Forbes list of 50 Most Powerful Women (only 1 from India)
| Rank | Name | Occupation | Country |
| 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 | U.S. |
| 5 | Indra K. Nooyi | Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo | U.S. |
| 6 | Sonia Gandhi | President, Congress Party | India |
| 7 | Cynthia Carroll | Chief executive, Anglo American | U.K. |
| 8 | Patricia A. Woertz | Chairman, Archer Daniels Midland | U.S. |
| 9 | Irene Rosenfeld | Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods | U.S. |
| 10 | Patricia Russo | Chief executive, Alcatel-Lucent | U.S. |
| 11 | Michèle Alliot-Marie | Minister for the Interior and overseas territories | France |
| 12 | Christine Lagarde | Minister of economy, finance and employment | France |
| 13 | Anne M. Mulcahy | Chairman, chief executive, Xerox | U.S. |
| 14 | Anne Lauvergeon | Chief executive, Areva | France |
| 15 | Mary Sammons | Chairman, chief executive, president, Rite Aid Corp. | U.S. |
| 16 | Angela Braly | Chief executive, president, WellPoint | U.S. |
| 17 | Marjorie Scardino | Chief executive, Pearson PLC | U.K. |
| 18 | Wu Xiaoling | Deputy Governor, People’s Bank of China | China |
| 19 | Brenda Barnes | Chairman, chief executive, Sara Lee Corp. | U.S. |
| 20 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Supreme court justice | U.S. |
| 21 | Oprah Winfrey | Chairman, Harpo | U.S. |
| 22 | Margaret Whitman | Chief executive, president, eBay | U.S. |
| 23 | Queen Elizabeth II | Queen | U.K. |
| 24 | Melinda Gates | Cofounder, cochairman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | U.S. |
| 25 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | U.S. Senator, New York | U.S. |
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Nancy Pelosi | Speaker of the House, House of Representatives | U.S. |
| 27 | Michelle Bachelet | President | Chile |
| 28 | Safra A. Catz | President, chief financial officer, Oracle | U.S. |
| 29 | Susan E. Arnold | President, global business units, Procter & Gamble | U.S. |
| 30 | Andrea Jung | Chairman, chief executive, Avon Products | U.S. |
| 31 | Judy McGrath | Chairman, chief executive, MTV Networks | U.S. |
| 32 | Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding | Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. |
| 33 | Marina Berlusconi | Chairman, Fininvest Group | Italy |
| 34 | Zoe Cruz | Co-president, Morgan Stanley | U.S. |
| 35 | Amy Pascal | Cochair, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures | U.S. |
| 36 | Ann Livermore | Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard | U.S. |
| 37 | Margaret Chan | Director-general, World Health Organization | China |
| 38 | Helen Clark | Prime minister | New Zealand |
| 39 | Tzipora Livni | Foreign affairs minister | Israel |
| 40 | Ana Patricia Botin | Chairman, Banesto | Spain |
| 41 | Renetta McCann | Chief executive, Starcom MediaVest Group | U.S. |
| 42 | Susan M. Ivey | Chairman, chief executive, president, Reynolds American | U.S. |
| 43 | Yang Mianmian | Chairman, Haier | China |
| 44 | Linda Z. Cook | Executive director, gas & power, Royal Dutch Shell | Netherlands |
| 45 | Janet L. Robinson | Chief executive, president, The New York Times Company | U.S. |
| 46 | Christine Poon | Vice chairman, Johnson & Johnson | U.S. |
| 47 | Drew Gilpin Faust | President, Harvard University | U.S. |
| 48 | Paula Rosput Reynolds | Chief executive, president, Safeco | U.S. |
| 49 | Nancy Tellem | President, CBS Paramount Television Entertainment, CBS Corp. | U.S. |
| 50 | Tarja Halonen | President | Finland |