World's Top 10 Most Powerful Woman, 2018
WORLD'S TOP 10 POWERFUL WOMAN
(Based on the list compiled by the FORBES,2018)
Forbes has compiled a list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. It is edited by notable FORBES journalists, including Moira Forbes, and is based on visibility and economic impact. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has remained at the top spot since 2006, with the brief exception of 2010 where she was temporarily supplanted by the then U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama.
1.Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel, nee Angela Dorothea Kasner, (born July 17, 1954, Hamburg, West Germany), German politician who in 2005 became the first female chancellor of Germany.She Tops the forbes' "MOST POWERFUL WOMAN" list since 2006.In the first postreunification election, in December 1990, Merkel Won a seat in the Bundestag(lower house of parliament)representing stralsund-Rugan-Grimmen. She was appointed minister for women an youth by Chancellor Helmut Kohl in january 1991.
2.Theresa May
Melinda Ann Gates DBE (née French; born August 15, 1964)is an American philanthropist. She is a former Microsoft employee and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She worked at Microsoft, where she was project manager for Microsoft Bob, Encarta and Expedia.
Melinda Ann French is the founding member of BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION. She is the second of four children to Raymond Joseph French Jr., an aerospace engineer, and Elaine Agnes Amerland, a homemaker. Melinda has an older sister and two younger brothers.
(Based on the list compiled by the FORBES,2018)
Forbes has compiled a list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. It is edited by notable FORBES journalists, including Moira Forbes, and is based on visibility and economic impact. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has remained at the top spot since 2006, with the brief exception of 2010 where she was temporarily supplanted by the then U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama.
1.Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel, nee Angela Dorothea Kasner, (born July 17, 1954, Hamburg, West Germany), German politician who in 2005 became the first female chancellor of Germany.She Tops the forbes' "MOST POWERFUL WOMAN" list since 2006.In the first postreunification election, in December 1990, Merkel Won a seat in the Bundestag(lower house of parliament)representing stralsund-Rugan-Grimmen. She was appointed minister for women an youth by Chancellor Helmut Kohl in january 1991.
2.Theresa May
Theresa Mary May (/təˈriːzə/; née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016. She served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016. May was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidenhead in 1997. Ideologically, she identifies herself as a one-nation conservative.
May grew up in Oxfordshire and attended St Hugh's College, Oxford. From 1977 until 1983, she worked for the Bank of England, and from 1985 until 1997 at the Association for Payment Clearing Services, also serving as a councillor for Durnsford in Merton. After unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons in 1992 and 1994, she was elected as the MP for Maidenhead in the 1997 general election. From 1999 to 2010, May held a number of roles in the Shadow Cabinets of William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Howard, and David Cameron, including Shadow Transport Secretary and Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary. She was also Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2002 to 2003.
3.Christine Lagarde
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (born on 1 January 1956) is a French lawyer and politician who is currently serving as the Managing Director (MD) and Chairwoman of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Lagarde has held the position since 5 July 2011.
Previously, she held various senior ministerial posts in the French government: she was Minister of Economic Affairs, Finance and Employment, Minister of Agriculture and Fishing and Minister of Trade in the government of Dominique de Villepin. Lagarde was the first woman to become Finance Minister of a G8 economy and is the first woman to head the IMF. A noted anti-trust and labour lawyer, Lagarde was the first female chair of the major international law firm Baker & McKenzie, between 1999 and 2004.
On 16 November 2009, the Financial Times ranked her the best Minister of Finance in the Eurozone.
On 28 June 2011, she was named as the next Managing Director of the IMF for a five-year term, starting on 5 July 2011,replacing Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Her appointment is the 11th consecutive appointment of a European to head the IMF. In 2014, Lagarde was ranked the 5th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. She was re-elected by consensus for a second five-year term, starting 5 July 2016, being the only candidate nominated for the post of Managing Director. In December 2016, a French court found her guilty of negligence for her role in the Bernard Tapie arbitration, but did not impose a penalty. In 2018, Forbes ranked her Number 3 on their World's 100 Most Powerful Women list.
