The World's 100 Most Powerful Women Happy Women's Day
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
1 2 3 4 5
Angela Merkel
58
Germany
Politics
Chancellor, Germany
Hillary Clinton
65
United States
Politics
Secretary of State, United States
Dilma Rousseff
President, Brazil
65
Brazil
Politics
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Melinda Gates
48
United States
Humanitaria n
Jill Abramson
Executive Editor, New York Times Co.
58
United States
Media
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
6 7 8 9 10 11
Sonia Gandhi
President, Indian National Congress, India
66
India
Politics
Michelle Obama
49
United States
Politics
First Lady, United States
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Christine Lagarde
57
France
Humanitaria n
Janet Napolitano
Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, United States
55
United States
Politics
Sheryl Sandberg
COO, Facebook
43
United States
Technology
Oprah Winfrey
59
United States
Celebrity
Entrepreneur, Personality
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
12 13 14 15 16 17
Indra Nooyi
57
United States
Business
Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
Irene Rosenfeld
59
United States
Business
Chairman and CEO, Kraft Foods
Lady Gaga
26
United States
Celebrity
Musician, Philanthropist
Virginia Rometty
55
United States
Technology
President and CEO, IBM
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
President, Argentina
60
Argentina
Politics
54
United States
Technology
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
Ursula Burns
Chairman and CEO, Xerox
18 19
Meg Whitman
56
United States
Technology
CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Aung San Suu Kyi
Chair and Parliamentarian, National League for Democracy, Burma
67
Burma
Politics
20 21 22
Maria das Graas Silva Foster
59
Brazil
Business
CEO, Petrobras-Petrleo Brasil
Marissa Mayer
CEO, Yahoo
37
United States
Technology
Anne Sweeney
Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks, and President, Disney/ABC Television Group, Walt Disney
55
United States
Media
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
23 24 25 26 27 28
Diane Sawyer
Anchor of World News, ABC, Walt Disney
67
United States
Media
Angela Braly
CEO, WellPoint
51
United States
Business
Susan Wojcicki
44
United States
Technology
Senior Vice President, Google
Queen Elizabeth II
86
Monarch, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Politics
Julia Gillard
51
Australia
Politics
Prime Minister, Australia
72
United States
Politics
Nancy Pelosi
Rank
Name
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, United States
Age
Country
Category
29 30 31 32 33
Editor-In-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group, AOL
Arianna Huffington
62
United States
Media
Yingluck Shinawatra
Prime Minister, Thailand
45
Thailand
Politics
Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Service, United States
64
United States
Politics
Actress, Entrepreneur, Musician
Beyonce Knowles
31
United States
Celebrity
Owner, Fashion Designer, Diane von Furstenberg Studio, L.P.
Diane Von Furstenberg
66
United States
Business
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
34 35 36 37 38 39
Helen Clark
Administrator, U.N. Development Programme
63
New Zealand
Humanitaria n
Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting
Georgina Rinehart
59
Australia
Billionaire
Amy Pascal
Co-Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony
54
United States
Media
Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization
65
China
Humanitaria n
Actress, Musician, Personality, Philanthropist
Jennifer Lopez
43
United States
Celebrity
54
United States
Business
Sheri McCoy
Rank
Name
CEO, Avon Products
Age
Country
Category
40 41 42 43 44
Shakira
Musician, Personality, Philanthropist
36
Colombia
Celebrity
Mary Barra
SVP, Global Product Development, General Motors
51
United States
Business
Cofounder, CEO, Soho China Ltd.
