List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government
Elected female heads of state or government
This list includes heads of state or government that were elected by a governing committee or parliament, in the case of states that do not have direct democratic elections, but not those appointed by a monarch.

List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government

Section Title: Elected female heads of state or government
Table Section Text: This list includes heads of state or government that were elected by a governing committee or parliament, in the case of states that do not have direct democratic elections, but not those appointed by a monarch.

Name	Portrait	Country	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length	Head of state or government

Yevgenia Bosch	-	Ukrainian SSR	Chairman of the People's Secretariat of Ukraine (acting)	24 December 1917	17 March 1918	83 days	Head of government

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

Klavdia Nikolaeva	-	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

Khertek Anchimaa-Toka	-	Tannu Tuva	Chairperson of the Presidium of the Little Khural	6 April 1940	11 October 1944	4 years, 188 days	Head of state

Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa	-	Mongolia	Acting Chairperson of the Presidium of the State Great Khural	7 September 1953	7 July 1954	303 days	Head of state

Anna Pankratova	-	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet	14 March 1954	16 March 1958	4 years, 2 days	Member of the collective head of state

Yekaterina Furtseva	-	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet	12 March 1950	18 March 1962	12 years, 6 days	Member of the collective head of state

Yodgor 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

Sirimavo Bandaranaike	-	Ceylon	Prime Minister	21 July 1960	27 March 1965	4 years, 249 days	Head of government

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 Akhundova	-	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet	18 March 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

Indira Gandhi	-	India	Prime Minister	24 January 1966	24 April 1977	11 years, 90 days	Head of government

Zoya Pukhova	-	Soviet Union	Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet	12 June 1966	26 December 1991	25 years, 197 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

Soong Ching-ling	-	China	Acting Co-Chairperson	31 October 1968	24 April 1972	3 years, 176 days	Head of state

Golda Meir	-	Israel	Prime Minister	17 March 1969	3 June 1974	5 years, 78 days	Head of government

Sirimavo Bandaranaike	-	Ceylon/ Sri Lanka	Prime Minister	29 May 1970	23 July 1977	7 years, 55 days	Head of government

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

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	9 June 1989	14 years, 358 days	Member of the collective head of state

Isabel Martínez de Perón	-	Argentina	President	1 July 1974	24 March 1976	1 year, 267 days	Head of state and government

Elisabeth Domitien	-	Central African Republic	Prime Minister	2 January 1975	7 April 1976	1 year, 96 days	*

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

Margaret Thatcher	-	United Kingdom	Prime Minister	4 May 1979	28 November 1990	11 years, 208 days	Head of government

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

Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo	-	Portugal	Prime Minister	1 August 1979	3 January 1980	186 days	Head of government

Lidia Gueiler Tejada	-	Bolivia	Acting President	16 November 1979	17 July 1980	244 days	Head of state

Indira Gandhi	-	India	Prime Minister	15 January 1980	31 October 1984 (assassinated)	4 years, 290 days	Head of government

Dame Eugenia Charles	-	Dominica	Prime Minister	21 July 1980	14 June 1995	14 years, 328 days	Head of government

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

Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 April 1981	1 October 1981	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Soong Ching-ling	-	China	Honorary President	16 May 1981	28 May 1981	12 days	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

Agatha Barbara	-	Malta	President	15 February 1982	15 February 1987	5 years, 0 days	Head of state

Milka Planinc	Yugoslavia	Prime Minister	16 May 1982	15 May 1986	3 years, 364 days	Head of government

Gloriana Ranocchini	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 April 1984	1 October 1984	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Carmen Pereira	-	Guinea-Bissau	Acting President	14 May 1984	16 May 1984	2 days	Head of state

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

Corazon Aquino	-	Philippines	President	25 February 1986	30 June 1992	6 years, 126 days	Head of state and government

Gro Harlem Brundtland	-	Norway	Prime Minister	9 May 1986	16 October 1989	3 years, 160 days	Head of government

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

Monica 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

Stella Sigcau	-	Transkei	Prime Minister	5 October 1987	30 December 1987	86 days	Head of government

