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powerful women women The world's most powerful Forbes' annual snapshot of the 100 top politicians and CEOs, activist billionaires and celebrities, next generation entrepreneurs and philanthropists who matter most #1Angela Merkel #6Sheryl Sandberg #2Dilma Rousseff #7Christine Lagarde German Chancellor The world's most powerful woman is the backbone of the 27-member European Union and carries the fate of the euro on her shoulders. President of Brazil Despite Brazil's size, Rousseff is tasked with pulling the country out of its slowest two years of growth in more than a decade. #3Melinda Gates Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Primary goals for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this year have been to eradicate polio worldwide by 2018 and get modern contraceptives to another 120 million women by 2020; the Foundation has committed $140 million annually to this cause. #4Michelle Obama First Lady, United States The Harvard grad and former corporate attorney (and husband Barack Obama's boss) actively uses her platform as First Lady to fight childhood obesity and promote healthier eating and lifestyles. COO, Facebook COO of Facebook and the author of "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" – a new conversation of feminism in the workplace which has held the top spot as a non-fiction book on the bestselling charts. #8Janet Napolitano Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, United States Napolitano took on the position as the first female head of Homeland Security after serving as the third female governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009. #9Sonia Gandhi President, Indian National Congress, India as the longest-serving chief of India's ruling political party, Gandhi has the reins of the world's second-most-populous country and tenth-largest economy. CEO, PepsiCo Revenue jumped 1.2% to $13 billion and under her urging, PepsiCo is researching a new sweetener that could result in trading places with rival No. 1 Coca-Cola. #11 Geun-hye Park President, South Korea Park is South Korea's first female president; she was elected with the nation's highest turnout rate in 15 years. #12Virginia Rometty Personality, Philanthropist The whole world is watching: Will Hillary run? Clinton has a CV full of firsts; she is the only First Lady to become a U.S. senator turned viable presidential candidate turned Secretary of State. 26 WHO'S WHO 2011 2013 Entrepreneur, Personality Oprah has spent $100 million on the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. Managing Director, International Monetary Fund the first woman to run the 188-country financial organization spent much of her first two years on the job battling the debt crisis in Europe and calling for ailing global economies to accelerate steps for stable growth. #10Indra Nooyi #5Hillary Clinton #13Oprah Winfrey CEO, IBM The first female CEO of the $104.5 billion revenue tech giant has her work cut out: she's looking to drive $20 billion in revenue growth with new markets like cloud computing and business analytics software by 2015. #14Ursula Burns Chairman and CEO, Xerox Over the next 12 to 18 months under Burn's leadership the company will aggressively pursue acquisitions, particularly in data analytics, and enhance its health care business both at home and abroad. #15Meg Whitman CEO, Hewlett-Packard Clearing away the mistakes from the past takes time and among her biggest cleanup projects: the $11 billion, ill-advised acquisition of software firm Autonomy, a deal orchestrated by her predecessor in 2011. #16Georgina Rinehart Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting Earning about a billion dollars a year from the iron ore and coal projects she owns in Australia, Rinehart's fortune of $17 billion makes her the richest person in the country and the No. 5 wealthiest woman in the world. #17Beyonce Knowles Actress, Entrepreneur, Musician Her 15-minute Super Bowl performance in February drew an estimated 104 million sets of eyeballs around the world. Two weeks later, the 17-time Grammy-winner debuted her HBO autobiographical documentary, bringing in a record-breaking audience of 1.8 million.