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Madhabi Puri Buch (born 12 January 1965) is an Indian businesswoman who is the chairperson of the securities regulatory body in India, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). She is the first woman to lead SEBI, and the first person from the private sector to be appointed to this position. [3] [4]
Deena Mehta (Gujarati: દીના મહેતા) is an Indian businesswoman, broker, investor, financial adviser, chartered accountant and social activist.She is the managing director and chief executive officer of Asit C. Mehta Investment Intermediates Ltd. [1] Mehta was one of the first female members of Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai and became its first woman president.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was first established in 1988 as a non-statutory body for regulating the securities market.Before it came into existence, the Controller of Capital Issues was the market's regulatory authority, and derived power from the Capital Issues (Control) Act, 1947. [6]
The first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three subsequent elections, remaining in office for a total of 16 years, which makes her the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history. [5] [2]
The 12th president, Pratibha Patil, is the first woman to hold the office, elected in 2007. On 25 July 2022, Droupadi Murmu took office as the 15th president of India, becoming the second woman and the first tribal person to hold the office. [7]
“I will become the first woman president of Mexico,” Sheinbaum told reporters on Sunday shortly after electoral authorities announced that she had gained an irreversible lead, according to CBS ...
Mexico has elected its first female president — a U.S.-educated climate scientist and former mayor whose landslide victory Sunday reflects both the continued dominance of the country's ruling ...
Zuzana Caputova rose to the Slovak president’s office on a wave of outrage over corruption and her historic win signaled hope for millions of her country-folk. Five years after the 2019 win ...