The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. (2004-2005): Listed in no particular
order. Listed by name, country and age.
1. Benazir Bhutto - Pakistan,
42 . 2. Hillary Clinton - US, 48 . 3. Queen Elizabeth II - UK, 70 .
4.
Margaret Thatcher - UK, 70 . 5. Alice Mitchell Rivlin - US, 65 .
6. Tansu
Ciller - Turkey, 49 . 7. Gro Harlem Brundtland - Norway, 57 .
8. Wu Yi -
China, 57 . 9. Germaine Greer - Australia, 57 .
10. Oprah Winfrey - US, 42 .
11. Sadako Ogata - Japan, 68 .
12. Christine Todd Whitman - US, 49 .
13. Anson
Chang - Hong Kong, 55 . 14. Late
Katharine Graham - US, 78 . 15. Laura d'Andrea
Tyson - US, 49 . 16. Rachel Lomax - UK, 50 .
17. Madeleine Korbel Albright -
US, 58 . 18. Tutut Suharto - Indonesia, 47 .
19. Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma, 50
. 20. Mary Robinson - Ireland, 51 .
21. Vidgis Finnbogadottir - Iceland, 66 .
22. Janet Reno - US, 58 . 23. Nafis Sadik - Pakistan, 61 .
24. Hanan Ashrawi -
Palestine, 49 . 25. Queen Beatrix - The Netherlands, 58 .
26. Charlotte Beers
- US, 59 . 27. Sheila Widnall - US, 58 .
28. Sheila Maureen Copps - Canada, 43
. 29. Nguyen Thi Binh - Vietnam, 69 .
30. Dianne Feinstein - US, 63 . 31. Violeta Chamorro - Nicaragua, 65 . 32. Chandrika Kumaratunga - Sri Lanka, 50 .
33. Begum Khaleda Zia - Bangladesh, 50 .
34. Rita Sussmuth - Germany, 59 . 35. Mirjana Markovic - former Yugoslavia, 53 . 36. Christine Ockrent - France, 51
. 37. Sherry Lansing - US, 51 .
38. Gloria Steinem - US, 61 .
39. Jodie Foster
- US, 33 . 40. Late Estee Lauder - US, 87 .
41. Rosabeth Moss Kanter - US, 53 .
42.
Pauline Green - UK, 47 . 43. Barbara Walters - US, 64 .
44. Sandra Day
O'Connor - US, 66 . 45. Anita Roddick - UK, 53 .
46. Ruth Bader Ginsburg - US,
63 . 47. Nadine Gordimer - South Africa, 73 . 48. Tina Brown - US, 42 .
49.
Christy Turlington - US, 27. 50. Susanna Agnelli - Italy, 73 .
51. Carol Bellamy
- US, 54 . 52. Liliana Ferraro - Italy, 52 .
53. Carol Galley - UK, 47 .
54.
Madonna - US, 38 . 55. Countess Marion Donhoff - Germany, 86 .
56. Jana Wendt
- Australia, 39 . 57. Sylvia Toth - The Netherlands, 52 .
58. Imelda Marcos -
Philippines, 67 . 59. Queen Sirikit - Thailand, 63 .
60. Irene Pivetti -
Italy, 33 . 61. Cheryl Kernot - Australia, 47 .
62. Catherine Bertini - US, 46
. 63. Ritt Bjerregaard - Denmark, 54 . 64. Elizabeth Dole - US, 59 . 65.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell - Canada, 50 66. Takako Doi - Japan, 67 .
67. Anita
DeFrantz - US, 43 . 68. Donna Karan - US, 47 .
69. Miriam Defensor Santiago -
Philippines, 51 . 70. Helen Gurley Brown - US, 74 .
71. Elisabeth Guigou -
France, 49 . 72. Janet Holmes - Australia, 52 .
73. Bodil Nyboe
Andersen - Denmark, 55 . 74. Heide Simonis - Germany, 52 .
75. Jutta Limbach -
Germany, 61 . 76. Hanna Suchocka - Poland, 50 .
77. Wandira Kazibwe - Uganda,
42 . 78. Simone Veil - France, 68 .
