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Giuseppina Castiello

Giuseppina Castiello, often called Pina Castiello, is an Italian politician of Lega who serves as Undersecretary of State at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, handling Relations with Parliament.

Giusi Princi

Giusi Princi is an Italian politician of Forza Italia who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2024, chairing the Delegation for relations with Central Asia.

Givi Mikanadze

Givi Mikanadze is a Georgian politician and Georgian Dream member serving as Minister of Education, Science and Youth, appointed in 2025 after serving as an MP.

Gladys Berejiklian

Gladys Berejiklian, NSW Liberal premier 2017-2021 and first woman elected to that office, resigned over an ICAC inquiry and was found in 2023 to have engaged in serious corrupt conduct.

Gladys Robinson

Gladys Robinson is an American Democratic politician who represents the 28th district in the North Carolina State Senate, where she previously served as Deputy Minority Leader.

Glasnost (гласность)

Glasnost (гласность, "openness") was Gorbachev's Soviet policy of loosened censorship and public disclosure from 1985, paired with perestroika; it transformed the Soviet press, opened archives, and contributed to the USSR's 1991 collapse.

Gleb Nikitin

Gleb Nikitin is a Russian politician serving as Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, who in September 2026 chose to remain governor rather than take a State Duma seat.

Glen Sturtevant

Glen Sturtevant, born in 1982, is a Republican attorney and member of the Virginia Senate's 12th district, previously serving in the Senate from 2016 to 2020.

Glen Womack

Glen Womack is an American politician who serves as a Republican member of the Louisiana Senate from the 32nd district and chairs the Senate Finance Committee.

Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald (born 1967) is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer who reported the 2013 Snowden NSA leaks for the Guardian, co-founded The Intercept, and resigned from it in 2020.

Glenn Grothman

Glenn Grothman, born 1955, is an American Republican politician who has represented Wisconsin's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2015, after serving in the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly.

Glenn Ivey

Glenn Ivey (Glenn Frederick Ivey), Democrat representing Maryland's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House since 2023; former Prince George's County State's Attorney (2003-2011) and Maryland Public Service Commission chair (1998-2000), Harvard Law-trained attorney.

Glenn Micallef

Glenn Micallef is a Maltese politician who has been European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport since 2024, after leading Malta's EU Coordination Department.

Glenn Thompson (Pennsylvania politician)

Glenn "GT" Thompson, born 1959, is an American Republican politician representing Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2019, after the 5th from 2009.

Glenn Youngkin

Glenn Youngkin, 74th Governor of Virginia (2022-2026), Republican, former Carlyle Group co-CEO; won the 2021 election against Terry McAuliffe, pursued an education-focused agenda, and joined Red Cell Partners after leaving office.

Global and All-Inclusive Agreement

The Global and All-Inclusive Agreement, or Accord Global et Inclusif, was the power-sharing settlement of the Second Congo War, signed in Pretoria in December 2002 and ratified in April 2003.

Global Environment Facility

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a family of multilateral funds for the environment, serving as the financial mechanism for six international conventions and financing projects in developing countries.

Global governance

Global governance, also known as international governance, is the ordering produced by institutions, norms, and agreements governing actors beyond their borders for a shared good, without any world government.

Global North and Global South

The Global North and Global South, also called the North-South divide, are terms for the geopolitical split between richer, more powerful countries and poorer ones.

Global War Party (გლობალური ომის პარტია)

Global War Party (გლობალური ომის პარტია) is a conspiracy theory promoted by Georgia's ruling Georgian Dream party since 2022, alleging a secret Western network seeks to open a "second front" against Russia in Georgia; its members are never identified.

Globalism

Globalism: a political ideology endowing globalization with norms, values, and meanings, distinct from globalization itself; coined by 1940s Anglo-American thinkers, now also a pejorative and, in "national globalism," a nationalist variant.

Gloria Johnson (politician)

Gloria Johnson (born 1962) is a Democratic Tennessee state representative for District 90 in Knoxville, a retired special education teacher first elected in 2012, a member of the Tennessee Three who survived a 2023 expulsion vote by one vote, and the 2024 Democratic U.S. Senate nominee defeated by Marsha Blackburn.

Gloria La Riva

Gloria Estela La Riva (born 1954) is a San Francisco labor and anti-war activist, founding PSL member, and socialist presidential candidate in 2008, 2016, and 2020.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, 14th president of the Philippines (2001–2010), daughter of Diosdado Macapagal; former senator and vice president under Estrada; survived the Hello Garci scandal, impeachment bids, and plunder charges, later returning to Congress.

Godefroid Munongo

Godefroid Munongo was a Congolese politician, interior minister of the breakaway State of Katanga during the Congo Crisis, and later Mwami of the Yeke people.

Godfrey Bloom

Godfrey Bloom, British UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2004, known for 'Bongo Bongo Land' remarks, 'sluts' comment, losing the whip in 2013, and TBO Investments controversies.

Godswill Akpabio

Godswill Akpabio is a Nigerian politician and member of the All Progressives Congress who serves as President of the Senate in the 10th National Assembly, presiding over the upper chamber.

Goh Chok Tong

Goh Chok Tong (born 1941) is Singapore's second Prime Minister, serving November 1990 to August 2004 after Lee Kuan Yew; MP for Marine Parade 1976 to 2020, later Senior Minister, MAS chairman, and Emeritus Senior Minister.

Goh Hanyan

Goh Hanyan (吴函燕), Singaporean PAP politician, MP for Nee Soon GRC since May 2025 and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for MCCY and MSE; former MDDI Smart Nation and AI policy director.

Goh Keng Swee

Goh Keng Swee (吴庆瑞, 1918–2010) was a Singaporean economist, politician, and founding member of the People's Action Party who as Singapore's first Minister for Finance and later Defence Minister shaped its economic and security policy.