Facts about leaders

Enrique Peña Nieto

• The President of Mexico travels long distances in a Boeing 757 under the Mexican Air Force call sign TP01 or Transporte Presidencial #1
• He is the fifth member of his extended family to serve as the governor of the State of Mexico.

Joachim Gauck

• During the Peaceful Revolution of 1989, he became a member of the New Forum, a democratic opposition movement, and was elected as its spokesman.
• In early December 2013 his office announced that he will be boycotting the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in order to make a statement against human rights violations in Russia.

Nicolas Majuro Moros

• Worked as a bus driver for Caracas Metro and belonged to the transit union.
• Bodyguard for presidential hopeful Jose Vicente Rangel.

XI Jinping

• First national leader to hold a Ph.D.
• In an effort to learn more about farming, Xi Jinping visited Iowa in 1985 where he stayed with different families in Muscatine County.

David Cameron

• Is the 12th prime minister to take office during Queen Elizabeth II's reign.
• .The youngest prime minister since 1812.

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud

• Is one of 37 sons.
• Breeds pure Arabian horses and founded the equestrian club in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Pranab Mukherjee

• The number 13 is a lucky number for President Pranab Kumar Mukherjee although it is considered inauspicious by the rest of the world .
• President Pranab Kumar Mukherjee's height is 5 feet 1 inch

Francois Hollande

• Taught economics at the elite Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, or Sciences Po.
• Promises made during the campaign include renegotiating the austerity agreement, troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, lower retirement age and higher taxes for the very wealthy

Ali Hosseini Khamenei

• Khamenei belongs to the Twelver Shi'a sect which is the largest branch of Shi'a Islam.
• He attended religious studies classes at the basic and advanced levels in the seminary of Mashhad and then went to study in the small town of Najaf in 1957.

Hamid Karzai

• Karzai was educated in India and is fluent in several languages, including English, Pashto, Dari, and Urdu.
• A member of the Popalzai clan, part of the larger Pashtun tribe

Dilma Rousseff

• Joined the resistance movement against the military dictatorship and was jailed and allegedly tortured in the early 1970s.
• She democratized Brazil's electricity sector through the "Luz Para Todos" (Light for All) program, which made electricity widely available, even in rural areas.

Binyamin Netanyahu

• Leader of the right-wing Likud Party.
• Netanyahu's brother, Yonatan, was killed in action in 1976 while leading a mission to rescue Israeli passengers on a hijacked Air France plane.