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Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
WOMEN IN POWER
2000-2017
Female leaders
and women in other positions of political authority
of independent states and
self-governing understate entities
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2000-12
President Tarja Halonen, Finland |
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Member
of Parliament 1979-2000, 1984-87 Chairperson of the Social Affairs
Committee and Member of the Presidium of the Parliament,
1987-1990 Second Minister of Health and Social Affairs (Health Minister)
and 1989-1991 Minister of Nordic Co-operation, 1989-91 Co-leader of Soumen
Sosialidemokraattinen Pulolue, The Social Democrats. 1990-1991 Minister of
Justice
and
1995-2000
Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
In
August 2000 she married her partner trough a decade, Pentti Arajärvi.
They did not live together before they moved into the Presidential palace.
Mother of one daughter.
(b. 1943-).
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2000
Capitano Reggente Maria Domenica Michelotti,
San Marino |
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Former lecturer at San Marino University and Member
of the Consiglio Grande e Generale since 1998.
She is widow and her married name was Casadei
Michelotti. Mother of two girls (b. 1952-). |
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2000-
Assistant Deputy Head of State
HRH Princess Madeleine of Sweden |
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Also
Duchess of Hälsingland och Gästrikland. She is the youngest child of
King
Carl XVI Gustaf, and she acts as
regent
in the absence of her elder sister,
Crown Princess Victoria,
and brother, Prince Carl Philip (b. 1979) She is born (b. 1982-). |
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Before 2000-
Chieftainess Nosiseko Gayika of
the Amambombo Tribe at Keiskammahoek in Eastern Cape (South Africa)
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In 2000 elected to the Eastern Cape House of Traditional Leaders. |
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Before 2000- Senior
Chieftainess
Nopharkamisa Mditshwa of the Pondomise Tribe (South Africa)
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Head of one of the
Xhosa speaking tribes in Sout Africa. |
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Before 2000-
Chieftainess
Mwene (Queen)
Kabulwebulwe of the Nkoya People
of Mumbwa District and the surrounding areas
(Zambia)
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| The
Nkoya people are the first people to have settled in the area between 700
and 1400 AD. The Kabulwebulwe royal throne is part of the larger Nkoya Royal
Establishment within the Nkoya State whose capital is based in present day
Kaoma. |
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Before 2000-
Senior Chieftainess
Nawaitwika of
Nakonde (Zambia)
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tribe lives in northeastern Zambia, near the border with Tanzania. |
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2000-
Chieftainess
Nio Sikori of the
AmaRharbe Kingdom (Zambia)
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2000- The
Deji
Princess Adeyinka Adesia of Akureland (Nigeria)
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| The
44th regent of the State and 4th of her own dynasty, assuming the regency
during a vacancy at the throne. She lived in USA when her father died. (b.
1950-). |
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2000-
Kgôsi
Rebecca Banika of the Chobe District
(Botswana)
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| Not
a Paramount Chief but was apparently the first female ruler to be member of
the House of Chiefs. |
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2000-03
Regent
Princess Muriel Mosadi
Seboko of the BaLete
(Botswana)
2003- Paramount Chief, Kgosi |
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Supported by her mother and 6 sisters, she challenged the appointment of a
male cousin as regent after the death of her only brother, Kgosi Seboko II.
She was then reluctantly accepted as regent. The following year, she
demanded to be appointed as the rightful chief. The royal uncles argued that
she could not be a hereditary chief because custom dictated that only males
could rule, but at at a historic kgotla meeting in Ramotswa in December
2001, attended by hundreds of BaLete and the royal family she argued that
excluding her from the throne because she was a woman amounted to
discrimination. She pointed out that she should be appointed not on the
basis of tradition but on Botswana’s constitution, which she explained
guarantees freedom from discrimination on the basis of gender, religion and
so on, and she was then elected the first female Paramount Chief. She took
up her official duties in the Ntlo-ya-Dikgosi where she was immediately
appointed as leader of the house. Her coronation on 3 September 2003
attracted many people and the event was widely reported in the national and
international media. The leopard skin was draped on her by her uncles Kgosi
Tshukudu Mokgosi (chief of BaLete in South Africa) and Lucas Manyane Mangope
(former President of the puppet apartheid state of Bophuthatswana in South
Africa). (b. 1950-) |
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Before
2000-
Chieftainess
Mamatheola Matela of Ngoajani
(Leshoto)
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chieftaincy is situated in the Leshoto Highlands. |
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Before 2000-
Senior Chieftainess
Mboanjikana
(Leshoto)
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Also holds the position of Barotse Royal Establishment Overseer. |
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2000-
Hereditary Paramount Chief Cacike
Carmen Yuisa Baguanamey Colon
Delgado of the Taino Turabo Aymaco Tribe (Puerto
Rico)
2000- Vice-Sovereign
Chief
of the Pan-Tribal Confederacy of Amerindian Tribal
Nations |
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The Pan-Tribal Confederacy of Amerindian Tribal
Nations covers all of the American Continent. She had been named
chief (Cacike) by the tribal elders. |
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2000-
The Potikitua Taunga
Enua Pi Potikitaua, The Cook
Islands
(Free Association with New Zealand)
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Invested with the chiefly title after the death of Teariki Akamoeau Nooroa
Manarangi, but later the same year Anua Rimatini Manarangi was also invested
with the title. |
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Around
2000- Manarangi Tutai Ariki,
Manarangi Ariki
in Aitutaki,
Cook Islands (Free Association
with New Zealand)
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Also known as Queen Manarangi, 'Queenie' or just Tutai is , one of Aitutaki's
three ariki (high chiefs) where she and her husband, Den Clarke, runs a
guesthouse. She
succeeded her cousin, who immigrated to New Zealand with her father as kopu
ariki and representative of the Chieftaincy. (b. 1946-) |
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2001-10
Executive President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, The
Philippines (20.1-) |
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As executive GMA is also Head of the Cabinet.
1987-1989 she was
Assistant Secretary and 1989-92 Undersecretary of Trade and Industry and
Senator 1992-98.
Vice-President
1998-2001 and Secretary of Social Development and Welfare 1998-2000 and
charged with the leadership of the Cabinet Meetings. In 2001 the parliament
sacked President Estrada because of corruption and she was sworn in as his
successor
as
Head of State and Government.
In 2002 and 2003 Secretary of Foreign Affaris, 2003, and 2006-07 of Defence.
In 2011 she was arrested on charges for electoral fraud.
(b. 1947-).
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2001-04
Executive President Megawati Sukarnoputri,
Indonesia |
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When Megawati
Setyawati Soekarnoputri became leader of the
Democratic Party in 1993, she triggered the opposition against President
Quarto. In 1999 her party won the most seats in the Parliament, but
Abdulrahman Wahid was elected President. This caused serious riots all over
the country and she was elected
Vice-President
the following day. In August 2000 the ailing President Wahid charged her
with the running of the daily business of the government and state and she
chaired the cabinet meetings. At the 23rd of July he was ousted and she
inaugurated as
Head of State and Government.
Ibu Mega, as she is known, is daughter of Indonesia's founding father
Sukarno, is married for the 3rd time and mother of 3 children. (b. 1946-)
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2001-06
Governor General Dame Silvia
Cartwright, New Zealand |
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1n 1989 she became the first female Chief
Justice of a District Court and in 1993 the first woman in the
Supreme Court
and after a distinguished career as a
lawyer and jurist, and as an advocate for women and women's rights, she became
the
official representative of the Queen of New Zealand, Queen
Elizabeth. She was also Commander-in-Chief and President of
the Executive Council. From 2006
one of two international judges on Trial Chamber of the Cambodian
War Crimes Tribunal. (b. 1943-).
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2001-05
Governor General Dr. Dame Ivy Leona
Dumont, The Commonwealth of the Bahamas |
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Deputy Permanent Secretary in Ministry of Works and Utilities 1975-78,
worked in the private sector before becoming Secretary General of The
National Movement Party 1990-92. She was Leader of the Government in
the Senate 1990-2001, Minister of Social Affairs, Environment and
Health 1992-95 and Minister of Education 1995-2001. She had officially
retired when appointed
acting G-G.
in November 2001 and officially sworn in as representative
of the Queen of Bahamas, Queen Elizabeth, at 01.01.02.
(b. 1930-).
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2001,
2006, 2011 and 2016
Administrator of the Government, Acting Governor General Dame Sian
Seerpoohi Elias, New Zealand |
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As Chief Justice of New Zealand since 1999, she is the first deputy of the
Governor General and acts in her place when she is abroad or otherwise
incapacitated. Her official title when she acts as Governor General is
Administrator of the Government.
(b. 1949-). |
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2001-02
Premier Minister Mame Madior Boye, Sénégal |
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Before taking over as
Chief of the
Government,
she was Assistant
to the Attorney
General
of the Republic,
judge
and first vice President of the Regional High Court in Dakar
and former President
of the Court of Appeal in Dakar.
Councillor
to the Supreme Court of Appeal
and
Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals in 2000-2001. In 2002
she took over as
Minister of
Defence
after the former incumbent resigned after almost 1.000 persons
died in a ferry-disaster. (b.1940-).
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2001-
Temporary Regent HM
Queen Karabo Mohato Bereng Seeiso of Lesotho
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At 16 January 2001 she was sworn in for the first time as
regent
by the chief justice about a year after she married King Letsie
III, and has acted regent and Deputy Head of State on various
occasions since then. She continues her biology-studies by
correspondence. (b. 1976-).
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2001-05
Governor Sila Maria Calderón Serra, Estado
Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (USA) |
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As
Secretary of
State 1988-90 she was leader of the Government
Administration, in charge of the Foreign Politics and Deputy to the
Governor. She was
Chief of Staff of the Governor 1985, 1986-90 Secretary of Interior and
1996-2001 Mayor of San Juan (The Capital) From 1999 President of Partido
Popular Democrático.
She did not seek re-election.
(b.
1942-).
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2001-05
High
Commissioner Birgit Kleis, The Faeroe Islands
(Danish External Territory) |
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Before becoming
Ríkisumboðsmann
or Rigsombudsmand in the Føroyar or Færøerne, she was Assistant Secretary
in the Danish Ministry of Justice. She had worked as Secretary in the
Riksombud in the Faeroes 1986-88.
