FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
Amelia Fawcett Rank: 43 (2004 rank: 40)
Company: Morgan Stanley International Based in: Britain Title: Vice Chairman
A Boston native and a lawyer by training—she worked for white-shoe Sullivan & Cromwell before joining Morgan Stanley in 1987—Fawcett, 49, is the City's most powerful female banker. As vice chairman of Morgan Stanley International, she has helped make her firm second only to Goldman Sachs in Europe. Despite her busy schedule, she still finds time to fly fish and enjoy her farm in Wales on weekends.
From the November 14, 2005 issue
Highest pay
These women are among the highest paid in corporate America. All of them are employed by companies with over $1 billion in sales that filed proxies by September 1, 2005.
Newcomer Charlene Begley heads up GE's plastics division and is the youngest of this group at age 39. She bumped last year's youngest gun, Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck, now 40. But, on average, the Power 50 are in their late 40s.
