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Woman
Vice Premiers from 2010
Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
WOMAN
VICE
PREMIER MINISTERS
AND
DEPUTY CHIEFS OF GOVERNMENT
FROM 2010
This
is a list of the women who have been deputy leaders of governments, some
with and some without the title of Deputy Premier. Many have been acting
Premier Ministers on various occasions.
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2005-07 Freya Van
den Bossche,
Belgium |
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Attaché for Extern Communication and Drug Affairs by the Mayor of Gent 1999-2003. Member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2003. 2003-04
Minister for
Environment, Consumer Protection and
Sustainable
Development,
2004-05 Minister of Labour and
Vice Prime
Minister and Minister of the Budget 2005-07. (b. 1975-). |
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2005-12 Kristin Halvorsen,
Norway
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Leader of Socialistisk Vensterparti 1997-2012 and Parliamentary Leader (Socialist Left) 1997-2001,
Minister of Finance 2005-09 and Minister of Education 2009-13. As leader of the second party in the government she
was Deputy to
the Prime Minister. (b. 1960-). |
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2005-08 Åslaug Haga,
Norway
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1989-90 Political Advisor of the Minister of Development Aid,
1997-99 State Secretary of Foreign
Affairs, 1999 State Secretary by the Premier Minister, 1999-2000 Minister of Culture,
1999-2003 Deputy Party Leader of Senterpartiet and 2003-08 its leader,
Vice-secretary of the Lagting 2001-02, Minister of
Municipal and District Affairs 2004-07 and Minister of Petrolium and
Energy 2007-08. As leader of the
third party in the government, she was Deputy to the
Prime Minister.
(b. 1959-)
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2005-08 Zinaida Grecianîi,
Moldova
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Vice-Minister 2000-01 and First Vice-Minister of Finance 2001-02,
Minister of Finance 2002-05 and 1. Vice Prime Minister and Coordinator
of the activity of executive
institution in charge with economic-financial sector
from 2005.
Prime Minister 2008-09.
(b. 1956-). |
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2005-11
Michèle Alliot-Marie,
France (Third in Cabinet) |
1986-88
Secretary of State for Education, 1993-95 Minister of Youth and
Sports.
From 1994 1. Vice-President of the General Council of the Department of
Pyrénées-
Atlantique, 1999-2002
President of RPR, Rally for the Republic. Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs 2002-07, Minister of Interior
and Overseas Afffairs 2007-09 and Minister of State from 2009, Minister of
Justice 2009-10 and Minister of Foreign Affairs 2010-11. (b. 1946-)
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2006,
2006-07 and 2007 Zyta Gilowska,
Poland
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Apart from her role as Vice-President of the
Council of Ministers, she was also Minister of Finance. She was Deputy Leader of the Citizen's
Platform 2003-05, Member of the Sejm 2001-05. First
fired because of charges of lying about her activities during the
Communist regime, but when she was cleared, she was reinstated in her
office. Laster same year she was
removed from office again, but appointed State Secretary and Acting
Minister of Finance, but reappointed after a few days. Professor of economy. (b.
1949-). |
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2006-09
Georgette Koko, Gabon |
Vice-Premier Minister and Minister of Environment, Protection of the Nature,
Research and Technology
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2006-07
Dr. Tsai Ying-wen, Taiwan |
1999-2000 Senior
Advisor of the National Security Council.
2000-04
Minister and
Chairperson of Mainland Affairs Council
and
2004-06
Member of the
Legislative Yuan.
As Vice Premier
she was also Minister of Consumer Protection,
Chairperson of the Democratic Progressive
Party 2008-12 and from 2014 and Presidential Candidate in 2012
and 2016
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(b. 1956-).
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2006-07 Maria dos Santos Lima da Costa Tebús
Torres, São Tomé e Príncipe
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Maria Santos Tebus was
Minister of Planning and Finance
2002-03
and again 2006-07, when she was also appointed Vice Prime Minister. Formerly a
civil servant in and Advisor of the Ministry 1999-2002. (b. 1958-). |
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2006-09
Tzipi Livni, Israel |
2001
Minister of Regional Cooperation,
2001-02 Minister without Portfolio in the Prime Minister's Office for Information,
2002-03 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2003-06 Minister of Immigrant Absorption
2004-05 Minister of Construction and Housing,
2004-05, Minister of Justice 2005-06 and Foreign Minister and 1. Vice-Premier 2006-09.
She was MK for Likud 1999-2005, when she joined Kadima and party
leader 2008-12 and was charged with the formation of a new government.
