100 Most Powerful Women

The 100 Most Powerful Women Rank Name 1 Angela Merkel 2 Sheila Bair 3 Indra Nooyi 4 Cynthia Carroll 5 Ho Ching 6 Irene Rosenfeld 7 Ellen Kullman 8 Angela Braly 9 Anne Lauvergeon 10 Lynn Elsenhans 11 Cristina Fernandez 12 Carol Bartz 13 Sonia Gandhi 14 Ursula Burns 15 Anne Mulcahy 16 Safra Catz 17 Christine Lagarde 18 Gail Kelly 19 Marjorie Scardino 20 Chanda Kochhar 21 Mary Sammons 22 Michelle Bachelet 23 Paula Reynolds 24 Carol Meyrowitz 25 Andrea Jung 26 Patricia Woertz 27 Guler Sabanci 28 Barbara Desoer 29 Brenda Barnes 30 Risa Lavizzo-Mourey 31 Ann Livermore 32 Cathie Lesjak 33 Marina Berlusconi 34 Melinda Gates 35 Nancy Pelosi 36 Hillary Rodham Clinton 37 Jane Mendillo 38 Margaret Chan 39 Susan Chambers 40 Michelle Obama 41 Oprah Winfrey 42 Queen Elizabeth II 43 Nancy McKinstry 44 Gloria Arroyo 45 Ana Patricia Botin 46 Ann Veneman 47 Yulia Tymoshenko

48 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 49 Janet Robinson 50 Dominique Senequier 51 Janet Napolitano 52 Neelie Kroes 53 Gail Boudreaux 54 Sonia Sotomayor 55 Mary Schapiro 56 Kathleen Sebelius 57 Ellen Alemany 58 Susan Ivey 59 Amy Pascal 60 Helen Clark 61 Judy McGrath 62 Stacey Snider 63 Navanethem Pillay 64 Janet Clark 65 Sherilyn McCoy 66 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 67 Tarja Halonen 68 Mary McAleese 69 Virginia Rometty 70 Angela Ahrendts 71 Sri Indrawati 72 Terri Dial 73 Deirdre Connelly 74 Johanna Sigurdardottir 75 Queen Rania 76 Christina Gold 77 Colleen Goggins 78 Hasina Wajed 79 Hyun Jeong-eun 80 Amy Schulman 81 Penny Pritzker 82 Drew Faust 83 Melanie Healey 84 Elizabeth Smith 85 Deb Henretta 86 Ann Moore 87 Sallie Krawcheck 88 Pamela Nicholson 89 Janice Fields 90 Stephanie Burns 91 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw 92 Eva Cheng 93 Efrat Peled 94 Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi 95 Charlene Begley 96 Mindy Grossman 97 Sharon Allen 98 Anne Sweeney 99 Heidi Miller

100 Mary Erdoes

Most Powerful Women Occupation Chancellor Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chief executive, PepsiCo Chief executive, Anglo American Chief executive, Temasek Chief executive, Kraft Foods Chief executive, DuPont Chief executive, WellPoint Chief executive, Areva Chief executive, Sunoco President Chief executive, Yahoo President, Indian National Congress Party Chief executive, Xerox Corp. Chairman, Xerox Corp. President, Oracle Minister of Economy, Finance & Employment Chief executive, Westpac Chief executive, Pearson Plc. Chief executive, ICICI Bank Chief executive, Rite Aid Corp. President Chief restructuring officer, AIG Chief executive, TJX Companies Chief executive, Avon Chief executive, Archer Daniels Midland Chairman, Sabanci Holding President, Bank of America Mortgage, Home Equity, & Insurance Chief executive, Sara Lee Corp. Chief executive, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard Chairman, Fininvest Group Co-chairman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Speaker of the House, House of Representatives Secretary of State Chief executive, Harvard Management Co. Director-general, World Health Org. Executive vice president, Global People Division, Wal-Mart Stores First Lady Chairman, Harpo Queen Chief executive, Wolters Kluwer President Executive Chairman, Banesto Executive Director, UNICEF Prime minister

Country Germany U.S. U.S. U.K. Singapore U.S. U.S. U.S. France U.S. Argentina U.S. India U.S. U.S. U.S. France Australia U.K. India U.S. Chile U.S. U.S. U. U.S. Turkey U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. Italy U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. Switzerland U.S. U.S. U.S. U.K. Netherlands Philippines Spain U.S. Ukraine

Supreme Court Justice Chief executive, The New York Times Co. Chief executive, AXA Private Equity Secretary of Homeland Security Commissioner for Competition, European Union President, UnitedHealthcare Supreme Court Justice Chairman Securities & Exchange Commission Secretary of Health & Human Services Chief executive, RBS Americas and Citizens Financial Group Chief executive, Reynolds American Cochairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman, United Nations Development Group Chief executive, MTV Networks Chief executive, DreamWorks SKG High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Chief financial officer, Marathon Oil Worldwide chairman, Pharmaceuticals Group, Johnson & Johnson President President President Senior vice president, IBM Chief executive, Burberry Group Plc. Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance Chief executive, U.S. Consumer Bank, Citigroup President, North American Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithkline Prime minister Queen Chief executive, Western Union Worldwide chairman, Johnson & Johnson Prime minister Chairman, Hyundai Group Senior vice president, Pfizer Chairman, Classic Residence by Hyatt President, Harvard University Group president, Feminine & Health Care, Procter & Gamble President, Avon Group president, Asia, Procter & Gamble Chief executive, Time Inc. Chief executive global wealth management, Bank of America President, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Chief operating officer, McDonald's USA Chief executive, Dow Corning Chairman, Biocon Executive vice president, Amway Greater China & Southeast Asia Chief executive, Arison Investments Minister of the Economy Chief executive, GE Enterprise Solutions Chief executive, HSN, Inc. Chairman, Deloitte & Touche Co-chairman, Disney Media Networks Chief executive Treasury & Securities Services, JPMorgan Chase

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