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Speaker Meira Kumar
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Speaker Meira Kumar
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Speaker Meira Kumar

Indian, 1945
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Meira Kumar is an Indian politician and former diplomat. A member of the Indian National Congress, she served as the Speaker of Lok Sabha (lower chamber of the Indian Parliament) from June 4, 2009 to May 18, 2014, the first woman to hold that position.