Forbes Magazine finally revealed its list of World's Most Powerful Women of 2021 and for the third time since Forbes has started compiling ranking in 2003, German chancellor Angela Merkel is not at the top of the list. This year, that honor goes to Mackenzie Scott, the third richest woman but the most powerful woman in the world.

To be picked as one of the most powerful, these women need not only have money or a position of power. They should make something with/[out of] their money, position, or platform.

1. Mackenzie Scott - Scott is a a philanthrophist and author. After being married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for 25 years, the two divorced in 2019 and she received 25% of his Amazon stake. Shortly after the announcement of her terms of the divorce, she signed the Giving Pledge, promising to give away at least half of her wealth over the course of her lifetime. In 2020, she gave $5.8 billion in gifts to some 500 nonprofits; in 2021, she again gave another $2.74 billion to 286 groups.
2. Kamala Harris - On January 2021, Harris became the first woman, the first Black person, and the first South Asian-American to become the vice president of the United States of America. The Howard University Alumna was also the first Indian-American woman to be elected to the United States Senate and the first African-American and first woman to serve as California's attorney general.
3. Christine Lagarde - Lagarde became the first woman to head the European Central Bank in 2019. Lagarde ran the International Monetary Fund from 2011 until mid-2019, ensuring the stability of the global monetary system and was the first woman to hold that position.
4. Mary Barra - General Motors' CEO since 2014, Barra is the first woman to lead one of the big three automakers in the U.S. In 2020, she shifted GM's production lines to help Ventec Life Systems make critically-needed ventilators. GM has consistently scored highly in gender equity reports and in 2018, it was one of only two global businesses that have no gender pay gap.
5. Melinda French Gates - As one of the most powerful woman in philanthropy, she is the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. After her divorce with Bill Gates, she also became a billionaire on her own after he transferred $2.4 billion worth of stock in early May 2021 to her. As part of the foundation's mission to help all people lead healthy productive lives, she has devoted much of her work to women's and girls' rights.
6. Abigail Johnson - Johnson has served as CEO of Fidelity Investments since 2014, when she took over for her father, and has been chairman since 2016. She owns an estimated 24.5% stake of the firm, which has $4.42 trillion in managed assets. In 2018, Fidelity launched a platform that allows institutional investors to trade bitcoin and ether.
7. Ana Patricia Botín - Botin became chair of Santander Group since 2014. She pulled off a coup in 2017 when Banco Santander acquired failing Banco Popular (BP) for 1 euro to become Spain's largest bank. She launched Santander X to support university entrepreneurship and helped create Spain's first multi-sector blockchain-based platform.
8. Ursual von der Leyen - She was appointed president of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union in July 2019. As the first woman to serve as president of the Commission, she is responsible for legislation affecting more than 700 million Europeans. She also served in Angela Merkel's cabinet for 14 years, the longest tenure of any cabinet member. For the last six years of her time in the cabinet, she was Germany's defense minister.
9. Tsai Ing-wen - Tsai became the first female leader of Taiwan (and the first unmarried president) when she was elected in 2016. She has broken protocol since becoming Taiwan's leader by making overtures to the U.S., and creating tensions with China. Her leadership through COVID-19 is seen as a global model.
10. Julie Sweet - In 2019, Sweet became the CEO of global services company Accenture. She initially served as Accenture's general counsel and its head of North America -- the company's largest market. Sweet also serves on the Business Roundtable, the World Economic Forum's International Business Counsil, and Catalyst's board of directors.
11. Karen Lynch - Lynch ascented to the top of CVS Health, a 300,000-person health services company, in 2021. She first joined CVS as its executive vice president when it completed its $70 billion acquisition of Aetna in 2018. In 2020, Lynch headed CVS' COVID-19 response and became the company that managest the largest number of independently-run COVID-19 testing sites in the U.S.
12. Carol Tomé - Tome was appointed to run shipping giant UPS in June 2020. After coming out of retirement to take on the helm of the company, she became its first "outsider" CEO and first femal chief executive. Her previous work was as CFO at Home Depot. 
