List of female finance ministers

A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. The title may also refer to a junior minister in the finance department. The British Treasury, for example, has four junior ministers.

A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names across the world, such as "treasury", "finance", "financial affairs", "economy" and "economic affairs". The position of the finance minister might be named for this portfolio, but it may also have some other name, like "Treasurer" or, in the United Kingdom, "Chancellor of the Exchequer". The finance minister is usually in charge of monetary policy, economic policy, fiscal policy, and financial regulation. Many women have been appointed to the post since the mid 1920s. This is a list of women who entitled the position of finance minister; thus an economy minister who is in charge of financial policy will also be included. However economy ministers who head a separate ministry from the finance ministry will not appear in the list.

Sovereign states
  Denotes incumbent finance minister
  • Italics denote an acting finance minister or a minister of an extinct state.
  • Note: Many of the figures given for "term length" appear to be overly precise given that many of the start and end dates are only approximate.
Name Image Country Continent Mandate start Mandate end Term length
Varvara Yakovleva  Soviet Union Europe January 1930 September 1937 7 years, 243 days
Rosalia Zemlyachka  Soviet Union Europe 1939 1943 4 years, 0 days
Indira Gandhi  India Asia 16 July 1969 27 June 1970 346 days
Marie-Christine Mboukou  Central African Republic Africa 1975 21 September 1979 4 years, 263 days
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf  Liberia Africa 1979 12 April 1980 1 year, 102 days
Gloria Amon-Nikoi  Ghana Africa 1979 1981 2 years, 0 days
Yun Gi-jong  North Korea Asia 1980 1998 18 years, 0 days
Dame Eugenia Charles  Dominica America 21 July 1980 14 June 1995 14 years, 328 days
Dame Margaret Guilfoyle  Australia Oceania 3 November 1980 11 March 1983 2 years, 128 days
María Mercedes Cuéllar  Venezuela America 1985 1985 ?
Clara Boscagli  San Marino Europe 1986 1990 4 years, 0 days
Bintou Sango  Burkina Faso Africa 1987 1991 4 years, 0 days
Benazir Bhutto  Pakistan Asia 2 December 1988 6 August 1990 1 year, 247 days
Eglée Iturbe de Blanco  Venezuela America 1989 1990 1 year, 0 days
Uta Nickel  East Germany Europe 18 November 1989 12 April 1990 145 days
Klavdiya Melnik  Moldova Europe 1990 1994 4 years, 0 days
Licelott Catalina Marte Hoffiz de Barrios  Dominican Republic America 1990 1993 3 years, 0 days
Ruth Richardson  New Zealand Oceania 2 November 1990 29 November 1993 3 years, 27 days
Elvyra Kunevičienė  Lithuania Europe 13 January 1991 14 July 1992 1 year, 183 days
Irma Raquel Zelaya  Guatemala America 14 January 1991 1991 ?
Marie-Michele Rey  Haiti America 13 February 1991 11 October 1991 240 days
Anne Wibble  Sweden Europe 4 October 1991 7 October 1994 3 years, 3 days
Benazir Bhutto  Pakistan Asia 19 October 1993 5 November 1996 3 years, 17 days
Ana Ordóñez de Molina  Guatemala America 1994 14 January 1996 2 years, 13 days
Christina Vucheva  Bulgaria Europe 17 October 1994 25 January 1995 100 days
