1) Angela Dorothea Merkel- Chancellor of Germany, The daughter of a Lutheran pastor and

teacher, Merkel grew up in a rural area north of Berlin in the then German Democratic
Republic. She studied physics at the University of Leipzig, earning a doctorate in 1978, and
later worked as a chemist at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry, Academy of
Sciences (1978–1990).

2) Hillary Rodham Clinton- United States Secretary of State

3) Sonia Gandhi- Italian-born President of the Indian National Congress and the widow of
former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi, Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance

4) Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama- First Lady of the United States, wife of the President
of the United States Barack Obama
5) Sheila Colleen Bair- Chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

6) Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi- Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PepsiCo
7) Cristina Elizabet Fernández de Kirchner- President of Argentina, acted as First Lady during
President Néstor Kirchner.

8) Chanda Kochhar- Managing Director (MD) of ICICI Bank [[IBN]] and Chief Executive Officer
(CEO)
9) Christine Lagarde- Minister of Economic Affairs, Industry and Employment of France.

10) Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom- Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Queen of 16
sovereign countries, Head of the Commonwealth, and Supreme Governor of the Church of
England
11) Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino- CEO of Pearson PLC [[PSO]], first female Chief Executive of
a FTSE 100 company.

12) Gail Kelly- CEO at Westpac (Westpac Banking Corporation),first woman CEO of a major
Australian bank.
13) Safra A. Catz- Chief Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation [[ORCL]].

14) Anne M. Mulcahy- chairman and former chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation [[XRX]].
15) Ursula M. Burns- chief executive officer of Xerox [[XRX]], first African-American woman CEO
to head a S&P 100 company.

16) Carol Ann Bartz- President  and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. [[YHOO]].
17) Serena Jameka Williams- American tennis player and the current World Number 1 ranked
female player.

18) Anne Lauvergeon- chief executive officer of AREVA, French multinational conglomerate that
is mainly known for nuclear power
19) Angela F. Braly- Chief executive officer for WellPoint, Inc.[[WLP]]

20) Ellen J. Kullman- President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of E. I. du Pont de
Nemours and Company (“DuPont”) [[DD]] [[DDPRB]] in Wilmington and a former director of
General Motors.
21) Irene B. Rosenfeld- Chief Executive Officer of Kraft Foods Inc. [[KFT]]

22) Cynthia Carroll- Chief executive officer of Anglo American PLC

23) Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria- was President of Chile, the first woman to hold this
position in the country’s history.

24) Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko- Ukraine’s first female prime minister

25) Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan- Queen consort of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II
of Jordan.