| Rank |
Name |
Occupation |
Country |
| 1 |
Angela Merkel |
Chancellor |
Germany |
| 2 |
Sheila C. Bair |
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. |
U.S. |
| 3 |
Indra K. Nooyi |
Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo |
U.S. |
| 4 |
Angela Braly |
Chief executive, president, WellPoint |
U.S. |
| 5 |
Cynthia Carroll |
Chief executive, Anglo American |
U.K. |
| 6 |
Irene B. Rosenfeld |
Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods |
U.S. |
| 7 |
Condoleezza Rice |
Secretary of state |
U.S. |
| 8 |
Ho Ching |
Chief executive, Temasek Holdings |
Singapore |
| 9 |
Anne Lauvergeon |
Chief executive, Areva |
France |
| 10 |
Anne Mulcahy |
Chairman, chief executive, Xerox Corp. |
U.S. |
| 11 |
Gail Kelly |
Chief executive and managing director, Westpac Bank |
Australia |
| 12 |
Patricia A. Woertz |
Chairman, chief executive, president, Archer Daniels Midland |
U.S. |
| 13 |
Cristina Fernandez |
President |
Argentina |
| 14 |
Christine Lagarde |
Minister of economy, finance and employment |
France |
| 15 |
Safra A. Catz |
President and chief financial officer, Oracle |
U.S. |
| 16 |
Carol B. Tome |
Executive vice president and chief financial officer, Home Depot |
U.S. |
| 17 |
Yulia Tymoshenko |
Prime minister |
Ukraine |
| 18 |
Mary Sammons |
Chairman, chief executive, president, Rite Aid |
U.S. |
| 19 |
Andrea Jung |
Chairman, chief executive, Avon |
U.S. |
| 20 |
Marjorie Scardino |
Chief executive, Pearson PLC |
U.K. |
| 21 |
Sonia Gandhi |
President, Indian National Congress Party |
India |
| 22 |
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey |
Chief Executive and President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
U.S. |
| 23 |
Sri Mulyani Indrawati |
Coordinating minister for economic affairs and finance minister |
Indonesia |
| 24 |
Dr. Julie Gerberding |
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
U.S. |
| 25 |
Michelle Bachelet |
President |
Chile |
| 26 |
Ellen Alemany |
Chief executive, Royal Bank of Scotland Americas |
U.S. |
| 27 |
Carol Meyrowitz |
Chief executive, president, The TJX Cos. |
U.S. |
| 28 |
Hillary Rodham Clinton |
U.S. senator, New York |
U.S. |
| 29 |
Hynd Bouhia |
Director General, Casablanca Stock Exchange |
Morocco |
| 30 |
Anne Sweeney |
President, Disney-ABC Television Group |
U.S. |
| 31 |
Valentina Matviyenko |
Governor, St. Petersburg region |
Russia |
| 32 |
Nancy Tellem |
President, CBS Paramount Television Entertainment Group |
U.S. |
| 33 |
Ann Livermore |
Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard |
U.S. |
| 34 |
Marina Berlusconi |
Chairman, Finivest Group and Mondadori Group |
Italy |
| 35 |
Nancy Pelosi |
Speaker, House of Representatives |
U.S. |
| 36 |
Oprah Winfrey |
Chairman, Harpo |
U.S. |
| 37 |
Gulzhan Moldazhanova |
Chief Executive, Basic Element |
Russia |
| 38 |
Aung San Suu Kyi |
Deposed prime minister; Nobel peace laureate |
Myanmar |
| 39 |
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans |
Chief executive and president, Sunoco |
U.S. |
| 40 |
Melinda Gates |
Co-founder, co-chairman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
U.S. |
| 41 |
Gloria Arroyo |
President |
Philippines |
| 42 |
Jane Mendillo |
President and chief executive, Harvard Management Co. |
U.S. |
| 43 |
Linda Z. Cook |
Executive director, gas and power, Royal Dutch Shell |
Netherlands |
| 44 |
Laura Bush |
First lady |
U.S. |
| 45 |
Brenda Barnes |
Chief executive, Sara Lee |
U.S. |
| 46 |
Christine Poon |
Vice chairman, Johnson & Johnson |
U.S. |
| 47 |
Neelie Kroes |
Competition commissioner, European Union |
Netherlands |
| 48 |
Amy Woods Brinkley |
Global risk executive, Bank of America |
U.S. |
