Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes the youngest Prime Minister of Thailand. (Photo: Ms. Paetongtarn's Twitter)

The 37-year-old daughter of former Prime Minister and Pheu Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra is the youngest Prime Minister in Thailand’s history. She succeeded Srettha Thavisin, who was dismissed by the Constitutional Court on Wednesday.

Paetongtarn is the third member of the Shinawatra family to hold the job, after Thaksin and her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra.

Paetongtarn was born in the US in 1986. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science, sociology, and anthropology from Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science in 2008 and earned a master’s in international hotel management from the University of Surrey in the UK.

Paetongtarn was a major shareholder of the property giant SC Asset Corporation and a director of the Thaicom Foundation. She has never served in government.