Welcome to the Women’s Institute of Management Women’s Tan Sri Dato Napsiah Omar Women’s Hall of Fame. Do visit our building at Wisma WIM and view our collection which comprises:
OUR COLLECTION COMPRISES :
A. Photographs of all the Queens of Malaysia B. Photographs of all the Wives of Prime Ministers of Malaysia C. Photographs of Women Prime Ministers and Presidents D. Photographs of Global Women Leaders E. Photographs of Malaysian Women Leaders F. Photographs of International Women
A. QUEENS OF MALAYSIA
DYMM Tuanku Ampuan Kurshiah bte Tunku Besar Burhanuddin – Negeri Sembilan
DYMM Tengku Ampuan Jema’ah bte Almarhum Raja Ahmad – Selangor
DYMM Raja Perempuan Tengku Budriah bte Almarhum Tengku Ismail – Perlis
DYMM Tengku Intan Zaharah bte Almarhum Tengku Seri Setia Raja – Terengganu
DYMM Tunku Hajah Azizah Maimunah Iskandariah binti Almarhum Al-Mutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj – Pahang
DYMM Raja Zarith Sofiah binti Almarhum Sultan Idris Shah – Johor
B. WIVES OF PRIME MINISTERS OF MALAYSIA
YABhg. Tun Sharifah Rodziah 1957-1970
YABhg. Tun Rahah bte Tan Sri Hj. Noah 1970-1976
YABhg. Toh Puan Suhaila bte Tan Sri Hj. Noah 1976-1981
YABhg. Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah bte Mohd. Ali 1981-2003, 2018-2021
YABhg. Datin Paduka Seri Endon bte Mahmood 2003- 2005
YABhg. Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah 2005-2009
YABhg. Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah binti Mansor 2009-2018
YABhg. Puan Sri Datin Paduka Noorainee Abdul Rahman, 2020-2021
YABhg. Datin Sri Muhaini Zainal Abidin, 2021-present
YABhg. Dato’ Seri Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, 2022-present
C. WOMEN PRIME MINISTERS AND PRESIDENTS (In Alphabetical Order)
Angela Dorothea Merkel, President of Germany, 2005
Anneli Jaatteenmaki, Prime Minister of Finland, 17.4.2003–24.6.2003
Atifete Jahjaga President of Kosovo, 7.4.2011
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Britain, 1978-1990
Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, 1988-1990, 1993-1996
Bidhya Devi Bhandari, President of Nepal, 29.10.2015
Chandrika Kumaratunga, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 19.8.1994-12.11.1994
Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka, 12.11.1994-19.11.2005
Christine Kangaloo, President of Trinidad and Tobago, 20.3.2023
Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, 1.10.2024
Corazon Aquino President of the Philippines, 1986-1992
Cristina Elizabet Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina, 10.12.2007
Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania, 12.7.2009
Dilma Vana Rousseff, President of Brazil, 1.1.2011
Dina Boluarte, President of Peru, 7.12.2022
Doris Leuthard, President of Switzerland,1.1.2010
Ellen Johnson -Sirleaf, President of Liberia, 6.1.2006
Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway, 2013
Evika Silina, Prime Minister of Latvia, 15.9.2023
Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Prime Minister of Samoa, 24.5.2021
Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy 20.10.2022
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of Philippines, 20.1.2001
Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, 17.3.1969-3.6.1974
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, President of North Macedonia, 12.5.2024
Halimah Yacob, President of Singapore, 14.9.2017
Hanna Suchoka, Prime Minister of Poland, 1992-1993
Harini Amarasuriya, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 24.9.2024
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark, 3.10.2011
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 14.1.1980-31.10.1984
Iveta Radicova, Prime Minister of Slovakia, 8.7.2010
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 26.10.2017
Jadranka Kosor, Prime Minister of Croatia, 6.7.2009
Jennifer M. Smith, Prime Minister of Bermuda, 1998 – 2003
Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland, 1.2.2009
Judith Suminwa, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 12.6.2024
Julia Eileen Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia, 24.6.2010
Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia, 26.1.2021
Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada, 25.6.1993-4.11.1993
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, 26.5.2010
Kazimiera Prunskiene, Prime Minister of Lithuania, 1990-1991
Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, 10.10.2001-29.10.2006
Kolinda Grabar-Kitaroviç, President of Croatia, 19.2.2015
Laura Chinchilla Miranda, President of Costa Rica, 7.2.2010
Liz Truss, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 6.9.2022
Luisa Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique, 17.2.2004
Magdalena Andersson, Prime Minister of Sweden, 30.11.2021
Mari Johanna Kiviniemi, Prime Minister of Finland, 22.6.2010
Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, 1990-1997
Maria Liberia-Peters, Prime Minister Netherlands-Antilles, 1984-86, 1988-1994
Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, 1997
Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile, 11.3.2006
Mireya Moscoso, President of Panama, 1999 – 2004
Myriam Spiteri Debono, President of Malta, 4.4.2024
Natasa Pirc Musar, President of Slovenia, 23.12.2022
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand, 16.8.2024
Park-Geun-hye, President of South Korea, 25.2.2013
Pratibha Devisingh Patil, President of India, 25.7.2007
Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva, President of Kyrgyzstan, 7.4.2010
Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Tanzania, 19.3.2021
Sandra Mason, President of Barbados, 30.11.2021
Sanna Mirella Marin, Prime Minister of Finland, 10.12.2019
Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, 1996 -2001, 2009
Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 14.11.1994-10.8.2000
Sylvanie Burton, President of Dominica, 2.10.2023
Xiomara Castro, President of Honduras, 27.1.2022
Tansu Ciller, Prime Minister of Turkey, 26.5.1993-6.3.1996
Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland, 1.3.2000
Theresa Mary May, Prime Minister of the United Kington, 13.7.2016
Tsai Ing-wen, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), 20.5.2016
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, 1.12.2019
Vigdis Finnbogadottir, President of Iceland, 1.8.1980-1.8.1996
Xiomara Castro, President of Honduras, 27.1.2022
Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand, 5.8.2011
D. GLOBAL WOMEN LEADERS (country of origin)
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, 2011 (France)
Khunying Supatra Masdit, Minister, Thai Prime Minister’s Office, Chairperson, NGO Forum, 4th UN Women’s Conference, Beijing, 1995 (Thailand)
Andrina Lever, Member, APEC Business Advisory Council (Canada)
Leticia Ramos-Shahani, First Woman President of the Philippines’ Senate Secretary General, UN Decade of Women’s Conference, Nairobi 1985 (Philippines)
Flutura Xhabija Laknori, President, Professional and Businesswomen’s Association of Albania (Albania)
Manorama Vaid, President, Indian Council of Women Entrepreneurs (India)
Martha Tilaar, Chairperson, Indonesia Businesswomen’s Association (Indonesia)
The Lady Howe, Chairman, The British Broadcasting, Standards’ Commission, (U.K.)
