List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers. The list does not include female monarchs who are heads of state (but not of government).[e]
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All countries which have ever had a woman serve as an elected or appointed head of state or government, as of 16 February 2023.[a][b] Female head of government[c] Female head of state[d] Female combined head of state/government, or female head of government and monarchial head of state with no vice-regal representative Female head of state and female head of government, in separate offices[d] |
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, of the mostly unrecognized and now defunct Tuvan People's Republic, is regarded as "first ever elected woman head of state in the world", although not in multiparty, free and fair elections. The wife of the nation's Supreme Leader, she is the first woman to be elected Chairman of a country. She became the chairwoman of the country's presidium in 1940.[1][2]
The first woman to be elected as prime minister of a country was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), when she led her party to victory in the July 1960 general election.[3][2]
The first woman to serve as president of a country was Isabel Perón of Argentina, who served as the country's vice president and succeeded to the presidency in July 1974 upon the death of her husband.[4][2]
The first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three subsequent elections, remaining in office for a total of 16 years, which makes her the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history.[5][2]
The first democratically elected female prime minister of a Muslim majority country was Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, who led her party to victory in the 1988 general election and later in 1993, making her the first woman democratically elected leader of any Muslim nation.[6] Bhutto was also the first of only two non-hereditary female world leaders who gave birth to a child while serving in office, the other being Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand.[7]
The longest-tenured female non-hereditary head of government and longest-serving female leader of a country is Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh. She served as the country's prime minister from 1996 to 2001 and again since January 2009, for a combined total of 20 years.[8]
The prime ministers of Equatorial Guinea, Namibia, Peru, and Uganda are included in the list of elected or appointed female deputy heads of government but not in the list of elected or appointed female deputy heads of state, as they are neither heads of government, nor deputy heads of state due to the existence of the office of vice president in these countries, whereas the prime ministers of South Korea are included in both of those lists.
Currently, Barbados is the only republic in the world where both the serving head of state and head of government are women. Honduras, the Marshall Islands, and Peru are republics where the female President is the combined head of state and government.
Elected or appointed female chief executives edit
This list includes women who were appointed by a governing committee or parliament where heads of state or government are not directly elected by citizens. The list does not include women chosen by a hereditary monarch. Interim heads of state or government are listed in italics.
Name | Portrait | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length | Head of state or government | Executive or non-executive |
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Khertek Anchimaa-Toka | Tannu Tuva[f] | Chairwoman of the Presidium of the Little Khural | 6 April 1940 | 11 October 1944 | 4 years, 188 days | Head of state | ||
Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Ceylon/ Sri Lanka | Prime Minister | 21 July 1960 | 27 March 1965 | 4 years, 249 days | Head of government | Executive | |
29 May 1970 | 23 July 1977 | 7 years, 55 days | ||||||
14 November 1994 | 9 August 2000 | 5 years, 269 days | ||||||
Indira Gandhi | India | Prime Minister | 24 January 1966 | 24 April 1977 | 11 years, 90 days | Head of government | Executive | |
15 January 1980 | 31 October 1984 (assassinated) | 4 years, 290 days | ||||||
Golda Meir | Israel | Prime Minister | 17 March 1969 | 3 June 1974 | 5 years, 78 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Isabel Perón | Argentina | President | 1 July 1974 | 24 March 1976 | 1 year, 267 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Elisabeth Domitien | Central African Republic | Prime Minister | 2 January 1975 | 7 April 1976 | 1 year, 96 days | Head of government | ||
Margaret Thatcher | United Kingdom | Prime Minister | 4 May 1979 | 28 November 1990 | 11 years, 208 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo | Portugal | Prime Minister | 1 August 1979 | 3 January 1980 | 155 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Lidia Gueiler Tejada | Bolivia | President | 16 November 1979 | 17 July 1980 | 244 days | Head of state | Executive | |
Eugenia Charles | Dominica | Prime Minister | 21 July 1980 | 14 June 1995 | 14 years, 328 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir | Iceland | President | 1 August 1980 | 1 August 1996 | 16 years, 0 days | Head of state | ||
Gro Harlem Brundtland | Norway | Prime Minister | 4 February 1981 | 14 October 1981 | 252 days | Head of government | Executive | |
9 May 1986 | 16 October 1989 | 3 years, 160 days | ||||||
3 November 1990 | 25 October 1996 | 5 years, 357 days | ||||||
Soong Ching-ling | China | Honorary President | 16 May 1981 | 28 May 1981 | 12 days | Head of state | ||
Agatha Barbara | Malta | President | 15 February 1982 | 15 February 1987 | 5 years | Head of state | ||
Milka Planinc | Yugoslavia | Prime Minister | 16 May 1982 | 15 May 1986 | 3 years, 364 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Corazon Aquino | Philippines | President | 25 February 1986 | 30 June 1992 | 6 years, 126 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Stella Sigcau | Transkei[g] | Prime Minister | 5 October 1987 | 30 December 1987 | 86 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Benazir Bhutto | Pakistan | Prime Minister | 2 December 1988 | 6 July 1990 | 1 year, 216 days | Head of government | Executive | |
19 October 1993 | 5 November 1996 | 3 years, 17 days | ||||||
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot | Haiti | President | 13 March 1990 | 7 February 1991 | 331 days | Head of state | ||
Kazimira Prunskienė | Lithuania | Prime Minister | 11 March 1990 | 10 January 1991 | 299 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl | East Germany | President of the People's Chamber | 5 April 1990 | 2 October 1990 | 180 days | Head of state | ||
Violeta Chamorro | Nicaragua | President | 25 April 1990 | 10 January 1997 | 6 years, 260 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Mary Robinson | Ireland | President | 3 December 1990 | 12 September 1997 | 6 years, 283 days | Head of state | ||
Khaleda Zia | Bangladesh | Prime Minister | 27 February 1991 | 30 March 1996 | 5 years, 32 days | Head of government | Executive | |
1 October 2001 | 29 October 2006 | 5 years, 28 days | ||||||
Édith Cresson | France | Prime Minister | 15 May 1991 | 2 April 1992 | 323 days | Head of government | ||
Hanna Suchocka | Poland | Prime Minister | 11 July 1992 | 25 October 1993 | 1 year, 106 days | Head of government | ||
