Name : Dilma Rousseff

Age: 63

Title: President

Country: Brazil

Education: BA/BS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Profile:   Dilma is the 36th and current President of Brazil. She is the first woman to hold the office. Prior to that, in 2005, she also was the first woman to become Chief of Staff of Brazil, appointed by then President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. She became the Secretary of the Treasury of Porto Alegre in the Alceu Collares administration, and later the Secretary of Energy of Rio Grande do Sul under both Collares and Olívio Dutra administrations. In 2000, after an internal dispute in the Dutra cabinet, she left PDT and joined the Workers' Party (PT).  Rousseff was included in the Forbes' list of the most powerful people in the world, at the 16th position.