Angeline Arefieva, Executive Director, Businesswomen’s Union of Russia (Russia)
Barbara Koz Paley, Chairperson, Women’s Leadership Board, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston U.S.A
Riita Uosukainen, Speaker, Parliament of Finland (Finland)
Victoria Licuanan, Director, Women Managers’ Program, Asia Institute of Management, Manila (Philippines)
Astrid N. Heiberg, World President, International Federation Of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva (Norway)
Nancy Spence, Director, Gender and Youth Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, London (Canada)
Mavivi Y.L. Myakayaka, Head of International Affairs, ANC President’s Office (South Africa)
Tina Knight, Top Entrepreneur of the World (1998), World Leader in Computer Resource, Sharing Devices (U.K)
Barbro Dahlbom-Hall, Board Member of the Swedish Foundation, Women’s World Banking and Consultant To SIDA (Swedish International Development Agency) (Sweden)
Antoinette Ruegg, President, Business and Professional, Women’s Association of Switzerland (Switzerland)
Surapee Rojanavongse, President, Women for Women, Thailand,Chairman, Sudhipongs Srivikorn Foundation (Thailand)
Joyce H. Banda, Co-Winner, Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger, Executive Director, National Association of Businesswomen, Malawi (Malawi)
Dr. Anamah Tan, President, Asean Confederation of Women’s Organisations (ACWO) (Singapore)
Semane B. Molotlegi, Queen’s Mother Semane B. Molotlegi, Royal Bafokeng Nation (Republic of South Africa)
Hillary Rodham Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State (U.S.A.)
E. MALAYSIAN WOMEN LEADERS
Justice Dato’ Siti Norma Yaakob, First Malaysian Woman High Court Judge and Judge, Court of Appeals
Dato’ P.G. Lim, First Malaysian Woman Ambassador to the UN
Mother Mangalam, Founder President, Pure Life Society
Tan Sri Dr. Devaki Krishnan, First Woman Municipality Councillor of Kuala Lumpur and first Malaysian Indian Woman Tan Sri
Dato’ Asiah bte Abu Samah, First Woman Director-General, Ministry of Education
Puan Rafiah Salim, First Malaysian Woman UN Assistant Secretary General
Tan Sri Datin Hajjah Kamsiah bte Abdul Majid, First NACIWID Chairperson and National President, Women’s Institute of Malaysia
Datin Paduka Rosemarie Chong, First Malaysian Chinese Woman Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister
Datuk Dayang Adeline Leong, First Woman President of the Kota Kinabalu Municipal Council
Puan Sri Datin Janaki Athi Nahappan, First Malaysian Indian Woman Senator and Leader in Girl Guides movement
Y. Bhg. Toh Puan Uma Sambanthan, Retired Chairman National Land Finance Co-operative Berhad
Y. Bhg. Tan Sri Dato Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz, First Woman Governor, Bank Negara Malaysia
YABhg. Datuk Amar Puan Sri Dr. Laila Taib, President, SABATI, Sarawak
Y. Bhg. Datin Paduka Alinah binti Ahmad, First Female Mayor of Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Y.B. Hannah Yeoh Tseow Suan, First Lady Speaker of the Selangor State Assembly of Malaysia
F. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN
Princess Diana (Humanitarian) U.K.
Jodie Foster (Actor/Director) U.S.A.
Aung San Suu Kyi (Social Activist) Myanmar
Vanessa-Mae (Musical Prodigy) Singapore
Marie Curie (Physicist) France
Dato’ Michelle Yeoh (Action Hero) Malaysia
Mother Teresa (Humanitarian) Republic of Macedonia
Steffi Graf (Professional Tennis Player) Germany
YBhg. Prof. Datuk Dr. Mazlan Othman (Astrophysicist) Malaysia
The late Yasmin Ahmad (Film Director/Writer) Malaysia
YBhg. Dato Nicol David (World Squash Champion) Malaysia