13. Emma Walmsley - Emma Walmsley became CEO of GlaxoSmithLine in 2017, making her the first woman to run a major pharmaceutical company. She led the 300-year-old company to a global restructuring program aimed at saving more than $500 million a year by 2021. Walmsley also led the $13 billion dollary purchase of Novartis' 36% stake in GSK Consumer Health.
14. Jane Fraser - She was named Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat's successor in 2020. As Citi's first female CEO in history, she is also the first-ever woman to run a major Wall Street bank. Fraser joined Citi in 2004 and became its president and CEO of Global Consumer Banking prior to her appointment as CEO.
15. Nancy Pelosi - Pelosi became the first woman to lead a major political party when she was elected as Speaker in 2007. She started her third term as Speaker in 2019 and regained the position after the Democrats retook the House in the 2018 midterm elections. In 2019, she intiated the fourth-ever impeachment proceedings in U.S. history against President Donald Trump.
16. Gail Boudreaux - She was named CEO of Anthem in 2017. She as previously CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the largest division within UnitedHealth Group. It is one of the nation's largest health insurers and has completed acquisitions of America's 1st Choice, HealthSun, and Aspire Health.
17. Rosalind Brewer - Walgreens Boots Alliance appointed Brewer as its CEO in 2021, making her the only Black woman at the top of an SP 500 company. She was also the only Black woman to sit on Amazon's board in 2019. As Starbucks' COO, she implemented policy changes and racial bias training for employees in more than 8,000 stores.
18. Susan Wojcicki - Wojcicki is the CEO of Alphabet subsidiary YouTube which has 2 billion monthly views. Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page rented Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California and developed Google's search engine there. She was hired as Google employee number 16 and worked on eveything from AdSense and Google Analytics to Google Books and Google Images. In 2006, she advocated for the $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, which she has run since 2014.
19. Safra Catz - As CEO of software firm Oracle since 2014, Catz spearheaded Oracle's aggressive acquisiton strategy, helping close more than 130 acquisitons. In 2020, Catz and her husband Gal Tirosh gave $250,000 to President Trump's fundraising committee.
20. Ruth Porat - Prior to being the chief financial officer of Google's parent company, Alphabet, she rose through the ranks at Morgan Stanley over a 27-year career to become chief financial officer in 2010. Porat has been praised for reining in spending on som of Google's other bets, including delivering its own wireless service. Porat joined the board of Wall Street investment firm Blackstone in 2020.
21. Martina Merz - She is an engineer who became the CEO of German conglomerate Thyssenkrupp in 2019 and will remain in the role until at least 2023. As one of the world's largest steel producers, Thyssenkrupp employs more than 100,000 employees and $35 billion in fiscal revenue. She had spent more than two decades of her career working at German engineering company Bosch and also served as Lufthansa's supervisory board.
22. Kristalina Georgieva - The Bulgarian economist and former CEO of the World Bank, Georgieva has been the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. She was also previously the Interim President for the World Bank Group. She spearheaded a new three-year loan program with Ukraine worth $5.5 billion. 
23. Oprah Winfrey - Winfrey has transitioned her talk show, whch ran for 25 years, into a media and business empre. She built the reinvested profits from her talk show into $2.5 billion. Winfrey also launched cable channel OWN. Her 25.5% of the network is worth more than $65 million.
24. Shemara Wikramanayake - Born in the U.K. and raised in Sri Lanka, Wikramanayake is the managing director and CEO of the Macquarie Group. She joined Macquarie in 1987 and worked within Macquarie Capital for 20 years until being appointed as head of Macquarie Asset Management in 2008.
25. Judith McKenna - McKenna is the president and CEO of retail giant Walmart Internation since 2018. She leads a team of 550,000 associated across 23 counties and plans to invest around $1.2 billion in distribution centers. She was the brains behind Walmart's sale of British supermarkey Asda for $8.8 billion in October.
