India
Nirmala Sitharaman, India's Defence Minister, is only the second woman after Indira Gandhi to hold this role.
As Finance Minister in 2021, Sitharaman delivered India's longest budget speech, lasting two hours and 40 minutes.
Sitharaman broke records by presenting seven consecutive Union Budgets, surpassing her predecessors Yashwant Sinha, Arun Jaitley, Manmohan Singh, and P. Chidambaram.
She is the first full-time female Finance Minister and has surpassed the six-budget record of former Finance Minister Morarji Desai.
She has played a pivotal role in shaping India's economic policies and has been instrumental in introducing key reforms during her tenure as Finance Minister.