Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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Kamla Susheila Persad-Bissessar SC MP (née Persad, born 22 April 1952), often referred to by her initials KPB, is a Trinidadian lawyer, politician and educator who has twice served as the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, from 2010 to 2015 and since May 2025. She has also been the Political Leader of the United National Congress since 2010, and was the Leader of the Opposition three times, from 2006 to 2007, January to May 2010, and from 2015 to 2025. Persad-Bissessar is the second prime minister to have served non-consecutive terms, after Patrick Manning. Persad-Bissessar was the country's first female prime minister, attorney general, and opposition leader, the first woman to chair the Commonwealth of Nations and the first woman with Indian ancestry to be a prime minister of a country outside of India and the wider subcontinent. Persad-Bissessar became the Political Leader of the United National Congress in 2010. After her party lost the 2015 general elections, she served as Leader of the Opposition. After leading the UNC and its Coalition of Interests to victory in the 2025 general elections, she was again sworn in as prime minister on 1 May 2025. In 2011, Persad-Bissessar was named the thirteenth most influential female leader around the world by Time magazine.