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THE WORLD'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN

12.09.2012

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Rank

Name

Age

Country

Category

 

 

 

 

 

1

Angela Merkel

Chancellor, Germany

 

58

Germany

Politics

2

Hillary Clinton

Secretary of State, United States

 

64

United States

Politics

3

Dilma Rousseff

President, Brazil

 

64

Brazil

Politics

4

Melinda Gates

Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

 

48

United States

Humanitarian

5

Jill Abramson

Executive Editor, New York Times Co.

 

58

United States

Media

6

Sonia Gandhi

President, Indian National Congress, India

 

65

India

Politics

7

Michelle Obama

First Lady, United States

 

48

United States

Politics

8

Christine Lagarde

Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

 

56

France

Humanitarian

9

Janet Napolitano

Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, United States

 

54

United States

Politics

10

Sheryl Sandberg

COO, Facebook

 

43

United States

Technology

11

Oprah Winfrey

Entrepreneur, Personality

 

58

United States

Celebrity

12

Indra Nooyi

Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo

 

56

United States

Business

13

Irene Rosenfeld

Chairman and CEO, Kraft Foods

 

59

United States

Business

14

Lady Gaga

Musician, Philanthropist

 

26

United States

Celebrity

15

Virginia Rometty

President and CEO, IBM

 

54

United States

Technology

16

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

President, Argentina

 

59

Argentina

Politics

17

Ursula Burns

Chairman and CEO, Xerox

 

53

United States

Technology

18

Meg Whitman

CEO, Hewlett-Packard

 

56

United States

Technology

19

Aung San Suu Kyi

Chair and Parliamentarian, National League for Democracy, Burma

 

67

Burma

Politics

20

Maria das Graças Silva Foster

CEO, Petrobras-Petróleo Brasil

 

59

Brazil

Business

21

Marissa Mayer

CEO, Yahoo

 

37

United States

Technology

22

 
 
54

            United States

Media

23

Diane Sawyer

Anchor of World News, ABC, Walt Disney

 

66

United States

Media

24

Angela Braly

CEO, WellPoint

 

51

United States

Business

25

Susan Wojcicki

Senior Vice President, Google

 

44

United States

Technology

26

Queen Elizabeth II

Monarch, United Kingdom

 

86

United Kingdom

Politics

27

Julia Gillard

Prime Minister, Australia

 

50

Australia

Politics

28

Nancy Pelosi

Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, United States

 

72

United States

Politics

29

Arianna Huffington

Editor-In-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group, AOL

 

62

United States

Media

30

Yingluck Shinawatra

Prime Minister, Thailand

 

45

Thailand

Politics

31

Kathleen Sebelius

Secretary, Department of Health and Human Service, United States

 

64

United States

Politics

32

Beyonce Knowles

Actress, Entrepreneur, Musician

 

31

United States

Celebrity

33

Diane Von Furstenberg

Owner, Fashion Designer, Diane von Furstenberg Studio, L.P.

 

65

United States

Business

34

Helen Clark

Administrator, U.N. Development Programme

 

62

New Zealand

Humanitarian

35

Georgina Rinehart

Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting

 

58

Australia

Billionaire

36

Amy Pascal

Co-Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony

 

54

United States

Media

37

Margaret Chan

Director-General, World Health Organization

 

65

China

Humanitarian

38

Jennifer Lopez

Actress, Musician, Personality, Philanthropist

 

43

United States

Celebrity

39

Sheri McCoy

CEO, Avon Products

 

53

United States

Business

40

Shakira

Musician, Personality, Philanthropist

 

35

Colombia

Celebrity

41

Mary Barra

SVP, Global Product Development, General Motors

 

50

United States

Business

42

Zhang Xin & family

Cofounder, CEO, Soho China Ltd.

 

47

China

Business

43

Alice Walton

Chairman, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

 

62

United States

Billionaire

44

Laura Lang

CEO, Time Inc., Time Warner

 

56

United States

Media

45

Angela Ahrendts

CEO, Burberry Group

 

52

United States

Business

46

Sue Naegle

President, HBO Entertainment, Time Warner Cable

 

43

United States

Media

47

Ellen DeGeneres

Comedian, Personality, Philanthropist

 

54

United States

Celebrity

48

Safra Catz

President, CFO, Oracle

 

50

United States

Technology

49

Laurene Powell Jobs & family

Founder and Chair, Emerson Collective

 

48

United States

Billionaire

50

Rosalind Brewer

President and CEO, Sam's Club, Wal-Mart Stores

 

