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DEFINITION:
The name of each country's finance minister. A finance minister is a cabinet member in charge of overseeing and regulating the economic and monetary activity of a country. Certain countries have different titles for their finance minister, such as the UK's "Chancellor of the Exchequer" or the United States' "Secretary of the Treasury".
COUNTRY | DESCRIPTION |
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Afghanistan | Omar Zakhilwal |
Albania | Shkëlqim Cani |
Algeria | Karim Djoudi |
Andorra | Jordi Cinca Mateos |
Angola | Armando Manuel |
Antigua and Barbuda | Harold Lovell |
Argentina | Hernán Lorenzino |
Armenia | Davit Sargsyan |
Australia | Joe Hockey |
Austria | Michael Spindelegger |
Azerbaijan | Samir Sharifov |
Bahrain | Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa |
Bangladesh | Abul Maal Abdul Muhith |
Barbados | Christopher Sinckler |
Belarus | Andrei Kharkovets |
Belgium | Koen Geens |
Belize | Dean Barrow |
Benin | Jonas Gbian |
Bhutan | Lyonpo Namgay Dorji |
Bolivia | Luis Alberto Arce Catacora |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Nikola Špirić |
Botswana | Kenneth Matambo |
Brazil | Guido Mantega |
Brunei | Hassanal Bolkiah |
Bulgaria | Peter Chobanov |
Burkina Faso | Lucien Marie Noel Bembamba |
Burundi | Tabu Abdallah |
Cambodia | Keat Chhon |
Cameroon | Alamine Ousmane Mey |
Canada | Jim Flaherty |
Cape Verde | Cristina Duarte |
Central African Republic | Nicolas Tiangaye |
Chile | Felipe Larraín Bascuñán |
China | Lou Jiwei |
Cote d'Ivoire | Daniel Kablan Duncan |
Croatia | Slavko Linić |
Cuba | Lina Olinda Pedraza Rodríguez |
Cyprus | Charis Georgiades |
Czech Republic | Andrej Babiš |
Denmark | Bjarne Corydon |
Egypt | Ahmed Galal |
Estonia | Jürgen Ligi |
Finland | Jutta Urpilainen |
France | Pierre Moscovici |
Germany | Wolfgang Schäuble |
Ghana | Seth Terkper |
Greece | Yannis Stournaras |
Hungary | Mihály Varga |
Iceland | Bjarni Benediktsson |
India | Palaniappan Chidambaram |
Indonesia | Muhammad Chatib Basri |
Iran | Ali Tayebnia |
Ireland | Michael Noonan |
Israel | Yair Lapid |
Italy | Pier Carlo Padoan |
Jamaica | Peter Phillips |
Japan | Tarō Asō |
Jordan | Umayya Toukan |
Kazakhstan | Bolat Zhamishev |
Kenya | Henry Rotich |
Latvia | Andris Vilks |
Lebanon | Ali Hassan Khalil |
Lithuania | Rimantas Šadžius |
Luxembourg | Luc Frieden |
Malaysia | Najib Razak |
Malta | Edward Scicluna |
Mexico | Luis Videgaray Caso |
Netherlands | Jeroen Dijsselbloem |
New Zealand | Bill English |
Nigeria | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala |
Norway | Sigbjørn Johnsen (acting) |
Pakistan | Ishaq Dar |
Paraguay | Germán Rojas |
Peru | Miguel Castilla |
Philippines | Cesar Purisima |
Poland | Jan Vincent-Rostowski |
Portugal | Maria Luís Albuquerque |
Republic of Macedonia | Zoran Stavreski |
Romania | Florin Georgescu |
Russia | Anton Siluanov |
Saudi Arabia | Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf |
Serbia | Lazar Krstić |
Singapore | Tharman Shanmugaratnam |
Slovakia | Peter Kažimír |
Somalia | Mohamud Hassan Suleiman |
South Africa | Pravin Gordhan |
South Sudan | Kosti Manibe Ngai |
Spain | Cristóbal Montoro Romero |
Sweden | Anders Borg |
Tanzania | William Mgimwa |
Thailand | Kittiratt Na-Ranong |
The Bahamas | Perry Christie |
Turkey | Mehmet Şimşek |
Ukraine | Yuriy Kolobov |
United Kingdom | George Osborne |
United States | Jacob Lew |
Venezuela | Nelson Merentes |
Vietnam | Vuong Dinh Hue |
Yemen | Sakhir Ahmad Abbas al-Wajih |
Zambia | Alexander Chikwanda |
Zimbabwe | Patrick Chinamasa |