Worldwide Guide to Women in
Leadership
Chronological List of
Female Foreign Ministers
1947-53 Ana Pauker, Romania
1956-64 Golda Meïr, Israel
1960-66 and 1970-77 Sirivamo D.R. Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka
1967-69 and 1984 Indira Gandhi, India
1969-76 Nguyễn Thị Bình, The Provisorial Revolutionary Government of South
Vietnam
1974 Elizabeth Rukidi Nyabongo, Uganda
1975 (Acting) Dr. Licelott Catalina Marte Hoffiz de Barrio, Dominican Republic
1976-78 Karin Söder, Sweden
1978-85 Maria do Nascimenta Graça Amorin, Sao Tome e Principe
1979-80 Flora MacDonald, Canada
1979 Gloria Amon Nikoi, Ghana
1980-84 Colette Flesh, Luxembourg
1980-90 Dame Eugenia Charles, Dominica
1984-94 Dr. Gaositwe Kogakwa Tibe Chiepe, Botswana
1987-88 Adrienne Ekila Liyonda, Zaire (Congo)
1989 Susana Myrta Ruíz Cerutti, Argentina
1989-91 Akmaral Khaydarovna Arystanbekova, Kazakstan
1990-97 (†) Danielle Jorre de St. Jorre, Seychelles
1991-94 Dr. Nohemi Sanín Posada de Rubio, Colombia
1991-94 Baroness Margaretha af Ugglas, Sweden
1991-93 Barbara Jean McDougall, Canada
1991-92 and 2002 Alda Bandeira Tavares Vaz da Conçeicão, São Tomé e Príncipe
1991-94 Pascaline Mferri Bongo, Gabon
1991 Marie-Denise Fabien-Jean-Louis, Haiti
1991-circa 92 Minister-in-exile
1991-92 Shakhlo Makhmudova, Uzbekistan
The first post-independence Foreign Minister.
1992, 1994-96 and 2005 Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan
1993-95 Claudette Werleigh, Haiti
1993-2001 Dr. Andrea Willi, Liechtenstein
1993 (Acting) Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, Vanuatu
1994-2008 Dame Billie Antoinette Miller, Barbados
1994-98 Lena Hjelm-Wallén, Sweden
1994-95 Sy Kadiatou Sow, Mali
1994-95 Dr. Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper, Liberia
1994-95 Maritza Ruiz de Vielman, Guatemala
1995-2002 Janet Bostwick, Bahamas
1995-2000 Tarja Halonen, Finland
1995-96 Susanna Agnelli, Italy
1996-98 Dr. María Emma Mejía Vélez de Caballero, Colombia
1996-97 (Acting) Irena Georgieva Bokova, Bulgaria
1996-97 Prof. Dr. Tansu Çiller, Turkey
1997-2001 Madeleine Korbel Albright, United States of America
1997-2001 Nadezhda Nikolova Mihailova, Bulgaria
1997-98 Shirley Yema Gbujoma, Sierra Leone
1997-98 Zdenka Kramplova, Slovakia
1997, 1998 (March-April), 1999, 2000 (November), 2001, 2002 (January)
2003
(June), 2004 (June/July)... 2006 (May) (Acting)
H.R.H. Princess Hajah Masna
binti Omer Ali of Brunei, Brunei
1997-2002 Minister of Foreign Affairs Naira Melkumian, Nargonyi-Karabakh
1998-2002 Lila Ratsifandrihamanana,
Madagascar
1998-2003 (†) Anna Lindh, Sweden
1998-2000 Rosario Green Macías de Heller, Mexico
1998-2000 Tuyaa Nyam-Osoryn, Mongolia
1999-2004 Lydie Polfer, Luxembourg
1999-2009 Dr. Nkosazana C. Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa
1999-2004 Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Avila, El Salvador
1999-2000 and 2001-10 Dodo Aïchatou Mindaoudou, Niger
1999 Hilia Barber, Guinea-Bissau
2000-04 Soledad Alvear Valenzuela, Chile
2000-04 Dr. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austria
