Kamla Persad-Bissessar

The Rt Hon. **Kamla Persad-Bissessar** PBS SC MP (born 22 April 1952) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian lawyer and  politician who has been the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago since 1 May 2025. She was prime minister before from 26 May 2010 to 9 September 2015. She was the country's first female Prime Minister, Attorney General, and Leader of the Opposition. She is also the first woman to be a prime minister in a country outside of India and South Asia.

After leading the UNC to victory in the 2025 general elections, Persad-Bissessar was again sworn in as prime minister on 1 May 2025.

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- **office**: 9th & 11th Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
- **primeminister**: Basdeo Panday
- **term start**: 5 October 2001
- **term end**: 24 December 2001
- **predecessor**: Ramesh Maharaj
- **successor**: Glenda Morean
- **primeminister1**: Basdeo Panday
- **term start1**: 27 November 1995
- **term end1**: 2 February 1996
- **predecessor1**: Keith Sobion
- **successor1**: Ramesh Maharaj
- **office2**: Education minister, Minister of Education of Trinidad and Tobago
- **primeminister2**: Basdeo Panday
- **term start2**: 22 October 1999
- **term end2**: 4 October 2001
- **predecessor2**: Adesh Nanan
- **successor2**: Ganga Singh


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- **constituency mp**: Siparia (parliamentary constituency), Siparia
- **term start**: 6 November 1995
- **predecessor**: Sahid Hosein
- **majority**: 10,141 (51.6%)
- **office1**: Opposition Member of the Senate (Trinidad and Tobago), Senate of Trinidad and Tobago
- **term start1**: 1 November 1994
- **term end1**: 6 October 1995


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- **office**: Commonwealth Chair-in-Office
- **term start**: 26 May 2010
- **term end**: 28 October 2011
- **1blankname**: Secretary-General
- **1namedata**: Kamalesh Sharma
- **predecessor**: Patrick Manning
- **successor**: Julia Gillard
- **office1**: Chairwoman of the Caribbean Community
- **term start1**: 1 July 2013
- **term end1**: 31 December 2013
- **predecessor1**: Michel Martelly
- **successor12**: Ralph Gonsalves


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- **office**: Alderwoman for the Saint Patrick County Council
- **term start**: 1987
- **term end**: 1991


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Honourable
- **name**: Kamla Persad-Bissessar
- **honorific-suffix**: Senior Counsel, SC Member of parliament, MP
- **image**: Kamla Persad-Bissesar 2013.jpg
- **office**: 6th List of prime ministers of Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
- **president**: Christine Kangaloo
- **term start**: 1 May 2025
- **predecessor**: Stuart Young
- **term start1**: 26 May 2010
- **term end1**: 9 September 2015
- **predecessor1**: Patrick Manning
- **successor1**: Keith Rowley
- **office2**: 7th Leader of the Opposition (Trinidad and Tobago), Leader of the Opposition of Trinidad and Tobago
- **primeminister2**: Keith Rowley
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- **term start2**: 21 September 2015
- **term end2**: 1 May 2025
- **predecessor2**: Keith Rowley
- **successor2**: Pennelope Beckles-Robinson
- **primeminister3**: Patrick Manning
- **president3**: George Maxwell Richards
- **term start3**: 25 February 2010
- **term end3**: 25 May 2010
- **predecessor3**: Basdeo Panday
- **successor3**: Keith Rowley
- **primeminister4**: Patrick Manning
- **president4**: George Maxwell Richards
- **term start4**: 26 April 2006
- **term end4**: 8 November 2007
- **predecessor4**: Basdeo Panday
- **successor4**: Basdeo Panday
- **office5**: 4th Party leader, Political Leader of the United National Congress
- **term start5**: 24 January 2010
- **predecessor5**: Basdeo Panday
- **birth name**: Kamla Susheila Persad
- **birth place**: Siparia, Trinidad and Tobago, British West Indies
- **party**: United National Congress
- **otherparty**: National Alliance for Reconstruction
- **residence**: Phillipine, Penal-Debe, Trinidad and Tobago
- **children**: 1
- **awards**: Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (2012)
- **caption**: Persad-Bissessar in 2013