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CURRENT WOMAN LEADERS
Also see
Chronological List of Female Presidents,
Woman Heads of State and
Government
and
Woman Premier Ministers
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06.02.1952-
Queen Elizabeth II of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, Her other Realms and Territories, Defender of the Faith
and
Head of the Commonwealth |
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The
following external territories are part of the kingdom: Anguilla,
Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands,
Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn
Islands, Saint Helena, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands,
Turks and Caicos Islands. She is also Sovereign of the Channel Islands
and Lord of the Isle of Man. Furthermore she is Queen of Canada,
Australia, New Zealand (1952), Jamaica (1962), Barbados, (1966),
Bahamas (1973), Grenada (1974), Tuvalu (1978), the Solomon Islands
(1978), Papua New Guinea (1975), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
(1979), Saint Lucia (1979), Antigua and Barbuda (1981), Belize (1981)
and Saint Christopher and Nevis (1983). Queen Elizabeth used to be
Head of State in most of the countries in the
Commonwealth.
She is the mother of three sons and a daughter. Married to Phillip
Mountbatten, former Prince of Greece and Denmark. (b. 1926-).
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14.01.1972- Queen Margrethe II of Denmark |
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Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces and Head of the Evangelian-Lutheran
Church. The Rigsfælleskab - or
Commonwealth of the Realm - includes the external territories of The
Faeroe Islands and Greenland. Married to Count Henri de Laborde de
Monpezat, Prince Henrik. Margrethe II is the mother of two sons. (b.
1940-)
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17.09.1997- Governor General Hon. Dr.
Dame C. Pearlette Louisy, St. Lucia |
| Teacher, administrator, Vice-Principal and then Principal of St. Lucia's College. (b. 1946-) |
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22.11.2005- Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany |
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1990 Deputy Spokesperson of the Government of the DDR, 1990-98
Deputy Chairperson of CDU, 1991-94 Federal Minister Women and Youth
and 1994-98 Federal Minister of Environment, Protection of Nature
and Reactor Safety, 1993-2000 Chairperson of CDU in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 1998-2000
Federal Secretary General and since 2000 Federal Chairperson of CDU
and 2002-05 also Parliamentary Leader,
Chairperson of the European Council and
President of the Group of Eight, G-8 in 2007. Née
Kasner and
married secondly to Joachim Sauer, no children. (b.
1954-).
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16.01.2006- Executive President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia |
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1972-73 and 1977-79 Secretary of State of Finance, 1979-80 Minister
of Finance, 1980 President of the National Bank, 1980-85 worked for
the World Bank, 1985-86 in house arrest after her return, 1990-92
Leading member of exile-government of Amos Sawyer in United States
of America, 1992-97 African Director of the UNDP (United Nations
Development Program). From 1997 Leader of the Unity Party.
Presidential Candidate in 1997, Candidate for the Chairmanship of
the National Transitional Government in 2003 and finally won the
presidential elections in November 2005. She is divorced, mother of
a number of children, and grandmother. (b. 1938-). |
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17.07.2007-
Governor-General Dame
Louise Lake-Tack, Antigua and Barbuda
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| A former nurse and magistrate from 1995. (b. 1944-). |
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25.07.2007- President
Pratibha Patil, India |
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Member of the Government of
Maharashtra 1967-78 and 1982-85 as Deputy Minister, Public Health,
Prohibition, Tourism, Housing and Parliamentary Affairs 1967-72,
Minister of Social Welfare 1972-74, Minister of Public Health and
Social Welfare 1974-75, Minister of Prohibition, Rehabilitation and
Cultural Affairs 1975-76, Minister of Education 1977-78, Minister of
Urban Development and Housing 1982-83 and Minister of Civil Supplies
and Social Welfare 1983-85, Congress Leader and Leader of the
Opposition 1979-80.
Deputy Chairperson of the Union Upper House, the Rajya Sabha
1986-88 and Acting Chairperson in 1987, when the incumbent was elected
President, Governor of Rajasthan 2004-07. Married to Devisingh Shekhawat, a former Mayor of Amravati. (b. 1934-). |
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10.12.2007- Executive President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina |
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Won the first round of the presidential elections in
October 2007 as candidate for Partido Justicalista. She was Member of the Assembly of Santa Cruz 1989-95 and 1. Vice-President of the Assembly in 1990, National Senator 1995-97 and again since 2001, National Deputy 1997-2001. President of the Senate Committee of Contitutional
Affairs since 2001. Her late husband Néstor Carlos Kirchner (1950-2010)
was President of Argentina 2003-07 and held a number of other posts.
