The most recent version of the United Nations General Debate Corpus (UNGDC) dataset, published in Slava Jankin, Alexander Baturo and Niheer Dasandi. 2024. "Words to Unite Nations: The Complete UN General Debate Corpus, 1946-Present." Journal of Peace Research 62(4): 1339-1351, can be downloaded here.
Researchers, journalists, policy-makers, students, and everybody else can also access the website that accompanies the dataset, https://www.ungdc.bham.ac.uk, and visualize engagement with particular terms across member states and over time, easily plot word clouds, create maps, or search for specific terms used during the United Nations General Debate by state representatives from 1946 to now.
The data and the codebook for the Cursus Honorum dataset, regarding personal individual background of national political leaders, experience in politics, careers and significant posts prior to tenure, as well as details about time in office, 1960–2010, published in Alexander Baturo. 2016. "Cursus Honorum: Personal Background, Careers and Experience of Political Leaders in Democracy and Dictatorship -- New Data and Analyses." Politics and Governance 4(2): 138–157, is available here.
Data on political experience of national political leaders, including the PolEx indicator, published in Baturo, Alexander and Johan Elkink. 2022. "What Countries Select More Experienced Leaders? The PolEx Measure of Political Experience." British Journal of Political Science 52(3): 1455-1464, is available here.