The four leaders of the human society, namely the sannyasis, the brahmana, the king and the public leader, must be tested crucially by their character and qualification.

Qualifications for the top job

I was curious to see whether this correlation between educational values and leadership carries for other countries, and did a little impromptu research. I looked at the top 9 leaders of each country, and found their undergraduate major and/or graduate field. ...

United States (first nine in order of succession, modified Senate pres.)

• Barack Obama President — law
• Joe Biden Vice-President — law
• Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House — political science
• Harry Reid Senate Majority Leader — law
• Hillary Clinton Secretary of State — law
• Tim Geithner Secretary of the Treasury — economics and East Asian studies
• Robert Gates Secretary of Defense — history
• Eric Holder Attorney General — law
• Ken Salazar Secretary of Interior — law

China 9 members of standing committee of politburo

• Hu Jintao President — hydraulic engineering
• Wu Bangguo Chairman of Standing Committee — electrical engineering
• Wen Jiabao Premier — geology and engineering
• Jia Qinglin Chairman of Nat. Com. Of CPPCC — engineering
• Li Changchun head of propaganda/media affairs — electrical engineering
• Xi Jinping Vice President — chemical engineering
• Li Keqiang First Vice Premier — law
• He Guoqiang Secretary of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection — inorganic chemistry
• Zhou Yongkang Secretary of Central Political and Legis. Comm. — geophysical survey

India top 9 cabinet ministers

• Manmohan Singh Prime Minister — economics
• Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Finance — law/history
• P Chidambaram Minister of Home Affairs — statistics/law/business
• AK Anthony Minister of Defense — law
• Sharad Pawar Min. of Agri. — commerce
• Veerappa Moily Minister of Law/Justice — law
• SM Krishna Minister of External Affairs — law
• Virbhadra Singh Minister of Steel — horticulture
• Vilasrao Deshmukh Minister of Heavy Industries — law/finance

Singapore

• Lee Hsein Loong Prime Minister — mathematics, public admin.
• Teo Chee Hean Deputy PM, Defense — electrical engineering, comp sci.
• Wong Kan Seng Deputy PM, National Security — business
• Goh Chok Tong Senior Minister — economics
• Sunmugam Jayakumar Senior Minister — law
• Lee Kuan Yew Minister Mentor — law
• George Yeo Yong-Boon Minister for Foreign Affairs — engineering, business
• Tharman Shanmugaratnam Minister of Finance — economics, public admin.
• Mah Bow Tan Minister for Nat. Dev. — industrial engineering

Germany first 9 in list of German cabinet

• Angela Merkel Chancellor — physics
• Guido Westerwelle Vice-Chancellor, Foreign Minister — law
• Norbert Röttgen Minister of Environment — law
• Rainer Bruderle Minister of Economics — economics
• Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg Minister of Defense — law, journalism
• Kristina Schröder Minister of Family Affairs — sociology, history
• Ronald Pofalla Minister of Special Tasks — law
• Thomas de Maizière Minister of Interior — law
• Annette Schavan Minister of Education — education, theology

Character more important than academic qualifications

...If the king and the public leader are unnecessarily proud or habituated to drinking and smoking, certainly they become disqualified to discharge public welfare activities. Truthfulness is the basic principle for all religions. The four leaders of the human society, namely the sannyasis, the brahmana, the king and the public leader, must be tested crucially by their character and qualification. Before one can be accepted as a spiritual or material master of society, he must be tested by the above-mentioned criteria of character. Such public leaders may be less qualified in academic qualifications, but it is necessary primarily that they be free from the contamination of the four disqualifications, namely gambling, drinking, prostitution and animal slaughter.