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Kim Campbell &
Secretary Riley
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The Right
Honorable Kim Campbell
Former
Prime Minister of Canada
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Women in Politics
Prime Minister
Kim Campbell began her national political career in 1986 when she
was elected to the British Columbia legislature. Elected to the
House of Commons in 1988, she served as Canada's Prime Minster from
June 25 to November 4 of 1993 and has since undertaken a busy schedule
of writing, teaching and lecturing.
The country's
first woman Prime Minister, Kim Campbell also was the country's
first female Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Its first
female Minister of National Defense, and the first woman to be elected
leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. She remains one of
only two women to have participated in a G-7 Summit, and was the
first woman to serve as Defense Minister of a NATO country. Chair
of the Council of Women World Leaders, she serves on a number of
international think tanks, including the Gorbachev Foundation of
North America and the International Council of the Asia Society.
Prime Minster
Campbell is currently teaching at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University, where she is a Visiting Professor
of Practice for the Center of Public Leadership. She speaks widely
on women and leadership, international conflict resolution, democratization
and Canadian-American relations. She holds degrees in political
science and law from the University of British Columbia, and has
done graduate work at the London School of Economics.
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