| Honorific-Prefix: | Her Excellency |
| Honorific-Suffix: | ORTT |
| Christine Kangaloo | |
| Office: | 7th President of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Term Start: | 20 March 2023[1] |
| Primeminister: | Keith Rowley |
| 1Blankname: | Senate President |
| 1Namedata: | Nigel de Freitas |
| Predecessor: | Paula-Mae Weekes |
| Office1: | President of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Term Start1: | 23 September 2015 |
| Term End1: | 17 January 2023 |
| Primeminister1: | Keith Rowley |
| President1: | Anthony Carmona Paula-Mae Weekes |
| Predecessor1: | Raziah Ahmed |
| Successor1: | Nigel de Freitas |
| Office2: | Member of the Senate |
| Term Start2: | 23 September 2015 |
| Term End2: | 17 January 2023 |
| Successor2: | Richie Sookhai |
| Office3: | Minister of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education |
| Term Start3: | 8 November 2007 |
| Term End3: | 25 May 2010 |
| Primeminister3: | Patrick Manning |
| Predecessor3: | Mustapha Abdul-Hamid |
| Successor3: | Fazal Karim |
| Office4: | Member of Parliament for Pointe-à-Pierre |
| Term Start4: | 5 November 2007 |
| Term End4: | 8 April 2010[2] |
| Predecessor4: | Gillian Lucky |
| Successor4: | Errol McLeod |
| Office5: | Minister of Legal Affairs |
| Term Start5: | 14 May 2005 |
| Term End5: | 7 November 2007 |
| Primeminister5: | Patrick Manning |
| Predecessor5: | Peter Taylor |
| Successor5: | Prakash Ramadhar |
| Office6: | Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister (Social Services Delivery) |
| Term Start6: | 15 October 2002 |
| Term End6: | 13 May 2005 |
| Primeminister6: | Patrick Manning |
| Predecessor6: | Position established |
| Successor6: | Position abolished |
| Office7: | Vice-President of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Term Start7: | 5 April 2002 |
| Term End7: | 28 August 2002 |
| 1Blankname7: | Senate President |
| 1Namedata7: | Linda Baboolal |
| Predecessor7: | Wade Mark |
| Successor7: | Rawle Titus |
| Office8: | Opposition Senator |
| Term Start8: | 12 January 2001 |
| Term End8: | 13 October 2001 |
| Party: | Independent (2015–present) |
| Otherparty: | People's National Movement (2001–2015) |
| Birth Date: | 1961 12, df=yes[3] |
| Birth Place: | San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies Federation, British Empire |
| Alma Mater: | |
Christine Carla Kangaloo (born 1 December 1961)[4] is a Trinidadian politician, who is the president of Trinidad and Tobago since 2023. She was president of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago from 2015 until her resignation to run for president in 2023. She is the only person to serve as both President and Vice President of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago, the first woman to serve as Senate Vice President and third woman to serve as acting President of Trinidad and Tobago and Senate President. She became the second woman to serve as President of Trinidad and Tobago upon her assumption of office on 20 March 2023.[5] [6] [7] Kangaloo has served as an Opposition Senator, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Minister of Legal Affairs and Minister of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education[8] in previous People's National Movement governments.[9]
Christine Kangaloo was born into a Presbyterian Indo-Trinidadian family to Carlyle and Barbara Kangaloo and she is the fifth of their seven children.[3] [10] [11] In 2018, she and her husband converted to Roman Catholicism.[12] She graduated from the University of the West Indies and Hugh Wooding Law School and with a degree in law.
On 12 January 2001, she first became a member of parliament as an opposition senator under the tenure of Opposition Leader Patrick Manning.[13] She then served as Vice President of the Senate and subsequently Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister in 2002. She was then appointed Minister of Legal Affairs in 2005.[14] [15] In the 2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election, she was elected to the House of Representatives as the People's National Movement (PNM) candidate for Pointe-à-Pierre and served as the Minister of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education.[16] [17] On 23 September 2015 she was elected as President of the Senate.[18]