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Worldwide
Guide to Women in Leadership
WOMAN LOCAL
CHIEFS OF GOVERNMENT
2000-2010
This is a listing of
female chiefs of governments both of federal states and provincial with various
degrees of autonomy
Women Local Leaders
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2000-02 Premier Pat Duncan, Yukon (Canada)
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Leader of
Liberal Party since 1997 and Leader of the Opposition until 2000. She
appointed a cabinet with three female and three male members apart from
herself. |
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2000 President of the Executive Committee Nuria Abdulahi, Harari (Ethiopia) |
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Only in office for around one month.
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2000-03 Chairperson of the People's Government Uyunqing, Inner Mongolia
Autonomous Region (China) |
| Deputy Secretary of the Communist
Party since 1994 and on 28.8.00 she became 1st Vice-chair of the government and
acting chair from the same day. She was acting chair until she was elected to
the post in February 2001. (b. 1941-) |
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2000-01 and 2007-08 Government President Dr. Rita Fuhrer, Kanton Zürich (Switzerland) |
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Councillor
of Social Affairs and Safety (Police) 1995-99 and Social Affairs from
1999. She was Vice-Government President
1999-2000 and 2006-07.
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2000 and 2004 Frau Landammann Ruth Gisi-Wilisegger, Kanton Solothurn (Switzerland) |
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Ruth Gisi has
been Councillor
of Education 1997-2006 and Vice-Landammann 1999 and 2003. |
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2000-01 President of the Government Dora Andres, Kanton Ber (Switzerland)
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Councillor
of Police and Military from 1996 and 1999-2000 Vice-President of the Government.
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2000 and 2004 President of the Government Jacqueline Maurer-Mayor, Vaud (Switzerland)
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President of the Grand Council (Parliament) 1996-97 and Chief of Economy
Department 1997-2007 and in 1999 she was Vice-President of the Government Cou. In August 2000 she took absence of leave to be treated for an
illness.
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2000-10 President Maria Rita Lorenzetti, Regione de Umbria
(Italy)
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Councillor of Social
Services in
the City of Foligno
1975-84
when she was elected
Mayor. She was a MP
from 1987.
(1953-)
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2001-02 and 2006-07 President of the Government Barbara Schneider, Basel Stadt (Switzerland) |
| Councillor of Building and Industrial Works
from 1996 and was Vice-President of the Government 2000-01 and 2005-06. |
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2001 and 2005 President of the Government Dr. Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Graubünden (Switzerland) |
| Councillor
of Finance and Military 1998-2007 and Vice-President of the Government in 2000
and 2004. and Federal Councillor of Justice and Police 2008-10 and Federal
Councillor of Finance 2010-15 and Federal President in 2012. |
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2001-02 President of the Council of State Monika Dusong, Republique and Canton
of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) |
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Councillor of State
and Chief of Justice, Health and Security 1997-2005, Vice-President of the State-Council 2000-01.
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2001-02 and 2007-08 President of the Government Lic.phil Kathrin Hilber, St. Gallen (Switzerland) |
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Since 1996 Councillor of State and Director of Interior and Military.
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2001-02 President of the Council of State Micheline Calmy Rey, Génčve (Switzerland)
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| President of the Grand Conseil 1993
and has been Councillor of Finance since 1997 and in
2000-01 Vice-President of the Government. Federal Foreign
Minister since 2003, Confederal Vice-President in 2006 and President in 2007. (b. 1945-). |
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2001-04 Prime
Minister Natalya Partasova, Republic of Chuvashia (Russia)
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1st Deputy Prime Minister when she became
chief of the government of Chuvash (b. 1957).
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2001-07 Chief Minister Clare Martin, Northern Territory (Australia)
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Leader of Labour
1999-2007 and of the Opposition 1999-2001.
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2001-02
Minister in Charge Regina Phiri of the Eastern Province (Zambia) |
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Minister in Charge of the Eastern Province in the central government
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2002 President
of the Government Francine Jeanprętre, Vaud (Switzerland) |
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Chief of the Education and Youth Department 1998-2002 and Vice-President in 2001.
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2002-04 Landammann Dr. Gabi Huber, Uri (Switzerland) |
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Director of Finance and Interior 1996-2004
and Frau Landesstatthalter (Deputy Chief of Government)
2000-02.
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2002-03
and 2007-08 President of the Council of State Patrizia Pesenti,
Ticino (Switzerland) |
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Since 1999 Director of Social Affairs
(b. 1958).
