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Joyce Hilda Banda

Oct 20, 2017

Joyce Banda has been a Club de Madrid Member since 2015 and currently serves on its Board of Directors. Joyce Banda served was Malawi’s first female president and Africa’s second.  Before assuming office, Banda served as a Member of Parliament, Minister of Gender and...

Jigmi Yoser Thinley

Oct 20, 2017

Jigmi Y. Thinley is a Member of Club de Madrid and currently serves on the Board of Directors. Born in Bhutan in 1952, he holds the distinction of being Bhutan’s first democratically elected Prime Minister, serving from 2008 to 2013. He pursued higher education at St....

Han Seung-soo

Oct 20, 2017

Han Seung–soo is a Member of Club de Madrid and currently serves on the Board of Directors. Han Seung-soo was educated at Yonsei University (BA), Seoul National University (MPA) and University of York, England (Ph.D.1968/D. Univ. 1997). Prior to his entry into...

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria

Oct 20, 2017

Michelle Bachelet served as President of Chile for two terms (2006–2010; 2014–2018), becoming the first woman to hold the presidency and the first to be re-elected in democracy since 1932. A trained physician —she graduated in 1982 from the Faculty of Medicine at the...

Vaira Vike-Freiberga

Oct 20, 2017

Vaira Vike-Freiberga was President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007 (re-elected in 2003 by the Latvian Parliament). She was President of Club de Madrid from 2014 to 2019, and currently serves on the Board of Directors. She was Special Envoy on the United Nations reform and...