49

United States

Business

51

Anna Wintour

Editor-in-Chief, Vogue, Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

 

62

United States

Media

52

Helene Gayle

President, CEO, CARE

 

57

United States

Humanitarian

53

Christiane Amanpour

Chief International Correspondent, CNN, Time Warner

 

54

United States

Media

54

Rosalia Mera

Investor, Philanthropist

 

68

Spain

Billionaire

55

Cynthia Carroll

CEO, Anglo American

 

55

United States

Business

56

Cher Wang

Co-founder and Chair, HTC

 

53

Taiwan

Technology

57

Abigail Johnson

President, Fidelity Personal, Workplace and Institutional Services, Fidelity Investments

 

50

United States

Business

58

Padmasree Warrior

Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Cisco Systems

 

51

United States

Technology

59

Chanda Kochhar

Managing Director and CEO, ICICI Bank

 

50

India

Business

60

Gail Kelly

CEO, Westpac Banking Group

 

56

Australia

Business

61

Margaret Hamburg

Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, United States

 

57

United States

Politics

62

Ellen Kullman

Chairman and CEO, EI du Pont de Nemours

 

56

United States

Business

63

Drew Gilpin Faust

President, Harvard University

 

64

United States

Humanitarian

64

Shari Arison

Investor, Philanthropist

 

55

Israel

Billionaire

65

Mary Schapiro

Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission, United States

 

57

United States

Politics

66

Angelina Jolie

Actress, Philanthropist

 

37

United States

Celebrity

67

Miuccia Prada

Owner, Fashion Designer, Prada

 

63

Italy

Business

68

Carol Meyrowitz

CEO, TJX Cos

 

58

United States

Business

69

Ertharin Cousin

Executive Director, World Food Programme, United Nations

 

55

United States

Humanitarian

70

Sue Gardner

Executive Director, WikiMedia Foundation

 

45

Canada

Technology

71

Joyce Banda

President, Malawi

 

62

Malawi

Politics

72

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Managing Director, World Bank

 

50

Indonesia

Humanitarian

73

Bonnie Hammer

Chairman, Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios, NBCUniversal, Comcast

 

62

United States

Media

74

Chua Sock Koong

Group CEO, SingTel

 

53

Singapore

Technology

75

Sofia Vergara

Actress, Entrepreneur

 

40

Colombia

Celebrity

76

Ho Ching

CEO, Temasek

 

59

Singapore

Business

77

Tina Brown

Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast and Newsweek, IAC/InterActiveCorp.

 

58

United States

Media

78

J.K. Rowling

Author

 

47

United Kingdom

Celebrity

79

Chan Laiwa & family

Philanthropist

 

71

China

Billionaire

80

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Founder, Chair, Biocon Ltd.

 

59

India

Technology

81

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Minister of Finance, Nigeria

 

58

Nigeria

Politics

82

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

President, Liberia

 

73

Liberia

Politics

83

Gisele Bundchen

Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Supermodel

 

32

Brazil

Celebrity

84

Mary Meeker

General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

 

52

United States

Technology

85

Shaikha Al-Bahar

CEO-Kuwait, National Bank of Kuwait

 

-

Kuwait

Business

86

Marjorie Scardino

CEO, Pearson

 

65

United States

Media

87

Solina Chau

Director, Li Ka Shing Foundation

 

50

Hong Kong

Humanitarian

88

Jan Fields

President, McDonald's USA, McDonald's

 

57

United States

Business

89

Weili Dai

Co-founder, Marvell Technology Group

 

50

United States

Technology

90

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

President, CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

 

57

United States

Humanitarian

91

Sun Yafang

Chair, Huawei Technologies

 

56

China

Technology

92

Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi

Minister of Foreign Trade, United Arab Emirates

 

53

United Arab Emirates

Politics

93

Guler Sabanci

Chairman and Managing Director, Sabanci Holding

 

57

Turkey

Business

94

Greta Van Susteren

Anchor, FOX News, News Corp

 

58

United States

Media

95

Mary Callahan Erdoes

CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, JPMorgan Chase

 

45

United States

Business

96

Mindy Grossman

CEO, HSN

 

55

United States

Media

97

Patricia Woertz

Chairman, CEO and President, Archer Daniels Midland

 

59

United States

Business

98

Judith Rodin

President, Rockefeller Foundation

 

68

United States

Humanitarian

99

Beth Brooke

Global Vice Chair - Public Policy, Ernst & Young

 

53

United States

Business

100

Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani

Chair, Qatar Museums Authority, Qatar

 

29

Qatar

Humanitarian