26. Amanda Blanc - She took over insurance company Aviva's CEO in 2020. It is UK's largest insurer with a 23% share of the UK life and savings market; it provides savings, retirement, and insurance services to 18 million people. Blanc was the previous CEO of Zurich Insurance Group, EMEA Global Banking Partnerships and was voted as the UK Insurer CEO's CEO of the Year in 2013 and 2015.
27. Nicke Widyawati - Widyawati is the CEO and president-director of Indonesian oil and gas company Pertamina. She is the second female-director of the company. As Pertamina is state-owned, Widyawati's employment is contingent on the deicisions of the Indonesian government. 
28. Amy Hood - Microsoft's Chief Finance Officer, Hood has seen the company nip at Apple's heels in the race to become the largest publicly traded company by stock market value. She can be credited with much of Microsoft's recent boom as the company's stock surged nearly 300% in the first five years after she became CFO. She has helped engineer over 57 deals while at Microsoft, including the 2018 $7.5 billion acquisition of software development platform GitHub.
29. Catherine MacGregor - The CEO of French energy company Engie, she is the only female CEO in France's CAC-40 stock index; French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has called it "regrettable" that there are not more women alongside her. She previously led the Technip Energies entity of the oil services sector company TechnipFMC between 2019 and 2020. She started out her career by spending 23 years at Schlumberger, the world's leading provider of reservoir identification, drilling, and production technologies for the oil and gas industry.
30. Pheve Novakovic - Novakovic is the chairwoman and CEO of defense giant General Dynamics and is one of the few female executives in the military-industrial space. She was a former CIA operative and the daughter of an Air Force officer, she led the General Dynamics in its $9.8 billion acquisition of IT firm CSRA in 2018.
31. Shari Redstone - The daughter of media mogul Sumner Redstone, Shari is the chairwoman of media empire ViacomCBS. She is the first woman to have such a large stake of a U.S. media business, controlling a $30 billion empire. In 2019, she successfully facilitated the 2019 $12 billion merger deal between CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc.
32. Laurene Powell Jobs family - She inherited billions of dollars of stock in Apple and Disney from her late husband, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011. In 2017, she bought a minority stake in the parent of the NBA's Washington Wizands and the NHL's Washington Capitals, and majority stakes in The Atlantic Magazine. She founded Emerson Collective, a hybrid investment, social impact, and philanthropic firm where she has been putting her fortune. She launched the Emerson Collective Foundation, now called Waverley Street Foundation, in 2016 with a gift of $1.2 billion, much of it in Disney shares.
33. Ho Ching - The CEO of Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek, she helpred its portfolio grown to more than $313 billion. In October 2021, she was named as the next chairman of the Temasek Trust, the entity responsible for Temasek's philanthropic endowments. The wife of Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, she led Temasek be one of the main investors in a $14 billion fundraising round by Ant Financial, an affiliate of Alibaba.
34. Jacinda Ardern - Ardern is New Zealand's youngest Prime Minister in 150 years and is the youngest female leader in the world at age 38. She set new norms as a government leader when she gave birth, took six weeks maternity leave and shared that her partner will be a stay-at-home dad. In 2020, she received global praise for her capable handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. New Zealand successfully eliminated the virus in both waves.
35. Jessica Uhl - She has served as the CFO of the Royal Dutch Shell, a $388 billion-revenue business, since 2017. She previously started her career at Citibank in San Francisco as a financial analyst. In 2004, she joined Shell in the finance and business development divisio, working within the renewable business. Just recently, she was named to the board of Goldman Sachs; she sits on the audit, governance, and risk committees.
36. Sheryl Sandberg - Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook and helped increase the social media firm's revenue. She focused on positioning Facebook as a platform for small business advertising and helped increase ad revenue by 21% during 2020, to $84.2 billion.
37. Nirmala Sitharaman - Sitharaman is India's first full-time female finance minister. She is also the minister for corporate affairs. Before her career in politics, she held roles at the U.K.-based Agricultural Engineers Association and BBC World Services.
