Forbes 2008 World Most Powerful Women
Posted on September 20, 2008
Forbes magazine has this habit to rank the world prominent personalities in various categories and field of influences even on gender basis. This time around Forbes present 100 most powerful women in the world. Prior to this, Forbes has presented the Top 100 Richest People in the World and Top Richest Royals.
Interesting to note, especially for Indonesian, that an Indonesian woman that is Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia’s Coordinating minister for economic affairs and finance minister, has been ranked at no. 23 ahead of such prominent women as Gloria Arroyo, President of the Philippines, ranked at no. 41, Hillary Rodham Clinton (no. 28), Nancy Pelosi, US Speaker of House of Representative (no. 35), Oprah Winfrey (no. 36), Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (no. 38). You may wonder why.
Here’s what Forbes has to say:
Since Indrawati’s 2005 appointment as Indonesia’s finance minister, the country’s foreign exchange reserves reached an all-time high of $50 billion, and foreign investment skyrocketed. She has fought against government corruption, created tax incentives and simplified investment laws. Her performance earned her a promotion. In June Indrawati was named to run the country’s economic affairs. — Kate Macmillan
The following is the full list of Forbes’ top 100 most influential / powerful women in the world in 2008 according
| Rank | Name | Occupation | Country |
| 1 | Angela Merkel | Chancellor | Germany |
| 2 | Sheila C. Bair | Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. | U.S. |
| 3 | Indra K. Nooyi | Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo | U.S. |
| 4 | Angela Braly | Chief executive, president, WellPoint | U.S. |
| 5 | Cynthia Carroll | Chief executive, Anglo American | U.K. |
| 6 | Irene B. Rosenfeld | Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods | U.S. |
| 7 | Condoleezza Rice | Secretary of state | U.S. |
| 8 | Ho Ching | Chief executive, Temasek Holdings | Singapore |
| 9 | Anne Lauvergeon | Chief executive, Areva | France |
| 10 | Anne Mulcahy | Chairman, chief executive, Xerox Corp. | U.S. |
| 11 | Gail Kelly | Chief executive and managing director, Westpac Bank | Australia |
| 12 | Patricia A. Woertz | Chairman, chief executive, president, Archer Daniels Midland | U.S. |
| 13 | Cristina Fernandez | President | Argentina |
| 14 | Christine Lagarde | Minister of economy, finance and employment | France |
| 15 | Safra A. Catz | President and chief financial officer, Oracle | U.S. |
| 16 | Carol B. Tome | Executive vice president and chief financial officer, Home Depot | U.S. |
| 17 | Yulia Tymoshenko | Prime minister | Ukraine |
| 18 | Mary Sammons | Chairman, chief executive, president, Rite Aid | U.S. |
| 19 | Andrea Jung | Chairman, chief executive, Avon | U.S. |
| 20 | Marjorie Scardino | Chief executive, Pearson PLC | U.K. |
| 21 | Sonia Gandhi | President, Indian National Congress Party | India |
| 22 | Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | Chief Executive and President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | U.S. |
| 23 | Sri Mulyani Indrawati | Coordinating minister for economic affairs and finance minister | Indonesia |
| 24 | Dr. Julie Gerberding | Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | U.S. |
| 25 | Michelle Bachelet | President | Chile |
| 26 | Ellen Alemany | Chief executive, Royal Bank of Scotland Americas | U.S. |
| 27 | Carol Meyrowitz | Chief executive, president, The TJX Cos. | U.S. |
| 28 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | U.S. senator, New York | U.S. |
| 29 | Hynd Bouhia | Director General, Casablanca Stock Exchange | Morocco |
| 30 | Anne Sweeney | President, Disney-ABC Television Group | U.S. |
| 31 | Valentina Matviyenko | Governor, St. Petersburg region | Russia |
| 32 | Nancy Tellem | President, CBS Paramount Television Entertainment Group | U.S. |
| 33 | Ann Livermore | Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard | U.S. |
| 34 | Marina Berlusconi | Chairman, Finivest Group and Mondadori Group | Italy |
| 35 | Nancy Pelosi | Speaker, House of Representatives | U.S. |
| 36 | Oprah Winfrey | Chairman, Harpo | U.S. |
| 37 | Gulzhan Moldazhanova | Chief Executive, Basic Element | Russia |
| 38 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Deposed prime minister; Nobel peace laureate | Myanmar |
| 39 | Lynn Laverty Elsenhans | Chief executive and president, Sunoco | U.S. |
| 40 | Melinda Gates | Co-founder, co-chairman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | U.S. |
