AU Chairperson

The Chairperson of the African Union is selected by the Assembly following consultations by Member States. The office of the Chair of the African Union is held for a period for one year by a Head of State or Government

The current Chairperson of the African Union is H.E. João Goncalves Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola

Chairs of Assembly of the African Union

• Feb 2024 to Feb 2025 - H.E. Mohamed Ould Cheikh AI- Ghazouani, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
• Feb 2023 to Feb 2024 - H.E. Azali Assoumani, The Union of Comoros
• Feb 2022 to Feb 2023 - H.E. Macky Sall, Republic of Senegal
• Feb 2021 to Feb 2022 - H.E. Felix Antoine Tshisekedi, Democratic Republic of Congo
• Feb 2020 to Feb 2021 - H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa
• Feb 2019 to Feb 2020 - H.E. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt
• Jan 2018 to Feb 2019 - H.E. Paul Kagame, Rwanda
• Jan 2017 to Jan 2018 - H.E. Alpha Conde, Guinea
• Jan 2016 to Jan 2017 - H.E. Idriss Déby, Chad
• Jan 2015 to Jan 2016 - H.E. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
• Jan 2014 to Jan 2015 - H.E. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Mauritania
• Jan 2013 to Jan 2014 - H.E. Hailemariam Dessalegn, Ethiopia
• Jan 2012 to Jan 2013 - H.E. Thomas Yayi Boni, Benin
• Jan 2011 to Jan 2012 - H.E. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea
• Jan 2010 to Jan 2011 - H.E. Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawi
• Feb 2009 to Jan 2010 - H.E. Muammar Gaddafi, Libya
• Jan 2008 to Jan 2009 - H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, UR of Tanzania
• Jan 2007 to Jan 2008 - H.E. John Kufuor, Ghana
• Jan 2006 to Jan 2007 - H.E. Dénis Sassou N’Guesso, Congo
• July 2004 to Dec 2005 - H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria
• July 2003 to July 2004 - H.E. Joaquim Alberto Chissano, Mozambique
• July 2002 to July 2003 - H.E. Thabo Mbeki, South Africa