2004-10 Commissioner of External Relations, European Union
2000-02 Haja Mahawa Bangoura Camara, Guinea
2000-04 Lillian E. Patel, Malawi
2000-05 Dr. Maria Elisabeth Levens,
2001 Antonieta Rosa Gomes, Guinea Bissau
2001-02 Tanaka Makiko, Japan
2001 and 2002-06 Ilinka Mitreva, Macedonia
2001-02 Arta Dade, Albania
2001-02 Filomena Mascarenhas Tipote, Guinea Bissau
2002-05 Kristiina Ojuland, Estonia
2002-04 Yoriko Kawaguchi, Japan
2002-04 Ana Palacio Vallelersundi, Spain
2002 and 2003 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, The Philippines
2002-06 Carolina Barco Isackson, Colombia
2002-04 María de Fátima Lima Veiga, Capo Verde
2002-04 Sandra Kalniete, Latvia
2003-11 Micheline Calmy-Rey, Switzerland
2003 Nina Pacari Vega, Ecuador
2003 Fatoumata Djau Baldé, Guinea Bissau
2003-06 Leila Rachid de Cowles, Paraguay
2003-06 Laila Freivalds, Sweden
2003-04 Dr. Teresa Pinto Basto Gouveia, Portugal
2003-04 Delia Domingo Albert, Philippines
2003-06 Edna Adan Ismail, Somaliland
2004-05 Salomé Zurabishvili, Georgia
2004-08 Dr. Ursula Plassnik, Austria
2004 and 2007 (Acting) Helēna Demakova, Latvia
2005-09 Dr. Condoleezza Rice, United States of America
2005-08 Alcinda Abreu, Moçambique
2005-08 Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Croatia
2005-06 Sidibé Fatoumata Kaba, Guinea
2005-09 Rita Kieber-Beck, Liechtenstein
2005 (Acting) Ana Trišić-Babić, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2005-09 Antoinette Batumubwira, Burundi
2005-10 Lygia Kraag-Keteldijk, Suriname
2006-07 Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro, Tanzania
2006-09 Tzipi Livni, Israel
2006-09 Dora Bakoyannis, Greece
2006 (Acting) Carin Jämtin, Sweden
2006-07 Mariam Aladji Boni Diallo, Benin
2006-07 Margaret Beckett, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2006-07 Anna Fotyga, Poland
2006-09 Joyce Banda, Malawi
2006-09 Dr. Kinga Göncz, Hungary
2006-07 Valgerður Sverrísdóttir, Iceland
2006 Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria
2006-07 María Consuelo Araújo Castro, Colombia
2006-07 Joy Ogwu, Nigeria
2006-12 Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Mexico
2006-07 Maia Chigoyeva-Tsaboshvili, South Ossetia in Georgia
2007 María Fernanda Espinoza, Ecuador
2007-08 Sahana Pradhan, Nepal
2007-09 Maria da Conceição Nobre Cabral, Guinea Bissau
2007-09 Meritxell Mateu i Pi, Andorra
2007 (Acting) Adaljíza Albertina Xavier Reis Magno, Timor Leste
2007-09 Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Iceland
2007-08 Lisa Shoman, Belize
2007-08 and 2011-13 Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, Cyprus
2007-10 Olubanke King-Akerele, Liberia
2007-10 Zainab Hawa Bangura, Sierra Leone
2007-10 Paula Gopee-Scoon, Trinidad and Tobago
2007-08 Dr. Sanjaasuren Oyun, Mongolia
2007-08 María Isabel Salvador Crespo, Ecuador
2008-09 Marisol Argueta de Barillas, El Salvador
2008 Laure Olga Gondjout, Gabon
2008-09 Rosemary Kobusingye Museminari, Rwanda
2008-15 Carolyn Rodrigues, Guyana
2008 Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgia
