Most Powerful Women International
This is the 18th year Fortune has ranked the Most Powerful Women in business outside the U.S. GlaxoSmithKline CEO Emma Walmsley takes the top spot this year, ending the four-year reign of Banco Santander Executive Chair Ana Botin. The 50 global businesswomen here represent 19 countries and a variety of industries.
By Erika Fry, Carson Kessler, Ellen McGirt, McKenna Moore, Polina Marinova, and Claire Zillman.
Click here for our methodology.
- 1 Emma Walmsley
- 2 Ana Botín
- 3 Isabelle Kocher
- 4 Dong Mingzhu
- 5 Shemara Wikramanayake
- 6 Chua Sock Koong
- 7 Alison Cooper
- 8 Ho Ching
- 9 Wan Ling Martello
- 10 Isabel Ge Mahe
- 11 Gillian Tans
- 12 Wang Fengying
- 13 Lucy Peng
- 14 Maria Ramos
- 15 Wu Yajun
- 16 Maggie Wei Wu
- 17 Anne Richards
- 18 Veronique Laury
- 19 Ann Cairns
- 20 Joey Wat
- 21 Mayra González
- 22 Olga Naumova
- 23 Nancy McKinstry
- 24 Jessica Uhl
- 25 Jean Liu
- 26 Dominique Senequier
- 27 Ornella Barra
- 28 Evelyn Bourke
- 29 Lubna Olayan
- 30 Fama Francisco
- 31 R. Alexandra Keith
- 32 Jane Jie Sun
- 33 Birgitte Bonnesen
- 34 Wei Sun Christianson
- 35 Elizabeth Gaines
- 36 Han Seong-Sook
- 37 Carolyn McCall
- 38 Belinda Wong
- 39 Rachel Duan
- 40 Adaire Fox-Martin
- 41 Güler Sabancı
- 42 Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
- 43 Rakefet Russak-Aminoach
- 44 Cheung Yan
- 45 Yang Huiyan
- 46 Nayla Hayek
- 47 Alice Vaidyan
- 48 Linda Hasenfratz
- 49 Nunu Ntshingila
- 50 Melanie Kreis