Chairperson of Hatnua Birshut Tzipi Livni
(The Movement Headed by Tzipi Livni) from 2012.
(b. 1958-).
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2006
Ivana Dulić-Marković, Serbia |
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Minister of
Agriculture, Forestry and Water
Management 2004-06 and
Deputy Prime Minister in the Independent Republic of Serbia from 2006.
PhD , widow and mother of two children. (b. 1961-). |
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2006-08 Gabriela
Trajkovska Konevska,
Macedonia |
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Vice-president of the Government and
Minister of European Integration and
MP for VMRO-DPMNE. |
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2006-10
Maud Olofsson, Sweden |
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Minister of
Entreprise, Energy and Communication
2006-11.
Chairperson of Centerpartiet 2001-11 and MP from 2002. (b. 1955-) |
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2006-08
Constance Simelane, Swaziland |
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2003-06 Minister of Education. |
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2006 Lucia Žitňanská,
Slovakia |
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State Secretary of
Justice 2002-06 and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice
from February til July 2006.
(b. 1964-). |
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2006-10 Paula A. Cox, Bermuda (British Dependent
Territory) |
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Succeeded her father, Eugene Cox as Minister of Finance when he died
in January 2004. 1998-2002 Minister of Labour and Home Affairs and
Public Security, 2002-04 Minister of Education, 2002-03 Minister of
Development, 2003-04 Attorney General and Minister of Justice
and
Minister of Finance 2004-12, Deputy Leader of the Progressive
Labour Party and Deputy Premier 2006-10, Party Leader and Premier 2010-12. (b. 1969-). |
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2006-09 Gordana
Đurović,
Montenegro |
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Professor of Economy. Minister of Foreign Economic Relations 2004-06
and also Minister of and European Integration since 2004 and
Deputy Prime Minister 2006-09. (b. 1964-). |
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2006
Linda
Mūrniece,
Latvia (Second in Cabinet) |
Linda Murniece
was also Minister
of Defence. She was
Paliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of the
Interior 2002-04
Deputy
Chairperson of the New Era Party in 2004 and 2005 Parliamentary Secretary of
Defence
(b. 1970-).
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2006-09 Kinga
Göncz, Hungary
(Second in Cabinet) |
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2002-04
Political State Secretary of Health, Social- and Family Affairs,
2004
Minister without Portfolio for Equal Opportunities and
2004-06 Minister of Family, Children and Equality and Foreign Minister 2006-09. (b. 1947-). |
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2007-08 Sahana Pradhan, Nepal (Third in Cabinet) |
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Leader of the Communist Party 1978-87, Leader of the Marxist NKP 1987-90, Leader of the United Left Front 1990-91, President of the united Marxist party UML 1991 and now member of the Executive Committee.
1990-91 Minister of Industry and Trade, 1996-97 Minister of Forests and Soil Conservation and 1997 Minister of Women and Welfare and 2007-08 also Minister of Foreign Affairs. She is widow of Pushpa Lal Shresta, leader of the Communists 1949-78, (b. 1932-). |
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2007-
Lúcia Maria Brandão Freitas Lobato, East Timor
(Third in Cabinet) |
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Lucia Lobato has been MP since 2001. Deputy
Leader of the Democratical Social Party (PSD) since 2003 and Deputy
Opposition Leader. Presidential Candidate in 2007 and Minister of Justice
and and Third in Cabinet from 2007. Jurist and university teacher. (b. 1965-). |
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2007 Annie Beustes, Nouvelle Caledonie
(French External Territory) |
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1999-2001 Minister of Economic Affairs and Relations with the
Economic and Social Council,
2001-02 1. Vice-President and 2002-04 7. Vice-President of the
Bureau du Congès, President of various parliamentary committees
before becoming Vice-President of the Government, a post she left
after 2 weeks after new elections in the Congress and
Minister of Economy, Labour, Civil Service, External Commerce,
Costums, Monetary Questions and Credit from 2007. (b. 1945-). |
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2007-11 Dancia Penn,
British Virgin
Islands (External Territory of United Kingdom and Great Britain)
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1992-99 Attorney-General and ex-officio member of the Legislative Council.
