At the 2015 CHOGM , Patricia Scotland , a former British cabinet minister , was nominated for Commonwealth Secretary-General by her native country of Dominica and defeated Antiguan diplomat Sir Ronald Sanders and former deputy secretary-general for political affairs Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba of Botswana to become the 6th Commonwealth Secretary-General and the first woman to hold the post . She took office on 1 April 2016
2015 CHOGM
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2015
Commonwealth Secretary-General