Tansu Çiller | Turkey | Prime Minister | 13 June 1993 | 6 March 1996 | 2 years, 267 days | Head of government | ||
Kim Campbell | Canada | Prime Minister | 25 June 1993 | 4 November 1993 | 132 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Sylvie Kinigi | Burundi | Prime Minister | 10 July 1993 | 7 February 1994 | 109 days | Head of government | ||
Agathe Uwilingiyimana | Rwanda | Prime Minister | 18 July 1993 | 7 April 1994 (assassinated) | 263 days | Head of government | ||
Chandrika Kumaratunga | Sri Lanka | President | 12 November 1994 | 19 November 2005 | 11 years, 7 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Claudette Werleigh | Haiti | Prime Minister | 7 November 1995 | 27 February 1996 | 112 days | Head of government | ||
Sheikh Hasina | Bangladesh | Prime Minister | 12 June 1996 | 15 July 2001 | 5 years, 33 days | Head of government | Executive | |
6 January 2009 | Incumbent | 15 years, 111 days | ||||||
Ruth Perry | Liberia | Chairwoman of the Council of State | 3 September 1996 | 2 August 1997 | 333 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Rosalía Arteaga | Ecuador | President | 9 February 1997 | 11 February 1997 | 2 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Mary McAleese | Ireland | President | 11 November 1997 | 10 November 2011 | 13 years, 364 days | Head of state | ||
Jenny Shipley | New Zealand | Prime Minister | 8 December 1997 | 10 December 1999 | 2 years, 2 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Janet Jagan | Guyana | President | 19 December 1997 | 11 August 1999 | 1 year, 235 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga | Latvia | President | 8 July 1999 | 8 July 2007 | 8 years | Head of state | ||
Mireya Moscoso | Panama | President | 1 September 1999 | 1 September 2004 | 5 years | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Helen Clark | New Zealand | Prime Minister | 10 December 1999 | 19 November 2008 | 8 years, 350 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Tarja Halonen | Finland | President | 1 March 2000 | 1 March 2012 | 12 years | Head of state | ||
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | Philippines | President | 20 January 2001 | 30 June 2010 | 9 years, 161 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Mame Madior Boye | Senegal | Prime Minister | 3 March 2001 | 4 November 2002 | 1 year, 246 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Megawati Sukarnoputri | Indonesia | President | 23 July 2001 | 20 October 2004 | 3 years, 89 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Maria das Neves | São Tomé and Príncipe | Prime Minister | 3 October 2002 | 18 September 2004 | 1 year, 351 days | Head of government | ||
Anneli Jäätteenmäki | Finland | Prime Minister | 17 April 2003 | 24 June 2003 | 68 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Yulia Tymoshenko | Ukraine | Prime Minister | 24 January 2005 | 6 September 2005 | 225 days | Head of government | Executive | |
18 December 2007 | 3 March 2010 | 2 years, 75 days | ||||||
Maria do Carmo Silveira | São Tomé and Príncipe | Prime Minister | 8 June 2005 | 21 April 2006 | 317 days | Head of government | ||
Angela Merkel | Germany | Chancellor | 22 November 2005 | 8 December 2021 | 16 years, 16 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Liberia | President | 16 January 2006 | 22 January 2018 | 12 years, 6 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Michelle Bachelet | Chile | President | 11 March 2006 | 11 March 2010 | 4 years | Head of state and government | Executive | |
11 March 2014 | 11 March 2018 | 4 years | ||||||
Portia Simpson-Miller | Jamaica | Prime Minister | 30 March 2006 | 11 September 2007 | 1 year, 165 days | Head of government | Executive | |
5 January 2012 | 3 March 2016 | 4 years, 58 days | ||||||
Pratibha Patil | India | President | 25 July 2007 | 25 July 2012 | 5 years | Head of state | ||
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | Argentina | President | 10 December 2007 | 10 December 2015 | 8 years | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Zinaida Greceanîi | Moldova | Prime Minister | 31 March 2008 | 14 September 2009 | 1 year, 167 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Michèle Pierre-Louis | Haiti | Prime Minister | 5 September 2008 | 11 November 2009 | 1 year, 67 days | Head of government | ||
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir | Iceland | Prime Minister | 1 February 2009 | 23 May 2013 | 4 years, 111 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Jadranka Kosor | Croatia | Prime Minister | 6 July 2009 | 23 December 2011 | 2 years, 170 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Dalia Grybauskaitė | Lithuania | President | 12 July 2009 | 12 July 2019 | 10 years | Head of state | ||
Roza Otunbayeva | Kyrgyzstan | President | 7 April 2010 | 1 December 2011 | 1 year, 238 days | Head of state | ||
Laura Chinchilla | Costa Rica | President | 8 May 2010 | 8 May 2014 | 4 years | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Kamla Persad-Bissessar | Trinidad and Tobago | Prime Minister | 26 May 2010 | 9 September 2015 | 5 years, 106 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Mari Kiviniemi | Finland | Prime Minister | 22 June 2010 | 22 June 2011 | 1 year | Head of government | Executive | |
Julia Gillard | Australia | Prime Minister | 24 June 2010 | 27 June 2013 | 3 years, 3 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Iveta Radičová | Slovakia | Prime Minister | 8 July 2010 | 4 April 2012 | 1 year, 271 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Dilma Rousseff | Brazil | President | 1 January 2011 | 31 August 2016 Suspended 12 May 2016 | 5 years, 243 days 5 years, 139 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé | Mali | Prime Minister | 3 April 2011 | 22 March 2012 | 354 days | Head of government | ||
Atifete Jahjaga | Kosovo | President | 7 April 2011 | 7 April 2016 | 5 years | Head of state | ||
Yingluck Shinawatra | Thailand | Prime Minister | 5 August 2011 | 7 May 2014 | 2 years, 275 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Helle Thorning-Schmidt | Denmark | Prime Minister | 3 October 2011 | 28 June 2015 | 3 years, 268 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Joyce Banda | Malawi | President | 7 April 2012 | 31 May 2014 | 2 years, 54 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Park Geun-hye | South Korea | President | 25 February 2013 | 10 March 2017 Suspended 9 December 2016 | 4 years, 13 days 3 years, 288 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Alenka Bratušek | Slovenia | Prime Minister | 20 March 2013 | 18 September 2014 | 1 year, 182 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Tatiana Turanskaya | Transnistria[h] | Prime Minister | 10 June 2013 | 13 October 2015 | 2 years, 125 days | Head of government | Executive | |
30 November 2015 | 2 December 2015 | 2 days | ||||||
Sibel Siber | Northern Cyprus[i] | Prime Minister | 13 June 2013 | 2 September 2013 | 81 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Aminata Touré | Senegal | Prime Minister | 1 September 2013 | 8 July 2014 | 310 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Erna Solberg | Norway | Prime Minister | 16 October 2013 | 14 October 2021 | 7 years, 363 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Laimdota Straujuma | Latvia | Prime Minister | 22 January 2014 | 11 February 2016 | 2 years, 20 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Catherine Samba-Panza | Central African Republic | President | 23 January 2014 | 30 March 2016 | 2 years, 67 days | Head of state | Executive | |