2004-07 Deputy Governor
and
2006 Acting Governor and Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Welfare
2007-11. (b. 1951-). |
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2007- Maysa Yazmuhammedova, Turkmenistan
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| Former Deputy Governor
of the Ahaol Region and Trade Union leade before she was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in Charge of
Culture, Media and Health Care Issues. |
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2007- Brigid Annisette-George,
Trinidad and Tobago (Second in Cabinet)
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| Attorney At law through 20
years, and she was appointed government Senator in 2007. As Attorney
General she is the Deputy of the Prime Minister according
to the constitution. |
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2007-11
Britt Lundberg, Åland (Finish External Territory)
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Apart from her position as Vice-Lantråd/Deputy Premier she is also Minister of Education and Culture.
She was
Vice-Chairperson of the
Parliamentary Group of Centern
2002-03.
Minister of the
Chancellery
in charge of the European Union, Equality, Personnel Affairs, Housing, Elections,
Municipal Administrations and Lotteries
2005-07 and Speaker of the Lagting from 2011.
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2007-10 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 from 2006 and Deputy Leader of the Opposition 2006-07. Along with her
role as Deputy Prime Minister she was
Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace
Relations 2007-10 and Prime Minister 2010-13. (b. 1961-). |
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2008-10
Đurđa Adlešić, Croatia |
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Djurda Adelesic is former Mayor of Bjelovar, Vice-President of the
Social Liberal Party, HSLS 2000-06 and then Leader of a new party formed
as a merger between the
Croatian
Social-Liberal Party and Liberal Party
- also named HSLS. Around 2000 and 2001-08 President of the
Parliamentary Committee on National Security. 2001 Deputy Foreign
Minister, 2004-08 Vice-President of the Sabor, 2005 Presidential
Candidate and Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Interior Policy from
2008.
(b. 1960-). |
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2008-09
Honorine Dossou-Naki, Gabon
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The second
female member of the government as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
1982-88,
Ambassador to France 1995-2002,
Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals
2002-07,
Minister of the Merchant Navy
and charged with Port Equipments in 2007 until she was appointed Minister of
State Control, Inspections, the Fight against Corruption and Illegal
Enrichment later in the year, nd Vice-Premier Minister from 2008. |
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2008-14
Joëlle Milquet, Belgium
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National President of the
Centre Démocrate
Humaniste,
CHP
1999-2011
and Minister of Labour and Equal Opportunities 2008-11
and of Interior 2011-14
and became Vice-Premer and Minister in the French Community
of Compulsory Education, Small Children, Day Care Facilities and
Culture in 2014. (b. 1961-). |
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2008-10 Meglena
Plugchieva, Bulgaria
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Meglena Ivanova
Plugchieva-Aleksandrova was
Socialist MP 1995-2004, 1997-2004 Bulgarian Representative in Rheinland-Pfalz,
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry 2001-04, Ambassador to Germany 2004-08
and Deputy Prime Minister charged with the Management of the European
Union Funds from 2008. Vice-Presidential Candidate in 2011. (b. 1956-) |
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2008-11
Mary Coughlan
, Ireland
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Fianna Fail TD 1987-2011,
Minister of State (with special responsibility for the Gaeltacht
and the Islands)
2001-02, Minister of Social Security and Family Affairs
2002-04,
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
2004-08 and since 2008 also Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment. (b. 1965-). |
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2008-09 Elmira S. Ibraimova, Kyrgyzstan
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| Ambassador and
Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1999-2002, Leader
of the parliamentary faction of Ak Zhol in 2007, Deputy Foreign
Minister 2007-08 and Deputy Prime Minister until her resignation
from the cabinet. (b. 1962-). |
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2008-11
Farida Shorahimovna
Akbarova, Uzbekistan
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| Former Deputy Governor of
Tashkent Region and Vice-Chairperson of the national Women's
Committee 2007-08 until her appoitment as Deputy Prime Minister and
Chairperson of the Committee. |
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2008-11 Lene Espersen, Denmark
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MP 1994-2014, Political Spokesperson of The Conservative People's
1999-2001
and 2014, Minister of Justice 2001-08 and Political Leader 2008-11, Minister of Economic and Business Affairs
2008-10 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2010. Mother
of 2 sons. (b. 1965-)
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2008-13
Liv Signe Navarsete, Norway
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Parliamentary Leader 2001-05 and 2. Vice-Chairperson 2003-08
and Leader of Senterpartiet 2008-14 and Parliamentary Leader 2013-14. Minister of Transport and Communication
2005-09, 2. Vice-Premier from 2008 and Minister of Local Government and
Regional Development 2009-13. She is mother of 2 daughters. (b. 1958-). |
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2008-
Men Sam An,
Cambodia
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Also known as Mem San An or Men San Orn, she was
Member of the Politburo
of the Cambodian People’s Party (Communist) 1986-93 and later of
the Standing Committe, Member of the Permanent Committee of the National Assembly and
Chairperson of the Public Health, Social and Women's Affairs’ Committee
1998-2004,
Senior Minister and
Minister of Parliamentary Relations and Inspection
2004-08 and Deputy Prime Minister
without Portfolio from 2008. |
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2008-12
Adiatu Djaló Nandigna,
Guinea Bissau (Second in Cabinet) |
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Also known as Maria
Adiatu Diallo Nandigna, she was
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport 2007-08 and has been Second in
Cabinet since 2008 and Minister of the Presidency of the Council of
Ministers, Social Communication and Parliament from 2009 and Acting
Prime Minister from 10. February 2012. |
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2009
Vlasta Parkanová, Czech Republic |
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2010- Nellie
Kroes, The European Union |
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Dutch Member of parliament for VVD 1971-77, State Secretary 1977-81 and Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management
1982-89, President of Nijmrode University 1991-2000 and member
of a number of boards of major Dutch companies,
Commissioner for Competition
and Vice-President of the EU-Commission and
Commissioner for the Digital Agenda from 2010. (b.
