Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women [2008]

Status Forbes

Missing: * Wu Yi (3) * Indra Nooyi (4) * Anne Mulcahy (5) * Sallie Krawcheck (6) * Patricia Woertz (7) * Anne Lauvergeon (8) * Brenda Barnes (9) * Zoe Cruz (10) * Irene Rosenfeld (11) * Sonia Gandhi (13) * Mary Sammons (16) * Ann Livermore (19) * Helen Clark (20) * Safra Catz (21) * Margaret Whitman (22) * Julie Gerberding (23) * Susan Arnold (24) * Patricia Russo (25) * Christine Poon (26) * Renetta McCann (27) * Sima Samar (28) * Margaret Beckett (29) * Christine Lagarde (30) * Marjorie Scardino (31) * Khaleda Zia (33) * Suzanne Nora Johnson (34) * Wu Xiaoling (35) * Ho Ching (36) * Neelie Kroes (38) * Fumiko Hayashi (39) * Beth Brooke (41) * Marina Berlusconi (42) * Gloria Arroyo (45) * Aung San Suu Kyi (47) * Theresa Gattung (49) * Clara Furse (50) * Ann Moore (53) * Linda Cook (56) * Michele Alliot-Marie (57) * Paula Rosput Reynolds (58) * Susan Ivey (61) * Ngozi OkonjoIweala (62) * Vaira VikeFreiberga (63) * Marilyn Carlson Nelson (64) * Guler Sabanci (65) * Dora Bakoyannis (66) * Nancy McKinstry (67) * Han Myungsook (68) * Mian Mian Yang (70) * Antonia Axson Johnson (71) * Nahed Taher (72) * Ana Patricia Botin (73) * Janet Robinson (74) * Nancy Tellem (75) * Angela Ahrendts (76) * Susan Berresford (77) * Dawn Hudson (78) * Christie Hefner (80) * Colleen Barrett (82) * Luisa Diogo (83) * Stephanie Burns (84) * Marie Ehrling (85) * Vivian Banta (86) * Rochelle Lazarus (87) * Galia Maor (88) * Portia Simpson Miller (89) * Gail Berman (90) * Maha AlGhunaim (91) * Cathleen Black (92) * Kalpana Morparia (93) * Lalita Gupte (93) * Vidya Chhabria (95) * Sharon Allen (96) * Lubna Olayan (97) * Martha Nelson (98) * Orit Gadiesh (99) * Imre Barmanbek (100)

This Category is Ranked. Sort by Ranking Based on Votes by clicking on Vote Ranking. Sort by the Collection's Ranking by clicking on List Ranking.

Vote RankingList Ranking  

11

1

Angela Merkel

World Leader

48.39% (15 of 31 votes)

14

2

Condoleezza Rice

U.S. Secretary of State

42.11% (24 of 57 votes)

24

12

Melinda Gates

Philanthropist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

17

14

Oprah Winfrey

TV Personality

28.00% (217 of 775 votes)

5

15

Anne Sweeney

TV Executive

100% (1 of 1 votes)

3

17

Michelle Bachelet

World Leader

100% (2 of 2 votes)

8

18

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

12

32

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

44.74% (200 of 447 votes)

10

37

Andrea Jung

Entrepreneur

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

20

40

Tzipora (Tzipi) Livni

Politician

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

18

43

Laura Bush

First Lady

23.08% (3 of 13 votes)

27

44

Tarja Halonen

World Leader

0% (0 of 0 votes)

21

45

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

World Leader

0% (0 of 1 votes)

7

46

Queen Elizabeth II Windsor

Monarch

57.96% (91 of 157 votes)

1

47

Aung San Suu Kyi

Advocate

100% (2 of 2 votes)

16

48

Nancy Pelosi

U.S. Congressman

33.09% (2638 of 7971 votes)

28

51

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

4

52

Judy McGrath

Entrepreneur

100% (1 of 1 votes)

13

54

Katie Couric

Commentator

42.86% (3 of 7 votes)

2

55

Mary McAleese

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

26

59

Amy Pascal

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 1 votes)

19

60

Diane Sawyer

Commentator

20.0% (1 of 5 votes)

15

69

Meredith Vieira

Commentator

38.18% (63 of 165 votes)

22

79

Christiane Amanpour

Commentator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

9

80

Christie Hefner

Publisher

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

23

81

Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan

Monarch

0% (0 of 0 votes)

6

90

Gail Berman

TV Executive

59.10% (2188 of 3702 votes)

25

94

Stacey Snider

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 1 votes)