38. Gwynne Shotwell - Shotwell is SpaceX's president and COO, and manages the operations of the commercial space exploration company founded by Elon Musk. In 2020, the company sent astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time as part of a contract with NASA. Shotwell was the 11th employee of SpaceX after joining the company in 2002. She has then helped the company grow from a futuristic idea of enabling people to live on other planets to being a company with over 10,000 employees and a valuation of $74 billion. Since 2019, SpaceX has launched over 1,700 satellites for its Starlink high speed internet service, which has over 100,000 customers. 
39. Janet Yellen - Janet Yellen became the first woman to be named the U.S. Treasury Secretary in 2021. A respected economist, she was the first woman to become the chair of the Federal Reserve in 2013. She is also the only woman in American history to lead the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, adn the president's Council of Economic Advisers (which she led under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1999).
40. Kathy Warden - She has served as CEO and president of Northrop Grumman Corporation since 2019. On the same year, she was elected chairman of the company's Board of Directors. She is also the chair of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and is a member of the Catalyst Board of Directors. Previously, she held leadership roles at General Dynamics and the Veridian Corporation.
41. Adena Friedman - In 2017, Friedman became the first woman CEO to lead a global stock exchange. Since then, she has been busy modernizing Nasdaq. Friedman advocates for bringing companies to the public market and making investing accessible, calling Nasdaq an "engine for capitalism." In 2020, Nasdaq asked the SEC to require companies listed on its exchange to publish board diversity data in an effort to advance corporate diversity.
42. Marianne Lake, Jennifer Piepszak - Lake and Piepszak were named joint leads of JPMorgan's consumer operations, which accounts for nearly 40% of the company's profits, in 2021. Both Lake and Piepszak are seen as potential successors to CEO Jamie Dimon; Wall Street analysts have called them equally powerful and equally capable of doing the job. Lake was the bank's Chief Financial Officer from 2013-2019 and the CEO of Consumer Lending from 2019 to 2021. Piepszak, meanwhile, was the bank's CFO from 2019 to 2021 and also served as the CEO of Card Services, CEO of Business Banking, and CFO for Mortgage Banking.
43. Sheikh Hasina Wajed - The longest serving prime minister in the history of Bangladesh, the Sheikh is currently serving her fourth term. During what she believes will be her final term, Hashina plans to focus on issues such as food security to education and healthcare.
44. Gina Rinehart - Australia's richest citized, Rinehard rebuilt her late father's, high profile iron-ore explorer Lang Hancock, financially distressed company, Hancock Prospecting and became its executive chairwoman in 1992. The mining magnate's biggest piece of fortune comes from the Roy Hill mining project, which started shipments to Asia in 2015. She is also Australia's second-largest cattle producer, with a portfolio of properties across the country.
45. Thasunda Brown Duckett - She was named the president and CEO of TIAA, a retirement and financial services company for academic, research, medical, and governmental workers. She previously worked at JPMorgan Chase as its CEO of Chase Consumer Banking who oversaw a network with more than $600 billion in deposits and 50,000 employees. She started out her career at mortgage giant Fannie Mae where she led strategies aimed at increasing homeownership rates among Black and Hispanic Americans. 
46. Vicki Hollub - The first woman to head a major American oil company, she was named president and CEO of Occidental Petroleum in 2016. In 2019, Warren Buffet teamed up with her to back Oxy's $57 billion bid for Anadarko Petroleum; the acquisition was completed in August. Their plat is to shift toward a carbon-neutral production model while calling for federal legislation aimed at boosting carbon capture. Hollub is a member of the board of directors for Lockheed Martin, the American Petroleum institute, and Khalifa University for Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi.
47. Mary Callahan Erdoes - Erdoes remains a steady rainmaker for JPMorgan Chase as its head of Asset Wealth Management. She oversees $3.4 trillion in client assets. Erdoes branched out to China when the bank received the first license ever to operate a wholly-owned asset-management business in Shanghai in 2017.
