This week, Forbes named the 2015 Most Powerful Women in the World , which spans a wide array of entrepreneurs, CEOS, celebrities, activists, heads of state, and philanthropists.
1.
Angela Merkel — Chancellor, Germany
3.
Melinda Gates — Co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United States
4.
Janet Yellen — Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank, United States
5.
Mary Barra — CEO of General Motors, United States
6.
Christine Lagarde — Managing director of the International Monetary Fund, France
7.
Dilma Rousseff — President, Brazil
8.
Sheryl Sandberg — COO of Facebook, United States
9.
Susan Wojcicki — CEO of Youtube, United States
11.
Park Geun-Hye — President, South Korea
12.
Oprah Winfrey — Media mogul, United States
13.
Virginia Rometty — CEO of IBM, United States
14.
Meg Whitman — CEO of Hewlett-Packard, United States
15.
Indra Nooyi — CEO of PepsiCo, United States
16.
Cristina Kirchner — President, Argentina
17.
Irene Rosenfeld — CEO of Mondelez, United States
18.
Ana Patricia Botin — Chair of Banco Santander, Spain
19.
Abigail Johnson — CEO of Fidelity Investments, United States
20.
Marillyn Hewson — Chair, president, and CEO of Lockheed Martin, United States
21.
Beyoncé Knowles — Entertainer and entrepreneur, United States
22.
Marissa Mayer — CEO of Yahoo, United States
23.
Helen Clark — Head of the United Nations Development Programme, New Zealand
24.
Safra Catz — Co-CEO of Oracle, United States
25.
Angela Ahrendts — Senior Vice President of Apple, United States
