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50 Most Powerful Women in Business
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FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
International
Rank
Name
Company
1
Patricia Russo
Alcatel Lucent
2
Anne Lauvergeon
Areva
3
Anne-Marie Idrac
SNCF
4
Linda Cook
Royal Dutch Shell
5
Marjorie Scardino
Pearson
6
Xie Qihua
Baosteel Group
7
Marina Berlusconi
Fininvest
8
Nancy McKinstry
Wolters Kluwer
9
Ana Patricia Botín
Banesto
10
Mary Ma
Lenovo
11
Güler Sabanci
Sabanci Holding
12
Ho Ching
Temasek Holdings
13
Annika Falkengren
SEB
14
María Aramburuzabala de Garza
Grupo Modelo
15
Vivienne Cox
BP
16
Maria Ramos
Transnet
17
Chua Sock Koong
SingTel
18
Val Gooding
BUPA
19
Patricia Barbizet
Artémis Holding
20
Yang Mianmian
Haier Group
21
Barbara Kux
Royal Philips Electronics
22
Gulzhan Moldazhanova
Basic Element
23
Theresa Gattung
Telecom New Zealand
24
Tomoyo Nonaka
Sanyo Electric
25
Sun Yafang
Huawei Technologies
26
Clara Furse
London Stock Exchange
27
Barbara Stymiest
Royal Bank of Canada
28
Ann Godbehere
Swiss Re
29
Fumiko Hayashi
Daiei
30
Josephine Rydberg-Dumont
IKEA of Sweden
31
Lien Siaou-Sze
Hewlett-Packard
32
Galia Maor
Bank Leumi
33
Lubna Olayan
CEO
34
Kate Swann
W.H. Smith
35
Barbara Dalibard
France Télécom
36
Yoshiko Shinohara
Tempstaff
37
Chanda Kochhar
ICICI Bank
38
Dominique Hériard Dubreuil
Rémy Cointreau
39
Imre Barmanbek
Dogan Holding
40
Dominique Reiniche
Coca-Cola
41
Naina Lal Kidwai
HSBC India
42
Pansy Ho
Shun Tak Holdings
43
Sawako Noma
Kodansha
44
Françoise Gri
IBM France
45
Sly Bailey
Trinity Mirror
46
Teresita Sy-Coson
SM Investments
47
Ofra Strauss
Strauss-Elite Group
48
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Biocon
49
Amelia Fawcett
Morgan Stanley International
50
Marie-Christine Caubet
Renault
From the October 16, 2006 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, 2006.
Rank
Company
2005 total compensation
1
Safra Catz
$26.1 million
2
Susan Decker
$24.3 million
3
Suzanne Nora Johnson
$23.1 million
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Young and powerful
Rank
Name
Age
22
Charlene Begley
39
9
Sallie Krawcheck
41
32
Pat Curran
42
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Perennial powers
These women have been on the Power 50 each year since it began in 1998.
Rank
Name
Company
38
Cathleen Black
Hearst Magazines
7
Andrea Jung
Avon
30
Shelley Lazarus
WPP
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