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Pedro Castillo
President of Peru from 2021 to 2022
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
former President of Burkina Faso ousted in a coup d'état on 23 Jan 2022
Vahagn Khachaturyan
President of Armenia since 2022
Yulia Svyrydenko
Ukrainian politician, Former Prime Minister of Ukraine
Carrie Lam
Hong Kong politician
Sushila Karki
interim prime minister of Nepal since 2025
Arif Alvi
13th President of Pakistan from 2018 to 2024
Vojislav Koštunica
Serbian politician
Ranil Wickremesinghe
9th President of Sri Lanka from July 2022 to September 2024
Robert Abela
Maltese politician
Barham Salih
President of Iraq (2018-2022)
Ian Khama
Botswana politician
Xiomara Castro
Honduran politician and businesswoman (born 1959)
Tamás Sulyok
Hungarian lawyer, president of Hungary (2024–2026), member of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (2014–2024)
Masoud Barzani
1st president of Iraqi Kurdistan (2005-17)
Thorbjørn Jagland
32nd Prime Minister of Norway
Marina Silva
Brazilian environmentalist and politician (born 1958)
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova
President of North Macedonia (2024-)
Kristen Michal
Estonian politician (born 1975)
Brian Cowen
Irish politician
Eduardo Duhalde
President of Argentina from 2002 to 2003
Gotabaya Rajapaksa
President of Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022
Humza Yousaf
6th First Minister of Scotland
Abdullah Abdullah
Afghan politician