Forbes magazine just released its list of the World’s 100 Powerful Women 2014 and two Nigerian women made the list. They are; Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister for Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who came in at No. 44 and Oil magnate and Vice Chairman of Famfa Oil, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija, who came in at No. 96.
Other women that made the list include Beyoncé – at No. 17, German Chancellor Angela Merkel at No.1, Malawian President Joyce Banda at 40, Michelle Obama at No.8, Lady Gaga at No. 67, Queen Elizabeth at No.35. Ellen Degeneres at No.46. Angelina Jolie at No.50, Gisele Bundchen at No. 89.
See list below:
Rank Name Age Country Category
#1 Angela Merkel 59 Germany Politics
#2 Janet Yellen 67 United States Finance
#3 Melinda Gates 49 United States Philanthropy/NGO
#4 Dilma Rousseff 66 Brazil Politics
#5 Christine Lagarde 58 France Philanthropy/NGO
#6 Hillary Clinton 66 United States Politics
#7 Mary Barra 52 United States Business
#8 Michelle Obama 50 United States Politics
#9 Sheryl Sandberg 44 United States Technology
#10 Virginia Rometty 56 United States Technology
#11 Geun-hye Park 62 South Korea Politics
#12 Susan Wojcicki 45 United States Technology
#13 Indra Nooyi 58 United States Business
#14 Oprah Winfrey 60 United States Media
#15 Irene Rosenfeld 61 United States Business
#16 Maria das Graças Silva Foster 60 Brazil Business
#17 Beyonce Knowles 32 United States Celebrity
#18 Marissa Mayer 38 United States Technology
#19 Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner 61 Argentina Politics
#20 Meg Whitman 57 United States Technology
#21 Marillyn Hewson 60 United States Business
#22 Ursula Burns 55 United States Technology
#23 Helen Clark 64 New Zealand Philanthropy/NGO
#24 Safra Catz 52 United States Technology
#25 Michelle Bachelet 62 Chile Politics
#26 Nancy Pelosi 74 United States Politics
#27 Gina Rinehart 60 Australia Metals & Mining
#28 Amy Pascal 56 United States Media
#29 Laurene Powell Jobs & family 50 United States Technology
#30 Margaret Chan 66 China Philanthropy/NGO
#31 Ellen Kullman 58 United States Business
#32 Sofia Vergara 41 Colombia Celebrity
#33 Drew Gilpin Faust 66 United States Philanthropy/NGO
#34 Abigail Johnson 52 United States Business
#35 Queen Elizabeth II 88 United Kingdom Politics
#36 Arundhati Bhattacharya 58 India Finance
#37 Renee James 49 United States Technology
#38 Sri Mulyani Indrawati 51 Indonesia Philanthropy/NGO
#39 Anna Wintour 64 United States Media
#40 Joyce Banda 64 Malawi Politics
#41 Wu Yajun & family 50 China Real Estate
#42 Bonnie Hammer 63 United States Media
#43 Chanda Kochhar 52 India Business
#44 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 59 Nigeria Politics
#45 Ertharin Cousin 57 United States Philanthropy/NGO
#46 Ellen DeGeneres 56 United States Celebrity
#47 Sheikh Hasina Wajed 66 Bangladesh Politics
#48 Amy Hood 42 United States Technology
#49 Angela Ahrendts 53 United States Technology
#50 Angelina Jolie 38 United States Celebrity
#51 Margaret Hamburg 58 United States Politics
#52 Arianna Huffington 63 United States Media
#53 Lucy Peng 41 China Technology
#54 Cher Wang 55 Taiwan Technology
#55 Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi 52 United Arab Emirates Politics
#56 Gail Kelly 58 Australia Business
#57 Peng Liyuan 51 China Politics
#58 Shakira Mebarak 37 Colombia Celebrity
#59 Ho Ching 61 Singapore Business
#60 Guler Sabanci 59 Turkey Business
#61 Aung San Suu Kyi 68 Burma Politics
#62 Zhang Xin & family 48 China Business
#63 Samantha Power 43 United States Politics
#64 Rosalind Brewer 51 United States Business
#65 Phebe Novakovic 56 United States Business
#66 Mary Callahan Erdoes 46 United States Business
#67 Lady Gaga 28 United States Celebrity
#68 Diane von Furstenberg 67 United States Fashion and Retail
#69 Adena Friedman 44 United States Finance
#70 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 75 Liberia Politics
#71 Padmasree Warrior 53 United States Technology
#72 Elvira Nabiullina 50 Russia Politics
#73 Mary Jo White 66 United States Politics
#74 Chua Sock Koong 57 Singapore Technology
#75 Miuccia Prada 65 Italy Business
#76 Carol Meyrowitz 60 United States Business
#77 Mary Meeker 54 United States Technology
#78 Helene Gayle 58 United States Philanthropy/NGO
#79 Tory Burch 47 United States Fashion and Retail
#80 Patricia Harris 57 United States Philanthropy/NGO
#81 Sun Yafang 58 China Technology
#82 Solina Chau 52 Hong Kong Philanthropy/NGO
#83 Yao Chen 34 China Celebrity
#84 Judy Faulkner 70 United States Health care
#85 Patricia Woertz 61 United States Business
#86 Lubna S. Olayan 58 Saudi Arabia Business
#87 Hu Shuli 61 China Media
#88 Risa Lavizzo-Mourey 59 United States Philanthropy/NGO
#89 Gisele Bundchen 33 Brazil Celebrity
#90 Gwynne Shotwell 50 United States Construction & Engineering
#91 Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani 31 Qatar Philanthropy/NGO
#92 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw 61 India Medicine
#93 Sara Blakely 43 United States Fashion and Retail
#94 Fatima Al Jaber 44 United Arab Emirates Business
#95 Jennifer Li 46 China Media
#96 Folorunsho Alakija 63 Nigeria Oil
#97 Weili Dai 52 United States Technology
#98 Beth Brooke-Marciniak 54 United States Business
#99 Lila Tretikov 36 United States Technology
#100 Greta Van Susteren 59 United States Media