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Michaëlle Jean
Canadian journalist and 27th Governor General of Canada
Nikos Christodoulides
Cypriot politician, 8th and current President of Cyprus (2023–)
Armin Laschet
German politician (CDU)
Ingvar Carlsson
Prime Minister of Sweden from 1986 to 1991 and 1994 to 1996
Robert Habeck
German politician and writer, Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2021 to 2025 (born 1969)
Morihiro Hosokawa
50th Prime Minister of Japan
Ram Chandra Paudel
President of Nepal since 2023
Sergey Sobyanin
Mayor of Moscow since 2010
Hailemariam Desalegn
Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 2012 to 2018
Leonel Fernández
former president of the Dominican Republic
Mikhail Prokhorov
Russian entrepreneur and politician (born 1965)
Samantha Power
Irish-American academic, author and diplomat
Nirmala Sitharaman
Indian politician
Win Myint
10th President of Myanmar
Christian Lindner
German politician, former Federal Minister of Finance
Myriam Spiteri Debono
11th president of the Republic of Malta
Azali Assoumani
President of Comoros
Mostafa Madbouly
prime minister of Egypt since 2018
Mikhail Kasyanov
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russia (2000–2004)
Mohamed Muizzu
8th President of the Maldives since 2023
Muntadhar al-Zaidi
Iraqi journalist (born 1979)
Xavier Espot Zamora
prime minister of Andorra since 2019 (born 1979)
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani
Mauritanian retired general and politician; President of Mauritania (2019–present)
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Russian politician and journalist (born 1981)