(b. 1956-). |
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Until 2001
Ratu Titaley of Saparua
(Indonesia) |
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Succeeded her father, J. Titaley as ruler of the small principality, and
drowned in a boating accident |
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2001-
Paramount Chief, Kgosi
Mosadi Seboko a Mokgôsi of
the
Balete (Botswana) |
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On the 3rd of December 2001 She was elected to succeed her brother Seboko
II Mokgôsi (1959-2001) She was chosen in a
well attended meeting, traditionally called
kgotla. against the wishes of her paternal uncles
who wanted to uphold the tradition of male succession.
She became
Chairperson of
the House of Chiefs before her formal
installation as Chief of the Bagamalete in 2003.
(b. 1950-). |
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2001-
Regent
Princess
Siti Hajjah Maryam
Salahuddin of
Bima (Indonesia)
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Also known as Puteri Sultan, she is charge of the regency awaiting the
instillation of her her nephew Prince Amakau Feri Zulkarnain Ibnu Putra
Haji Abdul Khair, as sultan. He is the Vice-President of the local
government of Bima. She was MP 1987-1997, and former Assistant to the
Governement of Nusa Tenggara Barat and civil servant. Hajji Rahmat, a
descendant of the Susuhunans of Surakarta. (b. 1927-). |
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2001- Chief
Darlene Bernard, Lennox Island (Canada) |
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Head of the Nova Scotia Confederacy of First Nations. |
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2002-04
Acting President
Natasa Micic, Serbia
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As
President of the Assembly
2001-04
she became
Acting
President on 30th of December 2002
after
the attempt to elect a President failed twice. She continued her duties as
Chairperson of the Parliament. (b.1965-). |
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2002
Acting President
Dr. Linda Baboolal, Trinidad and Tobago |
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Chairperson of Peoples National Movement 1996-2002.
Minister of Social Welfare and Consumer's Affairs 1991-95 and Minister of
Health 1995. Only a couple of days after her election
as
Senate President,
she became
Acting President
of the Republic during the travels abroad of President Robinson and his
periods of illness in April, July and October. |
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2002 Acting
Governor General
Monica Dacon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (May-September) |
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The
Deputy Governor
General since 2001, she
acted during the illness of the Governor General Sir Charles Antrobus
(1933-96-2002), and after his death until a successor was appointed.Acting
Governor General on numerous occations. (b. 1934-). |
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2002
Acting Prime
Minister Chang Sang, South Korea (11.07-31.07) |
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Appointed
Acting Prime Minister
upon her designation which was vetoed by the parliament at the 30.7 and
about one month later the parliament also rejected President Kim Dae
Jung's nominee as her successor. She holds a doctorate in philosophy from
Princeton Theological College in the United States.
She was President of Ewha Women's University from 1996. (b. 1939-). |
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2002-03
and
2003-04
Prime Minister
Maria das Neves Ceita Batista de Sousa,
Republic of São Tomé e Príncipé
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Maria das Neves
worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance and in the African
Development Bank.
1999-2001 Minister of Economics, Agriculture, Fisheries, Commerce and
Tourism, 2001-02 Minister of Finance and 2002 Minister of Industry,
Commerce and Tourism. On 16th of July 2003 she was detained during a
military coup and suffered a mild hart attack.
on the
23rd the government was reinstated,
and she again became
Chief of the
Government.
The following year she was dismissed after alegations of curruption. (b.
1958-). |
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2002-
Assistant Chief
Neima
Kimojino of the Embulul Sub-Location, Ngong Division of the Kajiado
District (Kenya) |
| First
female chief of the Massai Tribe. (b. 1959-). |
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Until 2002 Paramount Chief
Madam Veronica Ndawama of Valunia
(Sierra Leone)
| The chiefdom was a cite of
great violence during the war. A major RUF base was there, and she
fled the chiefdom in 1993. She returned to die in 2002. |
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2002-
Paramount Chief
Haja Mariam Gassama
Kanja of Gorama Mende
(Sierra Leone)
| Traces her lineage to the second chief of
the area, Kanja, who succeeded his brother Gombu Kpai, and was the
first chief to be recognised by the British |
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2002- Paramount Chief
Haja Fatmata Bintu Koroma Meama-Kajue Kaine of Dasse
(Sierra Leone)
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| Her
family has ruled the area from the early 1800's.
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2002-
Taoanga Anga
Mattaiapo Putaiariki
Terii Nellie Pukeiti née Williams, High Chiefess in Anga Mataiapo,
Cook Islands (Free Association with New Zealand) |
| One of the many female chiefs
in the country. |
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2002-
Chief of the
Dynasty Andi Cuma Tanri of Batulapa (Indonesia) |
| After the
death of her brother, Andi Mangga Tanri (1924-45-2002), she was named the
semi-official head official dyanstic
organisation with the ami to bring back the dynasty in the society and to
preserve its history. |
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2003-04
and 2014
Capitano Reggente
Valeria Ciavatta, San Marino
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Member of the Grand and General Council for the Alianza Populare
since 1993 and Chairperson of the Council Group 2002-05, Party
President 2006, Minister of
Minister of Internal Affairs and Civil Protection and Accomplishment
of the Programme 2006-08.
As
Captain Regent,
she was joint head of a state with a man, and also President of the
Parliament and Head of Government. Mother of twins.
(b. 1959-). |
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2003-04 Acting Executive President Nino Burjanadze, Georgia
2007-08 Acting Executive President President |
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As Chairperson of the Parliament 2001-08 she took over after
former President Eduard Shevardnadze
was forced to resign as result of a "velvet revolution" after he
rigged the parliamentary elections and in 2007 she aced as President
again as the incumbent,
Mikheil Saakashvili,
resigned to run in the January 200. President of
Burjanadze-Democrats 2003-08 and of
Democratic Movement - United Georgia since 2008 and
Presidential Candidate in 2013.
Her full name is
Nino Anzoris asuli
Burjanadze,
and her
surname is also
transcribed as Burdzhanadze. Mother of two children. (b.
1964-). |
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2003
Prime Minister
Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Finland
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1991-94
and 1999-2000 Deputy Parliamentary Leader and since 2000 leader of Suomen
Keskusta/Centern i Finland, 1994-95 Minister of Justice. In 2003
Speaker of the Parliament
and Government Formateur and
Premier
from April to June until she was forced to resign after
she was accused of having
used confidential material to aid her election campaign,
but was later cleared in court.
(b.
1955-).
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2003
President of the Council of Ministers
Dr. Beatriz Merino Lucero, Peru |
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Senator 1990-92, Member of the Congress 1995-2000,
Vice-Presidential Candidate 2000 and Superintendent of the National Tax
Administration
before becoming a very popular
Premier
until she was sacked by
the extremely unpopular President. (b.
1949-). |
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2003
Interim Transitional Civil Sub-administrator
Barbara K. Bodine, The Central Region and Baghdad in Iraq
(21.04.-11.05.03) |
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During the Iran-Iraq War in the early 1980s she was the deputy principal
officer in Baghdad. Prior to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, she was
Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait and endured a 137-day siege by Iraqi
troops of the U.S. Embassy. During her tenure as Ambassador to Yemen
1997-2001 the destroyer Cole was bombed and in 2001, she survived an
airplane hijacking.
(b. 1948-). |
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2003-05
High Commissioner
Sandra Rose Te Hakamatua Lee-Vercoe,
Niue (Free Association with New Zealand) |
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Sandra Lee is active in Poutin Ngai Tahu tribal affairs, 1989
Council Chairperson of Waiheke County Council, 1991 President of
the Mana Motuhake Party and 1994-2001 its leader. Co-Deputy Leader
1991-94, Leader 1994-95 and Deputy leader of the Alliance
1996-2001. 1999-2002 Minister of Conservation and Minister of
Local Government, Associate Minister of Maori Affairs and
Associate
Minister for the Biodiversity Strategy
before becoming
Representative
of the New Zealand Government in Niue.
(b. 1952-). |
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2003-04
Minister-President
Mirna Louisa-Godett, Nederlandse Antillen (External
Territory of
The Netherlands) |
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Sister of the Leader of Frente Obrero Liberashon 30 di
Mei (FOL) Anthony Godett, who could not become Premier because he
was charged
with and later convicted for
corruption and fraud. Married to a member of the Legislature for FOL, Johnny
Louisa.
She became
head of a coalition government,
which did not last long.
(b. 1954-). |
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2003-04
Magistrate Vicky Auld, South Georgia (British Artic Territory) |
As Commander of the British Antarctic Survey Base at King Edward Point,
she was the senior most British official actually present at the Island.
Afterwards she became Base Commander at Bird
Island.
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2003-05
Rain Queen
Makobo Modjadji VI of Balobedu (South Afcica) |
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Elected
to succeed her grandmother because her mother,
Princess Makhaele' Maria Modjadji,
died two days later than her mother,
Rain Queen Mokope Modjadji V (1937-81-2001). Like
her predecessors, she had the ability to control the clouds and rivers.
Although respected for her abilities and lineage, she was seen as too
modern to be the next Rain Queen, which may have been why there was such a
long delay before she was crowned. Custom dictated that rain queens live
reclusive lives, hidden in the royal kraal with their 'wives', but she
insisted to live a modern life and her partner, David Mohale, lived with
her in the pink palace, and she acknowledged him as father of her
daughter, Princess Masalanabo, who is likely to become Queen at the age of
18 in 2022. Modjadj IV's brother is now regent and some wants his
daughter by his cousin to be placed on the throne but he is in favour of
his niece. Makobo Constance Modjadji VI lived (1978-2005). |
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2003- Datu Andi Lu of Luwu (Indonesia) |
| A
grand-daughter of Datu Andi Jemma
Barue, she was placed on the throne by a relative, who became mayor of
the royal town of Palopo that year. |
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2003-
Paramount Chief Janet Elizabeth Boi Tiffa of Kwamabai
Krim and Yawei
(Sierra Leone)
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2003-
Paramount Chief Haja Miatta Sogual Koroma of Kpeje
West
(Sierra Leone)
|
| Defeated
Madam Kadie Malikie Koroma in the chiefly elections. |
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2003-
Paramount Chief
Madam Haja Miatta Songua Kromoa of Pejeh (Futa Pejeh)
(Sierra Leone)
|
| Her family traces its lineage
back to Maada Malikie Koroma, one of the first warriors
from Komo. His brother Kaaleh Gbao was the first to be
recognised as chief by the British, and Maaada succeeded
him. |
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2003-
Politically Influential
Gulnora Islamovna Karimova
in
Uzbekistan |
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Also known as
Gulnara Karimova,
she
is daughter of President Isam Karimov
and Leader of a business empire
and considered to be very influential in the country and a possible
successor of her father.
