Facts About World Leaders

For our homework assignment, we have to find facts about the world leaders of the countries we researched  a few blogs back. These are facts about their political experience though, so our job is to see if they are a country that the United States would want to work with. (Source: Wikipedia)

China: Hu Jintau

• Hu Jintau graduated in Hydraulic Engineering in 1965
• At the 1992 CCP Congress, Hu was appointed a member of the Secretariat of the CCP Central Committee

Brazil: Dilma Rouseff 

• helped found the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) in Rio Grande do Sul
• was once the Minister of Energy of Brazil
• She was also tortured by attempting a coupd'etat. She was in prizon for 3 years.

Mexico: Enrique Peña Nieto

• Was the former Governor of the State of Mexico located within the country of the same name.
• he obtained a Master's in Business from Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education  

Saudi Arabia: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

• Was the mayor of Mecca
•  in 1962 he was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard

Germany: Angela Merkel

•  currently ranked as the world's fourth most powerful person by the Forbes magazine
• can speak Russian fluently/  awarded a doctorate for her thesis on quantum chemistry

Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu/ Shimon Peres 

Benjamin

• Also the Health Minister, and the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.
• studied political science at Harvard University.

Shimon

• won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that he participated in as Israeli Foreign Minister
•  appointed Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Defense

Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

• earned his PhD (1997) in transportation engineering and planning from Iran University of Science and Technology
• joined the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution

Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai

• selected by prominent Afghan political figures to serve a six month term as Chairman of the Interim Administration.
• Obtained a Master's Degree in India

France: François Hollande 

• Served as the Mayor of Tulle
• served as the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008

India: Pranab Kumar Mukherjee

• senior leader of the Indian National Congress
•  Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012, and the Congress party's top troubleshooter.

Venzuela: Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías

•  leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela
•  leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party 

UK: David Cameron

•  studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree.
• First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party

US: Barack Obama

• Senator of Illinois
• Graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School.