TOP 20 powerful women in the world ~ Forbes ~

1    Angela Merkel, Chancellor, 57, Germany

2    Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, 63, United States

3    Dilma Rousseff, President, 63, Brazil

4    Indra NooyiChief Executive, PepsiCo, 55, United States

5    Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook, 41, United States

6    Melinda Gates, Cofounder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 47, United States

7    Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress Party, 64, India

8    Michelle Obama First Lady, 47, United States

9    Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, 55, France

10   Irene Rosenfeld, CEO, Kraft Foods, 58, United States

11   Lady Gaga, Entertainer, 25, United States

12   Jill Abramson, Executive Editor, NY Times, 57, United States

13   Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, 63, United States

14   Oprah Winfrey, Media Personality, 57, United States

15   Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, 53, United States

16   Susan Wojcicki, SVP, Advertising, Google, 43, United States

Beyoncé Knowles, Entertainer, Designer, 29, United States

, President, 58, Argentina

18   Beyoncé Knowles, Entertainer, Designer, 29, United States

19   Georgina Rinehart, Mining Tycoon, 57, Australia

20   Cher Wang, Cofounder, Chair, HTC; VIA Technologies, 52, Taiwan