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca | Malta | President | 4 April 2014 | 4 April 2019 | 5 years | Head of state | ||
Ewa Kopacz | Poland | Prime Minister | 22 September 2014 | 16 November 2015 | 1 year, 55 days | Head of government | ||
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović | Croatia | President | 19 February 2015 | 18 February 2020 | 4 years, 364 days | Head of state | ||
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim | Mauritius | President | 5 June 2015 | 23 March 2018 | 2 years, 291 days | Head of state | ||
Bidya Devi Bhandari | Nepal | President | 29 October 2015 | 13 March 2023 | 7 years, 135 days | Head of state | ||
Beata Szydło | Poland | Prime Minister | 16 November 2015 | 11 December 2017 | 2 years, 25 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Hilda Heine | Marshall Islands | President | 28 January 2016 | 14 January 2020 | 3 years, 351 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
3 January 2024 | Incumbent | 114 days | ||||||
Aung San Suu Kyi | Myanmar | State Counsellor | 6 April 2016 | 1 February 2021 | 4 years, 301 days | De facto head of government | De facto Executive | |
Tsai Ing-wen | Taiwan[j] | President | 20 May 2016 | Incumbent | 7 years, 342 days | Head of state | Executive | |
Theresa May | United Kingdom | Prime Minister | 13 July 2016 | 24 July 2019 | 3 years, 11 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Kersti Kaljulaid | Estonia | President | 10 October 2016 | 11 October 2021 | 5 years, 1 day | Head of state | ||
Ana Brnabić | Serbia | Prime Minister | 29 June 2017 | 20 March 2024 | 6 years, 265 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Halimah Yacob | Singapore | President | 14 September 2017 | 14 September 2023 | 6 years, 0 days | Head of state | ||
Jacinda Ardern | New Zealand | Prime Minister | 26 October 2017 | 25 January 2023 | 5 years, 91 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Katrín Jakobsdóttir | Iceland | Prime Minister | 30 November 2017 | 9 April 2024 | 6 years, 131 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Viorica Dăncilă | Romania | Prime Minister | 29 January 2018 | 4 November 2019 | 1 year, 279 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Paula-Mae Weekes | Trinidad and Tobago | President | 19 March 2018 | 20 March 2023 | 5 years, 1 day | Head of state | ||
Mia Mottley | Barbados | Prime Minister | 25 May 2018 | Incumbent | 5 years, 337 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Sahle-Work Zewde | Ethiopia | President | 25 October 2018 | Incumbent | 5 years, 184 days | Head of state | ||
Salome Zourabichvili | Georgia | President | 16 December 2018 | Incumbent | 5 years, 132 days | Head of state | ||
Brigitte Bierlein | Austria | Chancellor | 3 June 2019 | 7 January 2020 | 218 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Maia Sandu | Moldova | Prime Minister | 8 June 2019 | 14 November 2019 | 159 days | Head of government | Executive | |
President | 24 December 2020 | Incumbent | 3 years, 124 days | Head of state | ||||
Zuzana Čaputová | Slovakia | President | 15 June 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 316 days | Head of state | ||
Mette Frederiksen | Denmark | Prime Minister | 27 June 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 304 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Sophie Wilmès | Belgium | Prime Minister | 27 October 2019 | 1 October 2020 | 340 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Jeanine Áñez | Bolivia | President | 12 November 2019 | 8 November 2020 | 362 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Sanna Marin | Finland | Prime Minister | 10 December 2019 | 20 June 2023 | 3 years, 192 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Katerina Sakellaropoulou | Greece | President | 13 March 2020 | Incumbent | 4 years, 44 days | Head of state | ||
Rose Christiane Raponda | Gabon | Prime Minister | 16 July 2020 | 9 January 2023 | 2 years, 177 days | Head of government | Executive[k] | |
Victoire Tomegah Dogbé | Togo | Prime Minister | 28 September 2020 | Incumbent | 3 years, 211 days | Head of government | Executive[l] | |
Ingrida Šimonytė | Lithuania | Prime Minister | 11 December 2020 | Incumbent | 3 years, 137 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Kaja Kallas | Estonia | Prime Minister | 26 January 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 91 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Samia Suluhu Hassan | Tanzania | President | 19 March 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 38 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Vjosa Osmani | Kosovo | President | 4 April 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 22 days | Head of state | ||
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa | Samoa | Prime Minister | 24 May 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 338 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Natalia Gavrilița | Moldova | Prime Minister | 6 August 2021 | 16 February 2023 | 1 year, 194 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Najla Bouden | Tunisia | Prime Minister | 11 October 2021 | 2 August 2023 | 1 year, 295 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Sandra Mason | Barbados | President | 30 November 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 148 days | Head of state | ||
Magdalena Andersson | Sweden | Prime Minister | 30 November 2021 | 18 October 2022 | 322 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Xiomara Castro | Honduras | President | 27 January 2022 | Incumbent | 2 years, 90 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Katalin Novák | Hungary | President | 10 May 2022 | 26 February 2024 | 1 year, 292 days | Head of state | ||
Élisabeth Borne | France | Prime Minister | 16 May 2022 | 9 January 2024 | 1 year, 238 days | Head of government | ||
Droupadi Murmu | India | President | 25 July 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 276 days | Head of state | ||
Liz Truss | United Kingdom | Prime Minister | 6 September 2022 | 25 October 2022 | 49 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Giorgia Meloni | Italy | Prime Minister | 22 October 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 187 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Dina Boluarte | Peru | President | 7 December 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 141 days | Head of state and government | Executive | |
Nataša Pirc Musar | Slovenia | President | 23 December 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 125 days | Head of state | ||
Borjana Krišto | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers | 25 January 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 92 days | Head of government | ||
Christine Kangaloo | Trinidad and Tobago | President | 20 March 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 37 days | Head of state | ||
Evika Siliņa | Latvia | Prime Minister | 15 September 2023 | Incumbent | 224 days | Head of government | Executive | |
Sylvanie Burton | Dominica | President | 2 October 2023 | Incumbent | 207 days | Head of state | ||
Judith Tuluka | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Prime Minister | 1 April 2024 | Incumbent | 25 days | Head of government | ||
Myriam Spiteri Debono | Malta | President | 4 April 2024 | Incumbent | 22 days | Head of state |
Elected or appointed acting female chief executives edit
This list includes women elected or appointed in an acting capacity, wherein they assumed a vacated office on a temporary basis.