79. Jennie George - Australia, 48 . 80.
Rosalyn Higgins - UK, 58 . 81. Dame Leonie Kramer - Australia, 71.
82. Rene Saez - Venezuela, 34 .
83. Megawati Sukarno - Indonesia, 49 .
84. Erika Emmerich - Germany, 52 . 85. Dai Qing - China, 55 .
86. Sirkka Hamalainen -
Finland, 57 . 87. Roseanne - US, 42 .
88. Winnie Mandela - South Africa, 61 .
89. Xuxa - Brazil, 43.
90. Irina Khakamada - Russia, 40 .
91. Helen Clark -
New Zealand, 46 . 92. Esther Koplowitz - Spain, 44 .
93. Alicia Koplowitz -
Spain, 42 . 94. Tatyana Mitkova - Russia, 40 .
95. Ilda Boccassini - Italy, 46
. 96. Francoise Baree-Sinoussi - France, 48 .
97. Emily Lau - China, 43 .
98. Late Mother Teresa - India, 85 .
99. Betty Boothroyd - UK, 66 .
100. Meg Whitman, 49, USA.
SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL
JEWISH WOMEN
Christine Todd
Whitman (USA) Rachel Lomax (UK) Esther Koplowitz (SPAIN)
USA
MOST POWERFUL WOMEN (National Influence, 2004-2005): Listed
in no particular order
Laura Bush, First Lady,
Elaine Chao, US Secretary of Labor. .Lynne Cheney, Second Lady. Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, Justice, US Supreme Court, Karen Hughes, Counselor to the President,
White House. Margaret LaMontagne, Director of Domestic Policy Council, White
House. Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior. Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice,
US Supreme Court. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser. Ann M. Veneman,
US Secretary of Agriculture. Christie Todd Whitman, Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency.
ON CAPITOL HILL:
Listed in no particular order
Hillary Clinton, US Senator,
New York. Jennifer Dunn, US Representative, Washington State. Susan Hirschmann,
Chief of staff, House majority leader Tom DeLay. Kay Bailey Hutchison, US
Senator, Texas. Eddie Bernice Johnson, US Representative, Texas; chair,
Congressional Black Caucus. Nita Lowey, US Representative, New York;
chairwoman, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Barbara A. Mikulski,
US Senator, Maryland. Patty Murray, US Senator, Washington; chair, Democratic
Senate Campaign Committee. Pam Pryor, Chief of staff, House Republican
Conference. Olympia Snowe, US Senator, Maine. Ellen Tauscher, US
Representative, California; vice chair, Democratic Leadership Council.
AMERICA WOMEN OF
REGIONAL POWERS:
Listed in no particular order
Katherine Hanley, Chairman,
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Charlene Drew Jarvis, President,
Southeastern University. Iris Metts, School superintendent, Prince George's
County. Constance A. Morella, US Representative, Montgomery County;
chairwoman, subcommittee on the District of Columbia. Eleanor Holmes Norton,
Delegate to Congress, District of Columbia. Alice Rivlin, Senior fellow for
economic studies, Brookings Institution. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Lieutenant
governor, Maryland.
AMERICAN WOMEN WITH ENORMOUS LEGAL
AUTHORITY:
Brooksley Born,Arnold & Porter. Maureen
Dwyer, Shaw Pittman. Tilly Fowler, Holland & Knight. Natalie Ludaway, Leftwich
& Douglas. Judith A. Miller, Williams & Connolly. Marna Tucker, Feldesman,
Tucker, Leifer, Fidell & Bank. Greta Van Susteren, TV host and legal expert,
FoxNews.
