Most Powerful Women International
You still have to squint to spot the women leading large global businesses. In 2019, female executives helmed just 14 of the world’s 500 largest companies—and that was actually an improvement over the previous year, when there were only 12. But zooming out—as Fortune does each year with this list—at women in powerful jobs across the international landscape (outside the U.S.), there’s reason to think there’s bigger change afoot. Read more
- 1 Ana Botín
- 2 Emma Walmsley
- 3 Dong Mingzhu
- 4 Jessica Tan
- 5 Isabelle Kocher
- 6 Alison Rose
- 7 Shemara Wikramanayake
- 8 Alison Cooper
- 9 Anne Rigail
- 10 Maggie Wu
- 11 Isabel Ge Mahe
- 12 Wang Fengying
- 13 Hilde Aasheim
- 14 Chua Sock Koong
- 15 Wu Yajun
- 16 Michelle Scrimgeour
- 17 Joey Wat
- 18 Dominique Senequier
- 19 Ho Ching
- 20 Jean Liu
- 21 Ilham Kadri
- 22 Junko Nakagawa
- 23 Anne Richards
- 24 Linda Jackson
- 25 Jessica Uhl
- 26 Ornella Barra
- 27 Adaire Fox-Martin
- 28 Rachel Duan
- 29 Susanne Schaffert
- 30 Harriet Green
- 31 Helle Østergaard Kristiansen
- 32 Maki Akaida
- 33 Ann Cairns
- 34 Emma FitzGerald
- 35 Nancy McKinstry
- 36 R. Alexandra Keith
- 37 Fama Francisco
- 38 Jane Jie Sun
- 39 Han Seong-Sook
- 40 Belinda Wong
- 41 Carolyn McCall
- 42 Paula Santilli
- 43 Gina Rinehart
- 44 Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
- 45 Wei Sun Christianson
- 46 Yang Huiyan
- 47 Linda Hasenfratz
- 48 Nunu Ntshingila
- 49 Andrea Marques de Almeida
- 50 Renuka Jagtiani