She has
got
two children
First married Uzbek-American businessman,
Mansur Maqsudi and from 2003 to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sadyq
Safoev (b. 1972-).
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2004
Acting
Joint Head of State
Barbara
Prammer, Austria (06.07-08.07)
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As Vice-President of the National Assembly she became Joint Acting Head of
State together with the two other members of the Presidium, when the
outgoing President died two days before his successor was to take office
in July. She was also Federal Minister and leading member of the Social
Democrats of Austria, SPÖ.
President of the Nationalrat from 2006 until her death. She lived
(1954-2014). |
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2004-10
Prime Minister
Dr.
Luísa
Días Diogo, Moçambique
|
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Head of Department in the Ministry of Finance 1986-89, National Budget
Director 1982-89 in Ministry of Planning and Finance, worked in World
Bank 1993-94.
worked in World Bank 1993-94.
1994-2000
Vice-Minister
and
Minister
of Planning and
Finance 2000-05.
Mother of three
children.
(b. 1958-). |
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2004
Acting President of the Government
Radmila Sekerinska, Macedonia
(May-June) and (November-December) |
|
As
Vice-President of the Government and Minister without Portfolio for
Euro-Atlantic Integration, she
acted as
Head of
Government
in the period from the former Prime Minister Crvenkovski's Presidential inauguration until
election of Kostov as new Prime Minister.
She already presided over government
sessions and signed documents since Crvenkovski became candidate for
President, as he
'renounced' his premiership during the
Presidential campaign, but
he never officially stepped down.
Acting again in November after her
predecessor resigned, but
lost the party internal election for the post of Prime Minister and
Leader
of the Social Democratic Alliance of
Macedonia (SDSM). (b. 1972).(b. 1972). |
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2004-
President of
the General Council
Nassimah Magnolia
Dindar, Réunion (French Oversea's Territory) |
|
Vice-President of the Regional Council 2001-04 before becoming
Chief of the
Government
and Parliament.
(b. 1960-). |
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2004-07
President of the
Government
Marie-Noëlle
Thémereau, Nouvelle Caledonie
(French
Oversea's Territory) |
|
Both
Head
of the Government and Parliament of the
Territory.
SHe was member of the
Congrès of Nouvelle-Calédonie and to the Assembly of Province Sud
1989-2001 and again from 2004, 2. Vice-President of de la Province Sud
1990-99 and 1. Vice-President of the Congrès de 1999-2001. (b. 1950-). |
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2004
Mayor and Chief Executive
Brenda Christian, Pitcairn Island (United Kingdom
Territory) |
|
Brenda
Vera Amelia Lupton-Christian was Member of the
Island Council 2000-05, and became Acting Mayor
and Chief Executive Officer, after the former mayor was one of the many
male islanders
convicted of rapes and other sexual abuse of
children,
but one month later, she was defeated by Jay Warren, the only of the
defendants to be acquitted
of the charges.
From 2001 she was Police Officer. (b. 1954-). |
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2004-07 Governor Deborah Barnes Jones, Montserrat
(British External Territory) |
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Only the second female
Governor
in the history of the British Commonwealth,
she was
Ambassador to Georgia 2001-03.
Deborah Elizabeth Vavasseur Barnes Jones has been working in the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office since 1980 and among others been
1. Secretary in Israel and Vice-Ambassador in Ecuador. In 1991 she
became mother of twin daughters. (b. 1956-). |
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2004-06
Magistrate Alison Dean (British
Artic Territory) |
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The most senior British acctually residing at the island, as the
Commissioner and Assistant Commisioner reside at the Falkland Islands. |
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2004-12 Ro
Teimumu Vuikaba Kepa, the Rewa High chief
and Marama Bale na roko
Tui Dreketi (Fiji) |
|
Succeeded her sister Adi Lala to the chiefly title
of Rewa High chief and Marama Bale na roko Tui Dreketi. She was
Interim Minister of Women, Culture and Social Welfare 2000-01 and has been
Minister of Education since 2001. And Chairperson of the Rewa Provincial
Council from 2005. She is widow of Saolosi Wai Kepa (1938-2004) a former
Minister, Ambassador to UK, High Judge and Ombudsmand, and she is mother
of 4 children. |
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2004-
Chieftainess Nana Ekua Bri II
of
Apraponso
(Ghana) |
|
Also known as Anna Ekua
Saakwa she is head of the 1.500 inhabitants of the village of Apraponso
and of the surrounding villages in the Mpohor-Wassa Traditional Area of
the Western Region as a subordonate of the local king. During the
inauguration ceremony she swore the customary oath to the chiefs and people
at the Apraponso Royal Ground, holding the state sword in her right hand,
espoused the greatness, achievements and conquests of her ancestors and
pledge to blaze their trail. She is a Social Democrat member of the City
Council of Copenhagen and continues to live in Denmark. (b. 1958-). |
 |
2004-
Regent
Kgosigadi Kealetile Moremi of the BaTawana (Botswana) |
|
Her brother, Paramount
Chief, Kgosi Tawana II, resigned toParamount Chief, Kgosi Tawana II, to
stand as a BDP candidate for Maun West, and when the party rejected his
candidature, he instead went into private business. Initially her uncle
served as regent, but she was appointed as his successor after some
initial opposition, and will be in office until Tawana's son reaches the
age of majoirty. In May 2004 she was welcomed in the House of Chiefs at
a ceremony attended by her mother, Princess Derby Moremi and other
royals amidst ululation and dancing. |
|
 |
Circa 2004-
Titular Reigning Princess Georgette Kamamy
of
Menabe
(Madagascar) |
|
The
head of the local tribe and
presides over the traditional ceremonies |
|
|
Until 2004 Kainuku
Mata Tekura Tau ka Pa Nia Ariki,
Pa Ariki of the Takitumu Tribe
(Free Association with New Zealand) |
| She died in New Zealand and
two years later her daughter, Kainuku Kapiriterangi Ariki, was invested
with the Pa Nia Ariki-title. |
 |
2004-
Chairperson of
the Tribal
Council
Herminia Frias of
the
Pascua Yaqui in
Arizona (USA) |
|
The first
woman, who is also the youngest ever to lead the 14.000
member tribe. She
is from the Yaqui community of Old Pascua.
Catalina Alvarez
was elected Secretary
of the 11 member Council. Hermnia is (b. 1973-). |
 |
2004 Designate
President of the Confederation Ruth
Metzler-Arnold, Switzerland
|
|
1996-99 Sächelmeisterin, Councillor of Staatsrätin and Director of Finance
of the Kanton Appenzell-Innerhoden, Vice-President of the Government in
1998-99 and 1999-2003
Federal Councillor of Justice and Police
before becoming
Deputy Head of State
in 2003.
She was the
first Councillor of State not to be reelected for 131 years, and would
have been Federal President for the year 2004 had she remained in office.
When the elderly man from her own party who defeated her, resigned in 2006, the party only
nominated a woman to succeed him, and she was subsequently elected. (b. 1964-). |
 |
2004
Prime
Minister-Designate
Sonia Gandhi,
India
(15-19.05.04) |
|
As President of
Congress (I) since 1998, she was
charged with forming a government in 1998, but failed. After the elections
that followed, she became Parliamentary Leader
of the whole
Parliamentary Party
in the Lokh Sabha and Leader of the
Opposition. In 2004 her party won the elections she named Prime
Minister-Designate, charged with forming a new government but decided not
to assume the office.
Instead she became
Head of the National Advisory Council monitoring the
implementation of the ruling coalition’s programme,
and in many ways acts as "Shadow Prime Minister"She is the widow of
former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was killed in 1989.
Born
as Sonia
Maino
in
Italy (b.
1945-).
|
 |
2005
Capitano Reggente
Fausta
Simona
Morganti,
San Marino
|
|
In
1974 she was one of the first three women elected to the Consiglio Grande
e Generale.
1978-83
and
1988-92
Minister of State of Culture, Education and Justice,
In the
late 1990s Leader in Partito Progressista Democartico Sammarinese and
Chief of the Parliamentary Group from around 1997 to 2002 and then
again later in 2002
and
Secretary of State of Public Education, Universities, Cultural
Institutions and Social Affairs
in 2002. (b. 1944-). |
|
2005-10 Governor-General
Rt. Hon Michaëlle Jean, Canada
|
|
Daughter of
Haitian immigrants who fled the Duvalier regime in 1968,
former university literature professor, social
activist and veteran CBC broadcaster
from Quebec. Married to French-born
Jean-Daniel Lafond, and
mother of Marie-Eden (b. 1999). She is
(b. 1957-). |
 |
2005
Prime Minister
Yuliya Tymoshenko,
Ukraine
2006
Designate Prime Minister
(22.06-08.07.06)
2007-10
Prime Minister
|
|
Her name is also transcribed as Yulia Voldyrovna Timoshenkno. She is
former Co-Leader of the Hromda party, Director of United Energy System
1998-2000, In 2001 she was charged with corruption but later acquitted. Leader of
the Fatherland's Party 2000/01-05 and of the Bloc Tymoshenko from 2005.
In June 2006 a Coalition deal was signed designating her as Prime
Minister, but one of the parties broke out.
Narrowly defeated in the
2010-presidential elections and afterwards her coalition in parliament
broke up and she was defeated by a motion of no confidence. The
following year she was sentenced to seven years in prison in what is
widely seen as a political trial, but fried after the uprising in
February 2014. (b. 1961-). |
 |
2005-07
Prime
Minister
Maria do Carmo Trovoada Pires de Carvalho Silveira,
São Tomé e Princípe
|
|
Normally known as Maria do Carmo Silveira,
she was governor of the National Bank 2002-05
and member of the Political Bureau of the
Movement for the Liberation of Sao Tomé-Social Democratic Party,
MLSTP-PSD. Also
Minister of Finance from 2005. (b. 1961-). |
 |
2005-
Federal Chancellor
Dr. Angela Merkel, Germany
|
|
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.
Bundeskanzlerin in a Grand Coalition between CDU/CSU and SPD. Née
Kasner and
married secondly to Joachim Sauer,
no children. (b.
