List of current dependent territory leaders
This is a list of current heads of government of dependencies and autonomous entities, i.e. territories that do not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a State. They are listed by the alphabetical order of the dependent territory.
Current dependent territory leaders
Seven sovereign states possess one or more dependent territories: the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Norway.
| Region, territory | Status | Name | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
 Akrotiri and Dhekelia | Administrator | Mike Wigston | 21 January 2015 |
 American Samoa | Governor | Lolo Letalu Matalasi Moliga | 3 January 2013 |
 Anguilla | Governor | Christina Scott | 23 July 2013 |
| Chief Minister | Victor Banks | 23 April 2015 | |
 Ashmore and Cartier Islands | Administrator [1] | Fiona Nash | 19 July 2016 |
 Aruba | Governor | Fredis Refunjol | 11 May 2004 |
| Prime minister | Mike Eman | 30 October 2009 | |
| Australian Antarctic Territory | Administrator [2] | Tony Fleming | August 2011 |
 Baker Island | Administrator [3] | Daniel M. Ashe | 6 December 2010 |
 Bermuda | Acting Governor | Ginny Ferson | 2 August 2016 |
| Premier | Michael Dunkley | 19 May 2014 | |
 Bonaire | Lieutenant governor | Edison Rijna [4] | 1 March 2014 |
 Bouvet Island | Administrator [5] | Øystein Mortensen | 2 October 2015 |
 British Antarctic Territory- BAT | Commissioner | Peter Hayes | 17 October 2012 |
| Administrator | Henry Burgess | 2011 | |
 British Indian Ocean Territory - BIOT | Commissioner | Peter Hayes | 17 October 2012 |
| Administrator | Nicola Carnie | 31 March 2016 | |
 British Virgin Islands | Governor | John Duncan | 15 August 2014 |
| Premier | Orlando Smith [6] | 9 November 2011 | |
 Cayman Islands | Governor | Helen Kilpatrick | 6 September 2013 |
| Premier | Alden McLaughlin | 29 May 2013 | |
 Christmas Island | Administrator | Barry Haase | 6 October 2014 |
| President of Shire of Christmas Island | Gordon Thomson [7] | 21 October 2013 | |
 Clipperton Island | Administrator [8] | Ericka Bareigts | 30 August 2016 |
| Commissioner [9] | René Bidal | 25 May 2016 | |
_Islands.svg.png){kind=small} Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Administrator | Barry Haase | 6 October 2014 |
| President of the Shire Council of Cocos Islands | Balmut Pirus [10] | 28 October 2015 | |
 Cook Islands | Queen's Representative | Tom Marsters | 27 July 2013 |
| High commissioner (New Zealand's Representative) | Nick Hurley | 21 April 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Henry Puna | 30 November 2010 | |
| Coral Sea Islands | Administrator[1] | Fiona Nash | 19 July 2016 |
 Curaçao | Governor | Lucille George-Wout | 4 November 2013 |
| Prime Minister | Ben Whiteman | 1 September 2015 | |
 Falkland Islands | Governor | Colin Roberts | 29 April 2014 |
| Chief Executive | Barry Rowland | 6 October 2016 | |
 French Polynesia | High Commissioner | René Bidal | 30 May 2016 |
| President | Édouard Fritch | 12 September 2014 | |
 French Southern and Antarctic Lands | Administrator-Superior | Cécile Pozzo di Borgo | 7 October 2014 |
 Gibraltar | Governor | Edward Davis | 19 January 2016 |
| Chief Minister | Fabian Picardo | 9 December 2011 | |
 Guam | Governor | Eddie Calvo | 3 January 2011 |
 Guernsey | Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey | Sir Ian Corder | 14 March 2016 |
| Bailiff | Sir Richard Collas | 23 March 2012 | |
| President of the Policy and Resources Committee | Gavin St Pier | 4 May 2016 | |
| Heard Island and McDonald Islands | Administrator [2] | Tony Fleming | August 2011 |
