Irene Lailin Sáez Conde (born 13 December 1961 in Chacao, Miranda, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan politician and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1981.

[2][failed verification] Early in her career, Sáez was named the Queen of Club Campestre Los Cortijos for three years in a row.

Without political experience or an established party machine, Sáez was content to delegate to experts, and "hired top-notch administrators and listened to their advice about everything from setting the budget to running public services.

Sáez was received in the International Airport Simón Bolívar by former president of Venezuela, Luis Herrera Campins, and he gave her a chain of gold for her victory in Miss Universe.

To make herself more politically familiar, Sáez adopted Argentina's Eva Perón's hair style and fiery language of social revolution.

[citation needed] COPEI's former president, Rafael Caldera, pardoned Chávez for the attempted coup against Pérez, from the opposing Democratic Action party, making possible his eventual ascendance to power.

[citation needed] Since 2003, Sáez lives currently in Miami where she was named to the board of directors of the Colonial BancGroup, south Florida region.