Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women [2014]

Status Forbes

Missing: Christine Lagarde (5); Mary Barra (7); Virginia Rometty (10); Park Geun-hye (11); Susan Wojcicki (12); Indra Nooyi (13); Irene Rosenfeld (15);Maria das Gracas Silva Foster (16); Marilyn Hewson (21); Ursula Burns (22); Helen Clark (23); Safra Catz (24); Gina Rinehart (27); Laurene Powell Jobs (29); Margaret Chan (30); Ellen Kullman (31); Drew Gilpin Faust (33); Amy Johnson (34); Arundhati Bhattacharya (36); Renee James (37); Sri Mulyani Indrawati (38); Joyce Banda (40); Wu Yajun (41); Bonnie Hammer (42); Chanda Kochhar (43); Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (44); Ertherin Cousin (45); Sheikh Hasina Wajed (47); Amy Hood (48); Angela Ahrendts (49); Margaret Hamburg (51); Lucy Peng (53); Cher Wang (54); Sheikha Lubna al-Qasimi (55); Gail Kelly (56); Peng Liyuan (57); Ho Ching (59); Guler Sabanci (60); Zhang Xin (62); Rosalind Brewer (64); Phebe Novakovic (65); Mary Callahan Erdoes (66); Adena Friedman (69); Padmasree Warrior (71); Elvira Nabiullina (72); Mary Jo White (73); Chua Sock Koong (74); Carol Meyrowitz (76); Mary Meeker (77); Helene Gayle (78); Patricia Harris (80); Sun Yafang (81); Solina Chau (82); Yao Chen (83); Judy Faulkner (84); Patricia Woertz (85); Lubna S. Olayan (86); Hu Shuli (87); Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (88); Gwynne Shotwell (90); Sheikha Mayassa Al-Thani (91); Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (92); Fatima Al-Jaber (94); Jennifer Li (95); Folorunsho Alakija (96); Weili Dai (97); Beth Brooke-Marciniak (98); Lila Tretikov (99)

This Category is Ranked. Sort by Ranking Based on Votes by clicking on Vote Ranking. Sort by the Collection's Ranking by clicking on List Ranking.

Vote RankingList Ranking  

19

1

Angela Merkel

World Leader

48.39% (15 of 31 votes)

18

2

Janet Yellen

Economist

48.51% (98 of 202 votes)

35

3

Melinda Gates

Philanthropist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

5

4

Dilma Rousseff

World Leader

100% (1 of 1 votes)

8

5

Christine Lagarde

Politician

87.50% (7 of 8 votes)

14

6

Hillary Rodham Clinton

First Lady

52.23% (2351 of 4501 votes)

13

8

Michelle Obama

First Lady

55.83% (613 of 1098 votes)

37

9

Sheryl Sandberg

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 0 votes)

7

12

Susan Wojcicki

Entrepreneur

100% (1 of 1 votes)

11

14

Oprah Winfrey

TV Personality

61.72% (208 of 337 votes)

9

17

Beyonce Knowles

Vocalist

70.32% (1111 of 1580 votes)

16

18

Marissa Mayer

Entrepreneur

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

33

19

Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner

Politician

0% (0 of 1 votes)

1

20

Meg Whitman

Entrepreneur

100% (12 of 12 votes)

2

25

Michelle Bachelet

World Leader

100% (2 of 2 votes)

26

26

Nancy Pelosi

U.S. Congressman

33.09% (2638 of 7971 votes)

32

28

Amy Pascal

Entrepreneur

0% (0 of 1 votes)

6

29

Laurene Powell Jobs

Philanthropist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

22

32

Sofia Vergara

Actress

42.86% (105 of 245 votes)

12

35

Queen Elizabeth II Windsor

Monarch

57.96% (91 of 157 votes)

34

39

Anna Wintour

Stylist

0% (0 of 0 votes)

15

42

Bonnie Hammer

TV Executive

52.00% (104 of 200 votes)

25

46

Ellen DeGeneres

Comedienne

33.59% (86 of 256 votes)

24

50

Angelina Jolie

Actress

39.30% (90 of 229 votes)

27

52

Arianna Huffington

Commentator

28.57% (4 of 14 votes)

36

57

Peng Liyuan

First Lady

0% (0 of 2 votes)

17

58

Shakira (Ripoll)

Vocalist

49.78% (112 of 225 votes)

3

61

Aung San Suu Kyi

Advocate

100% (2 of 2 votes)

4

63

Samantha Power

Diplomat

100% (11 of 11 votes)

23

67

Lady GaGa

Vocalist

42.13% (99 of 235 votes)

28

68

Diane Von Furstenberg

Designer

5.56% (2 of 36 votes)

29

70

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Politician

0% (0 of 0 votes)

30

75

Miuccia Prada

Designer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

31

79

Tory Burch (Robinson)

Designer

0% (0 of 1 votes)

20

89

Gisele Bundchen

Model

45.26% (129 of 285 votes)

10

93

Sara Blakely

Entrepreneur

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

21

100

Greta Van Susteren

Attorney

44.44% (4 of 9 votes)