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DEFINITION:
The name of each country's finance minister. A finance minister is a cabinet member in charge of overseeing and regulating the economic and monetary activity of a country. Certain countries have different titles for their finance minister, such as the UK's "Chancellor of the Exchequer" or the United States' "Secretary of the Treasury".
| COUNTRY | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Omar Zakhilwal |
| Albania | Shkëlqim Cani |
| Algeria | Karim Djoudi |
| Andorra | Jordi Cinca Mateos |
| Angola | Armando Manuel |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Harold Lovell |
| Argentina | Hernán Lorenzino |
| Armenia | Davit Sargsyan |
| Australia | Joe Hockey |
| Austria | Michael Spindelegger |
| Azerbaijan | Samir Sharifov |
| Bahrain | Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa |
| Bangladesh | Abul Maal Abdul Muhith |
| Barbados | Christopher Sinckler |
| Belarus | Andrei Kharkovets |
| Belgium | Koen Geens |
| Belize | Dean Barrow |
| Benin | Jonas Gbian |
| Bhutan | Lyonpo Namgay Dorji |
| Bolivia | Luis Alberto Arce Catacora |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Nikola Špirić |
| Botswana | Kenneth Matambo |
| Brazil | Guido Mantega |
| Brunei | Hassanal Bolkiah |
| Bulgaria | Peter Chobanov |
| Burkina Faso | Lucien Marie Noel Bembamba |
| Burundi | Tabu Abdallah |
| Cambodia | Keat Chhon |
| Cameroon | Alamine Ousmane Mey |
| Canada | Jim Flaherty |
| Cape Verde | Cristina Duarte |
| Central African Republic | Nicolas Tiangaye |
| Chile | Felipe Larraín Bascuñán |
| China | Lou Jiwei |
| Cote d'Ivoire | Daniel Kablan Duncan |
| Croatia | Slavko Linić |
| Cuba | Lina Olinda Pedraza Rodríguez |
| Cyprus | Charis Georgiades |
| Czech Republic | Andrej Babiš |
| Denmark | Bjarne Corydon |
| Egypt | Ahmed Galal |
| Estonia | Jürgen Ligi |
| Finland | Jutta Urpilainen |
| France | Pierre Moscovici |
| Germany | Wolfgang Schäuble |
| Ghana | Seth Terkper |
| Greece | Yannis Stournaras |
| Hungary | Mihály Varga |
| Iceland | Bjarni Benediktsson |
| India | Palaniappan Chidambaram |
| Indonesia | Muhammad Chatib Basri |
| Iran | Ali Tayebnia |
| Ireland | Michael Noonan |
| Israel | Yair Lapid |
| Italy | Pier Carlo Padoan |
| Jamaica | Peter Phillips |
| Japan | Tarō Asō |
| Jordan | Umayya Toukan |
| Kazakhstan | Bolat Zhamishev |
| Kenya | Henry Rotich |
| Latvia | Andris Vilks |
| Lebanon | Ali Hassan Khalil |
| Lithuania | Rimantas Šadžius |
| Luxembourg | Luc Frieden |
| Malaysia | Najib Razak |
| Malta | Edward Scicluna |
| Mexico | Luis Videgaray Caso |
| Netherlands | Jeroen Dijsselbloem |
| New Zealand | Bill English |
| Nigeria | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala |
| Norway | Sigbjørn Johnsen (acting) |
| Pakistan | Ishaq Dar |
| Paraguay | Germán Rojas |
| Peru | Miguel Castilla |
| Philippines | Cesar Purisima |
| Poland | Jan Vincent-Rostowski |
| Portugal | Maria Luís Albuquerque |
| Republic of Macedonia | Zoran Stavreski |
| Romania | Florin Georgescu |
| Russia | Anton Siluanov |
| Saudi Arabia | Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf |
| Serbia | Lazar Krstić |
| Singapore | Tharman Shanmugaratnam |
| Slovakia | Peter Kažimír |
| Somalia | Mohamud Hassan Suleiman |
| South Africa | Pravin Gordhan |
| South Sudan | Kosti Manibe Ngai |
| Spain | Cristóbal Montoro Romero |
| Sweden | Anders Borg |
| Tanzania | William Mgimwa |
| Thailand | Kittiratt Na-Ranong |
| The Bahamas | Perry Christie |
| Turkey | Mehmet Şimşek |
| Ukraine | Yuriy Kolobov |
| United Kingdom | George Osborne |
| United States | Jacob Lew |
| Venezuela | Nelson Merentes |
| Vietnam | Vuong Dinh Hue |
| Yemen | Sakhir Ahmad Abbas al-Wajih |
| Zambia | Alexander Chikwanda |
| Zimbabwe | Patrick Chinamasa |
