P epsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi was ranked third by Forbes magazine in its 2009 list of "The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World." Nooyi topped other candidates such as Queen of Jordan, First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Four women of Indian origin and one Bangladeshi are among the South Asians that made it to the list. Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi is ranked 13th; Chanda Kochhar, chief executive of ICICI Bank, comes in at 20; South African Navanethem Pillay, high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, is ranked 63rd; Bangladesh's Prime Minister Hasina Wajed comes in at 78; and Kiran MazumdarShaw, chairwoman of Biocon in India, makes it at 91
The list is not about the money, the magazine says, and it isn't about celebrity or popularity - it's about influence. "In assembling the list, Forbes looked for women who run countries, big companies or influential nonprofits, and ranked them according to a combination of two scores - visibility and the size of the organization or country they run."
Nooyi is only outranked by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who tops the list for the fourth year running; and by Sheila Bair, who heads the U.S
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P epsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi was ranked third by Forbes magazine in its 2009 list of "The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World." Nooyi topped other candidates such as Queen of Jordan, First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Four women of Indian origin and one Bangladeshi are among the South Asians that made it to the list. Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi is ranked 13th; Chanda Kochhar, chief executive of ICICI Bank, comes in at 20; South African Navanethem Pillay, high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, is ranked 63rd; Bangladesh's Prime Minister Hasina Wajed comes in at 78; and Kiran MazumdarShaw, chairwoman of Biocon in India, makes it at 91
The list is not about the money, the magazine says, and it isn't about celebrity or popularity - it's about influence. "In assembling the list, Forbes looked for women who run countries, big companies or influential nonprofits, and ranked them according to a combination of two scores - visibility and the size of the organization or country they run."
Nooyi is only outranked by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who tops the list for the fourth year running; and by Sheila Bair, who heads the U.S
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the U.S