Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President, Incumbent since 2007
Australia, Julia Gillard, Prime Minister, 2010
Bangladesh, Hasina Wazed, Prime Minister, 2009
Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, President, 2011
Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, President, 2010
Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister, 2011
Finland, Tarja Halonen, President, 2000
Germany, Angela Merkel, Chancellor, 2005
Iceland, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Prime Minister, 2009
India, Pratibha Patil, President, 2007
Jamaica, Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister, 2012
Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, President, 2011
Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, 2006
Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, President, 2009
Mali, Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, Prime Minister, 2011
Slovakia, Iveta Radičová, Prime Minister, 2010
Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister, 2011
Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister, 2010
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