48. Özlem Tureci - German scientist, immunologist, and cancer researcher, Tureci is the co-founder and chief medical officer of BioNTech, a German biotech firm. In 2020, with Pfizer, BioNTech developed the first mRNA COVID-19 vaccine to be approved for mass use. She led the clinical development of the research. She first served as CEO and Chief Medical Officer for Ganymed Pharmaceuticals which she co-founded with her husband Ugur Sahin and Christoph Huber. Tureci is also the president of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy in Germany.
49. Lisa Su - CEO of semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices, Su has led one of the greatest recent turnarounds in the technology sector. AMD's stock has soared more than 25-dold since she became CEO in 2014, propelling it to a $110 billion market capitalization as of July 2021.
50. Dana Walden - Chairman of Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment, after Disney's $71.3 billion purchase of a bulk of 21st Century Fox, Walden heads 20th Century Fox TV, ABC Studios, the Freeform network, ABC-owned TV stations, ABC Entertainment, and several other division. She was elected to the board of directors at Live Nation Entertainment and Hulu in 2018. She initially served as the chair and CEO of Fox Television Group, where she oversaw one of the most successful studios in Hollywood.
51. Tricia Griffith - Griffith is the CEO of Progressive Insurance and is the first woman to ever run the firm. By implementing a plan to sell bundles of auto plus home insurance, she has helped the company gain significant market share. Griffith also sits at the FedEx board, making her its 4th female board member.
52. Roshni Nadar Malhotra - Malhotra is the CEO of HCL Corporation, the holding company for all group entities, and chairperson of the publicly traded company HCL Technologies. Founded by her father, Shiv Nadar, HCL became a central player in India's rise as an IT hub. She is responsible for all strategic decision for the $9.9 billion technology company. She is a trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation which is focused on education and has established some of India's top colleges and schools.
53. Cathie Wood - Wood is a stock-picker and is the founder of $60 billion (assets) ARK Invest, which invests in innovations like self-driving cars and genomics. She created ARK in 2014 hoping to package active stock portfolios in an ETF format and since the, her flagship $23 billion (assets) Ark Innovation Fund has returned an average of nearly 45% annually over the past five years. She studied economics at USC under Art Laffer, the inventor of the Laffer Curve which theorizes the tie between tax rates and tax revenues.
54. Jennifer Salke - The former NBC Entertainment president, Salke is the head of streaming giant Amazon Studios since 2018. She oversees all aspects of Amazon's television and film development as well as the production for the company's global entertainment division. in 2019, she announced she would be taking Amazin Studios global and has approved the production of 20 series from around the world. Since she came into power, she has signed on talent including Michael B. Jordan and Nicole Kidman.
55. Tokiko Shimizu - Shimizu was appointed as the first woman executive director of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) since it was founded in 1882. Before becoming its executive director, she was the bank's general manager for Europe and also its chief representative in London. Shimizu oversees operations and economic analysis for the bank.
56. Donna Langley - The Chairman of Universal Firlmed Entertainment Group, Langley has guided Universal to unparalleled growth. She helped the company cross $4 billion at the worldwide box office in 2018 for the second time in its 105-year history. Langley has overseen movie franchises such as Fast Furious, Jurassic World, the Bourne series, Pitch Perfect, Fifty Shades, and more. When movie theaters shut down amid the pandemic, Langley created premium on demand which streams movie at home for $20. Low-budget films like Get Out and Split made people aware that she can produce for less than $10 million.
57. Hana Al Rostamani - She was named the Group CEO of First Abu Dhabi Bank in 2021. The banking group had total assets of $250 billion and a net profict of $2.9 billion in 2020. In 2021, it agreed to acquire the Egyptian unit of Lebanon's Bank Audi. Al Rostamani has more than 22 years of experience in financials service and served as FAB's deputy CEO and Group head of personal banking. She also sits currently as a board member of the AW Rostamani Group, chairperson of FAB Private Bank Suisse, and a member of MasterCard Advisory.