Mother of 2 children. (b. 1953-). |
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06.01.2009- Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina Wajed, Bangladesh |
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Also Prime Minister
1996-2001. Her father,
Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman (1920-72-75), and most of her
family was killed during a military coup in 1975 when she and her
sister were abroard. Returned to Bangladesh in 1981, President of the Awami Leauge from 1981,
Opposition Leader 1986-87 and 1991-96 and 2001-06. In 1983, she formed the 15-party alliance to launch a movement to oust
General Ershad from power and was in and out of prison throughout the 1980s and
was under house arrest a few times. Her party, along with the Bangladesh
Nationalist Party, led by Begum Khaleda Zia, was instrumental in the
movement against the military rule. 2007 she was arrested on corruption and
murder charges, but was allowed to go to USA for medical treatment in 2007
though the military supported care-taker government tried to pressure her into
exile. Returned in November 2008 to lead her party in the election campaign,
which her party won overwealmingly. Married to the nuclear scientist Dr M. A.
Wazed Miah and mother a son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and a daughter, Saima Wazed Putul,
who both lives in the USA. (b. 1947- ). |
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01.02.2009-
Prime Minister
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir,
Iceland |
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Johanna Sigurdardsottir was Deputy Chairperson
of the Social Democrats
1984-93, Chairperson 1994-99 of the
National Revival Party until she rejoined the Social
Democrats and became it's leader in 2009, Vice-President of the Lower Chamber
1979 and 1983-84 and
Vice-Chairperson of the the Alþing
2003-07,
Minister of Social
Affairs And Health 1987-91 and
Minister of Social Affairs 1991-94 and 2007-09. Took over
as Interim Premier because the Party Chairperson, Foreign Minister
Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir,
was beeing treated for a brain tumor, and later also resigned as
Party Leader.
First married to
Þorvaldur Steinar Jóhannesson with whom she has got
sons, and is now married to
the author Jónína
Leósdóttir,
who is mother of 1 son.
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05.09.2008- Governor-General
Dr Quentin Bryce, Australia
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| Former lawyer, academic
and human rights advocate, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, founding
chair and Chief Executive Officer of the National Childcare Accreditation
Council and Governor of Queensland 2003-08. (b. 1942-) |
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26.05.2010-
Prime Minister
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Attorney General (second in
Cabinet) 1995-06 and 2001, Minister of Legal Affairs 1996-99 and 2001 and
Minister of Education 1999-2001.
First appointed acting premier on the absence of the Premier in September 2000.
Leader of The United National Congesss and Oppostion Leader 2006-07 and 2010 and
Political Leader from 2010. (b. 1952-)
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24.06.2010- Prime
Minister
Julia
Gillard, Australia |
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MP from 1998, Manager of Opposition
Business in the House of Representatives 2003-06 and
Deputy Leader
of Labor 2006-10, Deputy Leader of the Opposition 2006-07 and Leader of Labour
from 2010,
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education, Employment and
Workplace Relations and Social Inclusion from 2007-10. Her parents
immigrated to Australia from Wales. She lives with her partner and
has no children. (b. 1961-). |
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10.10.2010-
Prime
Minister
Sarah
Wescott-Williams,
Sint Maarten
(Self-governing Part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
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Ca. 1995-2009 Commissioner of General Affairs, Education
etc.
1999-2009 Leader of the Government, Social and Cultural Development, Finance, Juridical
Affairs, Emergency Services, Information, Communication and Protocol, Strategic
Policy, Planning and Development of Sint Maarten which was part of the
Netherlands
Antilles
from 2010
when it
became a
self ruling
entity
within the
Kingdom of
the
Netherlands.
She is
Leader of the St. Maarten Party. |
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01.01.2011- President
Dilma Vana Linhares Rousseff,
Brazil |
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Dilma Rousseff is a
former student leader who fought Brazil's
military dictatorship as a guerrilla during the early 1970s
and an economist. Secretary of Mines, Energy and Communication of Rio Grande do
Sul 1993-94 and 1999-2002,
Minister of Mines and
Energy
2003-05
and
Minister and Secretary General of the Presidential Staff (Cabinet Chief)
2005-10. (b.
1947-). |
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07.04.2011- President Atifete Jahjaga, Kosovo |
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She was Deputy Chief of Police of Kosovo with
rank of Major General at the time of her election. Married to Astrit Kuçi. (b.
