The Technocratic and Education Dataset (TED) provides comprehensive new data on the educational and professional backgrounds of the heads of government of all sovereign states between 1946 and 2015. TED details the educational and employment credentials of 1733 unique heads of government, and provides additional information on their demographic backgrounds and military experience. TED comes in leader-level and country-year versions. These data make three major contributions to the study of leadership. First, TED offers a longer time series than most extant data sets on leadership. Second, TED offers data on a broader cross section of countries, facilitating scholarship on a wider variety of countries, including non-OECD ones, which are excluded from many existing datasets on leaders. Third, by offering detailed data on the educational and employment experiences of leaders, TED helps scholars interested in the mechanisms underlying the effects of these experiences generate more rigorous tests of their theories. TED, therefore, represents a major step forward for those interested in leadership. In this article, we introduce TED and use it to show how the pool of international leaders has changed over time. We end with an empirical application of the data in which we use leadership characteristics to predict countries’ sovereign credit ratings. The article concludes with a discussion of other potential applications of these new data.

技术和教育数据集 (TED) 提供了有关 1946 年至 2015 年间所有主权国家政府首脑的教育和专业背景的全面新数据。TED 详细介绍了 1733 位独特的政府首脑的教育和就业证书，并提供了更多信息关于他们的人口背景和军事经验。TED 有领导级别和国家年版本。这些数据对领导力研究做出了三大贡献。首先，TED 提供的时间序列比大多数现有的领导力数据集更长。其次，TED 提供更广泛国家的数据，促进对更广泛国家的学术研究，包括非经合组织国家，这些国家被许多现有的领导人数据集排除在外。第三，通过提供有关领导者的教育和就业经验的详细数据，TED 帮助对这些经验的影响机制感兴趣的学者对他们的理论进行更严格的测试。因此，对于那些对领导力感兴趣的人来说，TED 代表了向前迈出的重要一步。在本文中，我们将介绍 TED，并用它来展示国际领导者群体是如何随着时间而变化的。我们以数据的实证应用结束，我们使用领导特征来预测国家的主权信用评级。本文最后讨论了这些新数据的其他潜在应用。对于那些对领导感兴趣的人来说，这是向前迈出的重要一步。在本文中，我们将介绍 TED，并用它来展示国际领导者群体是如何随着时间而变化的。我们以数据的实证应用结束，我们使用领导特征来预测国家的主权信用评级。本文最后讨论了这些新数据的其他潜在应用。对于那些对领导感兴趣的人来说，这是向前迈出的重要一步。在本文中，我们将介绍 TED，并用它来展示国际领导者群体是如何随着时间而变化的。我们以数据的实证应用结束，我们使用领导特征来预测国家的主权信用评级。本文最后讨论了这些新数据的其他潜在应用。