1941-). |
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2010-
Baroness Ashton
of Upholland,
The European Union |
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Catherine Ashton has been a
Baroness from 1999, British
Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State of Education and Skills 2001-04, Parliamentary Under-Secretary
of Constitutional Affairs 2004-06 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs 2006-07,
Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council
2007-08, EU-Commissioner for Trade from 2008-10 and
1. Vice-President of the EU-Commission and
High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policyfrom
2010.
(b. 1956-). |
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2010-14 Viviane Reding,
The European Union |
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Member of the Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies
og Luxembourg 1989-99,
Vice-President of the conservative, CSV,
Commissioner for
Education
and Culture 1999-2004,
Commissioner for the Information Society and Media
2004-10 and
Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights
and Citizenship 2001-09 (b. 1951-). |
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2010- Penda Diallo, Guinea |
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A trade unionist she was appointed Minister of State for Public
Service, Administrative Reform, Labor and Employment in the interim
country. |
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2010-12
Kim Rak Hui,
North Korea |
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Former Vice Department Director of the
Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chief Secretary
the South Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the WPK 2005-10.
She lived (1933-2013). |
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2010-circa 2012
Han Kwang Bok, North Korea |
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Vice-Minister of Machine-Building Industry until 2009 and
Minister of Electronics Industry 2009-12 and a
director in the central committee of the WPK from 2012. (b. 1946-). |
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2010-12 Awa Ndiaye,
Senegal |
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2007-09 Minister of Family,
Female Entrepreneurship and Microcredits and 2010-12
Minister of State, Minister of Gender and Relations with
Foreign and African Women's Assocciations |
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2010-12 Innocence Ntap, Senegal |
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2007-09 Minister of Civil Service,
Labour and the Professional Organisations and 2010-12 Minister of State, Minister of Labour and Professional Organisations. |
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2010-
Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgia |
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2004-05 Deputy Minister of Justice,
2005-06 Deputy Minister of Interior,
2006-07
Chairperson of the
Tbilisi Court of Appeal,
2007-08 Minister of Justice
and
State Procecutor in 2008 and Foreign Minister in 2008. (b. 1977-). |
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2010-15
Girlyn Miguel, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines |
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2001-03 Minister of Social
Development, Family, Gender and Ecclesiastical Affairs, 2003-05
Minister Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries,
2005-15
Minister of Education and appointed Deputy Prime Minister in 2010 |
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2011-14 Edita Tahiri, Kosovo |
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As Deputy Minister she was responsible for
foreign relations and head of the delegation the dialogue on
practical issues with the Republic of Serbia.
Minister without Portfolio |
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2011-13 Mimoza Kusari Lila, Kosovo |
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Also Minister for Trade and Industry and, according to some
reports, candidate for Prime Minister in 2011. |
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2011-12
Verica Kalanović, Serbia |
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2007-08
State Secretary of Economy and Regional Development
2008-11 Minister for the National Investment Plan
and Vice-President of the Government. |
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2011-
Cristina Fontes Lima, Cape Vede |
Maria Cristina
Lopes Almeida Fontes Lima
was Minister of Justice 2001-06,
Minister of
Local Administration
2001-02, Minister of Interior 2002-04, Minister Adjunct to the
Prime Minister and Government Spokesperson 2004-06, also Minister of the
Presidency of the Council of Ministers
2006-08,
Minister of Defence and State Reform 2006-11 and also Minister of Health
from 2011.
