NEW YORK, NY, (FORBES Magazine), September 15, 2008 issue
Special Report
The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
Edited by Mary Ellen Egan and Chana R. Schoenberger
Our annual ranking of the most powerful women in the world measures "power" as a composite of public profile--calculated using press mentions--and financial heft. The economic component of the ranking considers job title and past career accomplishments, as well as the amount of money the woman controls.
For the third year running Germany's chancellor,
Angela Merkel, is the world's most powerful woman. U.S. Sen.
Hillary Clinton (overall rank: 28) is the woman with the highest public profile, resulting from the intense media scrutiny of her failed presidential bid.
AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
CHANCELLOR - GERMANY
With $3.3 trillion in GDP, Germany is Europe's biggest economy, and Merkel's reforms are sparking a rebound, with unemployment falling (although consumer confidence just hit a five-year low). She pushed through a later retirement age, put more women in senior government posts, and raised payments to new parents. Bulldozes through controversy: hosted the Dalai Lama, chastised Mugabe, and wants to make the euro a bigger player in global financial markets as the dollar wanes. Also trying to make Germany more eco-friendly with steep greenhouse-gas cuts. Europeans voted her their most influential politician. — Tatiana Serafin
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/
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US SENATOR - NEW YORK
Ran historic campaign to become the first woman president of the U.S., conceding to Barack Obama in June after a drawn-out battle. Her health care ideas made a mark on the nominee's policies. Now back at Senate duties, Clinton in July called the Bush administration's plan to define contraception methods as abortions an "insult" to women. "We will not put up with this radical, ideological agenda to turn the clock back on women's rights," she said. — Tatiana Serafin
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The World's Most Powerful Women
The Top 10
1. Angela Merkel
2. Sheila C. Bair
3. Indra K. Nooyi
4. Angela Braly
5. Cynthia Carroll
6. Irene B. Rosenfeld
7. Condoleezza Rice
8. Ho Ching
9. Anne Lauvergeon
10. Anne Mulcahy
2008 Forbes.com LLC™
NEW YORK, NY, (FORBES Magazine), September 15, 2008 issue
Special Report
The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
Edited by Mary Ellen Egan and Chana R. Schoenberger
Our annual ranking of the most powerful women in the world measures "power" as a composite of public profile--calculated using press mentions--and financial heft. The economic component of the ranking considers job title and past career accomplishments, as well as the amount of money the woman controls.
For the third year running Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, is the world's most powerful woman. U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (overall rank: 28) is the woman with the highest public profile, resulting from the intense media scrutiny of her failed presidential bid.
AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
CHANCELLOR - GERMANY
With $3.3 trillion in GDP, Germany is Europe's biggest economy, and Merkel's reforms are sparking a rebound, with unemployment falling (although consumer confidence just hit a five-year low). She pushed through a later retirement age, put more women in senior government posts, and raised payments to new parents. Bulldozes through controversy: hosted the Dalai Lama, chastised Mugabe, and wants to make the euro a bigger player in global financial markets as the dollar wanes. Also trying to make Germany more eco-friendly with steep greenhouse-gas cuts. Europeans voted her their most influential politician. — Tatiana Serafin
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/
Getty Images
US SENATOR - NEW YORK
Ran historic campaign to become the first woman president of the U.S., conceding to Barack Obama in June after a drawn-out battle. Her health care ideas made a mark on the nominee's policies. Now back at Senate duties, Clinton in July called the Bush administration's plan to define contraception methods as abortions an "insult" to women. "We will not put up with this radical, ideological agenda to turn the clock back on women's rights," she said. — Tatiana Serafin
More ...
The World's Most Powerful Women
The Top 10
1. Angela Merkel
2. Sheila C. Bair
3. Indra K. Nooyi
4. Angela Braly
5. Cynthia Carroll
6. Irene B. Rosenfeld
7. Condoleezza Rice
8. Ho Ching
9. Anne Lauvergeon
10. Anne Mulcahy
2008 Forbes.com LLC™
