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We’ll be looking at some local women in leadership during the pandemic later this week, but first let’s look at women in leadership internationally. The women leading nations in the fight against Covid-19, it’s made us realise just how many there are, and how well acclaimed many of them have been as a result of controlling the spread of the pandemic in their countries.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sheikh Hasina Wazed<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nBangladesh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mia Mottley<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nBarbados<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mette Frederiksen<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nDenmark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kersti Kaljulaid<\/td>\nPresident<\/td>\nEstonia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sahle-Work Zewde<\/td>\nPresident<\/td>\nEthiopia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sanna Marin<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nFinland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rose Christiane Raponda<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nGabon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Salome Zourabichvili<\/td>\nPresident<\/td>\nGeorgia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Angela Merkel<\/td>\nChancellor<\/td>\nGermany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katerina Sakellaropoulou<\/td>\nPresident<\/td>\nGreece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katrin Jakobsdottir<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nIceland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ingrida Simonyte<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nLithuania<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maia Sandhu<\/td>\nPresident<\/td>\nMoldova<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aung San Suu Kyi<\/td>\nState Counsellor<\/td>\nMyanmar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Saara Kuugongelwa<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nNamibia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bidhya Devi Bhandari<\/td>\nPresident<\/td>\nNepal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jacinda Ahern<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nNew Zealand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Erna Solberg<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nNorway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nicola Sturgeon<\/td>\nFirst Minister<\/td>\nScotland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ana Brnabic<\/td>\nPrime Minister<\/td>\nSerbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Halimah Yakob<\/td>\nPresident<\/td>\nSingapore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zuzana Caputora<\/td>\nPresident<\/td>\nSlovakia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tsai Ing-Wen<\/td>\nPresident<\/td>\nTaiwan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paula-May Weekes<\/td>\nPresident<\/td>\nTrinidad and Tobago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kamala Harris<\/td>\nVice-President<\/td>\nUnited States of America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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