Name | Portrait | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length | Head of state or government |
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Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa | Mongolia | Acting Chairman of the Presidium of the State Great Khural | 7 September 1953 | 7 July 1954 | 303 days | Head of state | |
Soong Ching-ling | China | Acting Co-Chairperson | 31 October 1968 | 24 April 1972 | 3 years, 176 days | Head of state | |
Acting Chairperson | 6 July 1976 | 5 March 1978 | 1 year, 242 days | ||||
Carmen Pereira | Guinea-Bissau | Acting President | 14 May 1984 | 16 May 1984 | 2 days | Head of state | |
Sylvie Kinigi | Burundi | Acting President | 27 October 1993 | 5 February 1994 | 101 days | Head of state | |
Reneta Indzhova | Bulgaria | Acting Prime Minister | 17 October 1994 | 25 January 1995 | 100 days | Head of government | |
Irena Degutienė | Lithuania | Acting Prime Minister | 4 May 1999 | 18 May 1999 | 14 days | Head of government | |
27 October 1999 | 3 November 1999 | 7 days | |||||
Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa | Mongolia | Acting Prime Minister | 22 July 1999 | 30 July 1999 | 8 days | Head of government | |
Nino Burjanadze | Georgia | Acting President | 23 November 2003 | 25 January 2004 | 63 days | Head of state | |
Georgia | 25 November 2007 | 20 January 2008 | 56 days | ||||
Barbara Prammer | Austria | Co-Acting President | 6 July 2004 | 8 July 2004 | 2 days | Head of state | |
Radmila Šekerinska | North Macedonia | Acting Prime Minister | 12 May 2004 | 12 June 2004 | 31 days | Head of government | |
3 November 2004 | 15 December 2004 | 42 days | |||||
Dalia Itzik | Israel | Acting President | 25 January 2007 | 15 July 2007 | 171 days | Head of state | |
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri | South Africa | Acting President | 25 September 2008 | 14 hours[11][12] | Head of state and government | ||
Rose Francine Rogombé | Gabon | Acting President | 10 June 2009 | 16 October 2009 | 128 days | Head of state | |
Cécile Manorohanta | Madagascar | Acting Prime Minister | 18 December 2009 | 20 December 2009 | 2 days | Head of government | |
Adiato Djaló Nandigna | Guinea-Bissau | Acting Prime Minister | 10 February 2012 | 12 April 2012 | 62 days | Head of government | |
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau | Mauritius | Acting President | 31 March 2012 | 21 July 2012 | 112 days | Head of state | |
29 May 2015 | 5 June 2015 | 7 days | |||||
Slavica Đukić Dejanović | Serbia | Acting President | 5 April 2012 | 31 May 2012 | 56 days | Head of state | |
Julie Bishop | Australia | Acting Prime Minister | 20 December 2014 | 16 January 2015 | 27 days | Deputy Prime Minister | |
Natalia Gherman | Moldova | Acting Prime Minister | 22 June 2015 | 30 July 2015 | 38 days | Head of government | |
Vassiliki Thanou | Greece | Acting Prime Minister | 27 August 2015 | 21 September 2015 | 25 days | Head of government | |
Maya Parnas | Transnistria[h] | Acting Prime Minister | 13 October 2015 | 30 November 2015 | 48 days | Head of government | |
2 December 2015 | 23 December 2015 | 21 days | |||||
Doris Bures | Austria | Co-Acting President | 8 July 2016 | 26 January 2017 | 202 days | Head of state | |
Julie Bishop | Australia | Acting Prime Minister | 21 September 2018 | 23 October 2018 | 32 days | Deputy Prime Minister | |
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh | Vietnam | Acting President | 21 September 2018 | 23 October 2018 | 32 days | Head of state | |
Vjosa Osmani | Kosovo | Acting President | 5 November 2020 | 22 March 2021 | 137 days | Head of state | |
Maya Tskitishvili | Georgia | Acting Prime Minister | 18 February 2021 | 22 February 2021 | 4 days | Head of government | |
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân | Vietnam | Acting President | 18 January 2023 | 2 March 2023 | 43 days | Head of state | |
21 March 2024 | Incumbent | 36 days | |||||
Claudia Rodríguez de Guevara | El Salvador | Acting President | 1 December 2023 | Incumbent | 147 days | Head of state |
Female members of collective head-of-state bodies edit
Name | Portrait | Country | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length | Head of state or government |
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Alexandra Kollontai | Soviet Russia | Member of the Council of People's Commissars | 26 October 1917 | 23 February 1918 | 120 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Nadezhda Krupskaya | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 12 December 1937 | 27 February 1939 | 1 year, 77 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Klavdiya Nikolayeva | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 12 December 1937 | 10 February 1946 | 8 years, 60 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Anna Pankratova | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 14 March 1954 | 25 May 1957 | 3 years, 41 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Yekaterina Furtseva | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 12 March 1950 | 18 April 1962 | 12 years, 6 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Alicja Musiałowa-Afanasjew | Poland | Member of the Council of State | 20 November 1952 | 24 June 1965 | 12 years, 216 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Yadgar Nasriddinova | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 24 March 1959 | 25 September 1970 | 11 years, 154 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Luise Ermisch | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 12 September 1960 | 13 November 1963 | 3 years, 62 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Irmgard Neumann | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 12 September 1960 | 13 November 1963 | 3 years, 62 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Tursunoy Akhunova | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 18 April 1962 | 16 June 1974 | 12 years, 59 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Lieselott Herforth | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 13 November 1963 | 25 June 1981 | 17 years, 224 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Else Merke | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 13 November 1963 | 26 November 1971 | 8 years, 13 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Brunhilde Hanke | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 19 November 1964 | 5 April 1990 | 25 years, 137 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Anni Neumann | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 19 November 1964 | 26 November 1971 | 7 years, 7 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Eugenia Krassowska-Jodłowska | Poland | Member of the Council of State | 24 June 1965 | 28 March 1972 | 6 years, 278 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Zoya Pukhova | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 12 June 1966 | 25 May 1989 | 22 years, 347 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Maria Schneider | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 13 July 1967 | 26 November 1971 | 4 years, 136 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Margarete Müller | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 26 November 1971 | 11 January 1990 | 18 years, 46 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Ilse Thiele | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 26 November 1971 | 11 January 1990 | 18 years, 46 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Rosel Walther | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 26 November 1971 | 5 April 1990 | 18 years, 130 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Halina Koźniewska | Poland | Member of the Council of State | 28 March 1972 | 2 April 1980 | 8 years, 5 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Valentina Tereshkova | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | June 1974 | March or April 1989 | c. 14 years | Member of the collective head of state | |
