Forbes magazine produces a fair few lists every year. They rank the rich, the influential, the risers and the losers, the best, the greatest ... I eagerly await the list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. Here is 2015's Top 50.
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Angela Merkel
Politician
Chancellor of Germany
Hillary Clinton
Politician
Presidential Candidate
Melinda Gates
Philanthropist
Co chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Janet Yellen
Financial Guru
Chair, Federal Reserve
Mary Barra
Businesswoman
CEO, General Motors
Christine Lagarde
Businesswoman
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Dilma Rousseff
Politician
President of Brazil
Sheryl Sandberg
Technology Guru
COO, Facebook
Susan Wojcicki
Technology Guru
CEO, Google, YouTube
Michelle Obama
Politician
First Lady, United States
Park Geun-Hye
Politician
President of South Korea
Oprah Winfrey
Media Personality
Everything Oprah
Ginni Rometty
Businesswoman
CEO, IBM
Meg Whitman
Businesswoman
CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Indra Nooyi
Businesswoman
CEO, PepsiCo
Christina Fernandez De Kirchner
Politician
President of Argentina
Irene Rosenfeld
Businesswoman
CEO, Mondelēz International
Ana Patricia Botin
Businesswoman
Chairwoman of Santander Group
Abigail Johnson
Businesswoman
President-CEO, Fidelity Investment
Marillyn Hewson
Businesswoman
CEO, Lockheed Martin
Beyoncé Knowles
Celebrity
Entertainer and entrepreneur
Marissa Mayer
Businesswoman
CEO, Yahoo
Safra Catz
Businesswoman
Co-CEO, Oracle
Angela Ahrendts
Businesswoman
SVP Retail, Apple
Ellen Kullman
Businesswoman
CEO, El du Pont de Nemours
Michelle Bachelet
Politician
President of Chile
Anna Wintour
Fashion Guru
Artistic Director, Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Ursula Burns
Businesswoman
Chair-CEO, Xerox
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Businesswoman
Chair-Managing Director, State Bank of India
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Philanthropist
Managing Director, World Bank
Ruth Porat
Businesswoman
CFO, Google
Lucy Peng
Businesswoman
CEO, Ant Financial Services, Alibaba Group
Loretta Lynch
Politician
Attorney General, United States
Chanda Kochhar
Businesswoman
CEO-Managing Director, ICICI Bank
Federica Mogherini
Politician
High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, European Union
Gina Rinehart
Businesswoman
Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting
Nancy Pelosi
Politician
Minority Leader, House of Representatives, U.S.A
Adena FRIEDMAN
Financial Guru
Co-president, NASDAQ OMX Group
Ewa Kopacz
Politician
Prime Minister of Poland
Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
Head of State of UK
Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi
Politician
Minister of International Cooperation and Development, United Arab Emirates
Ho Ching
Businesswoman
CEO, Temasek
Laurene Powell Jobs
Businesswoman
Founder and Chair, Emerson Collective
Renée James
Businesswoman
President of Intel
Drew Gilpin Faust
Philanthropist
President, Harvard University
Ertharin Cousin
Philanthropist
Executive Director, World Food Program, United Nations
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Politician
Minister of Finance, Nigeria
Samantha Power
Politician
Ambassador, U.S. Permanent Representative, UN, United States
Ellen Degeneres
Entertainer
All round fab celebrity
Two things I really like about the list. One, there are 19 newcomers in 2015, which means extra diversity and an implication that women are certainly not standing still. And two, did you notice how many of these women head up tech giants? That can only be a great thing, right? In a world where we are so reliant on technology, knowing there are women steering such a successful course is fabulous.
You can read the full list here: forbes.com. There's a profile of each lady if you want to know more.
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