1954-). |
 |
2005
Acting Prime Minister
The Hon. Cynthia
A. Pratt, Bahamas
(03.05-22.06)
|
|
Became Acting Chief of Government when the
incumbent suffered a minor stroke, but has acted on a number of
occasions before, when he was abroad. She is also known as
"Mother" Pratt. As
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Security
2002-07 she was
in charge of the Defence Force and Police. She was Opposition Whip Circa
1992-2000 and from circa 2000 Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Deputy
Leader of the Progressive Liberal Democratic Part.
A former nurse, she is mother of 6 children
(b. 1945-). |
 |
2005-08
High Commissioner Anne Boquet,
French Polynesia (French External Territory) |
|
1989-90 Sous-Prefet of Loir-et-Cher, 1993-96 Secretary General of
Polynésie Française (Deputy High Commissioner), 1996-2000
Sous-prefect of Oise and 2000-02 Prefect of Indre. Also civil
servant in various ministries, latest as Director in the Ministry
of Overseas Affairs.
Also civil
servant in various ministries, latest as Director in the Ministry
of Overseas Affairs, Prefect of
Yvelines near Paris from 2008.(b. 1952-). |
 |
2005
Secretary of State
Hon. Marisara Pont Marchese, Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico (Association with United States of America) |
|
A lecturer at Puerto
Rico's University she was President of the Commission of
Transission 2004-05. As Secretary of State she is deputy to the
governor. |
 |
2005-06
Chief Secretary
Mahala Wynns, Turk and Caicos Islands
(Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom)
2006- Deputy Governor
2005 and 2008
Acting Governor
|
|
Acting as chief executive of the island
during two periods until a new governor was inagurated after his
predecessor left. As Chief
Secretary she was member of the Executive Committee and from 2009
she is member of the Advisory Council - the Executive that took
charge after the British authorities supended the constution and
the Governor took over the executive powers after a report showed
widespread corruption. |
 |
2005-07
President of the Sameting/Sámediggi
Aili Keskitalo in Norway
|
|
Leader of Norske Samers Riksforbund since 2003. As
President she is both Head of the Parliament and the Executive of the
Sami Entity in Norway.
The Parliament has got 51% female members. She is mother of two
children. (b. 1968-). |
 |
2005-
Mwadinomho
Martha Kristian Nelumbu
of Oukwanyama
(Nambia)
|
|
The surname of
Ohamba or Her Highness Queen Martha is also spelled
Nelumbo. She succeeded
her cousin,
Shelongo, as chief of the tribe thereby becoming the second female
leader of the tribe after
Ohamba
Nekoto,
who ruled parts of the territory
circa 1891-1908.
(b. 1930-). |
|
|
2005-
Paramount Chief Madam M.F. Gberi IV of Kpanda Kemo
(Sierra Leone) |
| Her family follows the lineage
of Kipisawy, the farmer who was recognised as the first chief of Kemo |
|
|
Until 2005 Terei
Mataiapo and Maui Mataiapo Paiau Terei,
High Chiefess in
Takitumu, Cook Islands
(Free Association with New Zealand) |
| Succeeded her aunt, and after
her death, the 2 titles were devided among her sons Iaveta Short and
Tuingariki Short. |
|
|
2005-
Adi Laite Kotomaiwasa, Marama
Tui Ba
of the
Vanua Nawaiviluri
(Fiji)
|
|
Identified,
in late 2004, as the successor to the title, and was installed in April
2005. She is the only surviving sister of
Tui Ba Adi Seinimili Cagilaba
(the
late Marama Na Tui Ba),
who died in January 2004. Vanua means "region". |
 |
Before 2005-
Adi
Joana Rokomatu, Tui
Sigatoka
(Fiji)
|
|
Has worked closely with
the Sigatoka Town Council to promote development projects, as well as
efforts to beautify the town. She also hosts the Nadroga rugby team,
providing them with meals. She arranges church services for the rugby
team on Friday nights whenever they are in town. |
 |
2006- Executive President Dr.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia
|
|
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-). |
 |
2006-10 President Dr.
Michelle Bachelet Jeria, Chile |
|
2000-02 Minister of Health, 2002-04
Minister of Defence. Her father, a
general, was killed by the Pinochet dictatorship.
Her
boyfriend was also detained, tortured and disappeared. She and her
mother were also detained and tortured and afterwards lived in exile in
Australia and East Germany. She returned to Chile in 1979 and worked for
various NGOs helping children of the tortured and disappeared. She had
two children with her first husband and a daughter with her former
partner.
(b. 1952-). |
 |
2006-10
Minister-President
Emily Saïdy de Jongh-Elhage,
Nederlandse Antillen (Selfgoverning Part of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands) |
|
Commissioner of Public
works and Public Housing of Curaçao 1998-99, Commissioner of Education,
Sport and Cultural Affairs 1999-2002,
Minister of Education and Culture of the Nederlandse Antillen 2002-03
and
Commissioner of Public Enterprises
and Public Housing 2004-05 of
Curaçao. From
2005 Leader
of De Partido Antia Restrukturá (PAR). As Premier she was also Minister
of General Affairs and External Relations. (b. 1946-). |
 |
2006-07 and 2012-16
Prime Minister
The Most Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaica |
|
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,
and Opposition Leader 2007-11
(b. 1946-). |
 |
2006-07
Prime Minister
Dr. Han
Myung-sook, South Korea
|
|
During the years of the military
dictatorship, she started her career as a social activist in the South Korea
Christian Academy and was a political prisoner 1979-81. Master in Christian
Theology and Women's Studies and B.A. in French.
MP from 2000. Minister of Gender Equality
2001-03 and Minister of Environment
2003-04
She resigned to run as candidate in the Uri-party internal primaries
but soon after the party merged with other parties into the United New
Democratic Party
and Chairperson of the Supreme Council of the Democratic United Party
from 2012. (1944-). |
 |
2006 Acting
Governor
Dancia Penn,
British Virgin Islands (External Territory of United Kingdom and Great
Britain) |
|
The Deputy Governor
since 2004, she has acted as governor on different occations, but in
2006 she was in charge in the interim between two governors from 10. to
18. April. She was Attorney-General and ex-officio member of the
Legislative Council 1992-99 and elected to the renamed the House of
Assembly in 2007 when she also became Deputy Premier and Minister of
Health and Welfare. (b. 1951-). |
 |
2006
Acting Governor
Harriet Hall, The Falkland Islands and South Georgia and South
Sandwich Islands (05.08-25.08) (United Kingdom External
Territory)
2007-09 Chief Executive of the Territory of
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands |
|
The Deputy
Governor of First Secretary and
Assistant Commissioner to South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
and Director of Fisheries 2003-07, she
acted during the interregnum between two Governors, and
later took over the administration of
South Georgia and
South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean,
which are both uninhabited. |
 |
2006-08
Administrator Jane Rumble, British Antarctic Territory (UK External
Territory)
2008- Deputy Commissioner of the British
Antarctic Territory, the British Indian Ocean Territory, South
Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands |
|
As Head of the Polar Regions Unit in the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office she was non-resident Administrator of the British part of the Antartic,
and afterwards became Deputy to the High Commissioner of the merged
administration of the territories. |
 |
2006-10
Intendent
Eugenia
Mancilla, Antártica Chilena (Chile External Territory) |
|
In charge of the 12th region which coveres both Magallanes and la
Antártica Chilena. |
|
Until 2006
Paramount Chief
Madam Bendu Brima Sowa of Sowa
(Sierra Leone)
|
|
Fled the chieftaincy in 1998, during the war, and chose to stay
in Freetown due to her age. (d. 2006). |
|
|
2006-
Adi
Salaseini Tuilomaloma Ritova Qomate,
Tui Labasa (Fiji) |
|
Declared as successor of her brother, who died in 2002, by the
Native Lands Commission. (b. 1930-). |
 |
2006- Kainuku Kapiriterangi Ariki,
Pa Ariki of the Takitumu Tribe in Rarotonga,
Cook Islands
(Free Association with New Zealand) |
| Her title is possibly Pa Nia
Ariki, She is one of the two chief of the Tribe (Vaka) of Takitumu in
Rarotonga. When her mother, Kainuku Mata Tekura Tau ka Pa Nia Ariki died
in 2004, the title was disputed by a distant relative, but the Courts have
settled the title with her. |
 |
2006
"President"
Georgette
Bertin-Pourchet,
Saugeais [France] |
|
Twelve communes in
Franche-Comté in the modern department of Doubs declared themselves
an independent republic in 1947.
Her father, Georges
Pouchet, was President in 1947-68 and her mother, Gabrielle
Pourchet, was in office (1972-2005). In 1999 her mother called for
the election of 30 Presidential Electors to choose her successor in
due course, and Georgette was elected in January 2006. (b. 1934-). |
 |
2007 and 2011
President of the Confederation
Micheline Calmy-Rey, Switzerland |
|
Former President of the Socialist Party of Génève,
she was President of the Grand Conseil of Génève 1993, Councillor of
Finance 1997-2002, Vice-President of the Cantonal Government 2000-01 and
President of the Cantonal Government 2001-02.
Federal Foreign Minister since 2003 and Vice-President in 2006 and 2010. (b. 1945-). |
|
 |
2007
Acting President
Dalia
Itzik, Israel |
|
Former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem in charge of Education, Labour Member
of the Knesset 1992-2005, Minister of Environment 1999-2001, Minister of
Trade and Industry 2001-02, Group Chairperson of Labour 2003-05 and
Minister of Communication in 2005. She joined Kadima, a new party formed
by Ariel Sharon in 2006
and Speaker of the Knesset 2006-09. She
became Acting Head of State when President Moshe Katsaw on his own
request was temporary suspended after the Attorney
General announced that he would charge
the president with offences including rape,
obstruction of justice and fraud, on 1. July he resigned and she
continued in her role until his successor took office. Chairperson
of the Kadima Group in the Knesset 2009-13. (b.
1952-). |
 |
2007-12
President
Pratibha Patil, India |
|
Deputy Minister
1967-72
and
Cabinet Minister 1972-83 and Congress Leader and Leader of the Opposition 1979-80
in Maharastra, Deputy Chairperson of the Union Upper House,
the Rajya Sabha
1986-88, Governor of Rajasthan 2004-07. (b. 1934-). |
 |
2007-15
Executive President
Cristina E. Fernández Wilhelm de Kirchner, Argentina |
|
Member of the Assembly of Santa Cruz
1989-95 and 1. Vice-President of the Assembly in 1990, National
Senator 1995-97 and 2001-2007, National
Deputy 1997-2001.