Rimma Gavrilova | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 16 June 1974 | 4 March 1984 | 9 years, 293 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Kamshat Donenbaeva | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 16 June 1974 | 25 May 1989 | 14 years, 343 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Eugenia Kempara | Poland | Member of the Council of State | 18 December 1976 | 6 November 1985 | 8 years, 323 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Yekaterina Mukhina | Soviet Union | Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet | 4 March 1979 | 4 March 1984 | 5 years, 0 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Violeta Chamorro | Nicaragua | Member of the Junta of National Reconstruction | 18 July 1979 | 19 April 1980 | 276 days | Member of the collective head of state and government | |
Krystyna Marszałek-Młyńczyk | Poland | Member of the Council of State | 2 April 1980 | 23 March 1983 | 2 years, 355 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini | San Marino | Captain Regent | 1 April 1981 | 1 October 1981 | 183 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Johanna Töpfer | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 25 June 1981 | 17 November 1989 | 8 years, 145 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Gloriana Ranocchini | San Marino | Captain Regent | 1 April 1984 | 1 October 1984 | 183 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
1 October 1989 | 1 April 1990 | 182 days | |||||
Elisabeth Kopp | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 21 October 1984 | 12 January 1989 | 4 years, 83 days | Member of the collective head of state and government | |
Elżbieta Gacek | Poland | Member of the Council of State | 6 November 1985 | 17 June 1988 | 2 years, 224 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Monika Werner | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 16 June 1986 | 5 April 1990 | 3 years, 293 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Eveline Klett | East Germany | Member of the State Council | 16 June 1986 | 5 April 1990 | 3 years, 293 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Edda Ceccoli | San Marino | Captain Regent | 1 October 1991 | 1 April 1992 | 183 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Biljana Plavšić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serb Member of the Presidency | 1 March 1992 | 9 April 1992 | 39 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Tatjana Ljujić-Mijatović[13] | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Serb Member of the Presidency | 24 December 1992 | 5 October 1996 | 3 years, 286 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Ruth Dreifuss | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 April 1993 | 31 December 2002 | 9 years, 296 days | Member of the collective head of state and government | |
Patrizia Busignani | San Marino | Captain Regent | 1 April 1993 | 1 October 1993 | 183 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Ruth Metzler | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 January 1999 | 31 December 2003 | 4 years, 364 days | Member of the collective head of state and government | |
Rosa Zafferani | San Marino | Captain Regent | 1 April 1999 | 1 October 1999 | 183 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
1 April 2008 | 1 October 2008 | 183 days | |||||
Maria Domenica Michelotti | San Marino | Captain Regent | 1 April 2000 | 1 October 2000 | 183 days | Member of the collective head of state and government | |
Micheline Calmy-Rey | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 January 2003 | 31 December 2011 | 8 years, 364 days | Member of the collective head of state and government | |
Valeria Ciavatta | San Marino | Captain Regent | 1 October 2003 | 1 April 2004 | 183 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
1 April 2014 | 1 October 2014 | 183 days | |||||
Fausta Morganti | San Marino | Captain Regent | 1 April 2005 | 1 October 2005 | 183 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Doris Leuthard | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 August 2006 | 31 December 2018 | 12 years, 152 days | Member of the collective head of state and government | |
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 January 2008 | 31 December 2015 | 7 years, 364 days | Member of the collective head of state and government | |
Assunta Meloni | San Marino | Captain Regent | 1 October 2008 | 1 April 2009 | 182 days | Member of the collective head of state | |
Simonetta Sommaruga | Switzerland | Member of the Swiss Federal Council | 1 November 2010 | 31 December 2022 | 12 years, 60 days | Member of the collective head of state and government | |
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This article is about female leaders of independent states For constituent and dependent territories see List of female constituent and dependent territory leaders The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period 1918 1939 The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state such as prime ministers The list does not include female monarchs who are heads of state but not of government e Elected and appointed female heads of state and governmentGraphs are unavailable due to technical issues There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki org All countries which currently have a woman serving as an elected or appointed head of state or government as of 13 March 2023 a b Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki org All countries which have ever had a woman serve as an elected or appointed head of state or government as of 16 February 2023 a b Female head of government c Female head of state d Female combined head of state government or female head of government and monarchial head of state with no vice regal representative Female head of state and female head of government in separate offices d Khertek Anchimaa Toka of the mostly unrecognized and now defunct Tuvan People s Republic is regarded as first ever elected woman head of state in the world although not in multiparty free and fair elections The wife of the nation s Supreme Leader she is the first woman to be elected Chairman of a country She became the chairwoman of the country s presidium in 1940 1 2 The first woman to be elected as prime minister of a country was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon present day Sri Lanka when she led her party to victory in the July 1960 general election 3 2 The first woman to serve as president of a country was Isabel Peron of Argentina who served as the country s vice president and succeeded to the presidency in July 1974 upon the death of her husband 4 2 The first woman elected president of a country was Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three subsequent elections remaining in office for a total of 16 years which makes her the longest serving non hereditary female head of state in history 5 2 The first democratically elected female prime minister of a Muslim majority country was Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan who led her party to victory in the 1988 general election and later in 1993 making her the first woman democratically elected leader of any Muslim nation 6 Bhutto was also the first of only two non hereditary female world leaders who gave birth to a child while serving in office the other being Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand 7 The longest tenured female non hereditary head of government and longest serving female leader of a country is Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh She served as the country s prime minister from 1996 to 2001 and again since January 2009 for a combined total of 20 years 8 The prime ministers of Equatorial Guinea Namibia Peru and Uganda are included in the list of elected or appointed female deputy heads of government but not in the list of elected or appointed female deputy heads of state as they are neither heads of government nor deputy heads of state due to the existence of the office of vice president in these countries whereas the prime ministers of South Korea are included in both of those lists Currently Barbados is the only republic