Chandrika Kumaratunga  Sri Lanka Asia 12 November 1994 9 December 2001 7 years, 27 days
Susagna Arasanz Serra  Andorra Europe 7 December 1994 7 April 2001 6 years, 121 days
Indra Sāmīte  Latvia Europe 25 May 1995 21 December 1995 210 days
Ruby Dediya Thoma  Nauru Oceania 11 November 1996 28 November 1996 17 days
Gabriela Núñez  Honduras America 27 January 1998 27 January 2002 4 years, 0 days
Edith Nawakwi  Zambia Africa 20 March 1998 29 June 1999 1 year, 101 days
Maritza Aguirre  Venezuela America 30 June 1998 30 June 1999 1 year, 0 days
Brigita Schmögnerová  Slovakia Europe 30 October 1998 28 January 2002 3 years, 90 days
Ana Lucía Armijos  Ecuador America 15 February 1999 21 January 2000 340 days
Luísa Diogo  Mozambique Africa 24 January 2000 3 February 2005 5 years, 10 days
Pia Gjellerup  Denmark Europe 21 December 2000 27 November 2001 341 days
Mireia Maestre Cortadella  Andorra Europe 7 April 2001 3 June 2005 4 years, 57 days
Dalia Grybauskaitė  Lithuania Europe 3 July 2001 1 May 2004 2 years, 303 days
Halina Wasilewska-Trenkner  Poland Europe 28 August 2001 19 October 2001 52 days
Fernanda Borges  Timor Leste Asia 20 September 2001 20 May 2002 242 days
Maria Tebús  São Tomé and Príncipe Africa 26 September 2001 9 August 2003 1 year, 317 days
Enebay Atayeva  Turkmenistan Asia 24 November 2001 15 November 2002 356 days
Zinaida Greceanîi  Moldova Europe 8 February 2002 12 October 2005 3 years, 246 days
Manuela Ferreira Leite  Portugal Europe 6 April 2002 17 July 2004 2 years, 100 days
Madalena Boavida  Timor Leste Asia 20 May 2002 8 August 2007 5 years, 80 days
Ayaovi Demba Tignonkpa  Togo Africa 3 December 2002 30 July 2003 239 days
Ljerka Marić  Bosnia and Herzegovina Europe 13 January 2003 9 February 2007 4 years, 27 days
Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila  Namibia Africa 8 May 2003 21 March 2015 11 years, 317 days
Georgina Barreiro Fajardo  Cuba America 21 June 2003 2 March 2009 5 years, 254 days
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala  Nigeria Africa 15 July 2003 21 June 2006 2 years, 341 days
Juanita Amatong  Philippines Asia 1 December 2003 14 February 2005 1 year, 75 days
Antonieta Bonilla  Guatemala America 14 January 2004 14 January 2008 4 years, 0 days
Bibitac Vekilova  Turkmenistan Asia 22 April 2004 8 March 2005 320 days
Margaret Keita  Gambia, The Africa 10 March 2005 14 June 2005 96 days
Maria do Carmo Silveira  São Tomé and Príncipe Africa 8 June 2005 21 April 2006 317 days
Magdalena Barreiro  Ecuador America 8 August 2005 28 December 2005 142 days
Kristin Halvorsen  Norway Europe 17 October 2005 20 October 2009 4 years, 3 days
Teresa Lubińska  Poland Europe 31 October 2005 7 January 2006 68 days
Felisa Miceli  Argentina America 28 November 2005 16 July 2007 1 year, 230 days
Sri Mulyani Indrawati  Indonesia Asia 7 December 2005 20 May 2010 4 years, 164 days
Zakia Meghji  Tanzania Africa 6 January 2006 7 February 2008 2 years, 32 days
Zyta Gilowska  Poland Europe 7 January 2006 24 June 2006 168 days
Natalya Korzhova  Kazakhstan Asia 18 January 2006 13 November 2007 1 year, 299 days
Antoinette Sayeh  Liberia Africa 2 February 2006 22 August 2008 2 years, 202 days
