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Two Commonwealth Deputy Secretaries-General assist the Secretary-General in running the Commonwealth Secretariat, which is the central institution of the Commonwealth of Nations. They are assigned an aspect of the Commonwealth's function to address particularly: one to economic affairs and the other to political affairs.
They are elected by the Commonwealth Heads of Government, like the Secretary-General. However, as their terms overlap with those of the Secretary-General, and don't coincide with Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGMs), the Heads of Government are represented through their respective High Commissioners in London.[1]
Currently, the two Deputy Secretaries-General are Jamaica's Ransford Smith (economic) and Botswana's Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba (political), since 2006 and 2008 respectively.
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Lists of Deputy Secretaries-General
Economic
Name Country Start End Tilak E. Gooneratne 
Sri Lanka1965 1970 Geoffrey Wilson 
United Kingdom1971 1971 Hunter Wade 
New Zealand1972 1974[2] Incomplete C. John Small 
Canada1979 1983 Peter Marshall United Kingdom1983 1988 Peter Unwin United Kingdom1989 1993 Humphrey Maud United Kingdom1993 1999 Veronica Sutherland United Kingdom1999 2001 Winston Cox 
Barbados2001 2006 Ransford Smith 
Jamaica2006 Incumbent -
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Political
Name Country Start End Incomplete A. L. Adu 
Ghana1966 1970 M. A. Husain 
India1970 1978 Emeka Anyaoku 
Nigeria1977 1983 Position vacant 1983 1983 Emeka Anyaoku Nigeria1983 1990 Anthony Siaguru 
Papua New Guinea1990 1995 Krishnan Srinivasan India1995 2002 Florence Mugasha 
Uganda2002 2008 Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba 
Botswana2008 Incumbent -
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Footnotes
- ^ Doxey, Margaret (January 1979). "The Commonwealth Secretary-General: Limits of Leadership". International Affairs 55 (1): 67–83.
- ^ McIntyre, W. David (November 2001). "'Viewing the Iceberg from Down Under': A New Zealand Perspective". Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 39 (3): 95–112. doi:10.1080/713999565.
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