Benazir Bhutto	-	Pakistan	Prime Minister	2 December 1988	6 July 1990	1 year, 216 days	Head of government

Gloriana Ranocchini	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 October 1989	1 April 1990	182 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Ertha Pascal-Trouillot	Haiti	Acting President	13 March 1990	7 February 1991	331 days	Head of state

Kazimira Prunskienė	-	Lithuania	Prime Minister	17 March 1990	10 January 1991	299 days	Head of government

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

Gro Harlem Brundtland	-	Norway	Prime Minister	3 November 1990	25 October 1996	5 years, 357 days	Head of government

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

Édith Cresson	-	France	Prime Minister	15 May 1991	2 April 1992	323 days	Head of government

Edda Ceccoli	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 October 1991	1 April 1992	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Biljana Plavšić	Biljana Plavsic.JPG	Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina	Serb Member of the Presidency	1 March 1992	9 April 1992	39 days	Member of the collective head of state

Hanna Suchocka	-	Poland	Prime Minister	11 July 1992	25 October 1993	1 year, 106 days	Head of government

Tatjana Ljujić-Mijatović	-	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

Marita Petersen	Faroe Islands	Prime Minister	18 January 1993	15 September 1994	1 year, 240 days	Head of government

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 and government

Tansu Çiller	(Tansu Çiller) Rueda de prensa de Felipe González y la primera ministra de Turquía. Pool Moncloa.	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

Sylvie Kinigi	-	Burundi	Prime Minister	10 July 1993	27 October 1993	109 days	Head of government

Agathe Uwilingiyimana	Rwanda	Prime Minister	18 July 1993	7 April 1994 (assassinated)	263 days	Head of government

Benazir Bhutto	-	Pakistan	Prime Minister	19 October 1993	5 November 1996	3 years, 17 days	Head of government

Sylvie Kinigi	-	Burundi	Acting President	27 October 1993	5 February 1994	101 days	Head of state

Chandrika Kumaratunga	-	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister	19 August 1994	12 November 1994	85 days	*

Chandrika Kumaratunga	-	Sri Lanka	President	12 November 1994	19 November 2005	11 years, 7 days	Head of state and government

Sirimavo Bandaranaike	-	Sri Lanka	Prime Minister	14 November 1994	9 August 2000	5 years, 269 days	*

Reneta Indzhova	-	Bulgaria	Acting Prime Minister	17 October 1994	25 January 1995	100 days	Head of government

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

Ruth Perry	Liberia	Chairman of the Council of State	3 September 1996	2 August 1997	333 days	Head of state and government

Rosalía Arteaga Serrano	-	Ecuador	Acting President	9 February 1997	11 February 1997	2 days	Head of state and government

Mary McAleese	-	Ireland	President	11 November 1997	10 November 2011	13 years, 364 days	Head of state

Jenny Shipley	-	New Zealand	Prime Minister	5 December 1997	5 December 1999	2 years, 0 days	Head of government

Janet Jagan	-	Guyana	Prime Minister	17 March 1997	19 December 1997	277 days	*

Janet Jagan	-	Guyana	President	19 December 1997	11 August 1999	1 year, 235 days	Head of state and government

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 and government

Irena Degutienė	-	Lithuania	Acting Prime Minister	4 May 1999	18 May 1999	14 days	Head of government

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga	Vaira Vike-Freiberga 13062007.JPG	Latvia	President	8 July 1999	8 July 2007	8 years, 0 days	Head of state

Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa	-	Mongolia	Acting Prime Minister	22 July 1999	30 July 1999	8 days	Head of government

Mireya Moscoso	-	Panama	President	1 September 1999	1 September 2004	5 years, 0 days	Head of state and government

Irena Degutienė	-	Lithuania	Acting Prime Minister	27 October 1999	3 November 1999	7 days	Head of government

Helen Clark	-	New Zealand	Prime Minister	5 December 1999	19 November 2008	8 years, 350 days	Head of government

Tarja Halonen	-	Finland	President	1 March 2000	1 March 2012	12 years, 0 days	Head of state

Maria Domenica Michelotti	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 April 2000	1 October 2000	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo	-	Philippines	President	20 January 2001	30 June 2010	9 years, 161 days	Head of state and government

