[CA] UNO Secretary General

ü The Secretary-General is customarily appointed for a five-year term, although the length of the term is discretionary.

ü The official residence of the Secretary-General is a townhouse in Sutton Place, Manhattan, in New York City, United States. The townhouse was built for Anne Morgan in 1921, and donated to the United Nations in 1972

#	Secretary General	Country	Term
1	Trygve Lie	Norway	Feb 02, 1946 – Nov 10, 1952
2	Dag Hammarskjold	Sweden	Apr 10, 1953 – Sep 18, 1961
Died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), while on a peacekeeping mission to the Congo
3	U Thant	Myanmar	Nov 30, 1961 – Dec 31, 1971
4	Kurt Waldheim	Austria	Jan 01, 1972 – Dec 31, 1981
5	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar	Peru	Jan 01, 1982 – Dec 31, 1991
6	Boutros Boutros-Ghali	Egypt	Jan 01, 1992 – Dec 31, 1996
7	Kofi Annan	Ghana	Jan 01, 1997 – Dec 31, 2006
Retired after two full terms
8	Ban Ki-moon	South Korea	Jan 01, 2007 – Dec 31, 2016
Retired after two full terms
9	António Guterres	Portugal	Jan 01, 2016 -

·        Guterres is the first Secretary-General from Western Europe since Kurt Waldheim (1972–1981) and the first Secretary-General born after the establishment of the United Nations.

·        He was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002.

He has also been President of Socialist International (1999–2005) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2005–2015).