58. Dong Mingzhu - Dong is the president of Gree, a major home appliance make known for its air conditioners. In 2020, Gree pivoted its manufacturing facilities ot help produce more masks and other pandemic supplies. Gree is still dependent on air conditioners with sales marketing up 80% of the company's profits.
59. Yuriko Koike - Koike is the first woman to be elected by Tokyo's governor. In 2020, she captured 60% of the vote to win reelection in a landslide. As the head of the world's largest city by population, Koike is considered to become the prime minister of Japan. The former journalist was propelled to victory by her good handling of the city's coronavirus response.
60. Elvira Nabiullina - A former economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Nabiullina became the first woman to run a central bank of a G8 country in 2013. She says the risks to the Russian economy are changes in oil prices, worsenning trade wars, and the strengthening of sanctions on oil and energy.
61. Suzanne Scott - The first female CEO of Fox News, Scott oversees Fox's many linear and digital platforms, including its News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox News Books, and the recently launched Fox Weather. Across these platforms, Fox reaches more than 200 million people every month. It is the number one cable network in the U.S.
62. Lynn Good - Duke Energy's Lynn Good, has made substantial investments in solar energy, moderning the power grid, and natural gas infrastructure. She was the former CFO and earlier led the company's commercial energy business. Duke Energy has paid a quarterly cash dividen on its common stock for 93 consecutive years.
63. Ann Sarnoff - Sarnoff was named Chair and CEO of WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group in 2020. She oversees all of WarnerMedia's content-focused teams, including the Warner Bros. Pictures Group, HBO and HBO Max, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT, and Warner Bros. Television Group.
64. Judy Faulkner - She founded America's leading medical-rcord software provider, Epic, in a Wisconsin basement in 1979. Faulkner is still CEO of the $3.3 billion (2020 sales) company. Epic supports the medical records of over 250 million patients and is used by top medical centers such as Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic. In 2015, Faulkner signed the Giving Pledge and has agreed to eventually gift 99% of her assets to a private charitable foundation.
65. Melanie Kreis - Kris is the CFO of Deutsche Post, the world's largest logistics company, since 2016 and is the only woman on its executive board.She played a key role in executing the sale of Deutsche Post's stake in Postbank, a German retail bank, to Deutsche Bank. 
66. Sri Mulyani Indrawati - Indrawati is the Minister of Finance for Indonesia after serving as its managing director and COO of the World Bank. As minister of finance, she is increasing state revenue through tax reforms that will expand e-filing services and boost taxpayer compliance. She served as Indonesia's minister of finance from 2005 to 2010, helping to guide the country's transition from autocracy to democracy.
67. Paula Santilli - The CEO of PepsiCo Latin America, Santilli oversees more than $7 billion in annual net revenue. She leads the company's food and beverage business for Mexico, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean -- a business segment that boasts more 70,000 direct jobs in 34 minutes. She previously worked for Campbell Soups and Kellogg's in Argentina before moving as the President of PeopsiCo Mexico Foods, and also led the PepsiCo Mexico Foundation.
68. Rihanna - Barbados' most famous export, Rihanna is now a billionaire thanks to the success of her cosmetics line Fenty Beauty. The cosmetics company, which she co-owns with French luxury retailer LVMH, generated more than $500 million in revenue in 2020. She also has a 30% stake in the Savage x Fenty lingerie line, which aslo raised money at $1 billion valuation in 2021.
69. Laura Cha - She is the first female chair of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2018. As a member of the Executive Council of the Government of Hong Kong, she is focused on expanding HKEX's product ecosystem as well as its IPO activity. The exchange ranked #2 globally for its IPO market.
70. Queen Elizabeth II - Sitting on the throne since 1952, Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Her patronages and charities cover a range of issues, from opportunites for young people to the preservation of wildlife and the environment.
71. Mette Frederiksen - The Prime Minister of Denmark, Frederiksen is the youngest prime minister in Danish history and the second woman. She had made international headlines for informing President Donald Trump that Greenland was not for sale.