AMERICAN WOMEN WITH POWERFUL
INFLUENCE IN BUSINESS, LABOR AND
LOBBYING:
Patty Abramson, Managing director,
Women's Growth Capital Fund. Kathy Bushkin, Senior vice president, AOL Time
Warner; president, AOL Time Warner Foundation. Linda Chavez-Thompson,
Executive vice president, AFL-CIO. Nancy Chistolini, Senior vice president of
fashion and public relations, Hecht's. Josephine Cooper, President and CEO,
Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. Linda Daschle, Lobbyist, Baker Donelson
Bearman & Caldwell. Jamie Gorelick, Vice chair, Fannie Mae. Marie Johns,
President and CEO, Verizon Washington DC. Bobbie Kilberg, President, Northern
Virginia Technology Council. Barbara Krumsiek, President and CEO, Calvert
Group. Charito Kruvant, President and CEO, Creative Associates International.
Mary MacPherson, Executive director, Netpreneur. Linda Rabbitt, President,
Rand Construction; chair-elect, Greater Washington Board of Trade. Hilary
Rosen, President and CEO, Recording Industry Association of America. Sheila
Tate, Powell Tate. Anne Wexler, Wexler Group. Jeannette Lee White, President
and CEO, Sytel.
POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN EDUCATION AND AND
CONSULTING:
Judith Areen, Dean, Georgetown
University Law Center. Alice Gresham Bullock, Dean, Howard University Law
School. Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation. Patricia A.
McGuire, President, Trinity College. Charlene Nunley, President, Montgomery
College. Susan C. Schwab, Dean, School of Public Affairs, University of
Maryland. Belle S. Wheelan, President, Northern Virginia Community College.
POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN RELIGION: Jane Holmes Dixon, Acting
bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
POWERFUL WOMEN IN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS:
Anne Allen, Executive director, Cafritz Foundation. Marian Wright
Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund. Terri L. Freeman, President,
Community Foundation for the National Capital Region. Alma Gildenhorn,
Honorary trustee, Kennedy Center; cochair of the fundraising campaign for the
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland. Kate Michelman, President,
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. Karen Narasaki,
Executive director, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. Alma
Powell, Vice chairman, Kennedy Center Board of Trustees; chair of national
council, Best Friends Foundation. Julie Rogers, President, Eugene and Agnes
Meyer Foundation. Jan Verhage, Executive director, Girl Scout Council of the
Nation's Capital.
POWERFUL
AMERICAN WOMEN IN HEALTH CARE:
Judith Bello, Executive vice
president, Pharmaceutical and Research Manufacturers of America. Bernadine
Healy, President and CEO, Red Cross. Karen Ignagni, President and CEO,
American Association of Health Plans. Ruth Kirschstein, Acting director,
National Institutes of Health. Ana Raley, CEO, DC Healthcare Alliance. Deborah
Steelman, Vice president of corporate affairs, Eli Lilly and Company.
POWERFUL
AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE MEDIA:
Jill Abramson, Bureau chief,
New York Times. Maureen Dowd, Columnist, New York Times. Cathy
Hughes, Owner/founder, Radio One. Karen Jurgensen, Editor,
USA Today.
Debra L. Lee, President and
CEO,Black Entertainment Television. Janet Leissner, Vice president and bureau
chief, CBS News. Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, PBS. Diane Rehm, Radio
talk-show host, WAMU-FM. Cokie Roberts, Anchor/analyst, ABC News and National
Public Radio. Sharon Percy Rockefeller, President and CEO, WETA-TV and WETA-FM.
Robin Sproul, Vice president and bureau chief, ABC News. Linda Sullivan,
General manager, WRC-TV. Judy Woodruff, Prime anchor and senior correspondent,
CNN.
POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE ARTS AND LETTERS:
Sheila Burke, Undersecretary for American museums and national programs,
Smithsonian Institution. Susan Farr, Executive director, Clarice Smith Center
for the Performing Arts at Maryland. Norma Kaplan, Chief, Arlington County
Cultural Affairs Division. Molly Smith, Artistic director, Arena Stage. Joy
Zinoman, Artistic and managing director, Studio Theatre in Washington, DC.
10 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN FASHION:1.
Marie Bravo, 2. Miuccia Prada, 3. Anna Wintour, 4.Donna
Karan, 5. Rei Kawabuko, 6.Olsen Sisters, 7. Angela Ahrendts, 8. Delphine
Arnault, 9. Aerin Lauder, 10. Floriane de Saint Pierre.