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-). |
 |
2007-14
Governor-General
Dame Louise Lake-Tack, Antigua and Barbuda
|
|
A former nurse and magistrate
from 1995, who lived in United Kingdom for about 40 years before moving
back. (b. 1944-). |
 |
2007-11
President
Borjana Kristo,
Federation of Bosnia (Bosnia-Hercegovina)
|
|
2003-07 Minister of Justice
of the Bosniak-Croat Federation an entity in The Republic of
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The former Vice-President of the Parliament,
Spomenka Micic, was elected one of the 2 Vice-Presidents of
Federation. 2010 she was candidate for the presidency of
Bosnia-Herzegovina. (b. 1961-). |
 |
2007-08 Personal Representative of the French Co-prince Emmanuelle
Mignon in Andorra
|
|
Appointed by President
Nicolas Sarkozy of France, who is also Co-Prince of Andorra
and her role was to keep him informed about issues involving the
Principality. The other Co-Prince, the Bishop of Urgell in Spain, also
has a Personal Representative. She held the offices of
Director of the Cabinet of The President and President of the Council of
Administration of the National Domaine of Chambord and was a
Presidential Advisor
2008-12.
(b. 1968-). |
|
 |
2007-12 Premier
Viveca Eriksson, Åland (Finish External Territory) |
|
Chairperson of the Liberal Parliamentary Group 1999-2001, Member of the
Speaker's Conference 1999-2000, Chairperson of the Finance Committee
1999-2001, first Vice-speaker 2000-01 and 2005-07, Speaker 2001-05 and
Party Chairperson from 2004.
(b. 1956-). |
 |
Before 2007- Moe Ada Ngamaru Ariki,
Ngamaru Ariki
of the Ngati Te Akatauira Tribe in Atiu,
Cook Islands
(Free Association with New Zealand) |
| Her title is possibly Pa Nia
Ariki, She is one of the two chief of the Tribe (Vaka) of Takitumu in
Rarotonga. When her mother, Kainuku Mata Tekura Tau ka Pa Nia Ariki died
in 2004, the title was disputed by a distant relative, but the Courts have
settled the title with her. |
 |
2007-
Chief Napoaka Ziiri
Thérèse
Léotine Kaboré épouse Yaméogo of a District in Issouka (Burkino Faso)
|
|
Appointed chief by Modeste
Yaméogo, the Naaba Saaga, traditional chief of Issouka. She is in charge
of one district of almost 5,000 people, and has got the power to judge
cases, settle disputes and, most important, grant land use to the people
under her rule. This is especially important in a country where most
people earn a living by farming. (b. 1947-). |
 |
Circa 2007-
Regent-Ratu Hajjah Rustutih
Rumagesan of Sekar (Indonesia) |
| When her father died, an
uncle became raja of the small principality in West Papua - Onin
Peninsula, but a power struggle erupted with her 3 other uncles and she
was asked to become regent. |
 |
2008
Capitano
Reggente Assunta Meloni, San Marino
|
|
Member of the
Consiglio Grande e Generale for
Alleanza Popolare from 2006. Married to Fabrizio Stacchini and mother of
2 sons. (b. 1951-). |
 |
2008 Acting President
Dr. Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri,
South Africa |
|
Premier of the Free State
1996-99, Federal Minister of
Communication since 1999.
Acting President on one or two
occations in 2003 and Member of the Pool of Possible Acting
Presidents from 2005 and on 25. September, she was Acting
Executive after the resignation of the President until a successor
was elected and sworn in.
She lived (1937-2009). |
 |
2008-14
Governor-General
Dame Quentin Bryce,
Australia |
|
Lawyer, academic and human rights advocate, Federal
Sex Discrimination Commissioner, and founding chair and Chief Executive
Officer of the National Childcare Accreditation Council and
Governor of Queensland from 2003. (b. 1942-). |
 |
2008-09
Prime Minister Zinaida Grecianîi,
Moldova
|
|
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.
Presidential Candidate in 2009.
(b. 1956-). |
 |
2008-09
Prime Minister
Michèle Pierre-Louis, Haiti |
|
The third nominee by president Preval since March, has been
Executive Director of the Foundation of Knowledge and Liberty since
1995. Voted out of office by the Senate in 2009. (b. 1947-). |
 |
2008-12 Leader of the
Government
Antonella
Mularoni,
San Marino
2013 Capitano Reggente |
|
As Secretary of Foreign and Political Affairs she also functioned as
Leader of the Government even though the Captain Generals are both
Heads of State and Government. She was Political Secretary to the
Minister of Finance 1986-87, Director of the Office for relations
with the associations of San Marino citizens living abroad 1987-90,
Deputy Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, 1989-90,
Barrister and public notary in the Republic of San Marino 1991-2001,
Member of the General Grand Council 1993-2001 and again from 2008,
and Judge of the European Court of Human Rights 2001-08. (b. 1961-). |
|
 |
2008
Acting President of the Executive
Council
Marthe
Ogoundelé-Tessi, St-Martin (French External Territory)
|
|
2007-08 1. Vice-President in charge of Employment,
Educational Training, Professional Training, Teaching, Culture, Youth
and Sports, School Transport, Also President of the Conseil Territory,
Candidate for the Post of President in 2008 and since 2008 Member of
the Executive
Council. |
|
 |
2008 Charged with the Government Formation Tzipi Livni,
Israel (23.09-26.10.2008) |
|
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 2006-07 and also 1. Vice-Premier from 2006. She
was MK for Likud 1999-2005, when she joined Kadima and Party Leader
from 2008 and charged with the government formation September-October
2008. (b. 1958-). |
 |
2008-09 New Zealand Acting High Commissioner Sophie Vickers,
Cook Islands |
|
1. Secretary in the New Zealand Embassy when she became acting representative
from August until January the following year after the death of her predecessor. |
 |
2008- Hosi (Chief)
Tinyiko Lwandhlamuni Philla Nwamita Shilubana
of the Valoyi (Souh Africa) |
When her father, Hosi Fofoza Nwamitwa, died in
1968 without a male heir, her uncle became chief because customary
law athe time did not permit a woman to become Hosi. During 1996 and
1997 the traditional authorities of the community passed resolutions
deciding that she would succeed her uncle,
since in the new constitutional era women were
equal to men. And her succession was approved by the provincial
government. However, following the death of her uncle 2001, her
cousin interdicted her installation and challenged her succession,
claiming that the tribal authorities had acted unlawfull. The
Supreme Court concluded that the traditional authorities had the
authority to develop their customary law under the Constitution and
that her cousin did not have a right to be declared Hosi. She was
elected MP for ANC in 1999. (b. 1942-) |
|
Until 2008
Paramount
Chief Hana Yamba Ngokowa of Selenga
(Sierra Leone)
|
| She fled briefly during the war
in the 1990's. (d. 2008) |
 |
2008-
Joint Manager Julia Singer
of Herm (The Bailiwick of Guernsey, an UK Crown Dependency) |
|
Manager of the island jointly with her
husband, John Singer, after the tenantcy was bought by a company. |
|
 |
2009
Interim President
Rose Francine Rogombé,
Gabon |
|
Secretary of State for the Advancement of Women and Human Rights
during the 1980s. As President of the Senate 2009-15 she was Deputy
Head of State and became Interim President when President Bongo died.
She lived
(1942-2015). |
 |
2009- President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuania |
|
1994-1995 Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister at the
Lithuanian Mission to the EU and Deputy Head Negotiator for the
Europe Agreement with EU, 1996-1999 Plenipotentiary Minister at the
Embassy in USA, 1999-2000 Vice-Minister of Finance and 2000-01
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Head of the EU Accession
negotiations,
2001-04 Minister of Finance and 2004 EU-Commissioner of Financial
Planning and Budget 2004-09. Won 69% of the votes in the
presidential elections and will take office on 12 July.
(b.
1956-). |
 |
2009-13
Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Iceland |
|
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,
becoming 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 and Foreign Minister
Ingibjörg
Sólrún Gísladóttir, was beeing treated for a brain tumor.
First married to
Þorvaldur Steinar Jóhannesson
with
whom she has got 2 sons,
and in 2010 she married her registered partner since 2002,
the author Jónína
Leósdóttir,
who is mother of 1 son.
(b. 1942-).
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2009-11
Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor,
Croatia |
Vice-President of the Sabor 1995-2000
and from 2011, Deputy Chairperson of HDZ
1995-97, Party Leader 2009-12 and Opposition Leader 2011-12.
Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister of War Veterans from 2003, Minister for Family and Inter-Generation
Solidarity 2003-08 and responsible for Foreign Policy and Human Rights.
Presidential Candidate 2005. (b. 1953-).
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2009
Acting Prime Minister
2009
Prime Minister
Cécile Manorohanta, Madagascar |
|
Cécile Marie Ange Dominique Manorohanta was Vice-Minister
of Education and Scientific Research 2007, Minister of Defence 2007-09
and Vice-Premier and Minister of Interior in 2009.
As part of the power struggle she was in charge of the government from
October to November as the appointed Premier could not be sworn in and
when he was abroard in December, she again acted as his stand-in until
he was dismissed and she appointed as his successor, but replaced after
2 days in office. |
 |
2009
Acting Governor
Lesley Pallett, Gibraltar (UK External
Territory) (21-26. October) |
|
As
Deputy Governor since 2007, she acted from the
former governor departed until his successor was sworn in.
Head of Drugs and International Crime Department, and has been Director of
European Policy, Immigration and Nationality in the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office. |
 |
2009-10 New Zealand Acting High Commissioner
Nicola Ngawati, Cook
Islands |
|
1. Secretary in the New Zealand Embassy when she became acting representative
from November until November the following year after the death of her
predecessor. |
 |
2009- Director Lyn Maddock, The Australian
Antarctic Division and Administrator of the Territory of
Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Australia) |
|
The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) is a division of the
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA).
