Category: Vice President

Joyce Banda
Joyce Banda


Joyce Hilda Banda was president of the Republic of Malawi from April 7, 2012 to May 31, 2014. She was Malawi's fourth president and its first female president. Before becoming president, she was Malawi's first female vice-president. Banda was born on April 12, 1950, in Malemia, a village in the Zomba District of Nyasaland (now Malawi). She has a Bachelor’s degree from Atlantic International University. Banda achieved success in several business ventures, leading her to help other women achieve financial independence. She was the founder of the Joyce Banda Foundation, […]
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris


Kamala D. Harris assumed office as vice president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2021, the first woman to serve in that office. Following President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 re-election campaign on July 21, 2024, Harris announced her candidacy for president. On August 2, she announced that she had secured enough votes from Democratic Party delegates to win the party’s nomination. After a 107-day campaign, Harris lost in the general election to Donald Trump. Harris was the first Indian American to serve as a U.S. senator and […]
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner


Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as president of Argentina from December 2007 to December 2015 and as vice president from December 2019 to December 2022. She was the second woman to serve as president of Argentina (after Isabel Martínez de Perón, 1974 to 1976), the first directly elected female president and the first woman re-elected. She succeeded her husband, Néstor Kirchner, who served as president from 2003 to 2007. Kirchner was born February 19, 1953, in La Plata, Argentina. She attended the National […]
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf


Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf served as president of Switzerland from January 1 to December 31, 2012, and served as head of Switzerland's Department of Finance from November 2010 to December 2015. Widmer-Schlumpf was born on March 16, 1956, and grew up in Felsberg. After legal studies in Zurich in 1981, she returned to her native Canton of Graubünden where she was admitted to the bar, practicing as a lawyer and notary public. She obtained a doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1990. She worked as a self-employed lawyer and notary public […]