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2002-04 President
of the Regional
Council
Elisabeth Morin, Poitou-Charentes (France) |
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Former vice-President. (b. 1947-).
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2003
Schultheiss Margit Fischer-Williman, Luzern (Switzerland) |
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Councillor
of Military, Police and
Environment 1999-2003. (b. 1947-).
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2003-07 Landammann Alice Scherrer-Baumann, Appenzell-Ausserrhoden
(Switzerland) |
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Government Councillor and Director of
Health 1994-2007. |
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2003-04
Landammann Maria Küchler-Flury, Obwalden (Switzerland) |
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Councillor of Economy 1992-2006 and Landstatthalter (Deputy Chief of Government)
2002-03
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2003-07 President of the Region Luzmila
Templo Condeso, Huánuco (Peru) |
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Mayor of
Huánuco from around 1993. |
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2003-07 President of the Region María Cristala Constantínides Rosado, Moquegua (Peru) |
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Former
Provincial Mayor of Mariscal Nieto. (b. 1944-). |
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2003-07 President of the Region
Dra. Rosa Yris Medina Feijóo, Tumbes (Peru) |
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Member of Apra,
and President of the local branch of the National Council of Women and
worked with handicapped children. (b. 1940-) |
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2003-12
President
of the Government
Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma,
the
Autonomous Community of Madrid (Spain) |
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1983-87
President of Partido Popular of Madrid, 1991-96 Deputy Mayor of the City of
Madrid for Environment and
1996-99 Minister of Education and
Culture,
1999-2002
President of the
Senate
and unsuccesful candidate for the post of
Mayor of the City of Madrid in 2015.
(b. 1952-).
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2003-08 and 2013- Chief Minister
Vasundhra Raje,
Rajastan (India) |
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Held various
portfolios as Union Minister of State 1998-2003.
Her full name is Vasundhararaja Rao Scindia and is daughter
of the late Rajmata Vikauaraje Scindia of Gwalivor, who was MP for many years
and Vice-President of the BJP. Vashundhra is married to the former Maharaja of
Dholpur (b. 1953-)
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2003-04 Chief Minister
Uma Bharati,
Madhyra Pradesh (India) |
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Held various
portfolios as Union Minister of State 1998-2000 and as Union Cabinet
Minister until 2003.
In 2004 she stepped down after
being
charged with inciting violence during riots in the southern state of
Karnataka 10 years ago.
Also known as Sadhui
Uma Shree Bhatari she is a Hindu Nun, and
she holds the title of
Sushree. (b. 1959-). |
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2004-14 President of the Regional Council,
Ségolčne Royal,
Poitou-Charentes (France) |
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1992-93
Minister of Environment,
1994-95 President of National Council of the Socialist Party,
1997-2000 Minister-Delegate of National Education, Technology
and Science,
2000-02 Minister-Delegate of Family and Childhood
and appointed Minister of Environment in 2014.
Socialist Presidential Candidate in 2007. (b. 1953-). |
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2004-
President of the General Council
Marie-Françoise Pérol-Dumont,
the
Department of Haute-Vienne
(France)
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Vice-President of the Council
1992-2004,
Vice-President
1997-98
and Secretary of the
National Assembly from
1998.
(b. 1949-). |
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2004-
President of the Region Rosa Suárez Aliaga, Apurímac (Peru) |
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Vice-President of the Regional Government 2003-04. |
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2004-09
Premier Beatrice Marshoff, The Free State (South
Africa) |
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Former Member of the Executive Council for Social Affairs. |
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2004-09
Premier Edna Molewa, North West Province (South
Africa) |
| Member of the
Executive Council (MEC) for Tourism, Environment and Conservation in the
North West Province 1996-98,
MEC for Economic Development and Tourism in the North West Province 1998-2000
and MEC for Agriculture, Conservation and Environment in the North
West Province 2000-04.
