The Forbes List of the Most Powerful Women in the World ...

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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1. Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel Politician
Chancellor of Germany

2. Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton Politician
Presidential Candidate

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3. Melinda Gates

Philanthropist
Co chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

4. Janet Yellen

Janet Yellen Financial Guru
Chair, Federal Reserve

5. Mary Barra

Mary Barra Businesswoman
CEO, General Motors

6. Christine Lagarde

Christine Lagarde Businesswoman
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

7. Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Rousseff Politician
President of Brazil

8. Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg Technology Guru
COO, Facebook

9. Susan Wojcicki

Susan Wojcicki Technology Guru
CEO, Google, YouTube

10. Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama Politician
First Lady, United States

11. Park Geun-Hye

Park Geun-Hye Politician
President of South Korea

12. Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey Media Personality
Everything Oprah

13. Ginni Rometty

Ginni Rometty Businesswoman
CEO, IBM

14. Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman Businesswoman
CEO, Hewlett-Packard

15. Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi Businesswoman
CEO, PepsiCo

16. Christina Fernandez De Kirchner

Christina Fernandez De Kirchner Politician
President of Argentina

17. Irene Rosenfeld

Irene Rosenfeld Businesswoman
CEO, Mondelēz International

18. Ana Patricia Botin

Ana Patricia Botin Businesswoman
Chairwoman of Santander Group

19. Abigail Johnson

Abigail Johnson Businesswoman
President-CEO, Fidelity Investment

20. Marillyn Hewson

Marillyn Hewson Businesswoman
CEO, Lockheed Martin

21. Beyoncé Knowles

Beyoncé Knowles Celebrity
Entertainer and entrepreneur

22. Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer Businesswoman
CEO, Yahoo

24. Safra Catz

Businesswoman
Co-CEO, Oracle

25. Angela Ahrendts

Businesswoman
SVP Retail, Apple

26. Ellen Kullman

Ellen Kullman Businesswoman
CEO, El du Pont de Nemours

27. Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet Politician
President of Chile

28. Anna Wintour

Fashion Guru
Artistic Director, Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

29. Ursula Burns

Ursula Burns Businesswoman
Chair-CEO, Xerox

30. Arundhati Bhattacharya

Businesswoman
Chair-Managing Director, State Bank of India

31. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Sri Mulyani Indrawati Philanthropist
Managing Director, World Bank

32. Ruth Porat

Ruth Porat Businesswoman
CFO, Google

33. Lucy Peng

Lucy Peng Businesswoman
CEO, Ant Financial Services, Alibaba Group

34. Loretta Lynch

Loretta Lynch Politician
Attorney General, United States

35. Chanda Kochhar

Chanda Kochhar Businesswoman
CEO-Managing Director, ICICI Bank

36. Federica Mogherini

Federica Mogherini Politician
High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, European Union

37. Gina Rinehart

Businesswoman
Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting

38. Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi Politician
Minority Leader, House of Representatives, U.S.A

39. Adena FRIEDMAN

Adena FRIEDMAN Financial Guru
Co-president, NASDAQ OMX Group

40. Ewa Kopacz

Ewa Kopacz Politician
Prime Minister of Poland

41. Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II Monarch
Head of State of UK

42. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi

Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi Politician
Minister of International Cooperation and Development, United Arab Emirates

43. Ho Ching

Ho Ching Businesswoman
CEO, Temasek

44. Laurene Powell Jobs

Businesswoman
Founder and Chair, Emerson Collective

45. Renée James

Businesswoman
President of Intel

46. Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust Philanthropist
President, Harvard University

47. Ertharin Cousin

Ertharin Cousin Philanthropist
Executive Director, World Food Program, United Nations

48. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Politician
Minister of Finance, Nigeria

49. Samantha Power

Samantha Power Politician
Ambassador, U.S. Permanent Representative, UN, United States

50. Ellen Degeneres

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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So inspirational! Thank you:)

I love powerful women :)

Fantastic. Happy about Oprah and Michelle Obama but how about jk Rowling?? Great compilation though.

48. NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA is by her record in her country no way should be on the list over $1billion went unaccounted for under her leadership as Finance minister

Inspirational! Love the post, Thank you for sharing.

@Neecey Beresford thank you but kk Rowling definitely deserves a place bit such is life. Thanks for the response.

@Melissa have a heart. Beyonce had done her fair bit too. Sometimes what we see is not what it is. Just because we might see Beyonce having a laugh on hols it doesn't mean she might not be doing anything. Jolie did a film in Africa somewhere and this is what influenced her to get into the whole United nations humanitarian thing. Now someone might are argue that she is fishing for attention bust she might not be. Everyone has a way of giving to humanity. I am not exactly a fan of Beyonce but if she wasn't doing anything her name wouldn't be on the list...just an opinion.

oh my bad!! never mind then :)

if you put beyonce on this you should of put Angelina Jolie on it