| Howland Island | Administrator[3] | Daniel M. Ashe | 6 December 2010 |
| Jarvis Island | Administrator[3] | Daniel M. Ashe | 6 December 2010 |
 Jersey | Lieutenant Governor | Sir John McColl | 26 September 2011 |
| Bailiff | Sir Michael Birt | July 2009 | |
| Chief Minister | Ian Gorst | 18 November 2011 | |
| Johnston Atoll | Administrator [3] | Daniel M. Ashe | 6 December 2010 |
| Kingman Reef | Administrator [3] | Daniel M. Ashe | 6 December 2010 |
 Isle of Man | Lieutenant Governor | Sir Richard Gozney | 27 May 2016 |
| Chief Minister | Howard Quayle | 11 October 2016 | |
| Midway Atoll | Administrator [3] | Daniel M. Ashe | 6 December 2010 |
 Montserrat | Governor | Elizabeth Carriere | 5 August 2015 |
| Premier | Donaldson Romeo | 12 September 2014 | |
| Navassa Island | Administrator [3] | Daniel M. Ashe | 6 December 2010 |
 New Caledonia | High Commissioner | Thierry Lataste | 20 June 2016 |
| President of the Government | Philippe Germain | 1 April 2015 | |
 Niue | High Commissioner | Ross Ardern | February 2014 |
| Premier | Toke Talagi | 19 June 2008 | |
 Norfolk Island | Administrator | Gary Hardgrave | 1 July 2014 |
| General Manager | Lotta Jackson | 30 June 2016 | |
| Mayor | Robin Adams | 6 July 2016 | |
 Northern Mariana Islands | Governor | Ralph Torres | 29 December 2015 |
| Palmyra Atoll | Administrator [3] | Daniel M. Ashe | 6 December 2010 |
| Manager [11] | vacant | March 2009 | |
| Peter I Island | Administrator [5] | Øystein Mortensen | 2 October 2015 |
 Pitcairn Islands | Governor [12] | Jonathan Sinclair | August 2014 |
| Mayor | Shawn Christian | 1 January 2014 | |
 Puerto Rico | Governor | Alejandro García Padilla | 2 January 2013 |
| Queen Maud Land | Administrator [5] | Øystein Mortensen | 2 October 2015 |
 Ross Dependency | Governor-General | Dame Patsy Reddy | 28 September 2016 |
| Administrator [13] | Peter Beggs | 21 October 2013 | |
 Saba | Lieutenant governor | Jonathan G. A. Johnson | 2 July 2008 |
| Saint Barthelemy | Prefect [14] | Jacques Billant | 1 December 2014 |
| Prefect delegated [15] | Anne Laubies | 8 June 2015 | |
| President of the Territorial Council | Bruno Magras [16] | 15 July 2007 | |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | Governor | Lisa Phillips | 25 April 2016 |
| Administrator of Ascension Island | Marc Holland | 29 August 2014 | |
| Administrator of Tristan da Cunha | Anne Biddle [17] | 28 September 2016 | |
| Saint-Martin | Prefect [18] | Jacques Billant | 1 December 2014 |
| Prefect delegated [15] | Anne Laubies | 8 June 2015 | |
| President of the Territorial Council | Aline Hanson | 17 April 2013 | |
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Prefect | Jean-Christophe Bouvier | 4 September 2014 |
| President of the Territorial Council | Stéphane Artano | 31 March 2006 | |
 Sint Eustatius | Acting Lieutenant Governor | Julian C Woodley | 1 April 2016 |
 Sint Maarten | Governor | Eugene Holiday | 10 October 2010 |
| Prime Minister | William Marlin | 19 November 2015 | |
 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Commissioner [19] | Colin Roberts | 29 April 2014 |
 Tokelau | Administrator | Linda te Puni [20] | 2015 |
| Head of Government | Afega Gaualofa | 10 March 2016 | |
 Turks and Caicos Islands | Governor | John Freeman | 17 October 2016 |
| Premier | Rufus Ewing | 13 November 2012 | |
 Virgin Islands (U.S.) | Governor | Kenneth Mapp | 5 January 2015 |
| Wake Island | Administrator[21] | Esther Kia’aina | 11 July 2014 |
| Governor[22] | Gordon O. Tanner | September 2014 | |
 Wallis and Futuna | Administrator-Superior | Marcel Renouf | 19 January 2015 |
