# Teodoro Obiang President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979 and the world's longest-serving non-royal head of state; an oil-rich personalist kleptocracy whose ruling family's overseas spending became a textbook foreign-corruption case. > [!info] Stub — created 2026-06-21 as a link target for [[Dictators in World History Hub]]. Expand with biography, path to power, and right-wing reception.