According to the Charter of the United Nations, the Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. The Secretary-General is described by the Charter as the "chief administrative officer" of this organization; but his or her role includes not only administering the United Nation Secretariat, but also speaking out on global issues and using his or her good offices to mediate disputes.
UN Secretaries-General
- [Trygve Lie]? (Norway), February 1946 to his resignation in November 1952.
- [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] (Sweden), April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in Congo September 1961;
- [U Thant]? (Burma, now Myanmar), acting Secretary-General November 1961 and Secretary-General November 1962 to December 1971;
- Kurt Waldheim (Austria), January 1972 to December 1981;
- [Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]? (Peru), January 1982 to December 1991;
- [Boutros Boutros-Ghali]? (Egypt), January 1992 to December 1996.
- Kofi Annan (Ghana), January 1997 to present.
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