Country: Thailand
Areas of Expertise: Security, Diplomacy
Biographical information from Wikipedia
Biographical information from Commission on Human Security
Current Positions:

Until the removal of Thaksin Shinawatra’s government in September 2006, Surin Pitsuwan was a Member of Parliament and Executive Member of Democratic Party.
Member of the International Labor Organisation’s Commission on Human Security and World Commission on the Social Dimension of […]

Nominated on 20 September 2006 by Afghanistan. Click here to read the letter of nomination and his CV.
Country: Afghanistan
Areas of Expertise: Development, Anthropology, and Post-Conflict Recovery; Click here for biography
Education:

Bachelor of Arts in political science at American University of Beirut
MA and PhD at Columbia University
leadership training programs at Harvard-INSEAD and Stanford

Current Positions: Chancellor of […]

(has expressed interest in the position)
Country: Singapore
Area of Expertise: Economist
Current Positions:

Senior Minister of Singapore (2004-present)
Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (2004-present)
Patron for the Institute for Policy Studies, a government think-tank

Past Positions:

Member of Parliament in Singapore (1976-1981)
Senior Minister of State for Finance
Minister for Trade and Industry
Minister for Health
Minister for Defence
First Deputy Prime Minister […]

(candidacy reported in the media)
Country: Turkey
Current Positions:

Administrator of UNDP (2005-present)

Education

PhD Department of Economics, Princeton University (1973)
B.Sc. First Class Honors and M.Sc. Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (1968, 1970)

Past Positions

Member of Parliament ( Turkey)
Minister of Economic Affairs (2001-2002)
Vice-President of the World Bank (1996-2002)
Faculty, Princeton University (1976-78)

General Information

In 1978 he began the […]

(has expressed interest in the position)
Country: Poland
Areas of Expertise:

Current Positions:

Outgoing President of Poland (end of second term 31, December 2005)

Education:

Studied transport economics and foreign trade at the University of GdaEsk between 1973-77 (he did not graduate)

Past Positions:

Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the National Assembly (1993-1995)

General Information:

Co-author of […]