Women in government
Current women leaders of national governments
Table:
Date term began
Title of office
Name
Country

22 November 2005
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
Germany

6 January 2009
Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh (also Prime Minister 1996–2001)

12 July 2009
President
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Lithuania

16 October 2013
Prime Minister
Erna Solberg
Norway

4 April 2014
President
Marie Louise Coleiro Preca
Malta

18 February 2015
President
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Croatia

21 March 2015
Prime Minister
Saara Kuugongelwa
Namibia

5 June 2015
President
Ameenah Gurib
Mauritius

22 August 2015
President
Bidhya Bhandari
Nepal

6 April 2016

State Counsellor

Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar

20 May 2016
President
Tsai Ing-wen
Taiwan

28 January 2016
President
Hilda Heine
Marshall Islands

13 July 2016
Prime Minister
Theresa May
United Kingdom

10 October 2016
President
Kersti Kaljulaid
Estonia

29 June 2017
Prime Minister
Ana Brnabić
Serbia

14 September 2017

President

Halimah Yacob

Singapore

17 September 2017

Prime Minister

Mercedes Aráoz

Peru

26 October 2017

Prime Minister

Jacinda Ardern

New Zealand

30 November 2017

Prime Minister

Katrín Jakobsdóttir

Iceland

29 January 2018

Prime Minister

Viorica Dăncilă

Romania

25 October 2018

President

Sahle-Work Zewde

Ethiopia

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