72. Kiran Mazumdar - Shaw - India's richest self-made woman, Mazumdar - Shaw founded Biocon, India's largest listed biopharmaceutical firm by revenue, in 1978. The company has sold 3 billion doses of insulin to date and has Asia's largest insulin factory in Malaysia's Johor region. In 2021, vaccine billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla's Serum Institute of India agreed to acquire a 15% stake in Biocon Biologics, a Biocon subsidiary. It is currently working with U.S. firm Adagio Therapeutics to develop and antibody therapy called ADG20 to prevent and treat coronavirus and its variants.
73. Joey Wat - Wat has served as CEO of Yum China since 2018. It is the largest restuarant company in China, boasting about 10,000 restaurants in its portfolio. She first joined the company as president of KFC China in 2014 after spending the prior ten years of her career with the U.K.'s Watson Group. In a 2020 interview, Wat said that digital payments are 97% of Yum's business, between kiosk, online, and delivery.
74. Reese Witherspoon - After being frustrated with the roles she was getting, Witherspoon started her own production company, Pacific Standard, in 2012. Through Pacific Standard, the actress had a hand in movies such as "Gone Girl" and "Wild." In 2016, she parnered with Otter Media to launch Hello Sunshine which focuses on female-driven stories. It now operates a book club, audio programming with Audible, two podcasts, a video-on-demand channel with DirecTV and is collaborating with Apple.
75. Wang Feng Ying - Wang is the first female CEO of Great Wall Motor, China's largest manufacturer of SUV and pickup trucks. After betting on electric, she announced in 2018 that the company plans to invest over $3 billion in electric vehicle RD by 2020. This follows a shift in Chinese government policy. They began implementing production quotas for zero-emission and low-emission vehicles in 2019.
76. Beyoncé Knowles - Beyonce's On The Run II stadium tour with her husband Jay-Z grossed roughly $5 million per night, pulling in a total of more than $250 million. In April, she announced a new partnership with Adidas to relaunch her activewear line Ivy Park.
77. Güler Sabanci - Sabanci is the first woman to run Sabanci Holding, her family business, which was started by her grandfather in the 1930s. Sabanci has become the second-largest conglomerate in Turkey. Her company's holdings include banking, energy, retail, and insurance. 
78. Taylor Swift - Swift began releasing re-records of her older music in 2021 in order to regain their ownership rights. Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version) became her 9th and 10th album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200. In 2020, Swift surprise-released "folklore", written and produced entirely in quarantine. It was 2020's first album to sell 1 million units. In December of that same year, she surprise-released another album called "evermore."
79. Zhou Qunfei family - She chairs Lens Technoclogy, a smartphone screen supplier whose customers include Samsung, LG, Microsoft, and Nokia. Her consumer electronics supplier also laminates display panels for Tesla.
80. Ava DuVernay - DuVernay is the first Black woman to be nominated by the Academy as a director in a feature category. She was the first woman of color to direct a $100-million-grossing film, the 2018 Disney fantasy adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time. In 2019, her Emmy-winning series When They See Us became the most-watched series on Netflix.
81. Solina Chau - Hoi Shuen Chau is the director of Li Ka Shing foundation, which invests globally in education and healthcare projects. Asia's richest man, Li Ka-Shing is one of her foundation's philanthroper, donating more than $2.6 billion. She compares her partnership with Li to that of Sancho Panza and Don Quixote.
82. Magdalena Andersson - The former finance minister of Sweden, Andersson became Sweden's first female prime minister in November. The economist had a tumultuous election: political turmoil caused her to step down and get re-elected within one week. She was the first woman to be selected as the Chair of the Committee of the policy advisory committee for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in December 2020.
83. Sanna Marin - At 34 years, Marin is the youngest prime minister in the world when she was sworn in as Finland's prime minister in 2019. She leads a coalition government in which all five party leaders are women.
