SBI's Bhattacharya, Kochhar among Forbes' most powerful women

May 28, 2014 20:30

State Bank of India Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya and ICICI Bank Managing Director Chanda Kochhar are among the five women from India featured in Forbes' 100 most powerful women in the world, a list topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Bhattacharya is ranked 36th on the power list, while Kochhar is 43rd. Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is ranked 92nd on the list.

PepsiCo's India-born Chief Indra Nooyi is 13th on the list while Cisco's Chief Technology and Strategy Officer Padmasree Warrior is ranked 71st on Forbes' "definitive annual guide to the extraordinary icons and leaders, groundbreakers and ceiling crashers who command the world stage."

Merkel, who retained her numero uno spot this year, has made the list 10 times out of the past 11 editions and nine times as No. 1.

Merkel is followed by Chair of the US Federal Reserve Janet Yellen, philanthropist Melinda Gates (3), former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (6), General Motors' first woman CEO Mary Barra (7), First Lady Michelle Obama (8) and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (9).

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