| President of the Territorial Assembly | Mikaele Kulimoetoke | 26 November 2014 | |
Current autonomous, insular, regions, etc. leaders
| Region, territory | Status | Name | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
 Aceh | Governor | Zaini Abdullah | 25 June 2012 |
 Adjara | Chairman of the Supreme Council | Avtandil Beridze | 28 October 2012 |
| Prime Minister | Zurab Pataridze | 15 July 2016 | |
 Åland Islands | Governor | Peter Lindbäck | 1 April 1999 |
| Chief Minister | Katrin Sjögren | 25 November 2015 | |
 Alderney | Lieutenant-Governor | Peter Walker | 15 April 2011 |
| President | Stuart Trought | 2011 | |
 Andalusia | President | Susana Díaz | 7 September 2013 |
 Aragon | President | Javier Lambán | 3 July 2015 |
 Asturias | President | Javier Fernández Fernández | 2012 |
 Azad Kashmir | President | Muhammad Masood Khan | 25 August 2016 |
| Prime Minister | Raja Farooq Haider Khan | 31 July 2016 | |
 Azores | Representative of the (Portuguese) Republic | Pedro Manuel dos Reis Alves Catarino | 11 April 2011 |
| President of the Government | Vasco Cordeiro | 6 November 2012 | |
 Balearic Islands | President | Francina Armengol | 30 June 2015 |
 Basque Country | President (Lehendakari) | Iñigo Urkullu | 2012 |
 Bougainville | President | John Momis | 10 January 2010 |
 Catalonia | President | Artur Mas | 27 December 2010 |
 Canary Islands | President | Fernando Clavijo Batlle | 9 July 2015 |
 Cantabria | President | Ignacio Diego | 2011 |
 Carriacou and Petite Martinique | Grenadian Ministry of Carriacou and Petite Martinique Affairs | Elvin Nimrod | 3 March 2013 |
 Castile–La Mancha | President | Emiliano García-Page | 1 July 2015 |
 Castile and León | President | Juan Vicente Herrera Campo | 2001 |
 Ceuta | President | Juan Jesús Vivas Lara | 2001 |
 Corsica | Prefect | Patrick Strzoda | 4 April 2011 |
| President of the Corsican Assembly | Jean-Guy Talamoni | 17 December 2015 | |
| President of the Executive Council | Gilles Simeoni | 17 December 2015 | |
 Crimea | Chairmen of Parliament | vacant | 15 March 2014 |
| Prime minister | vacant | 15 March 2014 | |
 Easter Island | Governor | Marta Hotus Tuki | 11 March 2014 |
| Mayor | Pedro Edmunds Paoa | November 2012 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Extremadura | President | José Antonio Monago Terraza | 2011 |
 Faroe Islands | High Commissioner | Dan M. Knudsen | 1 January 2008 |
| Prime Minister | Aksel V. Johannesen | 15 September 2015 | |
| French Guiana | Prefect | Martin Jaeger | 11 January 2016 |
| President of the Territorial Authority | Rodolphe Alexandre | 17 December 2015 | |
 Gagauzia | Governor | Irina Vlakh | 23 March 2015 |
 Galápagos Islands | Governor and Chairman of the Governing Council with Special Regime | Eliécer Cruz Bedón | 29 April 2015 |
 Galicia | President | Alberto Núñez Feijóo | 2009 |
 Gilgit Baltistan | Governor | Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir | 16 February 2015 |
| Chief Minister | Syed Mehdi Shah | 12 December 2009 | |
 Gorno-Badakhshan | Chairmen of the Executive Committee | Shodikhon Jamshedov | 19 November 2013 |
 Greenland | High Commissioner | Mikaela Engell | 1 February 2011 |
| Prime Minister | Kim Kielsen [23] | 30 September 2014 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Guadeloupe | Prefect | Jacques Billant | 1 December 2014 |
| President of the Departmental Council | Josette Borel-Lincertin [24] | 2 April 2015 | |
| President of the Regional Council | Ary Chalus | 17 December 2015 | |
 Hong Kong | Chief Executive | CY Leung | 1 July 2012 |
| Chief Secretary | Carrie Lam | 1 July 2012 | |
