Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Hugh Wooding Law School; BA; diploma in Education; BA in Law; 2006, Executive MBA, Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, Trinidad. Formerly: Social Worker, Church of England Children's Society, London; taught at St Andrew High School, Kingston, Jamaica and Mona Campus, Jamaica, and University of the West Indies; Consultant Lecturer, Jamaica College of Insurance; lectured for a total six years; Attorney-at-Law. 1995, Member of Parliament, Siparia constituency; 1995 and 2001, Attorney-General; 2000, Minister of Education; 2006, Leader of the Opposition; since January 2010, Political Leader, United National Congress; since May 2010, Prime Minister, the country's first woman Prime Minister; leads People's Partnership, a coalition of five parties.

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