4. Mary Barra
Mary Teresa Barra (née Makela; born December 24, 1961) is the Chairwoman and CEO of General Motors Company.[3] She has held the CEO position since January 15, 2014, and she is the first female CEO of a major global automaker. On December 10, 2013, GM named her to succeed Dan Akerson as Chief Executive Officer, and prior to that, Barra served as the Executive Vice President of Global Product Development, Purchasing, and Supply Chain at General Motors.
5.Abigail Johnson
Abigail Pierrepont Johnson (born December 19, 1961) is an American businesswoman. Since 2014, Johnson has been president and chief executive officer of US investment firm Fidelity Investments (FMR), and chairman of its international sister company Fidelity International (FIL). Fidelity was founded by her grandfather Edward C. Johnson II. Her father Edward C. "Ned" Johnson III remains chairman emeritus of FMR. As of March 2013, the Johnson family owned a 49% stake in the company, with Johnson herself holding an estimated 24.5%.
In November 2016, Johnson was named chairman and will remain CEO and president, giving her full control of Fidelity with 45,000 employees worldwide. Johnson's wealth is approximately $16.5 billion, making her one of the world's wealthiest women.
6.MELINDA GATES
Melinda Ann Gates DBE (née French; born August 15, 1964)is an American philanthropist. She is a former Microsoft employee and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She worked at Microsoft, where she was project manager for Microsoft Bob, Encarta and Expedia.
Melinda Ann French is the founding member of BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION. She is the second of four children to Raymond Joseph French Jr., an aerospace engineer, and Elaine Agnes Amerland, a homemaker. Melinda has an older sister and two younger brothers.
Melinda, a Roman Catholic, attended St. Monica Catholic School, where she was the top student in her class year.
Melinda graduated as valedictorian from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 1982. She earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Duke University in 1986 and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 1987. At Duke, Melinda was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Beta Rho Chapter.
7.Susan Wojcicki
Susan Diane Wojcicki born July 5, 1968 is an American technology executive. She has been the CEO of YouTube since February 2014.
Wojcicki was involved in the founding of Google, and became Google's first marketing manager in 1999. She was in charge of Google's original video service, and after observing the success of YouTube, proposed the acquisition of YouTube by Google in 2006.
Wojcicki has an estimated net worth of nearly $500 million.
8.Ana Patricia Botín
Ana Patricia Botín-Sanz de Sautuola O'Shea, DBE (born 4 October 1960) is a Spanish banker. On 10 September 2014 she was appointed executive chairman of Santander Group, the fourth generation of the Botín family to hold this role. Prior to this she was CEO of Santander UK, a role she held from December 2010.
In 2005, Botín was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 99th most powerful woman in the world. In 2009, she was ranked 45th.In February 2013, she was ranked the third most powerful woman in the UK by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. In 2016, she was ranked the 10th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes and in 2017 she rose to the Number 9 spot whereas she is in number 8th in 2018
9. Marillyn Hewson
Marillyn Adams Hewson (born December 27, 1953) is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin. In 2015, Hewson was named the 20th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
10.Ginni Rometty
Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty (born July 29, 1957) is an American business executive. She is the current chair, president, and CEO of IBM, and the first woman to head the company. Prior to becoming president and CEO in January 2012, she first joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981 and subsequently headed global sales, marketing, and strategy. While general manager of IBM's global services division, in 2002 she helped negotiate IBM's purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers IT consulting business, becoming known for her work integrating the two companies. Since becoming CEO, she has focused IBM on analytics, cloud computing, and cognitive computing systems.
Rometty's tenure as IBM's CEO has been marked by noteworthy awards including by Bloomberg's 50 Most Influential People in the World, Fortune's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business", Time's 20 Most Important People in Tech and Forbes' America's Top 50 Women In Tech. Her tenure has also been met by fierce criticism relating to executive compensation bonuses, layoffs, outsourcing, and presiding over 24 consecutive quarters of revenue decline.
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