(b. 1958-).
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2011-13
Marjory LeBreton,
Canada (Third in the Cabinet) |
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Conservative Senator from 1993 and Opposition Whip in the Senate 2004-06,
Leader of the Government in the Senate 2006-13 and Minister of
State
responsible for
Seniors 2008-11 (b. 1940-). |
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2011- Jutta
Urpilainen, Finland |
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Also Minister of Finance. Chairperson of the Social Democrats 2008-14,
(b. 1975-) |
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2011-13 Karolina Peake, The Czech
Republic |
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Lawyer, member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2010 and Chairperson
of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of the Chamber of
Deputies, also Deputy Chair of the Public Affairs Party, VV,
founding chairperson of LIDEM – Liberal Democrats 2012-13, and Minister of Defence
in 2012. (b.
1975-) |
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2011-14 Margrethe Vestager, Denmark |
| 1. Vice-Premier and also Minister of Economic Affairs and Interior from 2011. 1993-97 Party Chairperson, Deputy Group
Chairperson 2001-07 and Group Chairperson and Party Leader of the
Social Liberals 2007-14.
Minister of Education 1998-2001
and Minister of Church Affairs
1998-2000.
Named Danish Designate EU-Commissioner for
Competition in 2014. (b. 1968-) |
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2011-13 Teuta Arifi, Macedonia |
| Vice-Prime Minister
charged with European Integration. MP from 2008 and Chairperson of
the Foreign Affairs Committee and became Mayor of
Tetovo in 2013. (b. 1969-) |
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2011-15
Annika Olsen, Faero Islands (Danish External Territory) |
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Member of the City Council of
Tórshavn 2004-08 and MP for Fólkaflokkurin from
2008, Minister of Interior 2008-11 and Deputy Premier and Minister
of Social Affairs 2011-15. Mother of 2 (b. 1975-).
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2011- Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría,
Spain |
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She
is
1. Vice-President of the Government, Minister of the Presidency and
Government Spokesperson. Former Spokesperson of Partido Popular in the
Congress. (b. 1971-) |
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2011-16
Milanka
Opačić, Croatia |
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She is
Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Social Welfare and Youth. Also
Vice-President of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia and MP from
1992. (b. 1962-) |
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2011- Gulnara Asymbekova, Kyrgyzstan |
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MP and
Deputy Prime Minister for Social Issues. |
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2011-
Elmira Irkinovna Basitkhanova, Uzbekistan |
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She is Deputy Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Women's Committee
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2012-14
Raisa Vasylivna Bohatyryova,
Ukraine |
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People’s Deputy 1990–1994,
Minister of
Health
1999-2000 and since 2012,
Presidential Advisor 2000, Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada since 2000
and Leader of the Party of Regions parliamentary faction 2002–2007,
Secretary
of the National Security
and Defence
Council
2007-2012.
(b. 1953-). |
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2012 Natalya Petrovna Rusanova, Transnistria (Self declared Republic in Moldova) |
| 2007-12
First Deputy Minister of Industry and 1. Deputy Prime Ministe in
2012. |
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2012 Natalia Grigorevna Nikiforova, Transnistria (Self declared Republic in Moldova) |
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Minister of Education in 2012 and later in
the year appointed Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy |
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2012-15 Maya Ivanovna Parnas, Transnistria (Self declared Republic in Moldova) |
| She was appointed
Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Development
and Finance.
Acting Prime Minister in 2015. |
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2012-15 Nina Shtansky,
Transnistria (Self declared Republic in Moldova) |
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Presidential Special Representative
for the Transnistria Negotiating Process in 2012, Foreign Minister
and Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary
2012-15. Resigned when she married
President Evgeny Shevchuk in 2015. (b. 1978-) |
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2012- Olga Golodets, Russia |
| She
is Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Social Issues. Deputy
Director for Personnel at the Norilsk Nickel company 1999-2008, Deputy Mayor
of Moscow 20010-12 |
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2012- Carrie
Lam, Hong Kong |
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Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was Permanent Secretary for Home
Affairs 2006-07 and Secretary of Development 2007-12. As Chief
Secretary for Administration she the second in command of the Special Administrative
Region of the People's Republic of
China. (b. 1957-) |
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2012-13
Suzana
Grubješić, Serbia |
| She is Deputy Prime
Minister in charge of European Integration. |
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2012-14 Annette Lilja
Vilhelmsen, Denmark |
| She was
Second Deputy
Premier and was Minister of Business Affairs and Growth
2012-13 and Minister of Social Affairs and Integration 2013-14. 2001-11 Member of the
Municipal Council and among others 2. Deputy Mayor of Kerteminde
Byråd and MP 2011-15. (b. 1959-). |
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2012-14
Kamila Abdyrazakovna
Talieva,
Kyrgyzstan |
She
was Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs
until she was appointed
Minister of Culture, Information and Tourism in 2014. She was Deputy
Governor of the Jalal-Abad Region
2005-2008.