The islands are a territory (Territory of Heard Island and McDonald
Islands) of Australia administered from Hobart by the Australian
Antarctic Division of the Australian Department of the Environment,
Water, Heritage and the Arts. |
 |
2009-
Paramount Chief Deborah Sudie Quee III of
Kowa
(Sierra Leone)
|
| |
|
2009-
Paramount Chief
Madam Ruth Tutu Songha II of Gbo
(Sierra Leone)
|
| She is a Mende and a
descendant of the first chief, Momoh Babay Songa |
 |
2010 and 2017
President of the Confederation Doris Leuthard, Switzerland |
|
Member of the Assembly in Aargau 1997-2000, Vice-President of
Christian Democratic Party, CVP 2001-04, President of CVP
Schweiz 2004-06 and Federal
Councillor of Economic Affairs 2006-10 and Federal Councillor of
Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication,
Vice-President
in 2009 and 2016. |
 |
2010 Head of the Interim
Government
2010-12
President Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan |
|
Other versions of her
surname are
Otunbaeva or Otunbajewa.
1983-86 Secretary of the Municipal Communist Central Committee of Frunze,
1986-89 Deputy Prime Minister and Foregin Minister in the Kyrgyz
SSR, 1991 Ambassador of the USSR to Malaysia, 1992 Kyrgyz Deputy Premier Minister
and Minister of Foreign Affairs,
1992-93 Ambassador to USA and Canada and 1994 to Turkey, Foreign
Minister 1994-96, Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain
1996-2003, Deputy Head of
the United Nations special mission to Georgia 2002-04, Acting
Foreign Minister 2007, Parliamentary Leader of the Social Democrats
20009-10 and Interim Head of State and Government from April 2010
after the former President was ousted.
In May she was appointed President
for the term ending in December 2011. (b. 1950-). |
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2010-14
President
Laura
Chinchilla Miranda, Costa Rica |
|
Vice-Minister of Security
1994-96, Minister of Public Security, Interior and Police 1996-98 and also
Minister of Justice 2006-09 and 1. Vice-President 2006-09. (b. 1959-). |
 |
2010-15 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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2010-11
Prime Minister
Mari Kiviniemi, Finland |
|
MP from 1991, Deputy Parliamentary Leader of the Center
Party in 2003, Party Vice-Chairperson 2003-08 and Party Chairperson from 2010, Political Advisor of the Prime Minister 2004-07,
Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Aid and Minister at the Prime Minister's
Office 2005-06 and Minister of Public Administration and Local
Government 2007-10. Mother of 2 children. (b. 1968-) |
|
 |
2010-13 Prime Minister
Julia Gillard, Australia |
|
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
2010-13,
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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2010-12
Prime Minister
Iveta Radičová, Slovakia |
|
Iveta Radicova is Professor of Sociology and Political Sciences at the Comenius University in
Bratislava, from 2005 Director of the Institute of Sociology at the Slovak
Academy of Sciences, 2005-06 Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, MP from 2006
and Deputy Leader of the Democratic and Christian
Union–Democratic Party 2006-10 and Party Leader 2010-12.
Presidential Candidate for all the opposition parties in 2009 and
finished second in the second round of voting, and in 2010 the
opposition 4-party coalition won the elections, but lost 2 years later
after the coalition broke down. Minister of Defence 2010-12. (b.
1956-). |
|
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2010-14
Prime
Minister
Sarah
Wescott-Williams,
Sint Maartin
(Self-governing Part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
|
|
Circa 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 Maartin which was part of the
Netherlands
Antilles
until 2010 when it
became a
self ruling
entity
within the
Kingdom of
the
Netherlands.
President of
the
Parliament
in 2014.
She is
Leader of the St. Maartin Party. |
|
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2010-12
Premier
Paula A. Cox, Bermuda (British Dependent Territory) |
|
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 and Party Leader 2010-12. (b. 1969-). |
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2010-11 New Zealand High Commissioner Linda Te Puni, Cook
Islands
|
|
A career
diplomat she was acting representative from March until her permanent
appointment in June. Consulate-General to New Caledonia from 2011. |
 |
2010-11 Intendent Liliana Kusanovic, Antártica
Chilena (Chile)
|
|
An academic before becoming
Intendent of the Región de Magallanes y de la
Antártica Chilena |
 |
2010-14 Non-Resident Governor Vicky Treadell of the
Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
(Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom) |
|
Deputy High Commissioner to India 2005-09 and High Commissioner to
New Zealand and Samoa from 2010. (b. 1959-). |
|
 |
2010
and 2014
Acting Governor Inez Archibald, British Virgin Island
(External Territory of the United Kingdom) |
|
Vivian Inez Archibald has been a member and Chairperson of the BVI
Public Service Commission, the BVI Judicial and Legal Services
Commission, the BVI Income Tax Appeal Board and the Family Support
Network, Speaker of the Legislative Council 2003-07 and Deputy Governor
from 2008. Twice Acting Governor from the former holder of the office left the
island and until the new Governor arrived. (b. 1945-) |
 |
2010- Governor Carmen Cardinali Paoa, Easter Island (Isla de
Pascua) |
|
A native of the island, she worked as a
professor in Santiago de Chile. (b. 1944-). |
 |
2010- Regent
Queen Mother
Best Kemigisa Kaboyo
of Tooro, Uganda |
|
As Queen Mother from 1996, she was one of the guardians of her son, King Iguru IV (b.
1993-) and
later regent during his studies in the United Kingdom.
She is b. (1967-) |
 |
2010-
Paramount Chief
Doris Lenga-Caulker Gbabiyor II
of
the Kagboro Chiefdom, Shenge (Moyamba
District)
(Sierra Leone) |
|
Petitioned
the court that Sigismund Oldman Caulker did not have a right to the
Caulker Chieftaincy Staff’, the High Court of Sierra Leone gave its
verdict early in 2009 in favor of the Caulkers and she won the
elections later in the year. She is daughter
of P.C. A.T. Caulker. Like her father before her, she is an ordained
minister in the United Methodist church |
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2011-16 President
Dilma Vana Linhares Rousseff,
Brazil |
|
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. Removed from office after an impeachment
process. (b.
1947-). |
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2011
Capitano Reggente
Maria Luisa Berti, San Marino |
|
Member of the Consiglio Grande e Generale for Noi
Sammarinesi since 2008. In 2011 she was also joint president of the
parliament. (b. 1971-) |
|
 |
2011-16
President Atifete
Jahjaga, Kosovo |
|
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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2011
President
of the Council of
Ministers Rosario del
Pilar Fernández Figueroa, Peru |
|
Minister of Justice 2007-09 and again from 2010. Her official title
is Presidenta del Consejo de Ministros del Perú |
|
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2011-12
Prime
Minister Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, Mali |
|
Mariam Sidibé was Minister of Planning and
International Cooperation
1991-92
and
Minister of Agriculture and Environment
in 1992, Executive Secretary of the intergovernmental Interstate
Committee on the Fight Against Desertification in the Sahel 1993-2000, Special
Counselor to the President 2001-02,
Minister of Rural
Development in 2002 and
President of the administrative council
of Mali's government Tobacco corporation since
2003-12. Deposed by a military coup
together with the president. (b. 1948-). |
 |
2011-14 Prime Minister
Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand
|
|
A buisness woman and
sister of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, she became leader of the
Leader the Pheu Thai Party which won about 50% of
the votes in the parliamentary elections. Defence Minister
from 2013. She is married to businessman Anusorn Amornchat and mother
of a son. (b. 1967-). |
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2011-15 Prime Minister
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark
|
|
Social
Democrat Member of the European Parliament 1999-2004
and Member of the Parliament
2005-16 and Party Chairperson 2005-15,
1. Vice-Chair of the Parliament 2015-16 and named CEO
of the International Save the Children Foundation in
London in 2016. Married to
British MP, Stephen Kinnock, and mother of
two daughters. (b. 1966-) |
 |
2011-
High Commissioner Mikaela Engell, Greenland
(Danish External Territory) |
|
Before her appointment as Rigsombudsmand i Grønland,
she worked in the Greenland Home Rule administration since 1995 as
Director of Foreign Affairs (Udenrigsdirektør) 2001-05 and Chief
Advisor for Greenland and Arctic Affairs in the Danish Foreign
Ministry. (b. 1956-) |
 |
2011
Acting Governor
Sarita Francis, Montserrat
(UK External
Territory) (3. March-8. April)
|
|
Civil Servant from 1972, Chief Establishment
Officer (CEO) / Head of Service since 2007 and Deputy Governor 2009-15. |
|
 |
2011-
President of the Counseil General
Josette Manin, Martinique (French External Territory) |
|
Both
Head
of the Government and Parliament of
the Territory.
She has been member of the Council since 2001 and
Vice-Mayor of Lamentin. (b. 1950-)
|
 |
2011- Lantråd Camilla Gunell, the Åland Islands (Finish External
Territory) |
|
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-). |
 |
2011 President-elect
Alla Dzhioyeva, South
Ossetia (Breakaway Republic in Georgia) |
| 2002-08 Minister of
Education. An opposition presidential candidate, she won, according
to the Election Commission the second round by a clear margin, but
the Supreme Court of the breakaway republic annulled the result and
barred her from running again, but the ban was later lifted. She
suffered a stroke and did not run in the second edition of the
elections. |
|
2011- Acting Chief Sirah Bala Kamara of Folosaba
Dembelia
(Sierra
Leone)
|
|
Caretaker after Alahaji Alimamy Amadu III, of the
Phinerayah family, died at the age of 93. |
|
 |
2012 President of the
Confederation Eveline Widmer-Sclumpf, Switzerland |
|
Councillor of Finance and Military of
Graubünden 1998-2007, Vice-President of the Government
2000 and 2004 and President of the Government
2001 and
2005,
Federal Councillor
of Justice and Police 2008-10
and Councillor of Finance 2010-15 and Vice-President in 2011. (b. 1956-). |
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2012and 2015 Acting President
Monique Ohsan-Bellepeau,
Mauritius |
|
1995-2000 Junior Minister of Urban- and Rural
Development and
Président of the parti travailliste
2007-2010 and as Vice-President since 2010, she both times took over in an acting
capacity after the resignation of her predecessor. |
 |
2012 Acting
President
Slavica
Đukić-Dejanović, Serbia |
|
Dukic-Dejanovic is Vice-President of the Socijalističke partije Srbije,
and as
President
of the
Skupština 2008-12, she took over as Head of State
when her predecessor resigned. (b. 1954-) |
 |
2012-14 President
Joyce Banda, Malwai |
|
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 remained Vice-President according to the
constitution, and as such she took over as head
of state after the death of her predecessor.
