Sheikh Hasina Wajed (Rank on Most Powerful Women list: 6)
The 62-year-old Sheikh Hasina is a Bangladeshi politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangladesh Awami League, a major political party, since 1981. Sheik Hasina Wajed was elected the Prime Minister of Bangladesh twice – once in 1996 and then again in 2009. The lady is still going strong and politically active despite losing 17 members of her family including her son in an assassination. Hasina is also a member of the Council of Women World Leaders whose aim is to mobilize women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women’s development.
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