in the world where both the serving head of state and head of government are women Honduras the Marshall Islands and Peru are republics where the female President is the combined head of state and government Contents 1 Elected or appointed female chief executives 1 1 Elected or appointed acting female chief executives 2 Female members of collective head of state bodies 3 Female viceregal representatives 3 1 Acting female viceregal representatives 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 External linksElected or appointed female chief executives editThis list includes women who were appointed by a governing committee or parliament where heads of state or government are not directly elected by citizens The list does not include women chosen by a hereditary monarch Interim heads of state or government are listed in italics Incumbent Name Portrait Country Office Mandate start Mandateend Term length Head of stateor government Executiveor non executive Khertek Anchimaa Toka nbsp nbsp Tannu Tuva f Chairwoman of the Presidiumof the Little Khural 6 April 1940 11 October 1944 4 years 188 days Head of state Sirimavo Bandaranaike nbsp nbsp Ceylon nbsp Sri Lanka Prime Minister 21 July 1960 27 March 1965 4 years 249 days Head of government Executive 29 May 1970 23 July 1977 7 years 55 days 14 November 1994 9 August 2000 5 years 269 days Indira Gandhi nbsp nbsp India Prime Minister 24 January 1966 24 April 1977 11 years 90 days Head of government Executive 15 January 1980 31 October 1984 assassinated 4 years 290 days Golda Meir nbsp nbsp Israel Prime Minister 17 March 1969 3 June 1974 5 years 78 days Head of government Executive Isabel Peron nbsp nbsp Argentina President 1 July 1974 24 March 1976 1 year 267 days Head of stateand government Executive Elisabeth Domitien nbsp nbsp Central African Republic Prime Minister 2 January 1975 7 April 1976 1 year 96 days Head of government Margaret Thatcher nbsp nbsp United Kingdom Prime Minister 4 May 1979 28 November 1990 11 years 208 days Head of government Executive Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo nbsp nbsp Portugal Prime Minister 1 August 1979 3 January 1980 155 days Head of government Executive Lidia Gueiler Tejada nbsp nbsp Bolivia President 16 November 1979 17 July 1980 244 days Head of state Executive Eugenia Charles nbsp nbsp Dominica Prime Minister 21 July 1980 14 June 1995 14 years 328 days Head of government Executive Vigdis Finnbogadottir nbsp nbsp Iceland President 1 August 1980 1 August 1996 16 years 0 days Head of state Gro Harlem Brundtland nbsp nbsp Norway Prime Minister 4 February 1981 14 October 1981 252 days Head of government Executive 9 May 1986 16 October 1989 3 years 160 days 3 November 1990 25 October 1996 5 years 357 days Soong Ching ling nbsp nbsp China Honorary President 16 May 1981 28 May 1981 12 days Head of state Agatha Barbara nbsp nbsp Malta President 15 February 1982 15 February 1987 5 years Head of state Milka Planinc nbsp nbsp Yugoslavia Prime Minister 16 May 1982 15 May 1986 3 years 364 days Head of government Executive Corazon Aquino nbsp nbsp Philippines President 25 February 1986 30 June 1992 6 years 126 days Head of stateand government Executive Stella Sigcau nbsp nbsp Transkei g Prime Minister 5 October 1987 30 December 1987 86 days Head of government Executive Benazir Bhutto nbsp nbsp Pakistan Prime Minister 2 December 1988 6 July 1990 1 year 216 days Head of government Executive 19 October 1993 5 November 1996 3 years 17 days Ertha Pascal Trouillot nbsp nbsp Haiti President 13 March 1990 7 February 1991 331 days Head of state Kazimira Prunskiene nbsp nbsp Lithuania Prime Minister 11 March 1990 10 January 1991 299 days Head of government Executive Sabine Bergmann Pohl nbsp nbsp East Germany President of the People s Chamber 5 April 1990 2 October 1990 180 days Head of state Violeta Chamorro nbsp nbsp Nicaragua President 25 April 1990 10 January 1997 6 years 260 days Head of stateand government Executive Mary Robinson nbsp nbsp Ireland President 3 December 1990 12 September 1997 6 years 283 days Head of state Khaleda Zia nbsp nbsp Bangladesh Prime Minister 27 February 1991 30 March 1996 5 years 32 days Head of government Executive 1 October 2001 29 October 2006 5 years 28 days Edith Cresson nbsp nbsp France Prime Minister 15 May 1991 2 April 1992 323 days Head of government Hanna Suchocka nbsp nbsp Poland Prime Minister 11 July 1992 25 October 1993 1 year 106 days Head of government Tansu Ciller nbsp nbsp Turkey Prime Minister 13 June 1993 6 March 1996 2 years 267 days Head of government Kim Campbell nbsp nbsp Canada Prime Minister 25 June 1993 4 November 1993 132 days Head of government Executive Sylvie Kinigi nbsp nbsp Burundi Prime Minister 10 July 1993 7 February 1994 109 days Head of government Agathe Uwilingiyimana nbsp nbsp Rwanda Prime Minister 18 July 1993 7 April 1994 assassinated 263 days Head of government Chandrika Kumaratunga nbsp nbsp Sri Lanka President 12 November 1994 19 November 2005 11 years 7 days Head of stateand government Executive Claudette Werleigh nbsp nbsp Haiti Prime Minister 7 November 1995 27 February 1996 112 days Head of government Sheikh Hasina nbsp nbsp Bangladesh Prime Minister 12 June 1996 15 July 2001 5 years 33 days Head of government Executive 6 January 2009 Incumbent 15 years 111 days Ruth Perry nbsp nbsp Liberia Chairwoman of the Council of State 3 September 1996 2 August 1997 333 days Head of stateand government Executive Rosalia Arteaga nbsp nbsp Ecuador President 9 February 1997 11 February 1997 2 days Head of stateand government Executive Mary McAleese nbsp nbsp Ireland President 11 November 1997 10 November 2011 13 years 364 days Head of state Jenny Shipley nbsp nbsp New Zealand Prime Minister 8 December 1997 10 December 1999 2 years 2 days Head of government Executive Janet Jagan nbsp nbsp Guyana President 19 December 1997 11 August 1999 1 year 235 days Head of stateand government Executive Vaira Vike Freiberga nbsp nbsp Latvia President 8 July 1999 8 July 2007 8 years Head of state Mireya Moscoso nbsp nbsp Panama President 1 September 1999 1 September 2004 5 years Head of stateand government Executive Helen Clark nbsp nbsp New Zealand Prime Minister 10 December 1999 19 November 2008 8 years 350 days Head of government Executive Tarja Halonen nbsp nbsp Finland President 1 March 2000 1 March 2012 12 years Head of state Gloria Macapagal Arroyo nbsp nbsp Philippines President 20 January 2001 30 June 2010 9 years 161 days Head of stateand government Executive Mame Madior Boye nbsp nbsp Senegal Prime Minister 3 March 2001 4 November 2002 1 year 246 days Head of government Executive Megawati Sukarnoputri nbsp nbsp Indonesia President 23 July 2001 20 October 2004 3 years 89 days Head of stateand government Executive Maria das Neves nbsp nbsp Sao Tome and Principe Prime Minister 3 October 2002 18 September 2004 1 year 351 days Head of government Anneli Jaatteenmaki nbsp nbsp Finland Prime Minister 17 April 2003 24 June 2003 68 days Head of government Executive Yulia Tymoshenko nbsp nbsp Ukraine Prime Minister 24 January 2005 6 September 2005 225 days Head of government Executive 18 December 2007 3 March 2010 2 years 75 days Maria do Carmo Silveira nbsp nbsp Sao Tome and Principe Prime Minister 8 June 2005 21 April 2006 317 days Head of government Angela Merkel nbsp nbsp Germany Chancellor 22 November 2005 8 December 2021 16 years 16 days Head of government Executive Ellen Johnson Sirleaf nbsp nbsp Liberia President 16 January 2006 22 January 2018 12 years 6 days Head of stateand government Executive Michelle Bachelet nbsp nbsp Chile President 11 March 2006 11 March 2010 4 years Head of stateand government Executive 11 March 2014 11 March 2018 4 years Portia Simpson Miller nbsp nbsp Jamaica Prime Minister 30 March 2006 11 September 2007 1 year 165 days Head of government Executive 5 January 2012 3 March 2016 4 years 58 days Pratibha Patil nbsp nbsp India President 25 July 2007 25 July 2012 5 years Head of state Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner nbsp nbsp Argentina President 10 December 2007 10 December 2015 8 years Head of stateand government Executive