Forbes has released the list of the 25 women believed to be the most powerful women in the world in 2016.

They are:

 

    1.  Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel
Chancellor (Germany)

2. Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton
Presidential Candidate (US)

 

3. Janet Yellen

Janet Yellen
Chair, US Federal Reserve (US)

4.  Melinda Gates

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Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (US)

5. Mary Barra

Mary Barra
CEO, General Motors (US)

6. Christine Lagarde

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Managing Director, IMF (France)

7. Sheryl Sandberg

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COO, Facebook (US)

 

8.  Susan Wojcicki

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CEO, YouTube (US)

9. Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman
CEO, Hewlett Packard (US)

10. Ana Patricia Botin

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Chair, Banco Santander (Spain)

11.  Ginni Rometty

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CEO, IBM (US)

12.  Park Geun-hye

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President (South Korea)

13.  Michelle Obama

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First Lady (US)

14.  Indra Nooyi

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CEO, PepsiCo (US)

15.  Angela Ahrendts

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Senior Vice President, Apple (US)

16.  Abigail Johnson

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CEO, Fidelity (US)

17.  Tsai Ing-Wen

President (Taiwan)

18.  Michelle Bachelet

President (Chile)

19.  Federica Mogherini

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High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (Italy)

20. Safra Catz

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Co-CEO, Oracle (US)

21.  Oprah Winfrey

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Media mogul (US)

22. Helen Clark

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Administrator/U.N. Development Programme (New Zealand)

23.  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor

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Justices of the Supreme Court (US)

24.  Marillyn Hewson

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CEO, Lockheed Martin (US)

25.  Arundhati Bhattacharya

Chair, State Bank of India (India)