| Jan Mayen | Administrator [25] | Hill-Marta Solberg | 21 September 2007 |
 Karakalpakstan | Chairmen of Parliament | Musa Yerniyazov | 2 May 2002 |
| Prime ministers | Kakhraman Sariyev | 14 Ocober 2016 | |
 Kurdistan Region | President of autonomous government | Massoud Barzani | June 2005 |
| Prime minister | Nechervan Barzani | 7 March 2012 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} La Rioja | President | Pedro Sanz Alonso | 1995 |
 Lord Howe Island | Chairman of the Lord Howe Island Board | Sonja Stewart | March 2016 |
 Macau | Chief Executive | Fernando Chui | 20 December 2009 |
| Administration and Justice Secretary | Florinda Chan | 20 December 1999 | |
 Madeira | Representative of the (Portuguese) Republic | Irineu Cabral Barreto | 11 April 2011 |
| President of the Government | Miguel Albuquerque | 20 April 2015 | |
 Madrid | President | Cristina Cifuentes | 24 June 2015 |
 Macquarie Island | Administrator [26] | Matthew Groom | 31 March 2014 |
 Martinique | Prefect | Fabrice Rigoulet-Roze | 30 July 2014 |
| President of the Executive Council | Alfred Marie-Jeanne | 18 December 2015 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} Mayotte | Prefect | Frédéric Veau | 23 May 2016 |
| President of the Departmental Council | Soibahadine Ibrahim Ramadani | 2 April 2015 | |
 Melilla | President | Juan José Imbroda Ortiz | 2000 |
| Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) | Governor | Mujiv Hataman[27] | 22 December 2011 |
 Mount Athos | Head of State [28] | Nikos Kotzias[29] | 23 Septembre 2015 |
| Civil Governor[30] | Aristos Kasmiroglou | 31 May 2010 | |
| Spiritual Leader [31] | Bartholomew I | 2 November 1991 | |
| Protos[32] | Geron Barnabas (Monastery Vatopedi) | 14 June 2016 | |
 Murcia | President | Pedro Antonio Sánchez | 30 June 2015 |
 Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic | Chairmen of the Supreme Council | Vasif Talıbov | 16 December 1995 |
| Prime minister | Alovsat Bakhshiyev | 2000 | |
 Navarre | President | Uxue Barkos | 20 July 2015 |
 Nevis | Deputy Governor-General (of Nevis) | Eustace John | 1992 |
| Premier | Vance Amory | 23 January 2013 | |
| Northern Ireland | Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | James Brokenshire | 14 July 2014 |
| First Minister[33] | Arlene Foster[34] | 11 January 2016 | |
| Deputy First Minister[35] | Martin McGuinness | 8 May 2007 | |
 Papua | Governor | Lukas Enembe | 9 April 2013 |
 Principe | President of the Regional Government | José Cardoso Cassandra | 5 October 2006 |
| Réunion | Prefect | Dominique Sorain | 2 September 2014 |
| President of the Departmental Council | Nassimah Dindar-Mangrolia [36] | 2 April 2015 | |
| President of the Regional Council | Didier Robert | 26 March 2010 | |
 Rodrigues | Chief Commissioner | Louis Serge Clair [37] | 11 February 2012 |
| Chief Executives | Jacques Davis Hee Hong Wye | 13 February 2012 | |
 Scotland | Secretary of State for Scotland | David Mundell | 11 May 2015 |
| First Minister | Nicola Sturgeon | 19 November 2014 | |
| Svalbard | Governor | Kjerstin Askholt | 10 October 2015 |
 Tobago | Chief Secretary of the House of Assembly | Orville London | 29 January 2001 |
| Torres Strait Islands | Chairperson of the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) | Joseph Elu | 13 November 2013 |
.svg.png){kind=small} Valencian Community | President | Alberto Fabra Part | 2011 |
 Wales | Secretary of State for Wales | Alun Hugh Cairns | 19 March 2016 |
| First Minister | Carwyn Jones | 10 December 2009 | |
.svg.png){kind=small} West Papua | Governor | Abraham Octavianus Atururi | 27 January 2012 |
