Don’t recognise Wu Yi? She’s #2. Here are the top ten:
1 Angela Merkel, Chancellor Germany
2 Wu Yi, Vice-premier China
3 Ho Ching, Chief executive, Temasek Holdings, Singapore
4 Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of state US
5 Indra K Nooyi, CEO PepsiCo US
6 Sonia Gandhi, President Indian National Congress India
7 Cynthia Carroll, Chief executive Anglo American UK
8 Patricia A Woertz, Co-chairman, Archer Daniels Midland US
9 Irene Rosenfeld, CEO Kraft Foods US
10 Patricia Russo, Chief executive, Alcatel-Lucent US
The list isn’t perfect: Nancy Pelosi is at #26, even though she’s doing her best to make herself irrelevant.
And shed a tear for Condi Rice; she was #1 in 2005.
Rather revolting that the CEO of PepsiCo is considered more powerful than the president of a billion people and the second largest population in the world!!!!!
Sonia Ghandi is president of the Indian National Congress, one of India’s main political parties, not President of India. Pratibha Patil is the President of India, she is the first woman to hold that mostly ceremonial position. You can see the full list here.
*is an idiiot* sorry, wasn’t thinking straight this morning. Was early.
Welcome to capitalism!
I agree with the Guardian’s comment - Forbes’ rankings are awfully subjective - though I guess they’d have to be when ranking something as ephemeral as “influence”.