Zhang Xin & family
47
China
Business
Chairman, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Alice Walton
63
United States
Fashion and Retail
Laura Lang
57
United States
Media
CEO, Time Inc., Time Warner
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
45 46 47 48 49 50
Angela Ahrendts
CEO, Burberry Group
52
United States
Business
President, HBO Entertainment, Time Warner Cable
Sue Naegle
43
United States
Media
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedian, Personality, Philanthropist
55
United States
Celebrity
Safra Catz
51
United States
Technology
President, CFO, Oracle
Laurene Powell Jobs & family
Founder and Chair, Emerson Collective
49
United States
Technology
Rosalind Brewer
50
United States
Business
President and CEO, Sam's Club,
Rank
Name
Wal-Mart Stores
Age
Country
Category
51 52 53 54 55
Anna Wintour
Editor-in-Chief, Vogue, Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
63
United States
Media
Helene Gayle
58
United States
President, CEO, CARE
Humanitaria n
Chief International Correspondent, CNN, Time Warner
Christiane Amanpour
55
United States
Media
Rosalia Mera
69
Spain
Billionaire
Investor, Philanthropist
Cynthia Carroll
56
United States
Business
CEO, Anglo American
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
56 57 58 59 60 61
Cher Wang
54
Taiwan
Technology
Co-founder and Chair, HTC
President, Fidelity Personal, Workplace and Institutional Services, Fidelity Investments
Abigail Johnson
51
United States
Business
Padmasree Warrior
Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Cisco Systems
52
United States
Technology
Chanda Kochhar
Managing Director and CEO, ICICI Bank
51
India
Business
Gail Kelly
56
Australia
Business
CEO, Westpac Banking Group
Margaret Hamburg
57
United States
Politics
Commissioner, Food and Drug
Rank
Name
Administration, United States
Age
Country
Category
62 63 64 65 66
Ellen Kullman
Chairman and CEO, EI du Pont de Nemours
57
United States
Business
Drew Gilpin Faust
65
United States
President, Harvard University
Humanitaria n
Shari Arison
55
Israel
Billionaire
Investor, Philanthropist
Mary Schapiro
Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission, United States
57
United States
Politics
Angelina Jolie
37
United States
Celebrity
Actress, Philanthropist
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
67 68 69 70 71 72
Miuccia Prada
Owner, Fashion Designer, Prada
63
Italy
Business
Carol Meyrowitz
CEO, TJX Cos
59
United States
Business
Executive Director, World Food Programme, United Nations
Ertharin Cousin
56
United States
Humanitaria n
Executive Director, WikiMedia Foundation
Sue Gardner
45
Canada
Technology
Joyce Banda
62
Malawi
Politics
President, Malawi
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
50
Indonesia
Managing Director, World Bank
Humanitaria n
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
73 74 75 76 77 78
Bonnie Hammer
Chairman, Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios, NBCUniversal, Comcast
63
United States
Media
Chua Sock Koong
Group CEO, SingTel
54
Singapore
Technology
Sofia Vergara
40
Colombia
Celebrity
Actress, Entrepreneur
Ho Ching
60
Singapore
Business
CEO, Temasek
Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast and Newsweek, IAC/InterActiveCorp.
Tina Brown
59
United States
Media
J.K. Rowling
Author
47
United Kingdom
Celebrity
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
79 80 81 82 83 84
Chan Laiwa & family
Philanthropist
72
China
Billionaire
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Founder, Chair, Biocon Ltd.
59
India
Technology
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Minister of Finance, Nigeria
58
Nigeria
Politics
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President, Liberia
74
Liberia
Politics
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Supermodel
Gisele Bundchen
32
Brazil
Celebrity
52
United States
Technology
Mary Meeker
Rank
Name
General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Age
Country
Category
85 86 87 88 89
Shaikha Al-Bahar
CEO-Kuwait, National Bank of Kuwait
Kuwait
Business
Marjorie Scardino
CEO, Pearson
66
United States
Media
Solina Chau
Director, Li Ka Shing Foundation
51
Hong Kong
Humanitaria n
President, McDonald's USA, McDonald's
Jan Fields
57
United States
Business
Weili Dai
Co-founder, Marvell Technology Group
51
United States
Technology
Rank
Name
Age
Country
Category
90 91 92
President, CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
58
United States
Humanitaria n
Sun Yafang
57
China
Technology
Chair, Huawei Technologies
Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi
54
United Arab Emirates
Politics
Minister of Foreign Trade, United Arab Emirates
93 94 95
Chairman and Managing Director, Sabanci Holding
Guler Sabanci
58
Turkey
Business
Greta Van Susteren
58
United States
Media
Anchor, FOX News, News Corp
Mary Callahan Erdoes
CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset
45
United States
Business
Rank
Name
Management, JPMorgan Chase
Age
Country
Category
96 97 98 99 10 0
Mindy Grossman
CEO, HSN
55
United States
Media
Patricia Woertz
Chairman, CEO and President, Archer Daniels Midland
59
United States
Business
President, Rockefeller Foundation
Judith Rodin
68
United States
Humanitaria n
Beth Brooke
Global Vice Chair - Public Policy, Ernst & Young
53
United States
Business
Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani
Chair, Qatar Museums Authority, Qatar
30
Qatar
Humanitaria n
