Yingluck Shinawatra (RTGS: Yinglak Chinnawat; born 21 June 1967) is a Thai politician; figurehead of the Pheu Thai Party; and Prime Minister of Thailand following the 2011 general election.Born in Chiang Mai; Yingluck Shinawatra earned a bachelors degree from Chiang Mai University and a masters degree from Kentucky State University; both in public administration. She became an executive in the businesses founded by her elder brother; Thaksin Shinawatra; and later became the president of property developer SC Asset and managing director of Advanced Info Service. Meanwhile; her brother Thaksin became Prime Minister; was overthrown in a military coup; and went into self-imposed exile after a tribunal convicted him of abuse of power.In May 2011; the Pheu Thai Party; which maintained close ties to Thaksin; nominated Yingluck as their candidate for Prime Minister in the 2011 general election. Election results indicated that Pheu Thai had won a landslide victory with 265 out of the 500 seats available in the House of Representatives of Thailand; making it only the second time in Thai political history that a single party won a parliamentary majority. Yingluck is Thailand's first female Prime Minister.