Finished third in the
2014-eledtions.(b. 1950-) |
 |
2012-13 Capitano Reggente
Denise Bronzetti
|
|
Held various positions
within the Politica del Partito Socialista Sammarinese and Partito
dei Socialisti e dei Democratici and member of the Consiglio Grande
Generale since 2006. (b. 1972-) |
 |
2012 Acting Governor-General Sandra Mason, Barbados |
|
She is a judge of the Supreme Court. |
|
 |
2012 Acting Prime Minister Adiatu Djaló Nandigna,
Guinea Bissau |
|
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.
Deposed in a military coup together with the Interim President
between the first and second round in the Presidential Elections |
 |
2012-17 Chairperson
of the Commission of the African Union Nkosazana C. Dlamini-Zuma
(South Africa) |
|
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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2012-13
Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly,
the Cayman Islands
(British Overseas
Territory) |
|
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 from 2013,
Deputy Leader of the United Democratic Party 2009-12
and
d Deputy Leader of the United Democratic Party 2009-2012
and Leader of People's National Alliance in 2013 |
 |
2012-14
Governor Lydia
A. Emerencia, Bonaire (Dutch External Territory)
|
|
Former Director of the Center for Research and
Development at the University of Aruba. The island became a
municipality - a special body - within the Netherlands in 2010.
(b.1954-) |
 |
2012-13 Acting Governor
Adèle
van der Pluijm-Vrede
(Dutch
External Territory)
|
|
Vice-Governor
of the Nederlandse Antillen 2002-10 and of Curacau from 2012. From
September to November 2012 she was acting for most of the time
during the Governors illness and after his resignation, she took
over as permanent acting governor. (b. 1953-)
|
 |
2012-15
Personal Representative of the French Co-prince
Sylvie Hubac, Andorra |
|
Director of the
Cabinet of The President Hollande of France. (b. 1956-) |
 |
2013-17
President
Park Geun-hye, South Korea |
|
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.
In December 2016, she was impeached and her suspension was later
confirmed by the Constitutional Court. (b. 1952-) |
 |
2013-14
Capitano Reggente
Anna Maria Muccioli, San Marino |
|
Capitano
Reggente 2013-14 and Member of
the Consiglio Grande e Generale for the Partito Democratico
Cristiano since 2008. (b. 1964-). |
 |
2013- Governor-General
Dame
Cécile La Grenade, Grenada |
| Founder and chief
executive of La Grenade Industries. (b. 1952-) |
 |
2013- Potential Regent
Queen Maxima of the Netherlands |
|
On
3. December, a combined
session of the Staten-Generaal appointed her
as
possible Regent
for her daughter, The Princess of Oranje, Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands,
in the event of the death or abdication of her husband, King Willem-Alexander.
They married in 2002, and apart from the oldes daughter, born in 2003, they
have two other daughters, Princess Alexia (b. 2005-) and Princess Ariane (b.
2007-). She is born in Argentina (b. 1971-) |
 |
2013-14
Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek, Slovenia |
|
Alenka Bratusek has been MP from 2011 and Acting Leader of the Positive Slovenia party
2013-14. She is former Head of the Directorate for the State
Budget at the Ministry of Finance.
Designate Vice-President of the EU-Commission for Energy Union in
2014, but was rejected by the European-Parliament.
(b. 1970-) |
 |
2013-14
Premier Ministre Aminata
Touré, Senegal |
| Chair of the Electoral
Campaign of Landing Savané in 1993, worked in various international
organisaitons among others as head of the Human Rights Department of
the UN Population Fond and Director of the Cabinet of President
Macky Sall 2010-12 and Minister of Juctice and Third in the Cabinet
2012-13. (b. 1962-) |
 |
2013- Prime Minister
Erna Solberg, Norway |
|
Deputy Leader of Høyre
2002-04 and Party Leader from 2004,
Minister of Local Government and Regional
Development
2001-05,
Deputy to the Prime
Minister
2004-05. Married to
Sindre Finnes and
mother of 2.
(b. 1961-) |
 |
2013
Prime Minister Sibel Siber, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus |
|
MP from 2009 in the
self-declared state that comprises the northeastern part of the
island of Cyprus. Recognised only by Turkey. Speaker of the Assembly
from 2013. |
 |
2013-15
Prime
Minister
Tatyana Turanskaya,
Transnistria (Self Declared Republic in Moldova) |
|
Earlier in 2013 she was appointed Deputy Prime Minister with
responsiblity for Regional
Administration in the the
self-declared and de facto independent Republic of
Transnistria within the territory of
Moldova. (b. 1972-) |
 |
2013-
Prime
Minister
Željka Cvijanović,
Republic Srpska (Autonomous Entity Within Bosnia-Herzegovina) |
| Zeljka
Cvijanovic
was Minister
of Economic Relations and Regional Cooperation
2010-13. As candidate for the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina in
2014, she got 48.1 and the winner got 48.3 percent of the vote. (b. 1967-). |
 |
2013- Governor Lucille A. George-Wout,
Curaçao (Self governing part of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands) |
|
Former Commissioner of Finance of Curaçao,
Minister of Interior, Labour and
Social Affairs 1999-2001 and
Chairperson of the Staten of the Nederlandse Antillen
1994-98. (b. 1950-) |
 |
2013- Prefect
Marcelle Pierrot, Guadelupe (French Overseas
Territory) |
|
1993-95 Sous-préfète of Lunéville, 2000-03 Sous-préfèt d’Arles, 2006-07 Delegate Prefect in charge of Equality by the
Prefect of the Region of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur,
2007-09 Prefect
of Lot, 2009-11 of Tarn and 2011-13 of of Vosges.
Held a number of other
administrative posts. (b. 1949-) |
 |
2013-15
High Commissioner
Joanna Kemkers, Cook
Islands (New Zealand Self-Governing Territory) |
|
Deputy
High Commissioner and
Ambassador to Fiji
2012-13
and Ambassador
to Fiji from 2013. |
 |
2013- Governor
Christina Scott, Anguilla
(British External Territory) |
|
Private Secretary to the Prime Minister 2006-09 and Director of the
Civil Contingencies Secretariat at the Cabinet Office 2009-13.
|
 |
2013-
Governor
Helen Kilpatrick,
Cayman Islands (British External Territory) |
| Former
Deputy Chief Executive of the West Sussex County Council and Acting Home Office
Permanent Secretary and Accounting Officer 2012-13 |
 |
2013 and 2016
Acting Governor
Anya Williams, Turks and Caicos
(British External Territory)
|
|
Former Permanent Secretary of Finance. As Deputy Governor since 2012
she is a non-voting member of Cabinet, Head of the public service
and chair of the Permanent Secretaries’ committee.
Acted twice in the vacancy between two governors and whenever the
governor is abroad. |
 |
2013
Acting Governor
Alison MacMillan, Gibraltar
(British External Territory) |
| Assistant Deputy
Governor of Gibraltar
2007-10,
Deputy Director of Protocol & Assistant Marshall of the Diplomatic Corps in
London 2010-13 and Deputy Governor from 2013. |
 |
2013-14
Chairperson of the Government
Aleqa Hammond, Greenland (Danish
Self-governing Territory) |
|
Also
Minister of External Affairs. Minister
of Family Affairs and Justice
2005-07,
Minister of
Finance and External Affairs
2007-08 and
Chairperson of Siumut 2009-14. (b. 1965-). |
 |
2013-17
President of
du Conseil Territorial Aline Hanson,
Saint Martin
(French External Territory) |
| Both
Head of the Government
and Parliament
of the Territory.
She was
Vice-President
2012-13. |
 |
2013
President of the Assemblée Territorial
Nivaleta Iloai, Ilês Wallis et Futuna,
(French External Territory) |
|
Both Head
of the Government and Parliament of the
Territory.
She was elected to the
territorial
assembly about 20 years
sgo. |
|
 |
2013 Prime Minister-Nominate
Miroslava Nemcová, The Czech Republic |
|
Vice-Chairperson of
the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and Shadow Minister of Culture
of the ODS from 2002, Deputy Speaker of the
Chamber of Deputies 2002-10 and Speaker 2010-13.
Nominated as Prime Minister
by her party on 19. June 2013, but the President
chose a male technocrat, who soon after lost a vote of no
confidence in the Parliament, which then decided to dissolve itself. (b. 1952-). |
 |
2014-16
Acting Head of State
Catherine Samba-Panza, Central African Republic |
| Businesswoman and corporate lawyer.
Appointed Mayor of the capital Bangui in 2013 by the former interim government
before she was elected Interim President. (b. 1954-) |
 |
2014-
President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, Malta |
Labour MP
1998-2014 and Minister of Family and Social Solidarity 2013-14. (b.
1958-).
|
 |
2014- Governor
General Dame Marguerite Pindling, The Bahamas |
| Widow of Sir Lynden Pindling (1930-2000) who was
Prime Minister of the Colony of Bahamas 1967-73 and of independent Bahamas
1973-92. She was Deputy to the Governor General
2012-14. (b. 1932-). |
 |
2014-16
Minister President Laimdota Straujuma,
Latvia |
|
1999-2000
Deputy State Secretary of Agriculture,
2000-06 State Secretary of Agriculture, 2007-10 State Secretary of Regional Development,
2010-11 Deputy State Secretary Regional Development and
2011-14 Minister of
Agriculture. Joined the Unity Party after she was nominated as chief of the
government by the party chair and President of the Parliament
Solvita Āboltiņa.
(b. 1951-) |
 |
2014-15
President of the Council of Ministers Ana Rosario
Jara Velásquez, Peru |
|
2011-14 Minister of Women's Promotion
and Social Development, 2014 Minister of Labour and Promotion of
Employment and MP 2011. (b. 1968-) |
 |
2014-15 Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, Poland |
|
Member of the Sejm 2001-2005 and from 2011 for Platforma Obywatelsk,
Minister of Helth 2007-11 and Marshall of the Sejm from 2011. (b. 1956-). |
 |
2014-15
Acting Prime Minister
Florence Duperval Guillaume, Haiti |
|
Minister of Public Health and Population
2011-12 and from 2014. |
 |
2014
Acting Governor Sandra Tyler-Haywood, Falkland Islands |
Former Ambassador
to Eritrea, and from 2012 First Secretary and Head of the Office of
the Governor of the Falkland Islands
|
 |
2014-
Administrator-Superieur
Cécile Pozzo di Borgo,
French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French External Territory), |
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Prefect of l'Aveyon 2011-14 before becoming
Administratrice supérieure des Terres australes et
antarctiques françaises from 2014.
