This document lists current and former women leaders who are members of the Council of Women World Leaders, provides a website for more information on the Council, and lists contact information. It recognizes women who have served as presidents or prime ministers, including leaders from Argentina, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine and others.
1. In Memory:
Corazon Aquino, Philippines Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan Eugenia Charles, Dominica Janet Jagan, Guyana Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Portugal
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Dalia Grybauskaitė, Chair
Lithuania
Tarja Halonen, Chair Emerita
Finland
Vigdis Finnbogadottir,
Founding Chair
Iceland
Kim Campbell, Chair Emerita
Canada
Mary Robinson, Chair Emerita
Ireland
Margot Wallström,
Chair Ministerial Initiative
Sweden
Madeleine Albright,
Founding Chair Ministerial Initiative
USA
Michelle Bachelet, Chile
Joyce Banda, Malawi
Pamela Gordon Banks, Bermuda
Kamla Persad-Bissessar,
Trinidad & Tobago
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway
Micheline Calmy Rey, Switzerland
Violeta B. de Chamorro, Nicaragua
Tansu Ciller, Turkey
Helen Clark, New Zealand
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, Malta
Paula Cox, Bermuda
Edith Cresson, France
Luísa Dias Diogo, Mozambique
Ruth Dreifuss, Switzerland
Julia Gillard, Australia
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Mauritius
Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh
Atifete Jahjaga, Kosovo
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia
Emily Saïdy de Jongh-Elhage,
Netherlands Antilles
Christina Fernandez de
Kirchner, Argentina
Mari Kiviniemi, Finland
Jadranka Kosor, Croatia
Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka
Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila,
Namibia
Doris Leuthard, Switzerland
Michele Pierre Louis, Haiti
Maria Liberia Peters,
Netherlands Antilles
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo,
Philippines
Mary McAleese, Ireland
Beatriz Merino, Peru
Angela Merkel, Germany
Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica
Laura Chinchilla Miranda,
Costa Rica
Mireya Moscoso, Panama
Maria Das Neves,
São Tomé and Principe
Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan
Park Geun-hye, South Korea
Pratibha Patil, India
Kazimiera Prunskienė, Lithuania
Suzanne Camelia Romer,
Netherlands Antilles
Iveta Radičová, Slovakia
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil
Jenny Shipley, New Zealand
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Iceland
Jennifer Smith, Bermuda
Erna Solberg, Norway
Simonetta Sommaruga, Switzerland
Hanna Suchocka, Poland
Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesia
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark
Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine
Vaira Vike-Freibega, Latvia
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf,
Switzerland
Begum Khaled Zia, Bangladesh
Laura Liswood,
Founder & Secretary General
USA
Kathy Calvin,
President & CEO, UN Foundation,
USA
Council of Women World Leaders Members 2016