(b. 1967-). |
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2012-
Aminata
Touré, Senegal (Third in the
Cabinet) |
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Also Minister of Justice and Guardian af the
Seals |
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2012- Foawziya
Yussuf Haji Adan, Somalia |
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Presidential candidate in Somaliland in 2003 and Leader of the Peace
Democracy and Prosperity political party-NDB (Ururka Nabad
Dimuquraadiyada iyo Barwaaqo). Also Foreign Minister from 2012 |
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2012- Akierra Missick, Turks and Caicos Islands (British External
Territory) |
| Apart from her role as
Deputy Premier she is also Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and
Culture |
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2012-16
Vesna Pusić,
Croatia |
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Chairperson
of Croatian
of Narodna
Stranka 2000-05 and of the
Narodna Stranka-Liberalni
Demokrati
2005-08,
Vice-President of the Sabor
2003-04 and Presidential Candidate in 2009 and Minister of Foreign and
European Affairs from 2011. (b. 1953-) |
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2013-
Liu Yandong,
China |
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Vice-Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference (CPPCC) 2003-08 and Member of the Politburo of the
Communist Party 2007,
State Councillor and Vice-Chairwoman of
the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
2008-13 and 2. Vice-Premier from 2013.
In 2012 Several news reports named her the first female potential
candidate for the Politburo's Standing Committee. (b. 1945-). |
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2013-14
Emma Bonino, Italy (Third in
Cabinet) |
| Foreign Minister and Third
in Cabinet from 2013.
She was Secretary of the Parliament Group of Partito Radicale 1976-78,
Group Vice-President 1979, Party President 1991-93 and Party Leader 1993-95,
European
Union
Commissioner
for Fisheries,
Consumer Policy
and the
European Community Humanitarian Office
1995-99,
Presidential Candidate 1999 and 2013, Leader of La Rosa nel Pugno
from
2005, Minister of International Trade and Minister
without Portfolio for European Affairs 2006-08 and Vice-President of the Senate 2008-13. (b. 1948-) |
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2013-16
Natalia Gherman,
Moldova |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration
since 2013,
Deputy Foreign
Minister 2009-13,
Ambassador to Austria, OSCE and other International Organisations in
Vienna 2002-06 and to Sweden, Norway and Finland 2006-09
and Acting Prime Minister in 2015.
She is daughter of
former President Mircea Snegur
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2013-15 Tatiana Potang,
Moldova |
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She is
Deputy Prime Minister of Social Issues
and was
Vice-Minister of Education 2009-13. |
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2013 Penny Wong, Australia (Third in Cabinet) |
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Penelope Ying-yen Wong has been Labor Senator from 2001 and was
Minister for Climate Change, Energy Effeciency and Water 2007-10,
Minister of Finance and Deregulation 2010-13 and in 2013 first
Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate and later Senate
Leader and Third in the Cabinet.
She is her country's first openly lesbian minister
and is born in Malaysia
as daughter of a Chinese father and Australian mother. (b. 1968-). |
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2013- Julie Bishop, Australia
(Third in Cabinet) |
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Minister for Ageing 2003-06.
Minister for Education,
Science and
Training, Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues
2006-07
and Minister of Foreign Affairs.,
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 2007 and Deputy Leader of the Opposition 2007-13.
Lives with Peter Nattrass, former Mayor of Brisbane.