Mame Madior Boye	-	Senegal	Prime Minister	3 March 2001	4 November 2002	1 year, 246 days	Head of government

Megawati Sukarnoputri	-	Indonesia	President	23 July 2001	20 October 2004	3 years, 89 days	Head of state and government

Khaleda Zia	-	Bangladesh	Prime Minister	1 October 2001	29 October 2006	5 years, 28 days	Head of government

Chang Sang	-	South Korea	Acting Prime Minister	11 July 2002	31 July 2002	20 days	*

Maria das Neves	-	São Tomé and Príncipe	Prime Minister	3 October 2002	18 September 2004	1 year, 351 days	Head of 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

Anneli Jäätteenmäki	-	Finland	Prime Minister	17 April 2003	24 June 2003	68 days	Head of government

Beatriz Merino	-	Peru	Prime Minister	28 June 2003	15 December 2003	170 days	*

Valeria Ciavatta	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 October 2003	1 April 2004	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Nino Burjanadze	-	Georgia	Acting President	23 November 2003	25 January 2004	63 days	Head of state

Luísa Diogo	-	Mozambique	Prime Minister	17 February 2004	16 January 2010	5 years, 333 days	Head of government

Barbara Prammer	-	Austria	Co-Acting President	6 July 2004	8 July 2004	2 days	Head of state

Radmila Šekerinska	-	Macedonia	Acting Prime Minister	12 May 2004	12 June 2004	31 days	Head of government

Radmila Šekerinska	-	Macedonia	Acting Prime Minister	3 November 2004	15 December 2004	42 days	Head of government

Yulia Tymoshenko	-	Ukraine	Prime Minister	24 January 2005	6 September 2005	225 days	Head of government

Fausta Morganti	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 April 2005	1 October 2005	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

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	Incumbent	13 years, 144 days	Head of government

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	-	Liberia	President	16 January 2006	22 January 2018	12 years, 6 days	Head of state and government

Michelle Bachelet	-	Chile	President	11 March 2006	11 March 2010	4 years, 0 days	Head of state and government

Portia Simpson-Miller	Portia Miller Shoot.Jpeg	Jamaica	Prime Minister	30 March 2006	11 September 2007	1 year, 165 days	Head of government

Han Myeong-sook	-	South Korea	Prime Minister	19 April 2006	7 March 2007	322 days	*

Doris Leuthard	-	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council	1 August 2006	1 January 2019	12 years, 153 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Dalia Itzik	-	Israel	Acting President	25 January 2007	15 July 2007	171 days	Head of state

Pratibha Patil	-	India	President	25 July 2007	25 July 2012	5 years, 0 days	Head of state

Nino Burjanadze	-	Georgia	Acting President	25 November 2007	20 January 2008	56 days	Head of state

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	-	Argentina	President	10 December 2007	9 December 2015	7 years, 364 days	Head of state and government

Yulia Tymoshenko	-	Ukraine	Prime Minister	18 December 2007	3 March 2010	2 years, 75 days	Head of 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

Rosa Zafferani	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 April 2008	1 October 2008	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Zinaida Greceanîi	-	Moldova	Prime Minister	31 March 2008	14 September 2009	1 year, 167 days	Head of government

Michèle Pierre-Louis	-	Haiti	Prime Minister	5 September 2008	11 November 2009	1 year, 67 days	Head of government

Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri	South Africa	Acting President	25 September 2008	14 hours	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 and government

Sheikh Hasina	-	Bangladesh	Prime Minister	6 January 2009	Incumbent	10 years, 99 days	Head of government

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir	-	Iceland	Prime Minister	1 February 2009	23 May 2013	4 years, 111 days	Head of government

Rose Francine Rogombé	-	Gabon	Acting President	10 June 2009	16 October 2009	128 days	Head of state

Jadranka Kosor	-	Croatia	Prime Minister	6 July 2009	23 December 2011	2 years, 170 days	Head of government

Dalia Grybauskaitė	-	Lithuania	President	12 July 2009	Incumbent	9 years, 277 days	Head of state

