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Kirsty Sword Gusmo AO is an AustralianEast Timorese activist who served as the First Lady of East Timor from 2002 until 2007. She is married to Xanana Gusmo, Prime Minister and former President of TimorLeste. She is the founding director of the Alola Foundation, which seeks to improve the lives of women in TimorLeste, a nation with one of the worlds lowest per capita GDPs.

Sword was born in 1966 in Melbourne, Australia, to schoolteachers Brian and Rosalie Sword, and was raised there and in Bendigo. She attended Eaglehawk Primary School, where her father was the principal and her mother a music teacher in the 1970s. She was taught her first Indonesian words by her father when she was four years old. She was a promising ballet dancer, but decided not to pursue it as a career. As a teen, Sword travelled to Bali and Jakarta with her father and brother. After Golden Square Secondary College, she attended Monash University and the University of Melbourne in the 1980s where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Indonesian and Italian, and a Diploma of Education. In 1985, while studying Indonesian at Monash, Sword met TimorLeste students and took up their struggle for independence. Her father Brian died in 1998.

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