1975-) |
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08.08.2011-
Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand |
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A former buisness woman and main candidate for the Pheu Thai Party which won about 50% of
the votes in the parliamentary elections. A member of a walthy family, her
father, uncle and other family members were MPs her brother and
brother-in-law were Prime Ministers and her sister Mayor of Chiang
Mai. She is married to businessman Anusorn Amornchat and mother
of a son. (b. 1967-). |
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03.10.2011-
Prime Minister
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark |
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Social Democrat Member of the European Parliament
1999-2004 and Member of the Parliament, Party Chairperson from 2005
and Chairperson of the European Council, the rotating presidency of
the European Union. Married to Stephen Kinnock and mother of
two daughters. (b. 1966-) |
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22.11.2011- Premier
Camilla Gunell, the Åland Islands (Finish External
Territory) |
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Member of the Lagting since 2003,
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of the Social Democrats
2003-05 and Party Chairperson from 2009 and Minister of Education and
Culture 2005-2007. (b. 1970-). |
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05.01.2012-
Prime Minister
Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaica
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Also
Prime Minister 2006-07. Since 1976 MP, 1976-82 Parliamentary Secretary of the Prime
Minister, Deputy President of People's National Party 1978-2006 and
President from 2006. Minister of Labour, Social Welfare and Sports
1989-2000, Candidate for the party leadership and Premiership in
1992, Minister of Tourism, Entertainment, Sports and Women’s Affairs
2000-02 and Minister of Local Government, Community Development and
Sport 2002-06. Acting Prime Minister on various occasions whenever
the chief of government was out of the country. 2006-2007 and from
2012 also Minister of Defence and a number of other portfolios. Opposition Leader
2007-11. (b. 1946-). |
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07.04.2012- President Joyce Banda, Malwai |
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2004-06 Minister of Women, Child Welfare and Community Service,
2006-09 Minister of Foreign Affairs,
2009-12
Vice-President, Founder and leader of the People's Party in 2011 after she fell
out with the President who did not include her in the Cabinet,
though she remains Vice-President according to the
constitution and as such she took over as head
of state after the death of her predecessor. (b. 1950-) |
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15.10.2012- Chairperson
of the Commission of the African Union Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
(South Africa) |
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1994-99 Minister
of Health, 1999-2009 Minister of Foreign Affairs and 2009-12 of Home
Affairs. She was offered the post of Deputy President in 2005 after her
ex-husband, Jacob Zuma was fired after corruption charges, and was
candidate for the post of Deputy President of ANC in 2007 (b. 1949-). |
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19.12.2012-
Premier
Juliana O’Connor-Connolly,
the Cayman Islands
(British Overseas
Territory) |
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Minister of
Community Development, Sports, Youth Affairs and Culture 1997-2000
and 2003-04, Minister for
Planning, Communications, District Administration and IT
2004-05,
Deputy Premier 2009-12, Minister for
District Administration, Works, Lands and Agriculture since 2009, Minister of Environmental Health, Telecommunication and Gender Affairs2
009-12 and Minister of
Finance from 2012,
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
2001-03 and Deputy Leader of the United Democratic Party 2009-12.
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25.02.2013- President
Park Geun-hye, South Korea |
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MP 1998-2012, Chairperson
of the Grand National Party 2004-06, Candidate in the party
primaries for presidential candidate in 2008, Leader of Saenuri
(Renamed GNP) 2011-12. (b. 1952-) |
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13.03.2013-
Prime
Minister
Željka Cvijanović,
Republic Srpska (Autonomous Entity Within Bosnia-Herzegovina) |
| Zeljka Cvijanovic
was Minister
of Economic Relations and Regional Cooperation
2010-13. (b. 1967-) |
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20.03.2013-
Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek, Slovenia |
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Alenka Bratusek has been MP from 2011 and Acting Leader of the Positive Slovenia party
from 2013. She is former Head of the Directorate for the State
Budget at the Ministry of Finance. (b. 1970-) |
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01.04.2013-01.10.2013
Capitano Reggente Antonella
Mularoni,
San Marino |
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Member of the General Grand Council 1993-2001 and again from
2008, and Judge of the European Court of Human Rights 2001-08, Leader of the
Government, Secretary of State of Foreign and Political Affairs,
Telecommunication and Transport 2008-12. (b. 1961-). |
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05.04.2013-
Chairperson of the Government
Aleqa Hammond, Greenland (Danish
Selfruling Territory) |
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Minister of External Affairs.
Minister of Family
Affairs and Justice
2005-07,
Minister of Finance and External Affairs
2007-08 and Chairperson of Siumut
from 2009. (b. 1965-). |
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07.05.2013- Governor-General
Cécile La Grenade, Grenada |
| Founder and chief
executive of La Grenade Industries. |
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update
13.05.13
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