Cécile Manorohanta	-	Madagascar	Acting Prime Minister	18 December 2009	20 December 2009	2 days	Head of government

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, 0 days	Head of state and government

Kamla Persad-Bissessar	-	Trinidad and Tobago	Prime Minister	26 May 2010	9 September 2015	5 years, 106 days	Head of government

Mari Kiviniemi	-	Finland	Prime Minister	22 June 2010	22 June 2011	1 year, 0 days	Head of government

Julia Gillard	-	Australia	Prime Minister	24 June 2010	27 June 2013	3 years, 3 days	Head of government

Iveta Radičová	-	Slovakia	Prime Minister	8 July 2010	4 April 2012	1 year, 271 days	Head of government

Sarah Wescot-Williams	Sint Maarten	Prime Minister	10 October 2010	19 December 2014	4 years, 70 days	Head of government

Simonetta Sommaruga	-	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council	1 November 2010	Incumbent	8 years, 165 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Dilma Rousseff	-	Brazil	President	1 January 2011	31 August 2016 Suspended 12 May 2016	5 years, 243 days 5 years, 132 days	Head of state and government

Rosario Fernández	-	Peru	Prime Minister	19 March 2011	28 July 2011	131 days	*

Maria Luisa Berti	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 April 2011	1 October 2011	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

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, 0 days	Head of state

Yingluck Shinawatra	-	Thailand	Prime Minister	3 July 2011	7 May 2014	2 years, 308 days	Head of government

Helle Thorning-Schmidt	-	Denmark	Prime Minister	3 October 2011	28 June 2015	3 years, 268 days	Head of government

Portia Simpson-Miller	Portia Miller Shoot.Jpeg	Jamaica	Prime Minister	5 January 2012	3 March 2016	4 years, 58 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

Slavica Đukić Dejanović	-	Serbia	Acting President	5 April 2012	31 May 2012	56 days	Head of state

Joyce Banda	-	Malawi	President	7 April 2012	31 May 2014	2 years, 54 days	Head of state and government

Denise Bronzetti	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 October 2012	1 April 2013	182 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

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

Alenka Bratušek	-	Slovenia	Prime Minister	20 March 2013	18 September 2014	1 year, 182 days	Head of government

Antonella Mularoni	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 April 2013	1 October 2013	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Aleqa Hammond	-	Greenland	Prime Minister	5 April 2013	30 September 2014	1 year, 178 days	Head of government

Sibel Siber	-	Northern Cyprus	Prime Minister	13 June 2013	2 September 2013	81 days	Head of government

Tatiana Turanskaya	-	Transnistria	Prime Minister	10 June 2013	13 October 2015	2 years, 125 days	Head of government

Aminata Touré	-	Senegal	Prime Minister	1 September 2013	8 July 2014	310 days	Head of government

Anna Maria Muccioli	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 October 2013	1 April 2014	182 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Erna Solberg	-	Norway	Prime Minister	16 October 2013	Incumbent	5 years, 181 days	Head of government

Laimdota Straujuma	-	Latvia	Prime Minister	22 January 2014	11 February 2016	2 years, 20 days	Head of government

Catherine Samba-Panza	-	Central African Republic	Acting President	23 January 2014	30 March 2016	2 years, 67 days	Head of state

Michelle Bachelet	-	Chile	President	11 March 2014	11 March 2018	4 years, 0 days	Head of state and government

Valeria Ciavatta	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 April 2014	1 October 2014	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca	-	Malta	President	4 April 2014	4 April 2019	5 years, 0 days	Head of state

Ana Jara	-	Peru	Prime Minister	22 July 2014	2 April 2015	254 days	*

Ewa Kopacz	-	Poland	Prime Minister	22 September 2014	16 November 2015	1 year, 55 days	Head of government

Florence Duperval Guillaume	Florence Duperval Guillaume.JPG	Haiti	Acting Prime Minister	20 December 2014	16 January 2015	27 days	Head of government

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović	-	Croatia	President	19 February 2015	Incumbent	4 years, 55 days	Head of state