Maria Tebús  São Tomé and Príncipe Africa 21 April 2006 20 November 2007 1 year, 213 days
Nenadi Usman  Nigeria Africa 21 June 2006 26 July 2007 1 year, 35 days
Rebeca Santos  Honduras America 3 July 2006 29 June 2009 2 years, 361 days
Cristina Duarte  Cape Verde Africa 6 September 2006 22 April 2016 9 years, 229 days
Denise Sinankwa  Burundi Africa 13 September 2006 13 July 2007 303 days
Zyta Gilowska  Poland Europe 22 September 2006 7 September 2007 350 days
Vesna Arsić  Serbia Europe 9 November 2006 14 November 2006 5 days
Christine Lagarde  France Europe 19 June 2007 29 June 2011 4 years, 10 days
Emília Pires  Timor Leste Asia 8 August 2007 11 February 2015 7 years, 187 days
Zyta Gilowska  Poland Europe 10 September 2007 16 November 2007 67 days
Karen Nunez-Tesheira  Trinidad and Tobago America 7 November 2007 26 May 2010 2 years, 200 days
Tazimkhan Kalibetova  Kyrgyzstan Asia 28 December 2007 14 January 2009 1 year, 17 days
Mariana Durleșteanu  Moldova Europe 31 March 2008 25 September 2009 1 year, 178 days
Ângela Viegas Santiago  São Tomé and Príncipe Africa 22 June 2008 1 August 2010 2 years, 40 days
Diana Dragutinović  Serbia Europe 7 July 2008 14 March 2011 2 years, 250 days
Wilma Salgado  Ecuador America 8 July 2008 16 September 2008 70 days
María Elsa Viteri  Ecuador America 16 September 2008 21 April 2010 1 year, 217 days
Syda Bbumba  Uganda Africa 16 February 2009 27 May 2011 2 years, 100 days
Lina Pedraza Rodríguez  Cuba America 2 March 2009 9 January 2019 9 years, 313 days
Sophie Thevenoux  Monaco Europe 26 March 2009 14 January 2011 1 year, 294 days
Elena Salgado  Spain Europe 7 April 2009 21 December 2011 2 years, 258 days
Gabriela Núñez  Honduras America 29 June 2009 27 January 2010 212 days
Ingrida Simonytė  Lithuania Europe 7 July 2009 13 December 2012 3 years, 159 days
Jenny Phillips  Costa Rica America 5 August 2009 8 May 2010 276 days
Raya Haffar al-Hassan  Lebanon Asia 9 November 2009 13 June 2011 1 year, 216 days
Mercedes Aráoz  Peru America 22 December 2009 14 September 2010 266 days
Wonnie Boedhoe  Suriname America 12 August 2010 10 June 2011 302 days
Penny Wong  Australia Oceania 14 September 2010 18 September 2013 3 years, 4 days
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf   Switzerland Europe 1 November 2010 31 December 2015 5 years, 60 days
Elfreda Tamba  Liberia Africa 5 November 2010 18 November 2010 13 days
Martina Dalić  Croatia Europe 29 December 2010 23 December 2011 359 days
Dinara Shaydieva  Kyrgyzstan Asia 31 January 2011 4 February 2011 4 days
Maria Fekter  Austria Europe 21 April 2011 16 December 2013 2 years, 239 days
Maria Kiwanuka  Uganda Africa 27 May 2011 1 March 2015 3 years, 278 days
Adidjatou Mathys  Benin Africa 28 May 2011 10 April 2012 318 days
Adeline Wijnerman  Suriname America 15 June 2011 12 August 2015 4 years, 58 days
Jutta Urpilainen  Finland Europe 22 June 2011 6 June 2014 2 years, 349 days
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala  Nigeria Africa 11 July 2011 29 May 2015 3 years, 322 days
Oddný G. Harðardóttir  Iceland Europe 31 December 2011 1 October 2012 275 days
Marie-Carmelle Jean-Marie  Haiti America 16 May 2012 9 April 2013 328 days
Katrín Júlíusdóttir  Iceland Europe 1 October 2012 23 May 2013 234 days
