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Her Magazine June July 2013

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#18Maria das Graças Silva Foster CEO, Petrobras Maria joined the state-controlled big oil company in 1981 as a chemical engineer and last year took over the largest company in the Southern Hemisphere. #19Jill Abramson Executive Editor, New York Times Co. Abramson sets the editorial agenda for arguably the only newspaper that matters. #20 Irene Rosenfeld CEO, Mondelez International Part of her plan is to quickly grow her cookie, chocolate and gum-and-candy brands in the developing BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets and plant the seeds in "nextwave markets" like the Middle East, Africa, Indonesia and Latin America. #21 Helen Clark Administrator, U.N. Development Programme Beginning her second four-year-term as administrator of the lead agency in the UN development system, Clark sits atop a $5.8 billion annual budget and a staff of 8,000 in 177 countries. #25Kathleen Sebelius #33Margaret Chan #26Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner #34Marillyn Hewson #27Sheri McCoy #35Mary Barra Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, United States Sebelius' most pressing concern is ObamaCare. The roll out of the insurance "exchanges" comes early 2014, and will impact the health and lives of millions of Americans for decades to come. President, Argentina Half-way through her second term, the Argentinean president has lots of headaches, including massive street demonstrations and accusations that Argentina has been covering up runaway inflation by under reporting the country's annual rate. CEO, Avon Products Avon's CEO commands a $11-billion-a-year beauty company with more than 6 million active sales reps in 100 countries. #28Julia Gillard Prime Minister, Australia Gillard's approval ratings are at 37% as she continues to blast her opponent Tony Abbot as a misogynist. #29Aung San Suu Kyi Chair and Parliamentarian, National League for Democracy, Burma The human rights icon has spent the past year aggressively pushing for constitutional reforms in time for the next presidential elections in 2015. #30Susan Wojcicki Director-General, World Health Organization As the lead of the World Health Organization (WHO) Chan is the sole person with the authority to call a worldwide pandemic; her recommendations on drugs and treatments direct countries battling major diseases and viruses like malaria and HIV/AIDS. CEO, Lockheed Martin Hewson has spent much of her time on Capitol Hill since becoming CEO of aerospace and defence giant Lockheed Martin this January, sitting down with some 17 members of Congress to discuss sequestration and its impact on the industrial base. SVP, Global Product Development, General Motors As the highest-ranking woman at GM and the automotive industry, Barra leads the design, engineering and quality of the automaker's 11 global brands. #36Amy Pascal Co-Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony The co-chair of Sony Pictures is the Hollywood rainmaker behind many of the world's biggest blockbusters. The studio had a record year in 2012, raking in a worldwide box-office haul of $4.4 billion. Angelina #37renowned Joliean Academy AwardActress, Philanthropist Jolie is as Senior Vice President, Google Wojcicki leads all of Google's ad products, AdWords and AdSense, Analytics and DoubleClick. #22 Nancy Pelosi Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, United States While the Minority House Leader Democrat isn't the highest ranking woman in the U.S., she's elbowed her way to the forefront of almost every major political event on the calendar. winning actress, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, and, as of 2012, a special envoy to the High Commissioner of the UNHCR, the UN's special agency for refugees, a growing global crisis. #31Yingluck Shinawatra #38Sofia Vergara Prime Minister, Thailand The PM of one of Asia's fastest-growing economies has succeeded at keeping a fragile peace between the country's political enemies. #39Laurene Powell Jobs & family #23Safra Catz Founder and Chair, Emerson Collective The very private Powell Jobs, the wealthiest women in Silicon Valley and the wife of the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, has stepped into the public eye in 2013 to continue her work in education and immigration reform. CFO, Oracle In Catz's 14-year-tenure at Oracle, she's overseen dozens of mega deals like the recent $1.9-billion purchase of human-resources software company Taleo. #24Anne Sweeney Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks, and President, Disney/ABC Television Group, Walt Disney Anne oversees ABC TV, ABC Studios, and Disney Channels worldwide, a sprawling portfolio of 107 channels that reach over 431 million viewers in 166 countries. Actress, Entrepreneur The top-earning actress on television is also the face of a sweeping (and lucrative) trend to capture the $1 trillion Hispanic market. Behind the scenes Vergara is also a cofounder of a 17-year-old talent management and new media company, LatinWE, which pulled in an estimated $27 million last year. #32Marissa Mayer CEO, Yahoo Marissa Mayer's first edict after taking the top spot at Yahoo! in July 2012 after 13 years at Google: a major overhaul of Flickr followed by a home-page redesign and a string of acquisitions, including Tumblr and storyshortener, Summly. #40Queen Elizabeth II Monarch, United Kingdom A year after her 60th diamond jubilee, the 87-year-old queen is showing signs of slowing down. FORBES estimates her personal net worth around $500 million but as a royal she's able to live well beyond her means -- her main residence is valued at roughly $5 billion. WHO'S WHO 2011 2013 27

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