(b. 1957-). |
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2004-08 Premier Zisiwe Nosimo
Beauty Balindlela, Eastern
Cape (South Africa) |
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Nosimo
Balindlela was member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Sport, Recreation,
Arts and Culture
1999-2004. (b. 1929-). |
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2004-09
Premier Dipuo Peters, Northern Cape (South Africa) |
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Former Member of the Executive Council of Education and later for Arts and
then for Health. |
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2004 Acting Premier
Catherine Mabuza, Limpopo
(South
Africa) |
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Acted from 22nd of April as the incumbent Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi
was elected MP. Sello Moloto is sworn in as new premier on 26th of April. |
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2004-13 Landeshauptfrau Gabi Burgstaller, Salzburg
(Austria) |
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Until 2002 Parliamentary Leader of SPÖ in the Province,
Landeshaputmann-Sellvertreterin and Councillor in charge of Municipalities, Health, Youth, Women, Consumer's Protection
2002-04 and Chairperson of the local SPÖ 2004-13. (b. 1963-). |
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2004-05, 2008-09 and 2014-15 President of the Government
Barbara Egger-Jenzer,
Bern (Switzerland) |
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2000 1. Vice-President
and
2001-02 President of the Grosse Rat, since 2002 Councillor of Housing, Traffic and Construction
and in
2003-04, 2007-08 and 2014-15 Vice-President of the Government. |
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2004-05 and 2006-07 President of the Council of State Sylvie
Perrinjaquet,
Neuchâtel (Switzerland) |
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From 2001
Councillor of State and Chief of the Departments of Finance and Social
Affairs and in 2003-04 and 2005-06 Vice-President of the Council of State.
(b. 1955-). |
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2004-05 Landammann Elisabeth Gander-Hofer, Obwalden (Switzerland) |
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From 1995 Councillor of Health and Security and 2003-04 Landstatthalter
(Deputy Chief of Government). |
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2004-08 Minister-Présidente
Marie Arena,
French Community (Belgium) |
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The government
is in charge of the affairs of the French speaking community in Wallonia
and Brussels, and
had 4 female and 2 male members. She was Regional Minister of Professional Training in
Wallonia
2000-03 and 2003-04 Federal Minister for the Public Services, Social
Integration and Urban Development and Federal
Minister of
Pensions and Integration
from 2008. She is of Italian origin.(b. 1966-). |
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2004-05 Chief
of Region Louise Odette Rahaingosoa, Sofia (Madagascar) |
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MP 1993-2003,
2002-04 Minister of Culture. She is also known as Rahaingosoa Louise Odette Andriamaroseheno.
(b. 1953-). |
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2004-09 Chief of
Region Hanta Rabetaliana, Haute Matsiatra (Madagascar) |
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Dr.
Rabetaliana-Schachenmann is a former Project
Coordinator of WWF and Vice President of Madagascar's International Year
of Mountains national committee. |
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2005-07
Chief of Region Moana Essa Raseta, Ihorombe 2007-08
Chief of Region of Sava (Madagascar) |
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Professor in
biology and horticulture and from 2002 director of an Agricultural
School. |
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2005 Landammann
Anne-Catherine Lyon,
Vaud (Switzerland) |
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Chief of the
Education and Formation Department from 2002. |
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2005-06 Landammann
Brigitte Profos-Meier, Zug
(Switzerland) |
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Councillor of Interior
from 2001 and Frau Statthalter
2004-05
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2005-06 President of the Government Council
Dorothée Fierz, Zürich
(Switzerland) |
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Councillor of Building
and Substitute Councillor of Health from 1999, Vice-President of the Government Council
2003-04. (b. 1947-). |
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2005-10 President
Mercedes Bresso, Regione Piemonte (Italy) |
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Member of the Regional Council of Piemonte 1985-95, Regional
Councillor of Territorial Planning 1994-95, President of the
Provincia di Torino 1995-2004,
Member of the European Parliament from 2004. Married to
Claude Raffestin. (b. 1944-). |
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2005-06 Landammann
Lisbeth Gabriel,
Nidwalden (Switzerland) |
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Member of the Regierungsrat and Director
of Agriculture and Environment from 2002 and
Landesstatthalterin (Vice-Government Chief 2004-05.
(b. 1948-). |
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2005-06 Minister
for the Southern Province Alice Simango, Zambia |
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A nominated Member of the Parliament. The Provincial Ministers are no the level of Deputy Ministers in the Cabinet. |
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2005-07 President of Sametinget/Sámediggi Aili Keskitalo in
Norway
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As President she is both Head of the Parliament and the Executive of the
Sami Entity in Norway. She took office on 18. October.
Leader of Norske Samers Riksforbund since 2003.
A few days after her election
she was admitted to hospital because of heart failure (b. 1970-). |
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2005 Acting President of the Sameting/Sámediggi
Randi Skum in
Norway (23.10-mid November)
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Member of the Assembly from 1997 and Member of the Executive from 2001.
