President of the United Nations General Assembly
Year elected Name of President UN member state Region Sessions
1946 Paul-Henri Spaak Belgium WES First
1947 Oswaldo Aranha Brazil LAS First special Second
1948 José Arce Argentina LAS Second special
1948 Herbert Vere Evatt Australia COS Third
1949 Carlos P. Romulo Philippines EAS Fourth , First Asian president
1950 Nasrollah Entezam Iran EAS Fifth
1951 Luis Padilla Nervo Mexico LAS Sixth
1952 Lester B. Pearson Canada COS Seventh
1953 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit India COS Eighth , First woman president
1954 Eelco van Kleffens Netherlands WES Ninth
1955 José Maza Fernández Chile LAS Tenth
1956 Rudecindo Ortega ( de ) Chile LAS First emergency special Second emergency special
1956 Wan Waithayakon Thailand EAS Eleventh
1957 Leslie Munro New Zealand COS Twelfth Third emergency special
1958 Charles Malik Lebanon MES Thirteenth
1959 Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Peru LAS Fourteenth Fourth emergency special
1960 Frederick Boland Ireland WES Fifteenth Third special
1961 Mongi Slim Tunisia MES Sixteenth
1962 Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Pakistan COS Seventeenth Fourth special
1963 Carlos Sosa Rodríguez ( es ) Venezuela LAS Eighteenth
List of presidents
The President of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The President presides over the sessions of the General Assembly. On June 4, 2019, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria was elected the President of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly and later succeeded María Fernanda Espinosa, whose term officially ended in September 2019.