Margaret Thatcher First Female Prime Minister, Great Britain Indira Gandhi
First Female Prime Minister, India
Tarja Halonen Asha-Rose Migiro President, Republic of Finland Deputy Secretary General, United Nations
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf President of Liberia Mary Robinson
Former President, Republic of Ireland
Mary McNeese Sheikh Hasina President, Republic of Ireland Prime Minister, Bangladesh
Michelle Bachele Jeria Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil President, Chile President, India
Cristina Fernandez Kirchner Yulia Volodymyrivna President, Argentina Prime Minister, Ukraine
Doris Leuthard Ruth Dreifuss Vice President, Switzerland First Female President, Switzerland (women in Switzerland gained the right to vote in 1980)
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Johanna Sigurdardottir First Female President, Iceland Prime Minister, Iceland
Dalia Grybauskaite President, Lithuania
Margot Wallstrom Vice President, Eurpoean Commission
Portia Simpson Miller First Female Prime Minister, Jamaica
Dr. Patricia Espinosa Cantellano Secretary of Foreign Relations, Mexico
Dr. Benita Ferrero-Waldner European Commissioner for External Relations and Baronness Valerie Ann Amos European Neighborhood Policy High Commissioner to Australia
Sylvie Lucas Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to UN Dora Bayoyannis President, ECOSOC Former Foreign Affairs Minister, Greece
Baroness Patricia Scotland Quentin Bryce Solicitor General, Great Britain Governor-General, Australia
Paula Gopee-Scoon Barbara Prammer Foreign Minister, Trinidad-Tobago President, National Council of Austria
Marisol Argueta Kyung-wha Kang UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Foreign Minister, El Salvador Rights
Nilda Garré
Beatrice Ask Minister of Defense, Argentina Justice Minister, Sweden
Sonia Gandhi Roumyana Zheleva Leader of India’s Congress Party Foreign Minister, Bulgaria
Connie Hedegaard Nyamko Sabuni European Commissioner Minister for Integration, Sweden
Tzippi Livni Rachel Mayanja Foreign Minister, Israel UN Special Advisor on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
Aurelia Frick Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liechtenstein Marjon Kamara Permanent Representative of Liberia to UN
Caroline Ziade Michaelle Jean Permanent Represenative of Lebanon to Governor-General, Canada UN
Jozefina Topalli Dessima Williams Parliament Speaker, Albania Permanent Representative of Grenada to UN
Anne Anderson Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Patricia Rodas Nations Foreign Minister, Honduras
Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti Beverley Joda Permanent Representative of Brazil to Minister of International Cooperation, Canada UN
T.H. Antonella Mularoni Josette Sheeran Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs and for Economic Planning of the Republic of San Executive Director, World Food Program Marino
Louka Katseli Minister of Economic Competition and Shipping, Greece Emer Costello Lord Mayor, Dublin, Ireland
Irene Khan Secretary General, Amnesty International