(b. 1967-). |
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2006 and 2012 President of the Government
Elisabeth
Baume-Schneider, Republic and Canton of Jura (Switzerland)
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President of the Parlement 1999-2000 and Minister of Education
since 2002 and Vice-President of the Government in 2005, 2007 and 2011. (b. 1963-). |
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2006-07 and 2011-12 President of the Council of State Karin Keller-Sutter, Sankt
Gallen (Switzerland)
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Councillor of State and Director of Justice and Police 2000-15 aElected
2. Vice-President of the Confederate Council of States in 2015-16 (To be
1. Vice-Presidetn 2016-17 and President 2017-18). |
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2006-07 Landammann
Beatrice Jann, Nidwalden (Switzerland)
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1999-2000 Vice-President of the Landrat and Member of the Regierungsrat and Director of Education
since 2002-10
and Landesstatthalterin
2005-06. |
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2007 President of the Council of State
Isabelle Chassot, Fribourg (Switzerland)
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Councillor of Education, Culture and Sport since 2002. and
Vice-President of the Council of State in 2006. (b. 1965-).
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2007 and 2012 Schultheiss Yvonne Schärli-Gerig, Luzern (Switzerland)
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President of the Grand Conseil in 2002 and Councillor of Justice,
Military and Police since 2003 and
Statthalter 2006 and 2011. (b. 1952-). |
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2007-08
President of the
Government
Eva Herzog, Basel-Stadt (Switzerland)
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Councillor of Finance from 2004 and
Vice-President
of the Government
2006-07. (b. 1961-). |
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2007-08 and 2012-13
President of the
Government
Sabine Pegoraro, Basel-Landschaft (Switzerland)
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Councillor of Finance from 2003 and
Vice-President
of the Government
2006-07 and 2011-12. (b. 1961-). |
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2007-12 Premier Anna Bligh, Queensland (Australia) |
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Minister of Disability Services and Families, Youth and Community Care
until 2000. Education Minister 2000-05 and Minister of Arts 2004-05, Deputy
Premier and Minister of Finance, Minister for State Development, Trade and
Innovation 2005-07 and Labour Leader 2007-12.
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2007-08 Chairperson of the Regional Government
Irina Ilyinichna Skorokhodova, Yaroslav (Russia) |
| 1. Vice-Governor of
the Oblast. |
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2007-09 Chief of Region Anjara Manantsara, Diana
(Madagascar) |
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Since
2009 Secretary General of the Ministry of Decentralisation.
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2007-09 Chief of Region Samoëline Raheliarisoa, Atsimo-Andrefana
(Madagascar) |
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Also
know as Samuëline
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2008 President of the Government
Ursula Hafner-Wipf,
Schaffenhausen (Switzerland) |
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President of the
Kantonsrat in 2000
and Chief of the Department
of Interior since 2005 and Vice-President of the Government.
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2008 and 2013
Landammann Esther Gassler-Leuenberger, Solothurn
(Switzerland) |
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Councillor of Economy from 2005
and Vice-Landammann in 2007 and 2012
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2008-10 Landamman Marianne Dürst-Kundert, Glarus (Switzerland) |
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Councillor of Interior and Economy 1998-2014 and
Landesstatthalter in 2014. (b. 1961-).
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2008-15 President of the Regional Council Marie-Marguerite Dufay, France-Comté
(France)
2015- President of the Regional Council of
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
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1. Vice-president through a number of years, she was first Acting
President of the Re, when her
predecessor died in office, and soon after elected to the post.
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2008-11 President of the General Council Josette
Durrieu, Hautes-Pyrénées (France) |
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Vice-President of the Department 1998-2002
and from 2008, Senator, Vice-President of the Nato Parliamentary
Assembly and many other posts. (b. 1937-). |
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2008-09
and 2014-15 President of
the Government Heidi Hanselmann, Sankt Gallen (Switzerland) |
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Elected
Councillor of State for Health in 2004.
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2008 Acting Prime
Minister
Khava Yevloyeva, Ingushetia
(Russia) |
| Continued as Social
Affairs Minister after her appointment as Vice-Premier
in 2005. |
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2008-09 Premier Lynne Brown, Western Cape
(South Africa) |
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ANC MP and Whip from 1994, Provincial Deputy Speaker 1999-2001, Speaker 2001-04,
Member of the Provincial Executive Council for Finance 2004-08, Premier 2008-09
and Leader of the Provincial Opposition from 2009. (b. 1961-) |
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2008-President of the Region
Nery Enni Saldarriaga de Kroll, Lambayeque
(Peru) |
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Regional Vice-President from 2003, and took
over as President of the Government when her predecessor became Prime
Minister in 2008,
Vice-presidential Candidate for Concerteación Descentralista as the running-mate
of Susana Villaran de la Puente in 2006.
(b. 1943-). |
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2008-13 Premier
Eva Aariak, Nunavut (Canada) |
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Journalist and community worker, Language Commissioner
1999-2004 and 2007, the only female Member of the Legislative Assembly
2008-13. |
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2009, 2013 and 2017 President of the Government Rosmarie Widmer Gysel, Schaffenhausen (Switzerland) |
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Chief of the Department of Education from 2005 and Vice-President of the
Government in 2008 and 2012.
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2009 Acting
Minister President
Birgit Diezel,
Thüringen (Germany) (January-April and September) |
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Secretary of State of Finance 1999-2002,
Minister of Finance 2002-09, Vice-Premier 2004-09
and Acting Premier when the incumbent was seriously hurt in a skiing accident
and again after his resignation following his defeat in the local elections.
Also Deputy Chairperson of the CDU in Thüringen and Acting Chairperson from 2009
and President of the Landtag 2009-14.
(b. 1958-). |
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2009- Premier Helen Zille,
Western Cape (South Africa) |
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Otta Helene Maree née Zille is
a former anti-Apartheid Activist, Member of the Executive Council for Education
in Western Cape 1999-2004,
Member of the National Assembly 2004-06, Mayor of Cape Town 2006-09 and Leader
of the Democratic Alliance from 2007. As Premier she appointed a Cabinet with 10
male members, 6 of them white. (b. 1951-)
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2009-14 Premier Nomvula Mokonyane, Gauteng (South
Africa) |
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Provincial Member of Executive
Council for Housing 2004-09 and national Minister of Water
and Sanitation from 2014. (b. 1963-)
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2009-14
Premier Noxolo Kiviet, Eastern Cape (South Africa) |
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Speaker of the Provincial Assembly 2004-09.
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2009-
Premier Maureen Modiselle, North West (South Africa) |
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Provincial Member of the Executive Council for
Safety and Liaison 2004-09. (b. 1941-).
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2009-13 Premier Hazel Jenkins, Northern
Cape (South
Africa) |
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Mayor of the BoKaroo District
Municipality until 2009. On sick-leave since she collapsed while delivering her
state-of-the-province address last year after suffering a brain aneurysm in 2012
until she resigned from the Assembly in 2013.
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2009-13 Regional Minister Ama Benyiwa-Doe,
Central Region (Ghana) |
| As Regional Minister
she was member of the national cabinet and in charge of the regional
government. |
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2009-10
and 2014-15President of the Government
Regine Aeppli, Zürich (Switzerland) |
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Councillor of Education
from 2003 and Vice-President of the Government
2008-09 and 2013-14.
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2009-10
Landammann Esther
Gasser Pfulg,
Obwalden (Switzerland) |
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Councillor of Security and
Health and 2009 Landstatthalter (Deputy Chief of Government). |
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2009-14 Minister President Christine Liebknecht, Thüringen
(Germany) |
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Evangelican-Lutheran Pastor in Weimar 1984-90, Minister of
Justice until 1999, President of the Landtag 1999-2004, Chairperson of the
Parliamentary Group of CDU 2004-08 and Minister of Social Affairs, Family and
Health 2008-09. (b. 1958-).
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2009-11
Premier Kristina Keneally, New South Wales |
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Minister for Ageing and Disability Services
2006-08 and Minister for Planning, Infrastructure and Redfern Waterloo 2008-09,
Labour Leader 2009-11. With Carmel Tebbutt as Deputy Premier it was the first time in Australian history that two women headed a state government.
(b. in USA 1968-).
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2009-11 Chairperson of the Regional Government Olga Kuzminichna Atyukova,
Oblast of Penza (Russia) |
Afterwards Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian
President in the Central Federal District
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2009
Acting President of the General Council Christine Boutin,
Yvelines |
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Former municipal and regional councillor,
former mayor and deputy mayor, Vice-President of the Grand Council
of Yvelines 1994-2009 and Acting President May-July 2009, MP
1986-2007, Minister of Housing 2007-09 (b. 1944-) |
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20.01.17
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