Latest ranking list released top 10 powerful women political leaders interesting indeed in the world

Latest ranking list released top 10 powerful women political leaders interesting indeed in the world. The World’s 10 Most Powerful Women ranking released.

And they’re very interesting indeed, emphasis on female political power on the list.

At NO.01 Angela Merkel Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

Chancellor, Germany.

There is a single leader able to defy existential economic and political challenges to the European Union.

From edges and core, it German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Her successes on the one hand to convince ailing EU brethren such as Greece and Spain to aspire to German fiscal.

And legal logic, and on the other hand to persuade Germany’s own constituents and political egos to buy in to her solutions.

The illustrated by a European Union that in 2016 remains standing.

The next vote for her office takes place in autumn 2017, and polls indicate a weary constituency.

Yet winning another term despite low polls is, for Merkel, a proven trait.

At NO.02 2 Hillary Clinton Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

Presidential candidate, United States

Hillary Clinton is elected president in November, it will be a historic milestone in a career already defined by firsts.

Clinton continues to hold the lead in a prolonged primary, despite “emailgate” revelations.

That she used her private email address and server while at the State Department.

She remains the presumptive Democratic contender in the elections this fall.

And her unflappable and tenacious pursuit of the country’s highest office keeps her at spot.

At NO.03 Janet Yellen Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

Chair, Federal Reserve, Washington, United States

Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has become known for steadiness, not inscrutability.

Latest ranking list released top 10 powerful women political leaders interesting indeed in the world.

She indicated throughout 2015 that she would raise interest rates, and last December, for the first time since June 2006, interest rates rose.

Reminding markets again in late May that the Fed’s job is to suppress unemployment and inflation.

She stated, simply, that rates may rise again in July.

Performing neither as wizard nor innovator, instead Yellen asserts her power by way of plain sentences and easy logic.

Making it easy to forget that the Yale- and Brown-educated economist is the world’s top market-mover.

At NO.04 Melinda Gates Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

Cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Melinda Gates has cemented her dominance in philanthropy and global development to the tune of $4.2 billion in giving in 2015.

And more than $36.7 billion in grant payments since she founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with her husband in 2000.

Her work has inspired other big donors and has changed way funders think about effective philanthropy.

Highly targeted campaigns coupled with data-driven monitoring and global collaboration.

Latest ranking list released top 10 powerful women political leaders interesting indeed in the world.

This includes a 2016 initiative, announced at the Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen in May.

That will funnel $80 million into collecting key data on women in developing countries over the next three years.

Yielding the information Gates believes is needed to inform efforts to achieve gender equality.

At NO.05 Mary Barra Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

CEO, General Motors

CEO Mary Barra, who in January celebrated her two-year anniversary as chief executive with a new appointment: GM chairman.

This latest promotion is no surprise:

First-quarter earnings are up, on the heels of record profits in 2015.

Barra, a 36-year veteran of GM, credits this growth in part to strong domestic sales.

Alongside steady performance in Europe and new growth in China’s SUV and luxury markets.

At NO.06 Christine Lagarde Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

Managing director, International Monetary Fund

Christine Lagarde was reelected earlier this year to a second five-year term heading the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Latest ranking list released top 10 powerful women political leaders interesting indeed in the world.

The organization that serves as economic advisor and backstop for 188 countries.

When she took over in 2011, the world economy was still recovering from the financial crisis, and the IMF from an institutional one.

In the ensuing years, Lagarde has managed to enroll countries as diverse as China, Russia and Britain in the IMF’s brand of fiscal discipline.

Even while bridling at the stern conditions of her structural loans.

At NO.07 Sheryl Sandberg Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

A year after Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg, died unexpectedly at age 47.

She admitted in a May Facebook post that she hadn’t written enough about single mothers in her bestselling book, Lean In.

In November 2015 she donated $31 million in Facebook stock to a charitable fund.

The majority of which will go to Lean In, her nonprofit that supports women in the workplace and women’s empowerment groups.

At NO.08 Susan Wojcicki Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

$350 Million CEO, YouTube, Google.

Wojcicki’s job is to make certain that YouTube profits from every one of them.

Google employee No. 16 — the company initially rented her Menlo Park garage as its headquarters headed up YouTube.

The world’s largest video platform, since early 2014.

In 2006, Wojcicki urged her bosses at Google to purchase the video site, which it did in a $1.65 billion deal.

Now YouTube has more than 1 billion unique visitors a month and is valued at an estimated $70 billion.

Latest ranking list released top 10 powerful women political leaders interesting indeed in the world.

Wojcicki started her first business-making spice ropes it was soon profitable.

At NO.09 Meg Whitman Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

$1.99 Billion CEO, Hewlett-Packard.

Meg Whitman, the CEO of Hewlett Packard for four years, oversaw its historic split in two in November 2015.

And now heads up $52 billion (sales) Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which sells servers, software and more.

She joined Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on SurveyMonkey’s board in September 2015 and a director of Procter & Gamble.

At NO.10 Ana Patricia Botín Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

Chair, Santander Group, Banco Santander

Most Powerful Women In World Top 10

Ana Patricia Botín became one of the most powerful banking executives in the world.

And the first woman to head the largest bank in the Eurozone, which as of early June 2016 a $68.4 billion market cap.

Botín speaks five languages and has held several leadership positions at the company, most recently as head of its U.K. bank.