Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

Equatoguinean politician and former military officer who has served as the second president of Equatorial Guinea since August 1979. He is the longest-serving president of any country ever and the second-longest consecutively serving current non-royal national leader in the world.

He earned a degree in labor administration at what is now the Enrique Nvo Okenve National College. He joined the Colonial Guard during Equatorial Guinea's colonial period and attended the General Military Academy in Zaragoza, Spain. He also served as director of the notorious Black Beach prison.

He was born in the town of Acoacán, belonging to the colony of Spanish Guinea, on the current border with Gabon, within the Continental Equatorial Guinea. He was the third of ten brothers. His uncle Francisco Macías Nguema was president until he ousted him in a bloody coup d'etat in 1979. He reportedly favors his son Teodoro Nguema to succeed him.

In 2006, Condoleezza Rice called him a "good friend." In 2014, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama posed with Obiang and his wife at the White House.