Zinaida Greceanii nbsp nbsp Moldova Prime Minister 31 March 2008 14 September 2009 1 year 167 days Head of government Executive Michele Pierre Louis nbsp nbsp Haiti Prime Minister 5 September 2008 11 November 2009 1 year 67 days Head of government Johanna Sigurdardottir nbsp nbsp Iceland Prime Minister 1 February 2009 23 May 2013 4 years 111 days Head of government Executive Jadranka Kosor nbsp nbsp Croatia Prime Minister 6 July 2009 23 December 2011 2 years 170 days Head of government Executive Dalia Grybauskaite nbsp nbsp Lithuania President 12 July 2009 12 July 2019 10 years Head of state Roza Otunbayeva nbsp nbsp Kyrgyzstan President 7 April 2010 1 December 2011 1 year 238 days Head of state Laura Chinchilla nbsp nbsp Costa Rica President 8 May 2010 8 May 2014 4 years Head of stateand government Executive Kamla Persad Bissessar nbsp nbsp Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister 26 May 2010 9 September 2015 5 years 106 days Head of government Executive Mari Kiviniemi nbsp nbsp Finland Prime Minister 22 June 2010 22 June 2011 1 year Head of government Executive Julia Gillard nbsp nbsp Australia Prime Minister 24 June 2010 27 June 2013 3 years 3 days Head of government Executive Iveta Radicova nbsp nbsp Slovakia Prime Minister 8 July 2010 4 April 2012 1 year 271 days Head of government Executive Dilma Rousseff nbsp nbsp Brazil President 1 January 2011 31 August 2016 Suspended 12 May 2016 5 years 243 days5 years 139 days Head of stateand government Executive Cisse Mariam Kaidama Sidibe nbsp nbsp Mali Prime Minister 3 April 2011 22 March 2012 354 days Head of government Atifete Jahjaga nbsp nbsp Kosovo President 7 April 2011 7 April 2016 5 years Head of state Yingluck Shinawatra nbsp nbsp Thailand Prime Minister 5 August 2011 7 May 2014 2 years 275 days Head of government Executive Helle Thorning Schmidt nbsp nbsp Denmark Prime Minister 3 October 2011 28 June 2015 3 years 268 days Head of government Executive Joyce Banda nbsp nbsp Malawi President 7 April 2012 31 May 2014 2 years 54 days Head of stateand government Executive Park Geun hye nbsp nbsp South Korea President 25 February 2013 10 March 2017 Suspended 9 December 2016 4 years 13 days3 years 288 days Head of stateand government Executive Alenka 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Executive Theresa May nbsp nbsp United Kingdom Prime Minister 13 July 2016 24 July 2019 3 years 11 days Head of government Executive Kersti Kaljulaid nbsp nbsp Estonia President 10 October 2016 11 October 2021 5 years 1 day Head of state Ana Brnabic nbsp nbsp Serbia Prime Minister 29 June 2017 20 March 2024 6 years 265 days Head of government Executive Halimah Yacob nbsp nbsp Singapore President 14 September 2017 14 September 2023 6 years 0 days Head of state Jacinda Ardern nbsp nbsp New Zealand Prime Minister 26 October 2017 25 January 2023 5 years 91 days Head of government Executive Katrin Jakobsdottir nbsp nbsp Iceland Prime Minister 30 November 2017 9 April 2024 6 years 131 days Head of government Executive Viorica Dăncilă nbsp nbsp Romania Prime Minister 29 January 2018 4 November 2019 1 year 279 days Head of government Executive Paula Mae Weekes nbsp nbsp Trinidad and Tobago President 19 March 2018 20 March 2023 5 years 1 day Head of state Mia Mottley nbsp nbsp Barbados Prime Minister 25 May 2018 Incumbent 5 years 337 days Head of government Executive Sahle Work Zewde nbsp nbsp Ethiopia President 25 October 2018 Incumbent 5 years 184 days Head of state Salome Zourabichvili nbsp nbsp Georgia President 16 December 2018 Incumbent 5 years 132 days Head of state Brigitte Bierlein nbsp nbsp Austria Chancellor 3 June 2019 7 January 2020 218 days Head of government Executive Maia Sandu nbsp nbsp Moldova Prime Minister 8 June 2019 14 November 2019 159 days Head of government Executive President 24 December 2020 Incumbent 3 years 124 days Head of state Zuzana Caputova nbsp nbsp Slovakia President 15 June 2019 Incumbent 4 years 316 days Head of state Mette Frederiksen nbsp nbsp Denmark Prime Minister 27 June 2019 Incumbent 4 years 304 days Head of government Executive Sophie Wilmes nbsp nbsp Belgium Prime Minister 27 October 2019 1 October 2020 340 days Head of government Executive Jeanine Anez nbsp nbsp Bolivia President 12 November 2019 8 November 2020 362 days Head of stateand government Executive Sanna Marin nbsp nbsp Finland Prime Minister 10 December 2019 20 June 2023 3 years 192 days Head of government Executive Katerina Sakellaropoulou nbsp nbsp Greece President 13 March 2020 Incumbent 4 years 44 days Head of state Rose Christiane Raponda nbsp nbsp Gabon Prime Minister 16 July 2020 9 January 2023 2 years 177 days Head of government Executive k Victoire Tomegah Dogbe nbsp nbsp Togo Prime Minister 28 September 2020 Incumbent 3 years 211 days Head of government Executive l Ingrida Simonyte nbsp nbsp Lithuania Prime Minister 11 December 2020 Incumbent 3 years 137 days Head of government Executive Kaja Kallas nbsp nbsp Estonia Prime Minister 26 January 2021 Incumbent 3 years 91 days Head of government Executive Samia Suluhu Hassan nbsp nbsp Tanzania President 19 March 2021 Incumbent 3 years 38 days Head of stateand government Executive Vjosa Osmani nbsp nbsp Kosovo President 4 April 2021 Incumbent 3 years 22 days Head of state Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa nbsp nbsp Samoa Prime Minister 24 May 2021 Incumbent 2 years 338 days Head of government Executive Natalia Gavrilița nbsp nbsp Moldova Prime Minister 6 August 2021 16 February 2023 1 year 194 days Head of government Executive Najla Bouden nbsp nbsp Tunisia Prime Minister 11 October 2021 2 August 2023 1 year 295 days Head of government Executive Sandra Mason nbsp nbsp Barbados President 30 November 2021 Incumbent 2 years 148 days Head of state Magdalena Andersson nbsp nbsp Sweden Prime Minister 30 November 2021 18 October 2022 322 days Head of government Executive Xiomara Castro nbsp nbsp Honduras President 27 January 2022 Incumbent 2 years 90 days Head of stateand government Executive Katalin Novak nbsp nbsp Hungary President 10 May 2022 26 February 2024 1 year 292 days Head of state Elisabeth Borne nbsp nbsp France Prime Minister 16 May 2022 9 January 2024 1 year 238 days Head of government Droupadi Murmu nbsp nbsp India President 25 July 2022 Incumbent 1 year 276 days Head of state Liz Truss nbsp nbsp United Kingdom Prime Minister 6 September 2022 25 October 2022 49 days Head of government Executive Giorgia Meloni nbsp nbsp Italy Prime Minister 22 October 2022 Incumbent 1 year 187 days Head of government Executive Dina Boluarte nbsp nbsp Peru President 7 December 2022 Incumbent 1 year 141 days Head of stateand government Executive Natasa Pirc Musar nbsp nbsp Slovenia President 23 December 2022 Incumbent 1 year 125 days Head of state Borjana Kristo nbsp nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers 25 January 2023 Incumbent 1 year 92 days Head of government Christine Kangaloo nbsp nbsp Trinidad and Tobago President 20 March 2023 Incumbent 1 year 37 days Head of state Evika Silina nbsp nbsp Latvia Prime Minister 15 September 2023 Incumbent 224 days Head of government Executive Sylvanie Burton nbsp nbsp Dominica President 2 October 2023 Incumbent 207 days Head of state Judith Tuluka nbsp nbsp Democratic Republic of the Congo Prime Minister 1 April 2024 Incumbent 25 days Head of government Myriam Spiteri Debono nbsp nbsp Malta President 4 April 2024 Incumbent 22 days Head of state Elected or appointed acting female chief executives edit This list includes women elected or appointed in an acting capacity wherein they assumed a vacated office on a temporary basis Incumbent Name Portrait Country Office Mandate start Mandate end Term length Head of stateor government Sukhbaataryn Yanjmaa nbsp nbsp Mongolia Acting Chairman of the Presidiumof the State Great Khural 7 September 1953 7 July 1954 303 days Head of state Soong Ching ling nbsp nbsp China Acting Co Chairperson 31 October 1968 24 April 1972 3 years 176 days Head of state Acting Chairperson 6 July 1976 5 March 1978 1 year 242 days Carmen Pereira nbsp nbsp Guinea Bissau Acting President 14 May 1984 16 May 1984 2 days Head