(b. 1956-). |
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2013- Minister of
Fiance Siv Jensen, Norway |
| Also Minister of Finance. MP from 1997, 1. Vice-Chairperson 1999-2006, Deputy
Parliamentary Leader 2001-05, Chairperson from 2006 and Parliamentary Leader
2005-13 of Fremskrittspartiet and Chair of the Finance Committee of the Storting
2001-05. (b. 1969-) |
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2013- Ine Eriksen Søreide,
Norway (Third in cabinet) |
| Foreign Mnister. MP for the
conserative party Høyre from 2001, Chair of the Committee of Foreign Affairs and
Defence of the Storting 2009-13. (b. 1976-). |
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2013-
Gulshara Abdykalikova,
Kazakhstan |
|
2003-06 Vice-Minister of Labour and Social Protection
and 2009-13
Minister of Labour and Social Protection. |
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2013-15 Maria Luís Albuquerque,
Portugal |
|
1. Minister of State
and Minister of Finance. She was Secretary of State of Finance for the Treasury and
the Finances 2011-13. (b. 1967-). |
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2013-14
Elżbieta
Bieńkowska,
Poland |
|
Elzbieta Bienkowska is
was
appointed
Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Transport, Construction and Maritime
Economy
and had been
Minister of Regional Development
2007-14.
EU-Commissioner
for the Internal Market, Industry Entreprepreneurship and Small and
Mediumsized Entreprises from 2014. |
 |
2013 and
2014
Ekatarina Zaharieva, Bulgaria |
|
Deputy Minister of Regional
Development
2011-12,
Secretary General of the Presidency
2012-13,
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Regional Development in 2013
and Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister in
charge of Economic Policy, Minister of
Regional Development and Minister of
Investment Planning in 2014. (b. 1976-) |
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2013 Deyana
Kostadinova, Bulgaria |
|
Deputy Minster of Social Policy and Labour
2011-12,
Presidential Advisor 2012-13 and
Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy and Labour
in 2013. |
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2013
and 2014
Iliyana
Tsanova, Bulgaria |
|
Worked
with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 2003-13 and
Caretaker
Deputy Prime Minister in charge of EU
Funds
in
2013
and 2014.
(b. 1976-) |
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2013-14
Zinaida Zlatanova,
Bulgaria |
| Also Minister of
Justice and EU funds absorption. She was Head of the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria 2008-13. |
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2013-14 Daniela Nikolova Bobeva,
Bulgaria
|
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She is Deputy Prme Minister
responsible for Coordinating the Economic Policies.
Minister of Trade and Foreign
Economic Co-operation
in 1997 and held
a number of positions as manager of various public and semi-public banks.
(b. 1958-) |
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2014-
Meglena Kuneva,
Bulgaria |
Meglena Stilyanova Kuneva-Prumova
was
was appointed Deputy Prime
Minister for EU Policies and Institutional Affairs.
She was
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Chief EU-Negotiator
2001-02,
Minister of European Affairs
2002-06,
European Commissioner for Consumer Protection
2007-11
Presidential
Candidate in 2011 and Chairperson of the Bulgaria for Citizen
Party from 2011 and later Co-Leader of the Reform Block (b. 1957-) |
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2014-
Rumyana Bachvarova,
Bulgaria |
| Deputy Prime
Minister for Coalition Policy
and State Administration from 2014 and
also Minister of Interior. (b. 1959-) |
|
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2014-
Kristalina Georgieva,
European Union
|
|
Former Vice-President of the World Bank. In
2009 she turned down the offer of the post of Vice-Premier and
Minister of Finance in Bulgaria,
EU-Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response
2010-14 and
Vice-President of the Commission for Budget and Human Resources
|
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2014-
Federica Mogherini,
European Union |
|
MP for PD and Italian
Foreign Minister for a few months in 2014. Also Vice-President of
the EU-Commission and in charge of Security Policy. (b. 1973-) |
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2014-
Ségolène Royal,
France (Third in the cabinet) |
|
1992-93 Minister of Environment, 1994-95 President of National
Council of the Socialist Party, 1997-2000 Minister-Delegate of
National Education, Technology and Science, 2000-02
Minister-Delegate of Family and Childhood,
2004-14 President of the Regional
Council of Poitou-Charentes,
2007
Socialist Presidential
and
appointed Minister of Environment in 2014. (b. 1953-). |
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2014-15 Elvira Kubanychbekovna Sarieva,
Kyrgyzstan |
Journalist and MP.
Appointed Education and Science Minister in 2015. (b. 1975-). |
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2014- Kori
Udovički,
Serbia |
Minister of Energy
and Mines
2002-03
Governor
of the National Bank 2003-04 and Assistant Secretary-General of
United Nations 2007-12 and appointed
2014-
Vice-President of the Government and
Minister for
State Administration and Local Self-government
(b. 1961-). |
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2014-
Zorana
Mihajlović, Serbia |
|
Minister
of Energy, Development and Environmental Protection
2012-14
and
Vice-President of the Government and Minister
of Transportation and Construction from 2014. (b. 1970-). |
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2014-
Aster
Mamo,
Ethiopia |
|
She was appointed Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Civil Service and Good Governance and
Reform Cluster Coordinator. Former Advisor
to the PM and Chief Government Whip and Vice-Chairperson of the
governing OPDO from 2014. |
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2014- Joan Burton, Ireland |
|
Labour
MP 1992-92 and from 2002,
Deputy Leader in
2007 and Leader in 2014.