| 41 | Gloria Arroyo | President | Philippines |
| 42 | Jane Mendillo | President and chief executive, Harvard Management Co. | U.S. |
| 43 | Linda Z. Cook | Executive director, gas and power, Royal Dutch Shell | Netherlands |
| 44 | Laura Bush | First lady | U.S. |
| 45 | Brenda Barnes | Chief executive, Sara Lee | U.S. |
| 46 | Christine Poon | Vice chairman, Johnson & Johnson | U.S. |
| 47 | Neelie Kroes | Competition commissioner, European Union | Netherlands |
| 48 | Amy Woods Brinkley | Global risk executive, Bank of America | U.S. |
| 49 | Susan E. Arnold | President, global business units, Procter & Gamble | U.S. |
| 50 | Susan Decker | President, Yahoo! | U.S. |
| 51 | Ana Patricia Botin | Chairman, Banesto | Spain |
| 52 | Tzipora Livni | Vice prime minister and minister of foreign affairs | Israel |
| 53 | Dominique Senequier | Chief executive officer, AXA Private Equity | France |
| 54 | Amy Pascal | Co-chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment | U.S. |
| 55 | Ursula Burns | President, Xerox | U.S. |
| 56 | Helen Clark | Prime minister | New Zealand |
| 57 | Laura Desmond | Chief executive officer, Starcom MediaVest Group Worldwide | U.S. |
| 58 | Queen Elizabeth II | Queen | U.K. |
| 59 | Mayawati Kumari | Chief minister, Uttar Pradesh | India |
| 60 | Judy McGrath | Chairman and chief executive officer, MTV Networks | U.S. |
| 61 | Meredith Vieira | Co-anchor, Today show, NBC News | U.S. |
| 62 | Katie Couric | Anchor, CBS Evening News, CBS News | U.S. |
| 63 | Barbara Walters | Correspondent, ABC News | U.S. |
| 64 | Sallie Krawcheck | Chairman and chief executive, Global Wealth Management, Citigroup | U.S. |
| 65 | Diane Sawyer | Anchor, Good Morning America, ABC News | U.S. |
| 66 | Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf | President | Liberia |
| 67 | Janice Fields | Chief operating officer and executive vice president, McDonald’s | U.S. |
| 68 | Zhang Xin | Chief executive officer, co-founder, Soho | China |
| 69 | Zaha Hadid | Founder, Zaha Hadid Architects | U.K. |
| 70 | Yang Mian Mian | President, Haier | China |
| 71 | Tarja Halonen | President | Finland |
| 72 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Justice, Supreme Court | U.S. |
| 73 | Hyun Jeong-Eun | Chairman, Hyundai Group | South Korea |
| 74 | Mary McAleese | President | Ireland |
| 75 | Guler Sabanci | Chairman, Sabanci Holding | Turkey |
| 76 | Drew Gilpin Faust | President, Harvard University | U.S. |
| 77 | Lisa M. Weber | President, Individual Business, MetLife | U.S. |
| 78 | Dora Bakoyannis | Foreign minister | Greece |
| 79 | Beth Brooke | Global vice chairman, Ernst & Young | U.S. |
| 80 | Lee Myung-Hee | Chairman, Shinsegae Group | South Korea |
| 81 | Susan M. Ivey | Chief executive, Reynolds American | U.S. |
| 82 | Nancy McKinstry | CEO, Wolters Kluwer | Netherlands |
| 83 | Janet L. Robinson | President and chief executive, The New York Times Co. | U.S. |
| 84 | Margaret Chan | Director-general, World Health Organization | Switzerland |
| 85 | Clara Furse | Chief executive, London Stock Exchange | U.K. |
| 86 | Ellen J. Kullman | Executive vice president, DuPont | U.S. |
| 87 | Susan Desmond-Hellmann | President, product development, Genentech | U.S. |
| 88 | Eva Cheng | Chief executive, Greater China and Southeast Asia, Amway | China |
| 89 | Maha Al-Ghunaim | Chairman, managing director, Global Investment House | Kuwait |
| 90 | Christina Gold | Chief executive, Western Union | U.S. |
| 91 | Christiane Amanpour | Chief international correspondent, CNN | U.S. |
| 92 | Pamela Nicholson | President, Enterprise Rent-a-Car | U.S. |
| 93 | Ann Moore | Chairman, chief executive, Time Inc. | U.S. |
| 94 | Sharon Allen | Chair, Deloitte | U.S. |
| 95 | Jing Ulrich | Chairman and managing director, JPMorgan Chase China Equities | China |
| 96 | Queen Rania Al-Abdullah | Queen | Jordan |
| 97 | Virginia Rometty | Senior vice president, IBM Global Business Services | U.S. |
| 98 | Georgina Rinehart | Owner, chairman, Hancock Prospecting | Australia |
| 99 | Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | Chairman and managing director, Biocon | India |
| 100 | Paula Rosput Reynolds | Chief Executive, Safeco | U.S. |
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saya gak ngerti kalkulasi yang dipergunakan. Wajar kalau Angela Merkel ada diurutan pertama, dia punya kualitas yang sudah terbukti sebagai chancellor of Germany. Yang membuat saya sedikit terkejut ternyata Oprah Winfrey termasuk juga.
