Presidents in Europe and their (original) professions (update to 1st of October 2017)
1.Austria: Alexander van der Belen - economist
2.Azerbaijan: Ilham Aliyev - a scientist, historian
3.Albania: Ilir Meta - economist
4.Andorra: Parliamentary Principality
5.Armenia: Serge Sarkisian - philologist
6.Belarus: Alexander Lukashenko - lecturer, economist
7.Belgium: Kingdom
8.Bosnia and Herzegovina (Presidium): Dragan Čović - engineer
9.Bulgaria: Rumen Radev - a military fighter
10.Great Britain: Kingdom
11.Germany: Frank-Walter Steinmeier - lawyer
12.Georgia: Georgi Margavelasvili - philosopher, sociologist
13.Greece: Prokopis Pavlopoulos - lawyer
14.Denmark: Kingdom
15.Estonia: Kersti Kaljulaid - economist
16.Ireland: Michael Higgins - Scientist
17.Iceland: Guðni Th. Jóhannesson - historian
18.Spain: Kingdom
19.Italy: Sergio Matarela - lawyer
20.Cyprus: Nikos Anastasiadis - a lawyer
21.Kosovo *: Hashim Thaci - philosopher, historian
22.Latvia: Raymonds Vayonis - biologist
23.Lithuania: Dalia Grybauskaite - economist
24.Liechtenstein: Principality
25.Luxembourg: Duchy
26.Macedonia: Gjorge Ivanov - lawyer
27.Malta: Marie-Louise Colairo Preka - lawyer
28.Moldova: Igor Dodon - economist, lawyer
29.Poland: Andrzej Duda - lawyer
30.Norway: Kingdom
31.Portugal: Marcello Riberlu di Soza - lawyer
32.Russia: Vladimir Putin - lawyer, scout
33.Romania: Klaus Jochannis - pedagogue
34.San Marino: parliamentary republic with two regimental officers
with a mandate of 6 months: 1.10.2017 -1.4.2018 1. Mateo Forni - construction manager,
2. Gabriele Gatti -?
35.Serbia: Alexander Vucic - a lawyer
36.Slovakia: Andrey Kiska - Electrical Engineer
37.Slovenia: Borut Pahor - political scientist
38.Turkey: Recep Tayyip Erdogan - economist
39.Ukraine: Petro Poroshenko - economist
40.Hungary: Janos Ader - lawyer
41.Finland: Sauli Niinistö -?
42.Netherlands (Netherlands); Kingdom
43.France: Emmanuel Macron - banker
44.Croatia; Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic - diplomat
45.Montenegro: Philip Vujanovic - a lawyer
46.Czech Republic: Milos Zeman - economist
47.Switzerland: Doris Lohdard - lawyer - the president of Switzerland is not the head of state!
48.Sweden - Kingdom
Author: DK based on materials of official presidential sites
Picture: By Marek Blahuš - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
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