Forbes: Most Powerful Women in the World

The 100 list includes Nigeria’s financial minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was number 81, United States First Lady Michelle Obama, Musical singer Beyonce, Television mogul Oprah Winfrey and many others:

“For nine years FORBES has ranked the 100 most powerful women in the world. These are the women who adhere to the traditional classifications of power (political and economic might) and those who have risen to the top of the social and cultural landscape. It is our annual snapshot of women who impact the world.

This year the list features eight heads of state–including our No. 1, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (plus one monarch who just celebrated her Diamond Jubilee), 25 CEOs who control $984 billion in revenues and 11 billionaires personally worth nearly $80 billion. We feature some dozen entrepreneurs and 10 celebrities who do more than look good: they’re philanthropic do-gooders and entrepreneurial go-getters.” – Forbes

1. Angela Merkel

2. Hillary Clinton

3. Dilma Rousseff

4. Melinda Gates

5. Jill Abramson

6. Sonia Gandhi

7. Michelle Obama

8. Christine Lagarde

9. Janet Napolitano

10. Sheryl Sandberg

11. Oprah Winfrey

12. Indra Nooyi

13. Irene Rosenfeld

14. Lady Gaga

15. Virginia Rometty

16. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

17. Ursula Burns

18. Meg Whitman

19. Aung San Suu Kyi

20. Maria das Graças Silva Foster

21. Marissa Mayer

22. Anne Sweeney

23. Diane Sawyer

24. Angela Braly

25. Susan Wojcicki

26. Queen Elizabeth II

27. Julia Gillard

28. Nancy Pelosi

29. Arianna Huffington

30. Yingluck Shinawatra

31. Kathleen Sebelius

32. Beyonce Knowles

33. Diane Von Furstenberg

34. Helen Clark

35. Georgina Rinehart

36. Amy Pascal

37. Margaret Chan

38. Jennifer Lopez

39. Sheri McCoy

40. Shakira

41. Mary Barra

42. Zhang Xin & family

43. Alice Walton

44. Laura Lang

45. Angela Ahrendts

46. Sue Naegle

47. Ellen DeGeneres

48. Safra Catz

49. Laurene Powell Jobs & family

50. Rosalind Brewer

51. Anna Wintour

52. Helene Gayle

53. Christiane Amanpour

54. Rosalia Mera

55. Cynthia Carroll

56. Cher Wang

57. Abigail Johnson

58. Padmasree Warrior

59. Chanda Kochhar

60. Gail Kelly

61. Margaret Hamburg

62. Ellen Kullman

63. Drew Gilpin Faust

64. Shari Arison

65. Mary Schapiro

66. Angelina Jolie

67. Miuccia Prada

68. Carol Meyrowitz

69. Ertharin Cousin

70. Sue Gardner

71. Joyce Banda

72. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

73. Bonnie Hammer

74. Chua Sock Koong

75. Sofia Vergara

76. Ho Ching

77. Tina Brown

78. J.K. Rowling

79. Chan Laiwa & family

80. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

81. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

82. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

83. Gisele Bundchen

84. Mary Meeker

85. Shaikha Al-Bahar

86. Marjorie Scardino

87. Solina Chau

88. Jan Fields

89. Weili Dai

90. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

91. Sun Yafang

92. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi

93. Guler Sabanci

94. Greta Van Susteren

95. Mary Callahan Erdoes

96. Mindy Grossman

97. Patricia Woertz

98. Judith Rodin

99. Beth Brooke

100. Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani