1 Angela Merkel, Chancellor, 57, Germany
2 Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, 63, United States
3 Dilma Rousseff, President, 63, Brazil
4 Indra NooyiChief Executive, PepsiCo, 55, United States
5 Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook, 41, United States
6 Melinda Gates, Cofounder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 47, United States
7 Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress Party, 64, India
8 Michelle Obama First Lady, 47, United States
9 Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, 55, France
10 Irene Rosenfeld, CEO, Kraft Foods, 58, United States
11 Lady Gaga, Entertainer, 25, United States
12 Jill Abramson, Executive Editor, NY Times, 57, United States
13 Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, 63, United States
14 Oprah Winfrey, Media Personality, 57, United States
15 Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, 53, United States
16 Susan Wojcicki, SVP, Advertising, Google, 43, United States
17 Cristina Fernandez, President, 58, Argentina
18 Beyoncé Knowles, Entertainer, Designer, 29, United States
19 Georgina Rinehart, Mining Tycoon, 57, Australia
20 Cher Wang, Cofounder, Chair, HTC; VIA Technologies, 52, Taiwan
21 Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, 56, U.S.
22 Michele Bachmann, Presidential Candidate, 55, United States
23 Julia Gillard, Prime Minister, 49, Australia
24 Mary Schapiro, Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission, 56, United States
25 Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair of Disney Media Networks; President, Disney-ABC Television Group, 53, United States
26 Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary, National League For Democracy, 66, Myanmar
27 Ursula Burns, CEO, Xerox, 52, United States
28 Amy Pascal, Co-Chair, Sony Pictures, 53, United States
29 Angelina Jolie, Actress, Humanitarian, 36, United States
30 Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, UN World Food Programme, 57, U.S.
31 Arianna HuffingtonEditor-In-Chief, Huffington Post, 61, U.S.
32 Gail Kelly, CEO, Westpac Group, 55, Australia
33 Chan Laiwa & family, Chair, Fu Wah International Group, 70, China
34 Sarah Palin, Political Commentator, 47, U.S.
35 Cynthia Carroll, CEO, Anglo American, 54, U.S.
36 Helene Gayle, CEO, CARE USA
37 Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo!, 62, U.S.
38 Ellen Kullman, CEO, Dupont, 55, U.S.
39 Jin Sook Chang, Cofounder, Chief Merchandising Officer, Forever 21, 48, U.S.
40 Safra Catz, President, Oracle, 49, U.S.
41 Angela Braly, CEO, Wellpoint, 50, U.S.
42 Marissa Maye, VP, Local, Maps & Location Services, Google, 36, U.S.
43 Chanda Kochhar, CEO, ICICI Bank, 49, India
44 Christiane Amanpour, News Achor, This Week, 53 , U.S.
45 Patricia Woertz, CEO, Archer Daniels Midland, 58, U.S.
46 Lynn Laverty Elsenhans, CEO, Sunoco, 55 , U.S.
47 Diane Sawyer, News Anchor, World News, 65, U.S.
48 Zhang Xin & family, Cofounder, CEO, SOHO China, 46, China
49 Queen Elizabeth II, Monarch, 85, United Kingdom
50 Helen Clark, Administrator, UN Development Programme, 61, New Zealand
51 Helen Boaden Director, BBC News Group, 55, United Kingdom
52 Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader, House of Representatives, 71, United States
53 Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Monarch, 40, Jordan
54 Bonnie Hammer, Chairman, Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios, NBCU, 61, U.S.
55 Ellen DeGeneres, Talk Show Host , 53, United States
56 Katie Jacobs Stanton, VP, International Strategy, Twitter, 41, United States
57 Shari Ariso, Heiress, Philanthropist, 53, Israel
58 Angela Ahrendts CEO, Burberry, 51, United States
59 Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister, 44, Thailand
60 Gisele Bündchen, Supermodel, Environmentalist, 31, Brazil
61 Joanne (J.K.) Rowling Author, 46, United Kingdom
62 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President, 72 , Liberia
63 Lubna S. Olayan, CEO, Olayan Financing Company, 56, Saudi Arabia
64 Andrea Jung, CEO, Avon, 53, United States
65 Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director, World Bank, Indonesia
66 Ann Curry, Coanchor, TODAY show, 54, United States
67 Sallie Krawcheck, President, Global Wealth and Investment Management, Bank of America, 46, United States
68 Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization, 64, China
69 Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief, Vogue, 61, United States
70 Abigail Johnson, President, Fidelity Investments, 49, United States
71 Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation, 66, United States
72 Ho Ching, CEO, Temasek Holdings, 58, Singapore
73 Carol Meyrowitz, CEO, TJX Companies, 57, United States
74 Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, 44, United States
75 Greta Van Susteren Host, On the Record, 57, United States
76 Mary Barra, SVP, Global Product Development, General Motors, 49, United States
77 Ana Patricia Botin, CEO, Santander UK, 50, Spain
78 Guler Sabanci & family, Chair, Sabanci Holding, 56, Turkey
79 Miuccia Prada, Chair, Head Designer, Prada Group, 62, Italy
80 Denise Morrison CEO, Campbell Soup Company, 57, United States
81 Tina Brown, Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, 57, United States
82 Virginia Rometty SVP, Group Executive Sales, Marketing and Strategy , IBM, 53, U.S.
83 Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Harvard University, 63, United States
84 Sheri McCoy, Vice Chair, Johnson & Johnson, 52, United States
85 Alice WaltonHeiress, Art Patron, 61, United States
86 Laura Chinchilla, President, 52, Costa Rica
87 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweal, Finance Minister, 57, Nigeria
88 Sue Naegle, President, HBO Entertainment, 42, United States
89 Mindy Grossman, CEO, HSN, 53, United States
90 Ruth Porat, CFO, Morgan Stanley, United States
91 Diane Von Furstenberg, CEO, Diane Von Furstenberg Studio, 64, United States
92 Jan Fields President, McDonald's USA, 56, United States
93 Maria Ramos, Group CEO, Absa Group Banks, 52, South Africa
94 Marjorie Scardino, CEO, Pearson, 64, United States
95 Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 56, United States
96 Beth Mooney, CEO, KeyCorp, 56, United States
97 Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita, CEO, ArcelorMittal South Africa, 52, South Africa
98 Dominique Senequier,CEO, AXA Private Equity, 58, France
99 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Founder, Chair, Biocon, 58, India
100 Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young, 52, United States