Maria Luís Albuquerque  Portugal Europe 24 July 2013 26 November 2015 2 years, 125 days
Bouaré Fily Sissoko  Mali Africa 8 September 2013 10 January 2015 1 year, 124 days
Siv Jensen  Norway Europe 16 October 2013 Incumbent 6 years, 305 days
Saada Salum  Tanzania Africa 20 January 2014 5 November 2015 1 year, 289 days
Ioana Petrescu  Romania Europe 4 March 2014 15 December 2014 286 days
Marie-Carmelle Jean-Marie  Haiti America 2 April 2014 18 January 2015 291 days
Magdalena Andersson  Sweden Europe 3 October 2014 Incumbent 5 years, 318 days
Maris Lauri  Estonia Europe 3 November 2014 9 April 2015 157 days
Natalie Jaresko  Ukraine Europe 2 December 2014 14 April 2016 1 year, 134 days
Santina Cardoso  Timor Leste Asia 11 February 2015 15 September 2017 2 years, 216 days
'Mamphono Khaketla  Lesotho Africa 30 March 2015 8 November 2016 1 year, 223 days
Kemi Adeosun  Nigeria Africa 11 November 2015 15 September 2018 2 years, 308 days
Anca Paliu Dragu  Romania Europe 17 November 2015 4 January 2017 1 year, 48 days
Malado Kaba  Guinea Africa 4 January 2016 Incumbent 4 years, 225 days
Rosine Sori-Coulibaly  Burkina Faso Africa 13 January 2016 24 January 2019 3 years, 11 days
Dana Reizniece-Ozola  Latvia Europe 11 February 2016 23 January 2019 2 years, 346 days
Alenka Smerkolj  Slovenia Europe 13 July 2016 21 September 2016 70 days
Sri Mulyani Indrawati  Indonesia Asia 27 July 2016 Incumbent 4 years, 20 days
Lamia Zribi  Tunisia Africa 27 August 2016 30 April 2017 246 days
Mateja Vraničar Erman  Slovenia Europe 21 September 2016 13 September 2018 1 year, 357 days
Christine Georges Diguibaye  Chad Africa 5 February 2017 21 November 2017 289 days
Helga Vukaj  Albania Europe 22 May 2017 17 August 2017 87 days
Lea Giménez  Paraguay America 6 June 2017 15 August 2018 1 year, 70 days
Vonintsalama Andriambololona  Madagascar Africa 18 July 2017 24 January 2019 1 year, 190 days
Claudia Cooper  Peru America 17 September 2017 2 April 2018 197 days
Alena Schillerová  Czech Republic Europe 13 December 2017 Incumbent 2 years, 247 days
Teresa Czerwińska  Poland Europe 9 January 2018 4 June 2019 1 year, 146 days
Margaret Mwanakatwe  Zambia Africa 14 February 2018 Incumbent 2 years, 184 days
María Elsa Viteri  Ecuador America 6 March 2018 Incumbent 2 years, 163 days
Ana Brnabić  Serbia Europe 16 May 2018 29 May 2018 13 days
Mia Mottley  Barbados America 27 May 2018 Incumbent 2 years, 81 days
María Jesús Montero  Spain Europe 7 June 2018 Incumbent 2 years, 70 days
Oksana Markarova  Ukraine Europe 8 June 2018 4 March 2020 1 year, 270 days
Sara Lobo Brites  Timor Leste Asia 22 June 2018 Incumbent 2 years, 55 days
Zainab Ahmed  Nigeria Africa 17 September 2018 Incumbent 1 year, 334 days
Baktygul Jeenbayeva  Kyrgyzstan Asia 13 December 2018 Incumbent 1 year, 247 days
Anila Denaj  Albania Europe 28 December 2018 Incumbent 1 year, 232 days
Meisi Bolaños  Cuba America 9 January 2019 Incumbent 1 year, 220 days
Nirmala Sitharaman  India Asia 31 May 2019 Incumbent 1 year, 77 days
Vera Daves  Angola Africa 8 October 2019 Incumbent 313 days
Katri Kulmuni  Finland Europe 10 December 2019 9 June 2020 182 days
Mariam Al-Aqeel  Kuwait Asia 17 December 2019 Incumbent 243 days

