Last year I was a speaker at a conference with these people:

( rogues' gallery )

Working in international relations means you get to meet a lot of people who have been foreign ministers and want to keep their hand in. Thanks to the excellent list at http://www.rulers.org/ I've been able to spend an idle half-hour listing them. Those still in office (updated March 2006) are in bold.

( (Ex-)foreign ministers I have known )

I don't think I'll be updating this list as often as the books I have read...

( further updates )

Have spent all day in Rome at a conference; there were only eleven of us, all males, and the food was not very impressive though the debate was good. Everyone else has other plans this evening so I am enjoying a walk around in the mild January twilight. And of course some updating of livejournal.