FORBES RELEASE LIST OF WORLD MOST POWERFUL WOMEN 2015 AND SEE NIGERIANS WHO MADE THE LIST

Forbes.com.has released it’s annual “Most Powerful Women” List. This is the 8th time German Chancellor, Angela Merkel will be named The Most Powerful Woman in the World. Other regular names include, Hillary Clinton, Beyonce Knowles, Oprah Winfrey, Melissa Gates e.t.c. Nigeria’s Minister of Finance/Co-ordinating Minister of the economy, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala & Africa’s richest woman, Folorunso Alakija also made the list. Taylor Swift is the youngest woman to make the list!
#1 Angela Merkel -Germany (Politics)

#2 Hillary Clinton – United States (Politics)
#3 Melinda Gates -United States (Philanthropy/NGO)
#4 Janet Yellen – United States (Finance)
#5 Mary Barra-United States (Automotive)
#6 Christine Lagarde – France (Philanthropy/NGO)
#7 Dilma Rousseff – Brazil (Politics)
#8 Sheryl Sandberg – United States (Technology)
#9 Susan Wojcicki – United States (Technology
#10 Michelle Obama – United States (Politics

#11 Park Geun-hye – South Korea (Politics)
#12 Oprah Winfrey -United States (Media)
#13 Ginni Rometty -United States (Technology)
#14 Meg Whitman – United States (Technology)
#15 Indra Nooyi – United States (Business)
#16 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner – Argentina (Politics)
#17 Irene Rosenfeld – United States (Business)
#18 Ana Patricia Botín – Spain (Finance)
#19 Abigail Johnson – United States (Investments)
#20 Marillyn Hewson -United States (Manufacturing)                                                                             #21 Beyoncé Knowles – United States (Celebrity)
#22 Marissa Mayer — United States (Technology)
#23 Helen Clark- New Zealand (Philanthropy/NGO)
#24 Safra Catz- United States (Technology)
#25 Angela Ahrendts -United States (Technology)
#26 Ellen Kullman -United States (Business)
#27 Michelle Bachelet – Chile (Politics)
#28 Anna Wintour – United States (Media)
#29 Ursula Burns -United States (Technology)
#30 Arundhati Bhattacharya – India (Finance)
#31 Sri Mulyani Indrawati – Indonesia (Philanthropy/NGO)
#32 Ruth Porat – United States (Technology)
#33 Lucy Peng – China (Technology)
#34 Loretta Lynch – United States (Politics)
#35 Chanda Kochhar – India (Business)
#36 Federica Mogherini – Italy (Politics)
#37 Gina Rinehart – Australia (Metals & Mining)
#38 Nancy Pelosi – United States (Politics)
#39 Adena Friedman – United States (Finance)
#40 Ewa Kopacz – Poland (Politics)
#41 Queen Elizabeth II – United Kingdom (Politics)
#42 Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi -United Arab Emirates (Politics)
#43 Ho Ching – Singapore (Business)
#44 Laurene Powell Jobs – United States (Technology)
#45 Renée James – United States (Technology)
#46 Drew Gilpin Faust – United States (Philanthropy/NGO)
#47 Ertharin Cousin – United States (Philanthropy/NGO)
#48 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala -Nigeria (Politics)
#49 Samantha Power -United States (Politics)
#50 Ellen DeGeneres -United States (Celebrity)
#51 Amy Hood -United States (Technology)
#52 Bonnie Hammer -United States (Media)
#53 Mary Callahan Erdoes- United States (Finance)
#54 Angelina Jolie – United States (Celebrity)
#55 Beth Comstock – United States (Business)
#56 Phebe Novakovic – United States (Business)
#57 Sofía Vergara -Colombia (Celebrity)
#58 Donna Langley – United Kingdom (Media)
#59 Sheikh Hasina Wajed – Bangladesh (Politics)
#60 Katie Jacobs Stanton- United States (Media)
#61 Arianna Huffington – United States (Media)
#62 Margaret Chan – China (Philanthropy/NGO)
#63 Mary Jo White -United States (Politics)
#64 Taylor Swift – United States -(Celebrity)
#65 Rosalind Brewer – United States (Business)
#66 Nemat (Minouche) Shafik – United Kingdom (Politics)
#67 Lubna S. Olayan – Saudi Arabia (Business)
#68 Peng Liyuan – China (Politics)
#69 Zhang Xin – China (Business)
#70 Güler Sabanci – Turkey (Business)
#71 Elvira Nabiullina -Russia (Politics)
#72 Elizabeth Holmes- United States (Healthcare)
#73 Tory Burch -United States (Fashion and Retail)
#74 Dana Walden – United States (Media)
#75 Diane von Furstenberg – United States (Fashion and Retail)
#76 Carol Meyrowitz – United States (Business)
#77 Mary Meeker – United States (Technology)
#78 Solina Chau – Hong Kong (Technology)
#79 Miuccia Prada -Italy (Fashion and Retail)
#80 Katharine Viner – United Kingdom (Media)
#81 Shakira Mebarak – Colombia (Celebrity)
#82 Yao Chen – China (Celebrity)
#83 Fabiola Gianotti- Italy (Philanthropy/NGO)
#84 Padmasree Warrior – United States (Technology)
#85 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw -India (Medicine)
#86 Kaci Kullmann Five – Norway (Philanthropy/NGO)
#87 Folorunsho Alakija -Nigeria (Oil)
#88 Judy Faulkner – United States (Healthcare)
#89 Patricia Harris – United States (Philanthropy/NGO)
#90 Gwynne Shotwell – United States (Construction & Engineering)
#91 Sara Blakely -United States (Fashion and Retail)
#92 Risa Lavizzo-Mourey – United States (Philanthropy/NGO)
#93 Shobhana Bhartia – India (Media)
#94 Beth Brooke-Marciniak – United States (Business)
#95 Weili Dai – United States (Technology)
#96 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf -Liberia (Politics)
#97 Raja Easa Al Gurg – United Arab Emirates (Business)
#98 Jenny Lee – Singapore (Technology)
#99 Greta Van Susteren- United States (Media)
#100 Lee Boo-Jin -South Korea (Service)