RANK

NAME

OCCUPATION

COUNTRY  

1

Angela Merkel                           

Chancellor

Germany

2

Sheila C. Bair                              

Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.      

U.S.

3

Indra K. Nooyi                             

Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo

U.S.

4

Angela Braly                               

Chief executive, president, WellPoint          

U.S.

5

Cynthia Carroll                           

Chief executive, Anglo American

U.K.

6

Irene B. Rosenfeld                    

Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods

U.S.

7

Condoleezza Rice                       

Secretary of state                                       

U.S.

8

Ho Ching                                       

Chief executive, Temasek Holdings         

Singapore

9

Anne Lauvergeon                       

Chief executive, Areva                                      

France

10   

Anne Mulcahy                             

Chairman, chief executive, Xerox Corp.             

U.S.

11

Gail Kelly                                               

Chief executive and managing  director, Westpac Bank

Australia

12

Patricia A. Woertz                      

Chairman, chief executive, president, Archer Daniels Midland               

U.S.

13

Cristina Fernandez                     

President                                                    

Argentina

14

Christine Lagarde                        

Minister of economy, finance and employment

France

15

Safra A. Catz                                

President and chief financial officer, Oracle       

U.S.

16

Carol B. Tome                             

Executive vice president and chief financial officer, Home Depot

U.S.

17

Yulia Tymoshenko                      

Prime minister                                                    

Ukraine

18

Mary Sammons                              

Chairman, chief executive, president, Rite Aid

U.S.

19

Andrea Jung                               

Chairman, chief executive, Avon                       

U.S.

20

Marjorie Scardino                     

Chief executive, Pearson PLC                                  

U.K.

21

Sonia Gandhi                             

President, Indian National Congress Party           

India

22

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey                

Chief Executive and President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation                                

U.S.

23

Sri Mulyani Indrawati             

Coordinating minister for economic  affairs and finance minister                   

Indonesia

24

Dr. Julie Gerberding                

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention                                      

U.S.

25

Michelle Bachelet                   

President                                                                      

Chile

RANK

NAME

OCCUPATION

COUNTRY

26

Ellen Alemany

Chief executive, Royal Bank of Scotland Americas

U.S.

27

Carol Meyrowitz

Chief executive, president, The TJX Cos.

U.S.

28

Hillary Rodham Clinton

U.S. senator, New York

U.S.

29

Hynd Bouhia

Director General, Casablanca Stock Exchange

Morocco

30

Anne Sweeney

President, Disney-ABC Television Group              

U.S.

31

Valentina Matviyenko

Governor, St. Petersburg region

Russia

32

Nancy Tellem

President, CBS Paramount Television Entertainment Group

U.S.

33

Ann Livermore

Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard

U.S.

34

Marina Berlusconi

Chairman, Finivest Group and Mondadori Group

Italy

35

Nancy Pelosi

Speaker, House of Representatives

U.S.

36

Oprah Winfrey

Chairman, Harpo

U.S.

37

Gulzhan Moldazhanova

Chief Executive, Basic Element

Russia

38

Aung San Suu Kyi

Deposed prime minister; Nobel peace laureate

Myanmar

39

Lynn Laverty Elsenhans