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Indra Nooyi among Forbes’ most powerful women

Indra Nooyi among Forbes’ most powerful women

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New York: German leader Angela Merkel and businesswomen dominate Forbes magazine’s new list of powerful women, while First Lady Michelle Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton didn’t break the top 30.

Merkel headed the list, published on Wednesday, for the fourth year running, with the magazine highlighting her role as leader of the huge German economy and her likely re-election in September.

Reflecting the world’s focus on recession and the struggle to keep the financial markets afloat, Merkel was followed almost exclusively by businesswomen.

In second place came Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, which insures US banks.

Third was Indra Nooyi, chief executive at PepsiCo, then Cynthia Carroll, the chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, and Ho Ching, chief executive at Singapore’s government investment company Temasek Holdings.

Hillary Clinton slipped from 28 last year, when she was close to winning the Democratic presidential nomination to 36, despite heading the powerful US State Department.

Michelle Obama came into the list for the first time. Although she has the ear of the US president around the clock, she ranked only 40.

Below her, at 42, came Britain’ Queen Elizabeth II.

The full list can be seen at www.forbes.com/women-

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Published: 20 Aug 2009, 10:31 AM IST
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