Jacinda Ardern is a New Zealand politician who, since October 2017, has been serving as the 40th Prime Minister of the country. Sworn in the position at 37 years of age, she became the youngest female head of the government in the world. In 2017, she also became the youngest leader of the Labour party and the second female to lead it after Helen Clark. She joined the Labour party when she was just seventeen years of age, and at twenty-eight she entered the Parliament as its youngest sitting MP. She sees herself as a social democrat and a progressive with her government paying special attention to the country’s housing crisis, child poverty and social inequality. She has been widely appreciated for handling the situation in the aftermath of Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019 and COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand in 2020.