2008 (Acting) Helen Clark, New Zealand
2008- Maxine McClean, Barbados
2008-12 Antonella Mularoni, San Marino
2009-13 Dipu Moni, Bangladesh
2009 Adiato Diallo Nandigna, Guinea-Bissau
2009-13 Hilary Rodham Clinton, United States of America
2009 Patricia Isabel Rodas Baca, Honduras
2009-10 Sandra Sumang Pierantozzi, Palau (Balau)
2009- Dr. Aurelia Frick, Liechtenstein
2009- Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa
2009-11 Sujata Koirala, Nepal
2009-11
2010 (Acting) Rasa Juknevičienė, Lithuania
2010-14 Baroness Ashton of Upholland, the European Union
2010-11 Lene Espersen, Denmark
2010-11 Aminatou Djibrilla Maiga Touré, Niger
2010-
María
Ángela Holguín-Cuéllar,
Colombia
2010-11 (Acting)
Vlora Çitaku, Kosovo
2010-11
Trinidad Jiménez García-Herrera, Spain
2010-11 Michèle Alliot-Marie, France
2011-13
Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan
2011 (Acting)
Erlinda F. Basilio, Philippines
2011
Yvette Sylla, Madagascar
2011-16 Vesna Pusic, Croatia
2012-15 Nina Shtansky, Transnistria
(Self declared Republic in Moldova)
2012-14
Maia Panjikidze, Georgia
2012-13 Susan Waffa-Ogoo, The Gambia
2012-14 Foawziya
Yussuf Haji Adan, Somalia
2012-
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Namibia
2012-14
Natália Pedro da
Costa Umbelina Neto, São Tomé e Príncipe
2013-17 Hanna Tetteh, Ghana
2013-15 Mireya Agüero de Corrales, Honduras
2013-14 Eda Rivas Franchini, Peru
2013-
Amina Mohamed, Kenya
2013-16
Natalia Gherman, Moldova
2013-14
Léonie Banga-Bothy, the
Central African Republic
2013- Julie Bishop, Australia
2013-14 (Acting) Viola Onwuliri, Nigeria
2013 (Acting) Mariyam Shakeela, Maldive Islands
2013-16 Dunya Maumoon, Maldive Islands
2013-14 Emma Bonino, Italy
2014 Federica Mogherini, Italy
2014-
European Union
2014-15 Arisoa Lala Razafitrimo, Madagascar
2014- Sushma Swaraj,
India
2014- Isabel Saint Malo de Alvarado,
Panama
2014- Margot Wallström, Sweden
2014- Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi, Indonesia
2014- Tamar Beruchashvili, Georgia
2014 (Acting) Anne Sulling, Estonia
2014-15 Keit Pentus-Rosimannusm, Estonia
2014-16 Clarice
Modeste-Curwen, Grenada
2014-
Francine Baron, Dominica
2014- Delcy Eloina Rodríguez Gómez,
Venezuela
2014- Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, Botswana
2015-17 Neneh Macdouall-Gaye, The Gambia
2015 Fatma Vall Mint Soueinae, Mauritania
2015- Béatrice Atallah, Madagascar
2015-16
Aïchatou Kané
Boulama, Niger
2015-16 Marina Kaljurand, Estonia
2015-16 Emine
Çolak, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
2015-17 Niermala Badrising, Suriname
2015-17 Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, Mexico
2015- Susana Malcorra, Argentina
2016- Makalé Camara, Guinea
2016- Marjon V. Kamara, Liberia
2016- Kamina Johnson Smith, Jamaica
2016-
Aung San Suu Ky, Myanma
2016-17 Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir, Iceland
2016- 'Mamphono Khaketla, Leshoto
2016-
(Acting) Natalia Yurevna Nikonorova, Donesk (Self-Delcared Republic in
Ukarine)
2017- Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, Ghana
Last update
23.03.17