2010 World's Most Powerful Women-Forbes Magazine

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2010 World's Most Powerful Women

Values calculated August 2011

Rank Name Age Country Category

1
Angela Merkel
Chancellor 57 Germany Politics
2
Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State 63 United States Politics
3
Dilma Rousseff
President 63 Brazil Politics
4
Indra Nooyi
Chief Executive, PepsiCo 55 United States Business
5
Sheryl Sandberg
COO, Facebook 41 United States Business
6
Melinda Gates
Cofounder, Cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 47 United States Non-Profit
7
Sonia Gandhi
President, Indian National Congress Party 64 India Politics
8
Michelle Obama
First Lady 47 United States Politics
9
Christine Lagarde
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund 55 France Non-Profit
10
Irene Rosenfeld
CEO, Kraft Foods 58 United States Business
11
Lady Gaga
Entertainer 25 United States Celebrity/Lifestyle
12
Jill Abramson
Executive Editor, NY Times 57 United States Media
13
Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of Health and Human Services 63 United States Politics
14
Oprah Winfrey
Media Personality 57 United States Media
15
Janet Napolitano
Secretary of Homeland Security 53 United States Politics
16
Susan Wojcicki
SVP, Advertising, Google 43 United States Business
17
Cristina Fernandez
President 58 Argentina Politics
18
Beyoncé Knowles
Entertainer, Designer 29 United States Celebrity/Lifestyle
19
Georgina Rinehart
Mining Tycoon 57 Australia Billionaire
20
Cher Wang
Cofounder, Chair, HTC; VIA Technologies 52 Taiwan Business
21
Margaret Hamburg
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration 56 United States Politics
22
Michele Bachmann
Presidential Candidate 55 United States Politics
23
Julia Gillard
Prime Minister 49 Australia Politics
24
Mary Schapiro
Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission 56 United States Politics
25
Anne Sweeney
Co-Chair of Disney Media Networks; President, Disney-ABC Television Group 53 United States Business
26
Aung San Suu Kyi
General Secretary, National League For Democracy 66 Myanmar Politics
27
Ursula Burns
CEO, Xerox 52 United States Business
28
Amy Pascal
Co-Chair, Sony Pictures 53 United States Business
29
Angelina Jolie
Actress, Humanitarian 36 United States Celebrity/Lifestyle
30
Josette Sheeran
Executive Director, UN World Food Programme 57 United States Non-Profit
31
Arianna Huffington
Editor-In-Chief, Huffington Post 61 United States Media
32
Gail Kelly
CEO, Westpac Group 55 Australia Business
33
Chan Laiwa & family
Chair, Fu Wah International Group 70 China Billionaire
34
Sarah Palin
Political Commentator 47 United States Celebrity/Lifestyle
35
Cynthia Carroll
CEO, Anglo American 54 United States Business
36
Helene Gayle
CEO, CARE USA United States Non-Profit
37
Carol Bartz
CEO, Yahoo! 62 United States Business
38
Ellen Kullman
CEO, Dupont 55 United States Business
39
Jin Sook Chang
Cofounder, Chief Merchandising Officer, Forever 21 48 United States Business
40
Safra Catz
President, Oracle 49 United States Business
41
Angela Braly
CEO, Wellpoint 50 United States Business
42
Marissa Mayer
VP, Local, Maps & Location Services, Google 36 United States Business
43
Chanda Kochhar
CEO, ICICI Bank 49 India Business
44
Christiane Amanpour
News Achor, This Week 53 United States Media
45
Patricia Woertz
CEO, Archer Daniels Midland 58 United States Business
46
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
CEO, Sunoco 55 United States Business
47
Diane Sawyer
News Anchor, World News 65 United States Media
48
Zhang Xin & family
Cofounder, CEO, SOHO China 46 China Business
49
Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch 85 United Kingdom Politics
50
Helen Clark
Administrator, UN Development Programme 61 New Zealand Non-Profit