oh i’m sorry, shit!, could you belive to Fobes that our minister rank is higher then Oprah Winfrey??
Most of the powerful women in the world comes from U.S.. What Happen? is anybody up there except U.S can do this?
great, our Coordinating minister for economic Sri Mulyani got highr Rank too.. i think indonesia should get more people contribute there.. like Megawati and Khofifah Parawansa..
Wow, that’s what i’m talking about.. we got our economic minister there. but, why just one, i think in indonesia its so many powerful woman. i hope forbes can see it soon. smile
masuknya menteri keuangan itu membuktikan kapasitas orang Indonesia.
Fatih…
Nothing surprising in the high ranking. It is warranted on all counts. Yet, if you think about it perhaps she could have ranked even higher considering that she is responsible for the economic welfare of more than 220 million people and that she is the point woman on all things to do with the economy in Indonesia.
Maybe there should be a movement created along the lines of “Sri Mulyani Indrawati for President”…
well actually i prefer FADILAH SUPARI than SRI MULYANI. Do you know how “tough” she is?
Depends on what you mean by tough.
If you mean she is tough for writing a book suggesting that bird flu is the work of the divine hand of God and that there is a conspiracy by Western nations to manipulate the bird flu into a biological weapon for use against predominantly Muslim nations, then the Minister of Health is one tough woman!
If that’s not what you mean, then how is she tough?
Despite on all the contraversion, at least she has done something to the nation and the world has seen her hardwork. We have to be proud of her and let’s hope there will be another Sri Mulyani in the future
wow, it’s amazing to see our minister published in forbes. i’g glad to see that. i’ll be waiting for the powerful man in the world, maybe Mr. Fatihsyuhud will show up there..hehehe
@rob: that’s what i mean
there are many women most powerfully In Indonesia not only Mrs Mulyani
Go,..Go Ahead Indonesian Woman,
Keep Spirit!
Actually thera are many wonderful Indonesian woman. Congrats Bu Menteri
I th ink its because Sri Mulyani have many connection with people out there.
And she has ability to make some change on our country economic
Wow I can’t believe they put Sri Mulyani above Hillary Clinton. How could that be? But, congrats for her. Hebat!
wew….. sri mulyani ….
I can’t believe for that ….
but I think this is the real for indonesian
awesome ………..
One of our duties have been done by a woman. A mother with a great ability who will help this country into a better life. Congratulations, Madam!
We proud of you. I, a kid who will always try to follow the way you thinking, promise to do the best. To fill up every day and every time with study. I wish!
hueheuheu…
great…hebat juga ada warga Indonesia nembus daptar yang didominasi oleh Amerika (btw : yang dari Amerika kok banyak sekali ya? )
Semoga pengertian “paling berkuasa” disini berkorelasi dengan arti “paling berguna”.
oh..where is Bouthania shaban from Syria…she’s cool too..
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Congratuliation..Ms. Srimulyati Indrawati.
Ternyata…wanita di negara kita hanya koar-koar saja tanpa reputasi international…..
menarik sekali..selamat buat Sri Mulyani Indrawati…
Angela Merkel as no 1. not surprised with her. She is such a great woman
Ukuran dari pihak forbes apa ya ? apa harus pejabat ?