Minister of State for Poverty
1993-94,
Minister of State for Development Aid and Justice
1994-97,
Minister of Social Protection from 2011 and
Deputy Premier / Tánaiste
from 2014.
(b. 1949-)
|
|
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2014-
Marie Noëlle Andet Koyara,
Central African Republic |
|
Minister of Rural Development
2013-14,
Minister of State and Minister in charge
of Public Works, Equipment and Planning 2014-15
and appointed Minister of State and
Minister of Defence in 2015 |
 |
2014-
Delmaude Ryan,
Montserrat (UK External Territory) |
| The
Deputy Leader of the People’s Democratic
Movement from 2013
she was appointed
Deputy Premier and Minister for
Education, Heatlh and Sport. |
 |
2014-
Åsa Romson,
Sweden |
| Also Minister of Climate
and Energy. Joint Spokesperson of the Green Party from 2011. |
|
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2014
Violeta Bulc,
Slovenia |
|
She was
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister without portfolio for
Development, Strategic Projects and Cohesion for
one month before becomming
EU-Commissioner for Transport |
 |
2014-
Natalya Ivanovna Kochanova,
Belarus |
| Natallia
Ivanaŭna Kačanava was chairperson of Novopolotsk
City Executive Committee 2007-14 |
 |
2014-16 Gladys
del Valle Requena, Venezuela |
She was 5th Vice-President
of the Council of Ministers for Social Development and Revolution of
the Missions and appointed
Minister
of Women and Gender Equality in 2016. |
 |
2015-
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Namibia |
|
1989-96 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs,
1996-2002 Head
of the Department of Women in the Office of the President,
2000-05 Minister of Women's Affairs and Child Welfare,
2005-08 Minister of
Information and Broadcasting,
2008-12 Minister of Environment and Tourism,
Foreign Minister from 2012
and Secretary General of SWAPO since 1996. (b. 1952-) |
 |
2015- Emine Çolak, Turkish Republic of Northern
Cyprus (Second in the Cabinet) |
| Lawyer, Member of Lefkoşa
Turkish Municipal Council 1994-2002 and Foreign Minister from 2015. (b. 1958-). |
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2015- Dariga Nursultanovna Nazarbayeva
Kazakhstan
|
| Chairperson
of the Republican Public Defence Foundation in 2003. Chairperson of
the Asar (All Together) Party since 2003. The daughter of President
Nursultan Nazabayev, she is considered in some aspects as his
deputy and possible successor. She was Director General of the
Khabar News Agency 1995-2001 and has been Chairperson of the Board
of Directors of the Agency from 2001. Deputy Speaker of the Majilis
in 2014-15. (b. 1963-). |
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2015 Damira Abaskanovna
Niyazalieva, Kyrgyzstan |
|
Provisoric
Minister of Health |
 |
2015-
Gulmira Kudaiberdieva, Kyrgyzstan |
| 2014- Deputy Prime Minister |
 |
2015-
Delcy Eloina Rodríguez Gómez, Venezuela |
Delcy
Rodríguez was Minister of Presidential Affairs in 2006,
Vice-Minister for Europe 2006-10
and
Minister of Communication and Information
2012-13 and 2014,
Chancellor and Minister
of Foreign Affairs from 2014 and appointed 6th Vice-President of the Council of
Ministers for the Sovreignty Politics, Security and Peace in 2015. (b. 1970-). |
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2015-16 Isis Ochoa Cañizales, Venezuela |
|
2006-07 Vice-Minister of Food
,
2007-09 Vice-Minister of Presidential Relations, 2009-10 Vice-Minister of Popular Participation, 2010-13 and
from 2015 Minister of
Municipalities when she was also appointed 7th Vice-President of the Council of
Ministers for the Development of the Territorial Socialism. |
 |
2016-
Luisana Mellonan,
Venezuela |
|
Appointed 8th
Vice-President of the Council of Ministers of Misions and Grand
Socialist Missions Lusiana Melo in Minister of Health 2016. |
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