 Yogyakarta | Governor | Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X | 3 October 1998 |
 Zanzibar | President | Ali Mohamed Shein | 3 November 2010 |
See also
- List of current presidents of assembly
- List of current governors of Afghanistan
- List of Governors in Argentina
- List of Brazil states governors
- List of current Canadian lieutenant governors and commissioners
- List of Ghanaian regional ministers
- List of current Indian governors & List of current Indian chief ministers
- List of governors of Japan
- List of leaders of Malaysian states
- List of Mexican state governors
- List of Nigerian state governors
- List of Governors of Pakistan & List of Chief Ministers in Pakistan
- List of Palau states governors
- List of heads of federal subjects of Russia
- List of Spanish regional legislatures & governments
- List of Sudan states governors
- List of current United States governors
- List of colonial governors in 2016
Notes
- 1 2 AMinister for Local Government and Territories
- 1 2 Director of the Australian Antarctic Division.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
- ↑ Acting to 22 Aug 2014.
- 1 2 3 Director of the Polar Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security.
- ↑ Previously chief minister from 17 June 2003 to 23 August 2007.
- ↑ Previously from 2003 – 14 October 2011.
- ↑ Since 21 February 2007, directly administered by the French minister of Overseas France.
- ↑ The authority of the French minister of Overseas France on Clipperton Island is delegated to the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia
- ↑ Previously president of the Shire Council of Cocos Islands from October 2009 to 29 June 2011.
- ↑ Director of Program Palmyra of The Nature Conservancy.
- ↑ The British high commissioner to New Zealand.
- ↑ Chief Executive Officer of Antarctica New Zealand.
- ↑ The prefect of Guadeloupe is also state representative in Saint-Barthelemy from 9 July 2007.
- 1 2 Delegated by the prefect of Guadeloupe
- ↑ Mayor from June 1995 to 15 July 2007.
- ↑ Acting Administrators of Tristan da Cunha for Alex Mitham from 10 May 2016 to 27 August 2016.
- ↑ The prefect of Guadeloupe is also state representative in Saint-Martin from 9 July 2007.
- ↑ Since 3 October 1985, the governor of the Falkland Islands.
- ↑ Acting to 2016.
- ↑ Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs.
- ↑ Also General Counsel of the US Air Force.
- ↑ Acting to 12 December 2014 (for Aleqa Hammondto 15 October 2014).
- ↑ Previously president of the Regional Council from 3 August 2012 to 2 May 2014.
- ↑ Since 1 January 1995, Jan Mayen is administered by the governor of Nordland county.
- ↑ Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage of Tasmania.
- ↑ Officer in charge to 12 May 2013.
- ↑ Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Greek government.
- ↑ Previously head of state from 27 January – 28 August 2015.
- ↑ The Civil Governor of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos is appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Greek government.
- ↑ Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople.
- ↑ Dean of the Holy Epistasis of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos.
- ↑ Jointly with the Deputy First Minister
- ↑ Previously from 11 January 2010 - 3 February 2010 and from 10 September 2015 - 20 October 2015.
- ↑ Jointly with the First Minister
- ↑ Previously president of the General Council from 1 April 2004 to 2 Avril 2015.
- ↑ Previously chef commissaire from 4 February 2003 to 4 August 2006.
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