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G20 Leaders Experience
Jenilee Guebert, G20 Research Group
November 15, 2008
Country | Leader | Years in Office | # of G8 Summits Attended |
Argentina | Cristina Fernández de Kirtchner | 1 years | 0 |
Australia | Kevin Rudd | 1 years | 1 |
Brazil | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | 5 years, 11 months | 5 |
Canada | Stephen Harper | 2 years, 11 months | 3 |
China | Hu Jintao | 5 years, 8 months | 5 |
France | Nicolas Sarkozy | 1 year, 6 months | 2 |
Germany | Angela Merkel | 3 years | 3 |
India | Manmohan Singh | 4 years, 6 months | 4 |
Indonesia | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono | 4 years, 1 month | 1 |
Italy | Silvio Berlusconi | 7 months[a] | 11 |
Japan | Taro Aso | 2 months | 0 |
Korea | Lee Myung-bak | 9 months | 1 |
Mexico | Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinjosa | 1 year, 11 months | 2 |
Russia | Dmitry Medvedev | 6 months | 1 |
Saudi Arabia | Adbullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud | 3 years, 3 months | 0 |
South Africa | Petrus Kgalema Motlanthe | 2 months | 0 |
Turkey | Abdulla Gül | 1 year, 3 months | 0 |
United Kingdom | Gordon Brown | 1 year, 5 months | 1 |
United States | George W. Bush | 7 years, 10 months | 8 |
European Union | José Manuel Barroso | 4 years | 4 |
Average | approximately 2 year, 7 months | 2.1 |
[a] Includes current term only. Berlusconi was also prime minister of Italy from 17 April 1994 to 17 January 1995 and from 11 June 2001 to 17 May 2006. He attended G8 summits in 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008 (which is indicated in the table above).
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