Council of Women World Leaders
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| Formation | 1996 |
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| Founder | Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Mary Robinson Laura Liswood |
| Type | NGO, network |
| Purpose | To mobilize the highest-level women leaders on issues of critical importance to women |
| Headquarters | United Nations Foundation, Washington, D.C. |
Membership | 83 current and former women prime ministers and presidents |
Secretary General | Laura Liswood |
Council Chair | Katrín Jakobsdóttir |
| Affiliations | United Nations Foundation |
| Website | councilwomenworldleaders.org |
The Council of Women World Leaders, created in 1996, is a network of 83 current and former presidents and prime ministers. It is the only organization in the world dedicated to women heads of state and government. The council's Ministerial Initiative also involves current and former cabinet ministers and secretaries in the work of the council.
Leadership[]
Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Council Chair
(2020–present)
Prime Minister of Iceland
(2017–present)
Laura Liswood
Secretary General
(1996–present)
Chair Emeritae[]
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Council Chair
(1996–1999)
President of Iceland
(1980–1996)
Kim Campbell
Council Chair
(1999–2003)
Prime Minister of Canada
(1993)
Mary Robinson
Council Chair
(2003–2009)
President of Ireland
(1990–1997)
Tarja Halonen
Council Chair
(2009–2014)
President of Finland
(2000–2012)
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Council Chair
(2014–2019)
President of Lithuania
(2009–2019)
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Council Chair
(2019–2020)
President of Croatia
(2015–2020)
Members[]
Members currently serving as heads of state or government[]
Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister of New Zealand
(2017–present)
Ana Brnabić
Prime Minister of Serbia
(2017–present)
Zuzana Čaputová
President of Slovakia
(2019–present)
Mette Frederiksen
Prime Minister of Denmark
(2019–present)
Natalia Gavrilița
Prime Minister of Moldova
(2021–present)
Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
(1996–2001, 2009–present)
Kaja Kallas
Prime Minister of Estonia
(2021–present)
Saara Kuugongelwa
Prime Minister of Namibia
(2015–present)
Sanna Marin
Prime Minister of Finland
(2019–present)
Katerina Sakellaropoulou
President of Greece
(2020–present)
Maia Sandu
President of Moldova
(2020–present)
Ingrida Šimonytė
Prime Minister of Lithuania
(2020–present)
Paula-Mae Weekes
President of Trinidad and Tobago
(2018–present)
Sahle-Work Zewde
President of Ethiopia
(2018–present)
Salome Zourabichvili
President of Georgia
(2018–present)
Members who previously served as heads of state or government[]
Mercedes Aráoz
Prime Minister of Peru
(2017–2018)
Michelle Bachelet
President of Chile
(2006–2010, 2014–2018)
Joyce Banda
President of Malawi
(2012–2014)
Violeta Chamorro
President of Nicaragua
(1990–1996)
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Prime Minister of Norway
(1981, 1986–1989, 1990–1996)
Micheline Calmy-Rey
President of Switzerland
(2007, 2011)
Susanne Camelia-Römer
Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
(1993, 1998–1999)
Tansu Çiller
Prime Minister of Turkey
(1993–1996)
Helen Clark
Prime Minister of New Zealand
(1999–2008)
Paula Cox
Premier of Bermuda
(2010–2012)
Édith Cresson
Prime Minister of France
(1991–1992)
Viorica Dăncilă
Prime Minister of Romania
(2018–2019)
Luisa Diogo
Prime Minister of Mozambique
(2004–2010)
Ruth Dreifuss
President of Switzerland
(1999)
Park Geun-hye
President of South Korea
(2013–2017)
Julia Gillard
Prime Minister of Australia
(2010–2013)
Pamela F. Gordon
Premier of Bermuda
(1997–1998)
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
President of Mauritius
(2015–2018)
Hilda Heine
President of the Marshall Islands
(2016–2020)
Atifete Jahjaga
President of Kosovo
(2011–2016)
Kersti Kaljulaid
President of Estonia
(2016–2021)
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
President of Argentina
(2007–2015)
Mari Kiviniemi
Prime Minister of Finland
(2010–2011)
Jadranka Kosor
Prime Minister of Croatia
(2009–2011)
Chandrika Kumaratunga
President of Sri Lanka
(1994–2005)
Doris Leuthard
President of Switzerland
(2010)
Maria Liberia Peters
Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
(1984–1986, 1988–1994)
Theresa May
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(2016–2019)
Mary McAleese
President of Ireland
(1997–2011)
Angela Merkel
Chancellor of Germany
(2005–2021)
Laura Chinchilla Miranda
President of Costa Rica
(2010–2014)
Mireya Moscoso
President of Panama
(1999–2004)
Roza Otunbayeva
President of Kyrgyzstan
(2010–2011)
Pratibha Patil
President of India
(2007–2012)
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
(2010–2015)
Michèle Pierre-Louis
Prime Minister of Haiti
(2008–2009)
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
President of Malta
(2014–2019)
Iveta Radičová
Prime Minister of Slovakia
(2010–2012)
Dilma Rousseff
President of Brazil
(2011–2016)
Jenny Shipley
Prime Minister of New Zealand
(1997–1999)
Portia Simpson-Miller
Prime Minister of Jamaica
(2006–2007, 2012–2016)
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President of Liberia
(2006–2018)- Jennifer M. Smith
Premier of Bermuda
(1998–2003) 
Erna Solberg
Prime Minister of Norway
(2013–2021)
Simonetta Sommaruga
President of Switzerland
(2015, 2020)
Laimdota Straujuma
Prime Minister of Latvia
(2014–2016)
Hanna Suchocka
Prime Minister of Poland
(1992–1993)
Megawati Sukarnoputri
President of Indonesia
(2001–2004)
Aminata Touré
Prime Minister of Senegal
(2013–2014)
Yulia Tymoshenko
Prime Minister of Ukraine
(2005, 2007–2010)
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
President of Latvia
(1999–2007)
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
President of Switzerland
(2012)
Sophie Wilmès
Prime Minister of Belgium
(2019–2020)
Begum Khaleda Zia
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
(1991–1996, 2001–2006)
Deceased members[]
Corazon Aquino
President of the Philippines
(1986–1992)
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
(1960–1965, 1970–1977, 1994–2000)
Benazir Bhutto
Prime Minister of Pakistan
(1988–1990,1993–1996)
Eugenia Charles
Prime Minister of Dominica
(1980–1995)
Janet Jagan
President of Guyana
(1997–1999)
See also[]
- List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government
- United Nations Foundation
- Women Political Leaders
External links[]
- International women's organizations
- Organizations established in 1996
- Women's occupational organizations