List of Secretaries General of ITU

Directors of ITU

Name

Beginning of term

End of term

Country

Louis Curchod

1 January 1869

24 May 1872

 Switzerland

Karl Lendi

24 May 1872

12 January 1873

 Switzerland

Louis Curchod

23 February 1873

18 October 1889

 Switzerland

August Frey

25 February 1890

28 June 1890

 Switzerland

Timotheus Rothen

25 November 1890

11 February 1897

 Switzerland

Emil Frey

11 March 1897

1 August 1921

 Switzerland

Henri Étienne

2 August 1921

16 December 1927

 Switzerland

Joseph Raber

1 February 1928

30 October 1934

 Switzerland

Franz von Ernst

1 January 1935

31 December 1949

 Switzerland

Secretaries general

Léon Mulatier

1 January 1950

31 December 1953

 France

Marco Aurelio Andrada

1 January 1954

18 June 1958

 Argentina

Gerald C. Gross

1 January 1960

29 October 1965

 United States

Manohar Balaji Sarwate

30 October 1965

19 February 1967

 India

Mohamed Ezzedine Mili

20 February 1967

31 December 1982

 Tunisia

Richard E. Butler

1 January 1983

31 October 1989

 Australia

Pekka Tarjanne

1 November 1989

31 January 1999

 Finland

Yoshio Utsumi

1 February 1999

31 December 2006

 Japan

Hamadoun Touré

1 January 2007

present

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