retired after two full terms
Ban Ki-moon	1 January 2007– present	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	Incumbent