12 Current Female World Leaders

Changing the World, One Country at a Time

10. Aung San Suu Kyi

Over her decades in the public eye, Aung San Suu Kyi has waged a war for progress in her native Myanmar. In spite of the fact that her political movement was opposed by a party backed by the army, Aung San Suu Kyi’s message was so profound that she helped her party, the National League for Democracy, rise to control the entire Burmese government.