Profile of Yingluck Shinawatra

-- Born June 21, 1967

-- Youngest of nine children; elder brother is former PM Thaksin Shinawatra

-- Graduate in political science and business administration, master's degree, Kentucky State University

-- Ex-president of Advanced Info Service (AIS), the country's largest mobile phone operator, before it was sold to Singapore's Temasek Holdings

-- Also served as president, SC Asset, a family business

-- First woman to run for the country's highest political office