This is a list of the secretaries-general of the Arab League since its founding in 1945.
List of secretaries-general
| No. | Image | Secretary-General Birth–Death |
Took office | Left office | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abdul Rahman Azzam (1893–1976) |
22 March 1945 | September 1952 |  Egypt
| |
| 2 | Abdul Khalek Hassouna (1898–1992) |
September 1952 | 1 June 1972 |  Egypt
| |
| 3 | 
|
Mahmoud Riad (1917–1992) |
1 June 1972 | March 1979 |  Egypt
|
| 4 | 
|
Chedli Klibi (1925–2020) |
March 1979 | September 1990 |  Tunisia
|
| 5 | 
|
Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid (1923–2013) |
15 May 1991 | 15 May 2001 |  Egypt
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| 6 | 
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Amr Moussa (1936–present) |
15 May 2001 | 1 July 2011 | Egypt
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| 7 | 
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Nabil Elaraby (1935–present) |
1 July 2011 | 3 July 2016 | Egypt
|
| 8 | 
|
Ahmed Aboul Gheit (1942–present) |
3 July 2016 | Incumbent | Egypt
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See also
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