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Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women

The following business leaders were recently included in Forbes Magazine’s 2007 list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful women:

• (3) Ho Ching (Chief Executive, Temasek Holdings)
• (5) Indra K. Nooyi (Chairman, Chief Executive, PepsiCo)
• (7) Cynthia Carroll (Chief Executive, Anglo American)
• (8) Patricia A. Woertz (Chairman, Archer Daniels Midland)
• (9) Irene Rosenfeld (Chairman, Chief Executive, Kraft Foods)
• (10) Patricia Russo (Chief Executive, Alcatel-Lucent)
• (13) Anne M. Mucahy (Chairman, Chief Executive, Xerox)
• (14) Anne Lauvergeon (Chief Executive, Areva)
• (15) Mary Sammons (Chairman, Chief Executive, president, Rite Aid Corp.)
• (16) Angela Braly (Chief Executive, President, WellPoint)
• (17) Marjorie Scardino (Chief Executive, Pearson PLC)
• (18) Wu Xiaoling (Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China)
• (19) Brenda Barnes (Chairman, Chief Executive, Sara Lee Corp.)
• (22) Margaret Whitman (Chief Executive, President, Ebay)
• (24) Melinda Gates (Co-founder, Co-Chairman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)
• (28) Safra A. Catz (President, Chief Financial Officer, Oracle)
• (29) Susan E. Arnold (President, global business units, Procter & Gamble)
• (30) Andrea Jung (Chairman, Chief Executive, Avon Products)
• (33) Marina Berlusconi (Chairman, Fininvest Group)
• (34) Zoe Cruz (Co-President, Morgan Stanley)
• (36) Ann Livermore (Executive Vice President, Hewlett-Packard)
• (40) Ana Patricia Botin (Chairman, Banesto)
• (42) Susan M. Ivey (Chairman, Chief Executive, President, Reynolds American)
• (43) Yang Mianmian (Chairman, Haier)
• (44) Linda Z. Cook (Executive Director, gas & power, Royal Dutch Shell)
• (46) Christine Poon (Vice Chairman, Johnson & Johnson)
• (48) Paula Rosput Reynolds (Chief Executive, President, Safeco)
• (52) Dawn Hudson (Chief Executive, President, Pepsi-Cola North America)
• (53) Nancy McKinstry (Chairman, Chief Executive, Wolters Kluwer)
• (54) Clara Furse (Chief Executive, London Stock Exchange)
• (56) Christina Gold (Chief Executive, President, Western Union)
• (61) Susan Desmond-Hellmann (President, product development, Genentech)
• (64) Sharon Allen (Chairman, Deloitte and Touche)
• (65) Guler Sabanci (Chairman, Sabanci Holding)
• (66) Angela Ahrendts (Chief Executive, Burberry)
• (68) Zaha Hadid (Founder, head architect, Zaha Hadid Architects)
• (69) Antonia Ax:son Johnson (Chairman, owner, Axel Johnson AB Group)
• (70) Beth Brooke (Global Vice Chairman, Ernst & Young)
• (72) Maha Al-Ghunaim (Chairman, Managing Director, Global Investment House)
• (73) Colleen Barrett (President, Southwest Airlines)
• (75) Yan Cheung (Chairman, Nine Dragons Paper)
• (76) Rosalia Mera (Co-founder, Inditex)
• (78) Marilyn Carlson Nelson (Chairman, Chief Executive, Carlson Companies)
• (80) Maureen Chiquet (Chief Executive, Chanel)
• (83) Galia Maor (Chief Executive, President, Bank Leumi Group)
• (84) Georgina Rinehart (Chairman, Hancock Prospecting)
• (86) Stephanie A. Burns (Chairman, Chief Executive, Dow Corning)
• (88) Imre Barmanbek (Deputy Chairman, Dogan Holding)
• (90) Chu Lam Yiu (Chairman, Huabao International Holdings)
• (91) Giuliana Benetton (Director, Edizione Holding, The Benetton Group)
• (93) Dong Mingzhu (Vice Chairman, President, Gree Electric Appliances)
• (95) Mary West (Co-founder, West Corp.)
• (96) Rochelle Lazarus (Chairman, Chief Executive, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide)
• (97) Vidya Chhabria (Chairman, Jumbo Group)
• (98) Orit Gadiesh (Chairman, Bain &Co.)

                 Source:  Forbes Magazine, September 17, 2007