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FEMALE
MINISTERS OF
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
CURRENTLY IN OFFICE
Apart from the women who have been Foreign Ministers a large number of
women have been deputy ministers. They can be found in the various
country-entries in
Women in governments by country
also see
Female Foreign Ministers
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2008-
Maxine McClean, Barbados |
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Appointed Senator and
Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Leader
of Government Business in the Senate in January 2008. From November 2008
also
Minister of Foreign Trade. |
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2009- Aurelia Frick,
Liechtenstein |
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Business women, executive director and entrepreneur. Also Government
Councillor of
Culture and Justice. (b. 1975-). |
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2009- Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa |
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Before becoming Minister of International Relations and Cooperation,
she was Member of the Executive Council for Housing and Local
Government in the Limpopo Province. |
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2009-
Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwanda |
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2008-09 Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister charged with
Information. |
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2010-
María Ángela Holguín-Cuéllar,
Colombia |
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Angela Holguin was
Chief of Cabinet, Secretary General of the Ministry of External
Affairs, 1996-97, Vice-Minister of External Relations in 1998,
Ambassador to Venezuela 2002-04 and Ambassador to the United
Nations 2004-06. She was offered the post of
Ambassador to France in 2006 but refused.
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2012-
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Namibia |
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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
and Secretary General of SWAPO since 1996. |
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2013-
Amina
Mohamed, Kenya |
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Ambassador to United Nations in Geneva 2000-06, Permanent
Secretary at the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and
Constitutional Affairs 2008-11, Deputy Executive Director of the
United Nations Environment Programme 2011-13. |
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2013- Julie Bishop, Australia |
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Minister for Ageing 2003-06.
Minister for Education,
Science and
Training, and Minister assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues
2006-07,
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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2014-
Federica Mogherini,
European Union |
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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-
Sushma Swaraj,
India |
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Also Minister of
Overseas Indian Affairs. She isFormer minister in Haryana
1987-88, Member of the Panel of Vice-Chairmen of
the Rajya Sabha
1991-98, General Secretary and Spokesperson of the Bharatiya
Janata Party, BJP
circa 1995-98,
Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting 1996,
1998 and 2001-03,
Chief
Minister of Delhi in 1998,
and Union
Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
2003-04,
Deputy Leader of BJP in the Rajya Sabha and Spokesperson
of the BJP Parliamentary Wing 2004-09 and
Leader of the Opposition
2009-14. (b. 1952-)
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2014- Isabel Saint Malo de Alvarado,
Panama |
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Vice-President of the republic. Former Assistant Ambassador to the UN and official in the foreign ministry until
1994, the worked for the United Nations Development Program until she moved to
the private sector in 2008. |
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2014- Margot Wallström,
Sweden |
Former MP and held ministerial posts since 1988 and was
European
Commissioner
1999-2009
and later
worked for the UN. (b. 1954-). |
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2014- Retno Lestari Priansari
Marsudi, Indonesia |
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Retno LP Marsudi or
Retno Marsudi is former Ambassador to the Netherlands and to Norway and Iceland. |
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2014-Tamar
Beruchashvili, Georgia |
| 1998 Deputy Minister
and
1998-2000 Minister
of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, 2000-03 and 2013-14Deputy
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2003-04 Deputy State Minister at the
State Chancellery, 2004-13 State Minister of Integration with
European and Euro-Atlantic Structures and 2013 Deputy State Minister
on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. (b.
1961-). |
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2014-
Francine Baron, Dominica |
| Also Minister of CARICOM Affairs,
she was
Attorney General 2007-12 and
Ambassador to United Kingdom 2012-14. |
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2014-
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 , before she was appointed
Chancellor and Minister
of Foreign Affairs. (b. 1970-). |
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2014- Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi,
Botswana |
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2002-03 Minister of Commerce, Industry,
Wildlife and Tourism,
2003-04
Minister of
Conservation, Wildlife and Tourism,
2004-09 Minister of
Communications,
Science and Technology and 2009-14 Minister of Education and Skill Development |
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2015-
Béatrice Atallah, Madagascar |
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Former
President of the Electoral Commission |
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2015- Ana María Liliana Sánchez Vargas
de Ríos, Peru |
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Other versions of her name is Ana María Sánchez
Vargas de Ríos
and Ana María Sánchez. Appointed Ambassador to France in 2015. |
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2015-
Susana Malcorra, Argentina |
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Undersecretary of the United Nations 2008-2012 and United Nations
Chef de Cabinet to the Executive Office 2012-15. (b. 1954-). |
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2016-
Makalé Camara, Guinea |
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Aso known as Makalacutee Kamara.
Secretary of State for Women and Children
1992-94, Minister of Agriculture,
Livestock and Forests
1994-96,
Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, Capo Verde and Mauritania 2002-07,
Ambassador to France, Spain, Monaco, Portugal and UNESCO 2007-11 and
held various other administrative and political posts. (b. 1953-) |
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2016- Marjon V. Kamara, Liberia |
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Worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
for 20 years latest as Director for Africa based in Geneva 2005-09
and UN Ambassador 2009-16. |
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2016-
Kamina Johnson Smith, Jamaica |
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Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Trade. Senator from 2011. |
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2016-
Aung San Suu Ky, Myanmar |
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The de facto Head of Government
is also State Councillor and Minister of the President's
Office, leaderof the democracy movement since 1988, under
house arrest for a total of 15 years over a 21-year period, MP
from 2012 and Leader of the
Opposition 2012-16. Widow of Dr. Michael Aris (1946-1999) and mother of 2
sons. (b. 1945-).
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2016-
'Mamphono Khaketla,
Leshoto |
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2002-04 Minister of Communications, Science and Technology,
2004-07 Minister of Natural Resources,
2007-12 Minister of Education and Training
and
2015-16 Finance Minister. |
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2017-
Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, Ghana |
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Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
2005-09.
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2017-
Chrystia Freeland, Canada |
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Liberal MP and Minister of
International Trade 2015-17. (b. 1968-).
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2017- Yildiz Pollack-Beighle,
Suriname |
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Former official at
CARICOM
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Last update
23.03.17
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