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Council Members

Listed alphabetically

Corazon Aquino
President, The Philippines, 1986 - 1992

Michelle Bachelet
President, Chile, 2006 - present

Gro Harlem Brundtland
Prime Minister, Norway, 1981, 1986 - 1989, and 1990 - 1996

Micheline Calmy-Rey
President, Switzerland, 2006 - 2007

Suzanne Camelia-Romer
Prime Minister, The Netherlands Antilles, 1993, 1998 - 1999

Kim Campbell
Prime Minister, Canada, 1993

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
President, Nicaragua, 1990 - 1996

Tansu Çiller
Prime Minister, Turkey, 1993 - 1996

Helen Clark
Prime Minister, New Zealand, 1999 - present

Edith Cresson
Pime Minister, France, 1991 - 1992

Luísa Dias Diogo
Prime Minister, Mozambique, 2004 - present

Ruth Dreifuss
President, Switzerland, 1998 - 1999

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
President, Argentina, 2007 - present

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
President, Iceland, 1980 - 1996

Pamela Gordon
Premier, Bermuda, 1997 - 1998

Tarja Halonen
President, Finland, 2000 - present

Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister, Bangladesh, 1996 - 2001

Emily Saїdy de Jongh-Elhage
Prime Minister, The Netherlands Antilles, 2006 - present

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President, Liberia, 2006 - present

Chandrika Kumaratunga
President, Sri Lanka, 1994 - 2005

Maria Liberia-Peters
Prime Minister, The Netherlands Antilles, 1984 - 1986, 1988 - 1994

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
President, The Philippines, 2001 - present

Mary McAleese
President, Ireland, 1997 - present

Beatriz Merino
Prime Minister, Peru, 2003

Angela Merkel
Chancellor, Germany, 2005 - present

Mireya Moscoso
President, Panama, 1999 - 2003

Maria Das Neves
Prime Minster, Sao Tome and Principe, 2002 - 2004

Kazimiera Prunskiene
Prime Minister, Lithuania, 1990 - 1991

Mary Robinson
President, Ireland, 1990 - 1997

Jenny Shipley
Prime Minister, New Zealand, 1997 - 1999

Portia Simpson Miller
Prime Minister, Jamaica, 2006 - 2007

Jennifer Smith
Premier, Bermuda, 1998 - 2003

Hanna Suchocka
Prime Minister, Poland, 1992 - 1993

Yulia Tymoshenko
Prime Minister, Ukraine, 2005 and 2007 - present

Vaira Vike-Freiberga
President, Latvia, 1999 - 2007

Khaleda Zia
Prime Minister, Bangladesh, 1991 - 1996

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In Memoriam:

Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Prime Minister, Sri Lanka
1960 - 1965, 1970 - 1977, 1994 - 2000, d.2000

Benazir Bhutto
Prime Minister, Pakistan
1988 - 1990, 1993 - 1997, d. 2007
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Eugenia Charles
Prime Minister, Dominica
1980 - 1995, d.2005

Janet Jagan
President, Guyana, 1997 - 1999,
d. 2009

Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
Prime Minister, Portugal
1979 - 1980, d.2004

"I could be a single voice calling for aid, another woman could be a single voice calling for aid, but if 3[7] women world leaders say this is what we think would make a difference in the lives of the ordinary women, I think the world would listen."

"To me equality is the important thing. I don't want preferences, I don't want to be preferred as a woman. But I want to be permitted that I am a human being who has the capacity to do what I have to do, and it doesn't matter whether I was born a man or woman. The work will be done that way."