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Analysis | G20 Washington Summit

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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