Council of Women World Leaders

Leadership

• Madeleine Albright: Founding Chair of the Ministerial Initiative ; Secretary of State of the United States
• Kathy Calvin: CEO ; President of the United Nations Foundation
• Kim Campbell: Prime Minister of Canada ; Council Chair
• Vigdís Finnbogadóttir: President of Iceland ; Founding Council Chair
• Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović: President of Croatia ; Council Chair
• Dalia Grybauskaitė: President of Lithuania ; Council Chair
• Tarja Halonen: President of Finland ; Council Chair
• Katrín Jakobsdóttir: Prime Minister of Iceland ; Council Chair
• Laura Liswood: Secretary General
• Mary Robinson: President of Ireland ; Council Chair
• Margot Wallström: Chair of the Ministerial Initiative ; First Vice President of the European Commission ; Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden

  Council of Women World Leaders Members

Current Members

• Jacinda Ardern: Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Michelle Bachelet: President of Chile
• Joyce Banda: President of Malawi
• Violeta Barrios de Chamorro: President of Nicaragua
• Ana Brnabić: Prime Minister of Serbia
• Micheline Calmy-Rey: President of Switzerland
• Susanne Camelia-Römer: Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
• Kim Campbell: Prime Minister of Canada ; Former Council Chair
• Laura Chinchilla: President of Costa Rica
• Tansu Çiller: Prime Minister of Turkey
• Helen Clark: Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca: President of Malta
• Paula Cox: Premier of Bermuda
• Édith Cresson: Prime Minister of France
• Luisa Diogo: Prime Minister of Mozambique
• Ruth Dreifuss: President of Switzerland
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: President of Argentina
• Vigdís Finnbogadóttir: President of Iceland ; Founding Council Chair
• Park Geun-hye: President of South Korea
• Julia Gillard: Prime Minister of Australia
• Pamela F. Gordon: Premier of Bermuda
• Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović: President of Croatia
• Dalia Grybauskaitė: President of Lithuania
• Ameenah Gurib-Fakim: President of Mauritius
• Gro Harlem Brundtland: Prime Minister of Norway
• Tarja Halonen: President of Finland ; Former Council Chair
• Sheikh Hasina: Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Hilda Heine: President of the Marshall Islands
• Katrín Jakobsdóttir: Prime Minister of Iceland
• Atifete Jahjaga: President of Kosovo
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: President of Liberia
• Emily de Jongh-Elhage: Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
• Kersti Kaljulaid: President of Estonia
• Begum Khaleda Zia: Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• Mari Kiviniemi: Prime Minister of Finland
• Jadranka Kosor: Prime Minister of Croatia
• Chandrika Kumaratunga: President of Sri Lanka
• Saara Kuugongelwa: Prime Minister of Namibia
• Doris Leuthard: President of Switzerland
• Maria Liberia Peters: Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
• Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo: President of the Philippines
• Theresa May: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Mary McAleese: President of Ireland
• Beatriz Merino: Prime Minister of Peru
• Angela Merkel: Chancellor of Germany
• Mireya Moscoso: President of Panama
• Maria das Neves: Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe
• Roza Otunbayeva: President of Kyrgyzstan
• Pratibha Patil: President of India
• Kamla Persad-Bissessar: Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• Michèle Pierre-Louis: Prime Minister of Haiti
• Kazimira Prunskienė: Prime Minister of Lithuania
• Iveta Radičová: Prime Minister of Slovakia
• Mary Robinson: President of Ireland ; Former Council Chair
• Dilma Rousseff: President of Brazil
• Jenny Shipley: Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir: Prime Minister of Iceland
• Portia Simpson-Miller: Prime Minister of Jamaica
• Jennifer M. Smith: Premier of Bermuda
• Erna Solberg: Prime Minister of Norway
• Simonetta Sommaruga: President of Switzerland
• Laimdota Straujuma: Prime Minister of Latvia
• Hanna Suchocka: Prime Minister of Poland
• Megawati Sukarnoputri: President of Indonesia
• Helle Thorning-Schmidt: Prime Minister of Denmark
• Yulia Tymoshenko: Prime Minister of Ukraine
• Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga: President of Latvia
• Paula-Mae Weekes: President of Trinidad and Tobago
• Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf: President of Switzerland
• Sahle-Work Zewde: President of Ethiopia
• Salome Zourabichvili: President of Georgia

  Deceased Members

• Benazir Bhutto: Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Corazon Aquino: President of the Philippines
• Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
• Eugenia Charles: Prime Minister of Dominica
• Janet Jagan: President of Guyana
• Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo: Prime Minister of Portugal
• Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom