« World's Most Powerful Women

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 http://www.forbes.com