She is’nt a powerfull women in Indonesia, I think!
There are many powerfull women in Indonesia,
ex: Mamah Dedeh, Teh Ninih hehehe…
I think Forbes is a racist magazine.
That said, I’m glad to see so many women from Asia and across the globe.
Good job ladies!
bagi saya Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar is the best.
saya tidak begitu tertarik dengan most powerfull woman versi forbes ini.
saya lebih terkesan pada para pejuang di akar rumput, entah itu petani, buruh migran, ibu-ibu di pasar porong, mama yosepha yang tidak henti berlawan atas kesewenangan penguasa dan perusahaan..
Mama Yosepha yang pernah diganjar penghargaan nobel alternatif itu.
ralat comment sebelumnya, andreas adalah andreas iswinarto. mohon maaf
bagi saya Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar is the best.
saya tidak begitu tertarik dengan most powerfull woman versi forbes ini.
saya lebih terkesan pada para pejuang di akar rumput, entah itu petani, buruh migran, ibu-ibu di pasar porong, mama yosepha yang tidak henti berlawan atas kesewenangan penguasa dan perusahaan..
Mama Yosepha yang pernah diganjar penghargaan nobel alternatif itu.
wau nice, thanks for posting this
well, i think it’s time for women to stop talking about feminism
koq miyabi ga masuk ya. Dia kan termasuk paling berpengaruh di otak banyak co
I think it is fair enough to put our Minister of Finance in the list above Oprah Winfrey. Is there any significant performance of Oprah Winfrey to make her rank better ?? I don’t know for sure….
This Rank must become the spirit for Indonesian Woman.
bukan perempuan biasa dari negeri ini…
Saat searching di internet saya temukan arsip Majalah Tempo Desember 2006 dengan liputan khusus yang simpatik dan menarik terkait Hari Perempuan. Dalam edisi ini Tempo mengambil tema Bukan Perempuan Biasa dengan menampilkan profil perempuan-perempuan yang berani meruntuhkan stereotip, perempuan-perempuan yang tak segan melintas batas.
Selain menampilkan profil Laksamana Pertama TNI Angkatan Laut Christina Rantetana, Komisaris Besar Polisi Pengasihan Gaut, Dwi Astuti Soenardi, srikandi pemimpin Tim Ekspedisi Everest Putri Indonesia 2007 dan Rahayu Suhardjono, 56 tahun, peneliti gesit jagoan menelusuri gua karst (kapur), Tempo juga menyuguhkan kisah para perempuan yang berjuang di medan yang sungguh sulit. Seperti Suster Rabi’ah (Suster Apung) juga bidan Adeleda Seba, 53 tahun, yang dijuluki ”Ibu Para Suku”. Sosok yang setia menolong persalinan perempuan suku terpencil di labirin rimba Bangga.
Tempo juga tak lupa menampilkan para pejuang di level bawah. Raida boru Tampubolon menjadi kuli panggul di Pelabuhan Tanjung Priok. Ada Ponirah, wanita pengayuh becak dari Yogyakarta, Suyanti yang sopir bus malam Wonogiri-Jakarta, juga Datin yang buruh gendong di Pasar Legi, Solo.
Tempo mengatakan bagai lilin, para perempuan dari kelas bawah ini rela membakar diri memberikan terang bagi keluarga dan orang banyak. Dan itu mengingatkan pada sajak Hartojo Andangdjaja :
Perempuan-perempuan yang membawa bakul di pagi buta, siapakah mereka
Mereka ialah ibu-ibu berhati baja, perempuan-perempuan perkasa
Akar-akar yang melata dari tanah perbukitan turun ke kota
Mereka cinta kasih yang bergerak menghidupi desa demi desa
silah kunjung
http://lenteradiatasbukit.blogspot.com/2008/10/ibu-berkeranjang-belanja-lokomotif.html
kok bisa yah srimulyani jadi top di forbes. emang dia kontribusinya apaan?
Siapa menyusul..
http://penerjemahresmi.wordpress.com
setidaknya ada wakil dari Indonesia.
My Oprah is in the list good for her. I saw those list full of extraordinary women most of them have position in government.What about the other.?
Horay!!! Mrs. Sri Mulyani became one of them! Congrats!