of state Sylvie Kinigi nbsp nbsp Burundi Acting President 27 October 1993 5 February 1994 101 days Head of state Reneta Indzhova nbsp nbsp Bulgaria Acting Prime Minister 17 October 1994 25 January 1995 100 days Head of government Irena Degutiene nbsp nbsp Lithuania Acting Prime Minister 4 May 1999 18 May 1999 14 days Head of government 27 October 1999 3 November 1999 7 days Nyam Osoryn Tuyaa nbsp nbsp Mongolia Acting Prime Minister 22 July 1999 30 July 1999 8 days Head of government Nino Burjanadze nbsp nbsp Georgia Acting President 23 November 2003 25 January 2004 63 days Head of state nbsp Georgia 25 November 2007 20 January 2008 56 days Barbara Prammer nbsp nbsp Austria Co Acting President 6 July 2004 8 July 2004 2 days Head of state Radmila Sekerinska nbsp nbsp North Macedonia Acting Prime Minister 12 May 2004 12 June 2004 31 days Head of government 3 November 2004 15 December 2004 42 days Dalia Itzik nbsp nbsp Israel Acting President 25 January 2007 15 July 2007 171 days Head of state Ivy Matsepe Casaburri nbsp nbsp South Africa Acting President 25 September 2008 14 hours 11 12 Head of stateand government Rose Francine Rogombe nbsp nbsp Gabon Acting President 10 June 2009 16 October 2009 128 days Head of state Cecile Manorohanta nbsp nbsp Madagascar Acting Prime Minister 18 December 2009 20 December 2009 2 days Head of government Adiato Djalo Nandigna nbsp nbsp Guinea Bissau Acting Prime Minister 10 February 2012 12 April 2012 62 days Head of government Monique Ohsan Bellepeau nbsp nbsp Mauritius Acting President 31 March 2012 21 July 2012 112 days Head of state 29 May 2015 5 June 2015 7 days Slavica Đukic Dejanovic nbsp nbsp Serbia Acting President 5 April 2012 31 May 2012 56 days Head of state Julie Bishop nbsp nbsp Australia Acting Prime Minister 20 December 2014 16 January 2015 27 days Deputy Prime Minister Natalia Gherman nbsp nbsp Moldova Acting Prime Minister 22 June 2015 30 July 2015 38 days Head of government Vassiliki Thanou nbsp nbsp Greece Acting Prime Minister 27 August 2015 21 September 2015 25 days Head of government Maya Parnas nbsp nbsp Transnistria h Acting Prime Minister 13 October 2015 30 November 2015 48 days Head of government 2 December 2015 23 December 2015 21 days Doris Bures nbsp nbsp Austria Co Acting President 8 July 2016 26 January 2017 202 days Head of state Julie Bishop nbsp nbsp Australia Acting Prime Minister 21 September 2018 23 October 2018 32 days Deputy Prime Minister Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh nbsp nbsp Vietnam Acting President 21 September 2018 23 October 2018 32 days Head of state Vjosa Osmani nbsp nbsp Kosovo Acting President 5 November 2020 22 March 2021 137 days Head of state Maya Tskitishvili nbsp nbsp Georgia Acting Prime Minister 18 February 2021 22 February 2021 4 days Head of government Vo Thị Anh Xuan nbsp nbsp Vietnam Acting President 18 January 2023 2 March 2023 43 days Head of state 21 March 2024 Incumbent 36 days Claudia Rodriguez de Guevara nbsp nbsp El Salvador Acting President 1 December 2023 Incumbent 147 days Head of stateFemale members of collective head of state bodies edit Incumbent Name Portrait Country Office Mandate start Mandate end Term length Head of state or government Alexandra Kollontai nbsp nbsp Soviet Russia Member of the Council of People s Commissars 26 October 1917 23 February 1918 120 days Member of the collective head of state Nadezhda Krupskaya nbsp nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 12 December 1937 27 February 1939 1 year 77 days Member of the collective head of state Klavdiya Nikolayeva nbsp nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 12 December 1937 10 February 1946 8 years 60 days Member of the collective head of state Anna Pankratova nbsp nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 14 March 1954 25 May 1957 3 years 41 days Member of the collective head of state Yekaterina Furtseva nbsp nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 12 March 1950 18 April 1962 12 years 6 days Member of the collective head of state Alicja Musialowa Afanasjew nbsp nbsp Poland Member of the Council of State 20 November 1952 24 June 1965 12 years 216 days Member of the collective head of state Yadgar Nasriddinova nbsp nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 24 March 1959 25 September 1970 11 years 154 days Member of the collective head of state Luise Ermisch nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 12 September 1960 13 November 1963 3 years 62 days Member of the collective head of state Irmgard Neumann nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 12 September 1960 13 November 1963 3 years 62 days Member of the collective head of state Tursunoy Akhunova nbsp nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 18 April 1962 16 June 1974 12 years 59 days Member of the collective head of state Lieselott Herforth nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 13 November 1963 25 June 1981 17 years 224 days Member of the collective head of state Else Merke nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 13 November 1963 26 November 1971 8 years 13 days Member of the collective head of state Brunhilde Hanke nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 19 November 1964 5 April 1990 25 years 137 days Member of the collective head of state Anni Neumann nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 19 November 1964 26 November 1971 7 years 7 days Member of the collective head of state Eugenia Krassowska Jodlowska nbsp nbsp Poland Member of the Council of State 24 June 1965 28 March 1972 6 years 278 days Member of the collective head of state Zoya Pukhova nbsp nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 12 June 1966 25 May 1989 22 years 347 days Member of the collective head of state Maria Schneider nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 13 July 1967 26 November 1971 4 years 136 days Member of the collective head of state Margarete Muller nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 26 November 1971 11 January 1990 18 years 46 days Member of the collective head of state Ilse Thiele nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 26 November 1971 11 January 1990 18 years 46 days Member of the collective head of state Rosel Walther nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 26 November 1971 5 April 1990 18 years 130 days Member of the collective head of state Halina Kozniewska nbsp nbsp Poland Member of the Council of State 28 March 1972 2 April 1980 8 years 5 days Member of the collective head of state Valentina Tereshkova nbsp nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet June 1974 March or April 1989 c 14 years Member of the collective head of state Rimma Gavrilova nbsp nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 16 June 1974 4 March 1984 9 years 293 days Member of the collective head of state Kamshat Donenbaeva nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 16 June 1974 25 May 1989 14 years 343 days Member of the collective head of state Eugenia Kempara nbsp nbsp Poland Member of the Council of State 18 December 1976 6 November 1985 8 years 323 days Member of the collective head of state Yekaterina Mukhina nbsp nbsp Soviet Union Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet 4 March 1979 4 March 1984 5 years 0 days Member of the collective head of state Violeta Chamorro nbsp nbsp Nicaragua Member of the Junta of National Reconstruction 18 July 1979 19 April 1980 276 days Member of the collective head of state and government Krystyna Marszalek Mlynczyk nbsp nbsp Poland Member of the Council of State 2 April 1980 23 March 1983 2 years 355 days Member of the collective head of state Maria Lea Pedini Angelini nbsp nbsp San Marino Captain Regent 1 April 1981 1 October 1981 183 days Member of the collective head of state Johanna Topfer nbsp nbsp East Germany Member of the State Council 25 June 1981 17 November 1989 8 years 145 days Member of the collective head of state Gloriana Ranocchini nbsp nbsp San Marino Captain Regent 1 April 1984 1 October 1984 183 days Member of 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