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2014-
Administrator Esther Puakela Kia’aina, Wake Island and Palmyra Atoll
(USA External) |
| As Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas
she heads the Office of Insular Affairs. Commissioner of Land and
Natural Resources in Hawaii 2012-14. Appointed White House
representative for the Northern Mariana Islands in 2016. (b. 1963-) |
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2014-15
Acting High Commissioner Aimee Jephson, Cook
Islands (New Zealand Self-Governing Territory) |
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Deputy
High Commissioner
2013-16. |
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2014-15
President of the Government Cynthia
Ligeard, Nouvelles Caledonie (French External Territory) |
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Vice-President 2011-12 and President of the
Province du Sud 2012-14. |
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2014-
Secretary of Administration
Sónia Chan Hoi Fan, Macau
(Chinese Special Administrative Region) |
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Sonia
Han is also known as Chan Hoi Fan.
As
Secretary of Administration and
Justice
she is also Deputy to the Chief Executive. |
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2015
President Simonetta
Sommaruga, Switzerland
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Federal Councillor of Justice
and Police
and Substitute Councillor of Interiorfrom
2010.
VicePresident in 2014. |
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2015- President
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Croatia |
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Appointed Minister of European Integration
in 2003 and was also Foreign Minister 2005-08. English and Spanish languages professor and former
adviser in the Foreign Ministry.
Finished second in the first round of the presidential elections in
2014 and won 50,5 % in the second round.
(b. 1968-). |
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2015-
President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim,
Mauritius |
| Professor of Organic
chemistry and Pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Mauritius. |
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2015-2016 Captain Regent Lorella Stefanelli,
San Marino |
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Member of the Consiglio Grande e Generale for
the Partito Democratico Cristiano from 2012. |
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2015-
President
Bidhya Devi Bhandari,
Nepal |
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Minister for
Population and Environment
1997 and Minister of Defence 2009-11, Vice-president of the Nepal
Communist Party (Unified Marxist-Leninist) 1998-2015. (b. 1961-) |
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2015- Prime Minister
Saara
Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, Namibia |
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Director-General of the National Planning Commission
1997-2003
and Minister of Finance
2003-15. (b.
1967-). |
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2015
Acting
Prime Minister
Natalia Gherman, Moldova |
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Deputy Premier and
Minister of Foreign Affairs and European
Integration from 2013, she took over as Premier after the
resignation of her predecessor. 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.
She is daughter of
former President Mircea Snegur
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2015
Interim Prime Minister Vasiliki Thanou,
Greece |
| Vassiliki
Thanou-Christophilou is the senior judge as President of the Court
of Cassation in 2015. She was President of the Court of First
Instance 1992-2015, President of the Appeals Court 2005-15, judge in
the Court of Cassation from 2008, Vice President of the Court
201-15. (b. 1950-). |
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2015- Prime Minister Beata Szydło,
Poland |
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Vice-President of the Law and Justice party
(b. 1963-) |
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2015 and
2015
Acting
Prime Minister Maya Ivanovna Parnas, Transnistria (Self declared Republic in Moldova) |
| She was appointed
Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Development
and Finance
in 2012. |
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2015-
Premier Katrin
Sjögren, Åland (Finish External Territory) |
|
2007-11 Minister of Social Affairs,
Health and Care and Environment,
Vice-Chairperson of the Liberal Party
until 2012 and Party Leader from 2012. |
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2015- Governor Rosana Bertone,
Antarctica and the Islands of the South Atlantics
(Argentina) |
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The Province of Tierra del Fuego includes the two outlaying
territories. She was MP 2003-13 and Senator
2013-15. (b. 1972-) |
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2015-
Governor Elizabeth Carriere, Montserrat
(British External
Territory) |
| Assistant Deputy Minister
of Hereritage and Recreation in Manitoba, Canada. Held other senior
positions and joined the British Ministry of International
Development in 1999. (b. ca. 1955-) |
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2015-
Administrator and High Commissioner Linda Te Puni, Tokelau (New Zealand) |
| Career diplomat |
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2015-
Delegate-Préfet Anne Laubies, Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin, (French
External Territory) |
She is deputy to the
représentant de l’État
Civil Servant and
Secretary General of the Prefecture of Guyane
2009-13 and Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2013-15.
(b. 1953-). |
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2015- Sysselmann Kjerstin Askholt, Svalbard (Norway) |
Civil servant in the Ministry of Justice.
|
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2015
Acting
Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
Simona-Mirela Miculescu |
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Director of the Romanian
Department for Public Communication of
Foreign Ministry in 1993 and 2008 as well as Spokesperson of
the Ministry in 1993 and 1999, Foreign Policy Advisor to the
President of Romania 2000-04
and Romasnian UN Ambassador 2008-15. Appointed Representative of the
UN Secretary General and Director of
United Nations Office in Belgrade from 2015. (b. 1959-) |
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2015- Chief Julianna Gawanas of the /Khomanin
community (Namibia) |
| The Deputy chief since 2008, was
appointed by her late father Josephat Gawanab to take over his position. |
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2016-
President
Hilda Heine, the Marshall Islands |
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Former Secretary of Education as well as Senator and Minister of
Education 2012-16. (1951-) |
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2016- State Councillor
Aung San Suu Ky, Myanmar |
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Her
party won 80 % of the votes in the 2015-elections, As the Constitution is
designed to prevent her from becoming President, the Parliament
created the new powerful position of State Councilor; a role
similar to that of Prime Minister.
Aso Minister of the President's Office and Foreign Minister. She also won the 1990 elections that
were annulled, was placed under house arrest for a total of 15 years
over a 21-year period. General Secretary of he National Leauge for Democracy
1988-2011 and President from 2011, elected MP in 2012 and was 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-
President
Tsai Ing-wen,
Taiwan |
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Senior
Advisor of the National Security Council 1999-2000,
Minister and
Chairperson of Mainland Affairs Council
2000-04.
Member of the Legislative Yuan 2004-06,
Vice-Premier and Minister of Consumer
Protection
2006-07,
Chairperson of the
Democratic Progressive Party 2008-12 and from 2014 and Presidential
Candidate in 2012. (b. 1956-)
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2016-17
Acting President
Doris Bures, Austria |
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As Pesident of the Nationalrat
she became Head of the Joint Acting
Presidency with the two Vice-Presidents after the
second round presidential elections had to be re-run. She became
SPÖ Member of Parliament in
1990 and Party Secretary General 2000-07 and again in 2008, Federal Minister
without Portfolio in the Office of the Federal Chancellor in charge of Women's
Affairs, Media and Civil Service 2007-08 and Federal Minister of Infrastructure,
Trafic, Innovation and Technology 2008-14 (b. 1962-). |
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2016-
President
Kersti Kaljulai, Estonia |
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Economic Advisor of
the Prime Minister 1999-2002, Member of the European Court of
Auditors 2004-2016. Married to George-Rene Maksimovski and mother of
2 sons. (b. 1969-). |
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2016- Governor
General
Dame Patsy Reddy,
New Zealand |
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Lawyer, Chairperson of the
New Zealand Film Commission involved in a number of non-governmental
organisations, particularly in the arts and gender equality. Married
to Sir David Gascoigne. (b. 1952-). |
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2016-
Prime Minister Theresa May, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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Conservative MP from 1997,
Chairperson of the Conservative Party 2002-03, Home Secretary
2010-16,
Minister for Women and Equality
2010-12 and Party
Leader of the Conservative 2016. (b. 1956-). |
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2016- Governor Lisa
Phillips, Saint Helena, Ascensions and Tristan da Cunha (British
Overseas Territory) |
| Assistant Deputy Minister
of Hereritage and Recreation in Manitoba, Canada. Held other senior
positions and joined the British Ministry of International
Development in 1999. (b. ca. 1955-). |
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2016 Acting Governor Ginny Ferguson, Bermuda
(British Overseas Territory) |
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Different diplomatic postings before becoming British First
Secretary and Consul-General in Auckland, New Zealand and
concurrently Deputy Governor of Pitcairn 2007-12 and afterwards
Deputy Governor of Bermuda from 2012. |
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2016-
Premier
Sharlene Cartwright Robinson
TurkS
and Caicos Islands (British Overseas Territory) |
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Deputy Leader in 2012 and Leader of the
People's Democratic Movement since 2012
and Leader of the Opposition 2012-16.
(b. 1971-) |
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2016
Prime Minister-elect Vainetutai Rose Toki-Brown
(Cook Islands (Free Association with New Zealand) |
MP and Deputy Speaker of the Parliament
from 2014, Rose Brown was elected Prime Minister by
a majority in Parliament in June 2016, but
the Queen's Representative ruled that the Parliament was not
in session.
Leader of the Opposition from 2016. |
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2016
Charged with the Government Formation Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Iceland
(16.-25. November) |
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Vice-Chairperson of the Left-Green Alliance 2006-13, Deputy Chairperson of
the Parliamentary Group 2007-09 and Party Leader from 2013
and
2009-13 Minister Education, Science and Culture
and Minister of Nordic Cooperation
2009-13.
Did not manage to form a government, and handed the mandate back to
the President. (b. 1976-) |
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2016
Charged with the Government Formation Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Iceland
(2.-12. December) |
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2009-10 and 2013
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group and 2011-12 Party Chair of
the Movement (Borgarahreyfingarinnar (Hreyfingarinnar),
2013-14 and from 2015
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group and
2014-15 Chair of the Pirate Party.
(b. 1967-). |
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2016
Nominee for Prime Minister
Sevil Shhaideh, Romania
(21.-27. December) |
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Secretary of State of
Regional Development and
Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of
Public Administration in
2015. She belongs to the Muslim Tatar minority. In December 2016,
the President rejected her nomination for the post of Prime Minister.
Instead she was appointed 1. Vice-Premier and Minister of
Development, Public Administration and EU Funds. (b. 1964-). |
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2017
Captain Regent
Mimma Zavoli, San Marino |
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As Captain Regent she also chairs the Consiglio Grande
e Generale jointly with the other Captain Regent, which for the first
time was another woman. Member of the Consiglio Grande e
Generale for Civico 10. (b. 1963-). |
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2017 Captain
Regent
Vanessa d’Ambrosio, San Marino |
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Member of the Consiglio Grande e Generale for
Sinistra Socialista Democratica (b. 1988-). |
Last update
04.04.17
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