51
Helen Boaden
Director, BBC News Group 55 United Kingdom Media
52
Nancy Pelosi
Democratic Leader, House of Representatives 71 United States Politics
53
Queen Rania Al Abdullah
Monarch 40 Jordan Politics
54
Bonnie Hammer
Chairman, Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios, NBCU 61 United States Business
55
Ellen DeGeneres
Talk Show Host 53 United States Celebrity/Lifestyle
56
Katie Jacobs Stanton
VP, International Strategy, Twitter 41 United States Business
57
Shari Arison
Heiress, Philanthropist 53 Israel Billionaire
58
Angela Ahrendts
CEO, Burberry 51 United States Business
59
Yingluck Shinawatra
Prime Minister 44 Thailand Politics
60
Gisele Bündchen
Supermodel, Environmentalalist 31 Brazil Celebrity/Lifestyle
61
Joanne (J.K.) Rowling
Author 46 United Kingdom Celebrity/Lifestyle
62
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
President 72 Liberia Politics
63
Lubna S. Olayan
CEO, Olayan Financing Company 56 Saudi Arabia Business
64
Andrea Jung
CEO, Avon 53 United States Business
65
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Managing Director, World Bank Indonesia Non-Profit
66
Ann Curry
Coanchor, TODAY show 54 United States Media
67
Sallie Krawcheck
President, Global Wealth and Investment Management, Bank of America 46 United States Business
68
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization 64 China Non-Profit
69
Anna Wintour
Editor-in-Chief, Vogue 61 United States Media
70
Abigail Johnson
President, Fidelity Investments 49 United States Business
71
Judith Rodin
President, The Rockefeller Foundation 66 United States Non-Profit
72
Ho Ching
CEO, Temasek Holdings 58 Singapore Business
73
Carol Meyrowitz
CEO, TJX Companies 57 United States Business
74
Mary Callahan Erdoes
CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset Management 44 United States Business
75
Greta Van Susteren
Host, On the Record 57 United States Media
76
Mary Barra
SVP, Global Product Development, General Motors 49 United States Business
77
Ana Patricia Botin
CEO, Santander UK 50 Spain Business
78
Guler Sabanci & family
Chair, Sabanci Holding 56 Turkey Business
79
Miuccia Prada
Chair, Head Designer, Prada Group 62 Italy Business
80
Denise Morrison
CEO, Campbell Soup Company 57 United States Business
81
Tina Brown
Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast, Newsweek 57 United States Media
82
Virginia Rometty
SVP, Group Executive Sales, Marketing and Strategy , IBM 53 United States Business
83
Drew Gilpin Faust
President, Harvard University 63 United States Non-Profit
84
Sheri McCoy
Vice Chair, Johnson & Johnson 52 United States Business
85
Alice Walton
Heiress, Art Patron 61 United States Billionaire
86
Laura Chinchilla
President 52 Costa Rica Politics
87
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Finance Minister 57 Nigeria Politics
88
Sue Naegle
President, HBO Entertainment 42 United States Business
89
Mindy Grossman
CEO, HSN 53 United States Business
90
Ruth Porat
CFO, Morgan Stanley United States Business
91
Diane Von Furstenberg
CEO, Diane Von Furstenberg Studio 64 United States Business
92
Jan Fields
President, McDonald's USA 56 United States Business
93
Maria Ramos
Group CEO, Absa Group Banks 52 South Africa Business
94
Marjorie Scardino
CEO, Pearson 64 United States Business
95
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 56 United States Non-Profit
96
Beth Mooney
CEO, KeyCorp 56 United States Business
97
Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita
CEO, ArcelorMittal South Africa 52 South Africa Business
98
Dominique Senequier
CEO, AXA Private Equity 58 France Business
99
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Founder, Chair, Biocon 58 India Business
100
Beth Brooke
Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young 52 United States Business