84. Mary Meeker - Meeker is a general partner of venture capital firm Bond Capital, her new growth fund that raised $1.25 billion in capital commitments. Each spring, Meeker captivates Silicon Valley with her famous Internet Trends report, which details her tech prediction in 200 data-laden slides. In 2021,her  investments in Plaid and Canva raised funding at valuations of $13.4 billion and $15 billion, respectively.
85. Serena Williams - Williams has nearly 20 corporate partners, and her $94 million in career prize money as a tennis player is twice as much as any other female athlete has made. 
86. Zuzana Caputova - At 47-years old, the anti corruption activist and lawyer is both Slovakia's youngest and first ever female president. Her influence helped spark 2018 protests that forced former Prime Minister Robert Fico to resign after the murder of a politicial corruption reporter. She has been called "the lone political voice in a sea of demagoguery."
87. Dominique Senequier - Senequier joined AXA group in 1996 when she founded AXA Private Equity which later on became Ardian in 2013. Ardian has $120 billion in assets under management from clients including governments, pension funds, and high-net-worth investors. She has established Ardian as an employee-controlled company; almost 70% of employees are shareholders, owning a total of 55% of its share capital.
88. Falgun Nayar - The former investment banker started her own company called Nykaa, a retailer of beauty products. Nykaa sells more than 1,350 beauty and personal care brands both online and through its network of stores across the country. When Nykaa went public in November, she effectively became one of India's richest self-made female entrepreneurs.
89. Lee Boo-Jin - The president and chief executive of Hotel Shilla, one of South Korea's top lodging and conference centers, the hotel is also the country's biggest duty-free operator after Lotte. Daughter of the late Samsung Group patriarch Lee Kun-Hee, Lee also served as an advisor for the trading development of Samsung CT, her family's de-facto holding company.
90. Anna Wojcicki - Wojcicki is the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe, a pioneering direct-to-consumer DNA testing firm based in California which developed drugs and antibodies currently awaiting approval for human trial.
91. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala - An economist and international development professional, as well as a former Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Nigeria, she became the first woman and the first African to serve as Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
92. Raja Easa Al Gurg - Raja Easa Al Gurg is the managing director and vice chairperson of The Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group, one of the biggest conglomerates in Middle East. It consists of 27 companies ranging from retail to construction to a metal foundry. She is also the president of the Dubai Business Women Council and is the first ever Emirati woman appointed to the board of HSBC Bank Middle East Limited (HBME).
93. Julia Gillard - Australia's former Prime Minister, Gillard became the chair of the U.K.'s Wellcome Trust, a biomedical research foundation with a more-than 25 billion pound endowment.
94. Samia Suluhu Hassan - She became Tanzania's sixth president and first-ever female female leader in March 2021. In September, she became just the fifth-ever female African leader to address the U.N. General Assembly by criticizing the COVID-19 vaccine inequality.
95. Kirsten Green - Forerunner, a company led by Green, raised a $500 million fund, total assets under management to $1.2 billion in the middle of the pandemic. She has led "first investments" in six companies currently valued over $1 billion, including the largest challenger bank, Chime.
96. Renuka Jagtiani - The chairwoman and CEO of Landmark Group, a Dubai-based multinational consumer conglomerate which currently employs more than 50,000 employees.
97. Chrystia Freeland - She is a Canadian journalist who was appointed as Minister of International Trade by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2015 and later on became the Deputy Prime Minister in 2019. She is currently serving also as Canada's Minister of Finance.
98. Mo Abudu - Nigerian media mogul Abudu started Ebonylife TV, a network that now airs in more than 49 countries across Africa as well as in the UK and the Caribbean. Her deal with Netflix is the first time an African media company signed a multi-title film and TV agreement with the streaming giant.
99. Christiana Figueres - One of the key players in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, she is the founder of the Global Optimism group and was once the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
100. Frances Haugen - Facebook's data engineer turned whistleblower when she alleged that Facebook consistently chose profits over people, allowing disinformation to spread on its platform.