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| Baroness Patricia Scotland |
BaronessPatricia Scotland, the first woman to be appointed Commonwealth
secretary-general, says she will "put the women's agenda very strongly on
the table".
Commonwealth
leaders meeting in Malta chose Scotland on Friday, November 27, 2015, after a
fraught and extended meeting to choose between three candidates.
She
is to take over from Kamalesh Sharma, who has served in the role for eight
years.
Scotland,
a lawyer who has dual British and Dominican citizenship, served as minister of
state, deputy home secretary and attorney-general under the previous Labour
government in the UK.
She
was the first black woman to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel in the UK and at
the age of 35, was also the youngest woman.
After
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced her appointment to reporters,
she said she was "incredibly proud" to be the first woman to hold the
post.