| 49 |
Susan E. Arnold |
President, global business units, Procter & Gamble |
U.S. |
| 50 |
Susan Decker |
President, Yahoo! |
U.S. |
| 51 |
Ana Patricia Botin |
Chairman, Banesto |
Spain |
| 52 |
Tzipora Livni |
Vice prime minister and minister of foreign affairs |
Israel |
| 53 |
Dominique Senequier |
Chief executive officer, AXA Private Equity |
France |
| 54 |
Amy Pascal |
Co-chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment |
U.S. |
| 55 |
Ursula Burns |
President, Xerox |
U.S. |
| 56 |
Helen Clark |
Prime minister |
New Zealand |
| 57 |
Laura Desmond |
Chief executive officer, Starcom MediaVest Group Worldwide |
U.S. |
| 58 |
Queen Elizabeth II |
Queen |
U.K. |
| 59 |
Mayawati Kumari |
Chief minister, Uttar Pradesh |
India |
| 60 |
Judy McGrath |
Chairman and chief executive officer, MTV Networks |
U.S. |
| 61 |
Meredith Vieira |
Co-anchor, Today show, NBC News |
U.S. |
| 62 |
Katie Couric |
Anchor, CBS Evening News, CBS News |
U.S. |
| 63 |
Barbara Walters |
Correspondent, ABC News |
U.S. |
| 64 |
Sallie Krawcheck |
Chairman and chief executive, Global Wealth Management, Citigroup |
U.S. |
| 65 |
Diane Sawyer |
Anchor, Good Morning America, ABC News |
U.S. |
| 66 |
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf |
President |
Liberia |
| 67 |
Janice Fields |
Chief operating officer and executive vice president, McDonald's |
U.S. |
| 68 |
Zhang Xin |
Chief executive officer, co-founder, Soho |
China |
| 69 |
Zaha Hadid |
Founder, Zaha Hadid Architects |
U.K. |
| 70 |
Yang Mian Mian |
President, Haier |
China |
| 71 |
Tarja Halonen |
President |
Finland |
| 72 |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Justice, Supreme Court |
U.S. |
| 73 |
Hyun Jeong-Eun |
Chairman, Hyundai Group |
South Korea |
| 74 |
Mary McAleese |
President |
Ireland |
| 75 |
Guler Sabanci |
Chairman, Sabanci Holding |
Turkey |
| 76 |
Drew Gilpin Faust |
President, Harvard University |
U.S. |
| 77 |
Lisa M. Weber |
President, Individual Business, MetLife |
U.S. |
| 78 |
Dora Bakoyannis |
Foreign minister |
Greece |
| 79 |
Beth Brooke |
Global vice chairman, Ernst & Young |
U.S. |
| 80 |
Lee Myung-Hee |
Chairman, Shinsegae Group |
South Korea |
| 81 |
Susan M. Ivey |
Chief executive, Reynolds American |
U.S. |
| 82 |
Nancy McKinstry |
CEO, Wolters Kluwer |
Netherlands |
| 83 |
Janet L. Robinson |
President and chief executive, The New York Times Co. |
U.S. |
| 84 |
Margaret Chan |
Director-general, World Health Organization |
Switzerland |
| 85 |
Clara Furse |
Chief executive, London Stock Exchange |
U.K. |
| 86 |
Ellen J. Kullman |
Executive vice president, DuPont |
U.S. |
| 87 |
Susan Desmond-Hellmann |
President, product development, Genentech |
U.S. |
| 88 |
Eva Cheng |
Chief executive, Greater China and Southeast Asia, Amway |
China |
| 89 |
Maha Al-Ghunaim |
Chairman, managing director, Global Investment House |
Kuwait |
| 90 |
Christina Gold |
Chief executive, Western Union |
U.S. |
| 91 |
Christiane Amanpour |
Chief international correspondent, CNN |
U.S. |
| 92 |
Pamela Nicholson |
President, Enterprise Rent-a-Car |
U.S. |
| 93 |
Ann Moore |
Chairman, chief executive, Time Inc. |
U.S. |
| 94 |
Sharon Allen |
Chair, Deloitte |
U.S. |
| 95 |
Jing Ulrich |
Chairman and managing director, JPMorgan Chase China Equities |
China |
| 96 |
Queen Rania Al-Abdullah |
Queen |
Jordan |
| 97 |
Virginia Rometty |
Senior vice president, IBM Global Business Services |
U.S. |
| 98 |
Georgina Rinehart |
Owner, chairman, Hancock Prospecting |
Australia |
| 99 |
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw |
Chairman and managing director, Biocon |
India |
| 100 |
Paula Rosput Reynolds |
Chief Executive, Safeco |
U.S. |
