Who has the record for longest non-consecutive as a woman leader belongs to the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh?

Sheikh Hasina also known by her married name Sheikh Hasina Wazed is a Bangladeshi politician serving as the 11th Prime Minister of the government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, having held the office since January 2009. Having previously served as Prime Minister for five years, she is the longest-serving Prime Minister in the history of Bangladesh.

Hasina is considered one of the most powerful women in the world, ranking 39th on Forbes Magazine’ list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2020, 26th in 2018, and 30th in 2017. She has also made a list of “top 100 Global Thinkers” of the present decade. Hasina is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former female presidents and prime ministers. Sheikh Hasina was included in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World of 2018.

Sheikh Hasina was born in Tungipara, East Pakistan on 28 September 1947. Her father was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the ‘father’ of the Bengali Nation, and the first President of Bangladesh. Her mother was Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib. She has said in many interviews that she had grown up in fear due to her father’s political works. She married physicist M. A. Wazed Miah in 1968, who was chosen for her by her father. During the peak of violence in the 1970 Pakistani general election, as well as her father’s arrest, she had lived in refuge with her grandmother. She was active in the student politics of the University of Dhaka.

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