Saara Kuugongelwa	-	Namibia	Prime Minister	21 March 2015	Incumbent	4 years, 25 days	*

Monique Ohsan Bellepeau	-	Mauritius	Acting President	29 May 2015	5 June 2015	7 days	Head of state

Ameenah Gurib	-	Mauritius	President	5 June 2015	23 March 2018	2 years, 291 days	Head of state

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

Lorella Stefanelli	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 October 2015	1 April 2016	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Maya Parnas	-	Transnistria	Acting Prime Minister	13 October 2015	30 November 2015	48 days	Head of government

Bidhya Devi Bhandari	Vidhya Bhandari2.JPG	Nepal	President	29 October 2015	Incumbent	3 years, 168 days	Head of state

Beata Szydło	-	Poland	Prime Minister	16 November 2015	11 December 2017	2 years, 25 days	Head of government

Tatiana Turanskaya	-	Transnistria	Prime Minister	30 November 2015	2 December 2015	2 days	Head of government

Maya Parnas	-	Transnistria	Acting Prime Minister	2 December 2015	23 December 2015	21 days	Head of government

Hilda Heine	-	Marshall Islands	President	28 January 2016	Incumbent	3 years, 77 days	Head of state and government

Aung San Suu Kyi	-	Myanmar	State Counsellor	6 April 2016	Incumbent	3 years, 9 days	de facto Head of government

Tsai Ing-wen	-	Taiwan	President	20 May 2016	Incumbent	2 years, 330 days	Head of state

Doris Bures	-	Austria	Co-Acting President	8 July 2016	26 January 2017	202 days	Head of state

Theresa May	-	United Kingdom	Prime Minister	13 July 2016	Incumbent	2 years, 276 days	Head of government

Kersti Kaljulaid	-	Estonia	President	10 October 2016	Incumbent	2 years, 187 days	Head of state

Mimma Zavoli	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 April 2017	1 October 2017	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Vanessa D'Ambrosio	-	San Marino	Captain Regent	1 April 2017	1 October 2017	183 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Ana Brnabić	-	Serbia	Prime Minister	29 June 2017	Incumbent	1 year, 290 days	Head of government

Halimah Yacob	-	Singapore	President	14 September 2017	Incumbent	1 year, 213 days	Head of state

Mercedes Aráoz	-	Peru	Prime Minister	17 September 2017	2 April 2018	197 days	*

Jacinda Ardern	-	New Zealand	Prime Minister	26 October 2017	Incumbent	1 year, 171 days	Head of government

Evelyn Wever-Croes	-	Aruba	Prime Minister	17 November 2017	Incumbent	1 year, 149 days	Head of government

Katrín Jakobsdóttir	-	Iceland	Prime Minister	30 November 2017	Incumbent	1 year, 136 days	Head of government

Leona Marlin-Romeo	-	Sint Maarten	Prime Minister	15 January 2018	Incumbent	1 year, 90 days	Head of government

Viorica Dăncilă	-	Romania	Prime Minister	29 January 2018	Incumbent	1 year, 76 days	Head of government

Paula-Mae Weekes	-	Trinidad and Tobago	President	19 March 2018	Incumbent	1 year, 27 days	Head of state

Mia Mottley	-	Barbados	Prime Minister	25 May 2018	Incumbent	325 days	Head of government

Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh	-	Vietnam	Acting President	21 September 2018	23 October 2018	32 days	Head of state

Sahle-Work Zewde	-	Ethiopia	President	25 October 2018	Incumbent	172 days	Head of state

Salome Zurabishvili	-	Georgia	President	16 December 2018	Incumbent	120 days	Head of state

Karin Keller-Sutter	-	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council	1 January 2019	Incumbent	104 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Viola Amherd	-	Switzerland	Member of the Swiss Federal Council	1 January 2019	Incumbent	104 days	Member of the collective head of state and government

Zuzana Čaputová	-	Slovakia	President	15 June 2019	Elect	Head of state

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As Chairperson of the Presidium of the State Great Khural, Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa became the second woman to be elected or appointed head of state.

final_sentence: As Chairperson of the Presidium of the State Great Khural, Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa became the second woman to be elected or appointed head of state.