Unrecognized nations, constituent states, dependent territories, and autonomous regions
  Denotes incumbent finance minister
  • Italics denotes an acting finance minister and defunct states/territories/regions
Name Image Country/Territory Continent Mandate start Mandate end Term length
Carmen Ana Culpeper  Puerto Rico North America 2 January 1981 31 December 1984 3 years, 364 days
Jóngerð Purkhús  Faroe Islands Europe 1984 1989 5 years, 0 days
Bette Stephenson  Ontario North America 17 May 1985 26 June 1985 40 days
Shirley Kuo  Taiwan Asia 22 July 1988 30 May 1990 1 year, 312 days
Amina Salum Ali  Zanzibar Africa 25 October 1990 8 November 2000 10 years, 14 days
Ella Tromp-Yargazaray  Aruba South America 1993 1994 1 year, 0 days
Onur Borman  Northern Cyprus Europe 1993 1995 2 years, 0 days
Monique Gagnon-Tremblay  Quebec North America 1993 1994
Janice MacKinnon  Saskatchewan North America 8 January 1993 27 June 1997 4 years, 170 days
Elizabeth Cull  British Columbia North America 15 September 1993 17 June 1996 2 years, 276 days
Pauline Marois  Quebec North America 1995 1996
Pat Mella  Prince Edward Island North America 27 November 1996 10 October 2003 6 years, 317 days
Xenia Vélez Silva  Puerto Rico North America 2 January 1997 31 December 2000 3 years, 364 days
Margaret Dyer-Howe  Montserrat North America 2001 2002 1 year, 0 days
Pat Nelson  Alberta North America 16 March 2001 25 November 2004 3 years, 284 days
Janet Ecker  Ontario North America 15 April 2002 23 October 2003 1 year, 191 days
Ersilia de Lannooy  Netherlands Antilles South America 3 June 2002 10 October 2010 8 years, 129 days
Ayşe Dönmezer  Northern Cyprus Europe 13 January 2004 4 August 2004 204 days
Paula Cox  Bermuda North America 22 January 2004 18 December 2012 8 years, 331 days
Shirley McClellan  Alberta North America 25 November 2004 15 December 2006 2 years, 20 days
Carole Taylor  British Columbia North America 16 June 2005 23 June 2008 3 years, 7 days
Irina Molokanova  Transnistria Europe 2006 2007 1 year, 0 days
Armelle Merceron  French Polynesia Oceania 29 December 2006 31 August 2007 245 days
Oksana Ionova  Transnistria Europe 2007 2007 ?
Monique Jérôme-Forget  Quebec North America 2007 2009
Pat Atkinson  Saskatchewan North America 31 May 2007 21 November 2007 174 days
Aleqa Hammond  Greenland North America 1 July 2007 26 September 2008 1 year, 87 days
Iris Evans  Alberta North America 12 March 2008 15 January 2010 1 year, 309 days
Rosann Wowchuk  Manitoba North America 3 November 2009 3 October 2011 1 year, 334 days
Maliina Abelsen  Greenland North America March 2011 5 April 2013 2 years, 35 days
Sonia Backès  New Caledonia Oceania 10 June 2011 5 June 2014 2 years, 360 days
Elena Girzhul  Transnistria Europe 24 January 2012 2012 ?
Maya Parnas  Transnistria Europe 2012 23 December 2015 2 years, 357 days
Christina Liu  Taiwan Asia 6 February 2012 30 May 2012 114 days
Maureen MacDonald  Nova Scotia North America 30 May 2012 22 October 2013 1 year, 145 days
Julianna O'Connor-Connolly  Cayman Islands North America 19 December 2012 28 May 2013 160 days
Jennifer Howard  Manitoba North America 18 October 2013 3 November 2014 1 year, 16 days
Diana Whalen  Nova Scotia North America 22 October 2013 24 July 2015 1 year, 275 days
Charlene Johnson  Newfoundland and Labrador North America 29 January 2014 5 September 2014 219 days
Melba Acosta Febo  Puerto Rico North America 27 October 2014 31 July 2016 1 year, 278 days
Samsam Abdi Adan  Somaliland Africa 7 March 2015 13 December 2017 2 years, 281 days
Kristina Háfoss  Faroe Islands Europe 15 September 2015 Incumbent 4 years, 336 days
Cathy Bennett  Newfoundland and Labrador North America 14 December 2015 31 July 2017 1 year, 229 days
Cathy Rogers  New Brunswick North America 6 June 2016 8 November 2018 2 years, 155 days
Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson  Turks and Caicos Islands North America 20 December 2016 Incumbent 3 years, 240 days
Lourdes Alberto  Curaçao South America 24 March 2017 29 May 2017 66 days
Carole James  British Columbia North America 18 July 2017 Incumbent 3 years, 29 days
Karen Casey  Nova Scotia North America 15 June 2017 Incumbent 3 years, 62 days
Donna Harpauer  Saskatchewan North America 30 August 2017 Incumbent 2 years, 352 days
Xiomara Ruiz-Maduro  Aruba South America 17 November 2017 Incumbent 2 years, 273 days
Susie Pinel  Jersey Europe 7 June 2018 Incumbent 2 years, 70 days
Rebecca Evans

Minister for Finance

  Wales Europe 13 December 2018 Incumbent
Darlene Compton  Prince Edward Island North America 9 May 2019 Incumbent 1 year, 99 days
Diane Dodds

Economy Minister of Northern Ireland

  Northern Ireland Europe 11 January 2020 Incumbent
Kate Forbes

Cabinet Secretary for Finance

  Scotland Europe 17 February 2020 Incumbent
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