Arroyo in Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women

Arroyo in Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women

29 August 2008 10 Comments Add to Technorati Favorites

According to Forbes Magazine, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is number 41 among the most powerful women in the world. President Arroyo is 10 notches higher from the magazine’s World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list last year.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita shrugged off the Forbes’ report saying that President Arroyo is not after popularity but governance.

President Arroyo was described by Forbes as a scandal-tainted president whose popularity plunged to a record low in 2008 due to the problems in oil and fuel prices.

The article said : "A recent imbroglio: Arroyo’s husband is among those accused of accepting bribes in a $330 million deal with a Chinese telecom firm. Despite rumors of another ouster campaign in the works, Arroyo has survived three impeachment attempts and three coup plots since taking office in 2001 and is sure to fight back."

In 2005, President Arroyo got her highest ranking after landing in the 5th spot. In 2004, she landed in the 9th slot. In 2006, her ranking dropped to 45th.

The top 100 includes Oprah Winfrey (#36), U.S.Senator Hillary Clinton #28), U.S.Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice (#7). German Chancellor Angela Merkel tops the list at #1.

Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women

Rank	Name	Occupation	Country
1	Angela Merkel	Chancellor	Germany
2	Sheila C. Bair	Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.	U.S.
3	Indra K. Nooyi	Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo	U.S.
4	Angela Braly	Chief executive, president, WellPoint	U.S.
5	Cynthia Carroll	Chief executive, Anglo American	U.K.
6	Irene B. Rosenfeld	Chairman, chief executive, Kraft Foods	U.S.
7	Condoleezza Rice	Secretary of state	U.S.
8	Ho Ching	Chief executive, Temasek Holdings	Singapore
9	Anne Lauvergeon	Chief executive, Areva	France
10	Anne Mulcahy	Chairman, chief executive, Xerox Corp.	U.S.
11	Gail Kelly	Chief executive and managing director, Westpac Bank	Australia
12	Patricia A. Woertz	Chairman, chief executive, president, Archer Daniels Midland	U.S.
13	Cristina Fernandez	President	Argentina
14	Christine Lagarde	Minister of economy, finance and employment	France
15	Safra A. Catz	President and chief financial officer, Oracle	U.S.
16	Carol B. Tome	Executive vice president and chief financial officer, Home Depot	U.S.
17	Yulia Tymoshenko	Prime minister	Ukraine
18	Mary Sammons	Chairman, chief executive, president, Rite Aid	U.S.
19	Andrea Jung	Chairman, chief executive, Avon	U.S.
20	Marjorie Scardino	Chief executive, Pearson PLC	U.K.
21	Sonia Gandhi	President, Indian National Congress Party	India
22	Risa Lavizzo-Mourey	Chief Executive and President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	U.S.
23	Sri Mulyani Indrawati	Coordinating minister for economic affairs and finance minister	Indonesia
24	Dr. Julie Gerberding	Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	U.S.
25	Michelle Bachelet	President	Chile
26	Ellen Alemany	Chief executive, Royal Bank of Scotland Americas	U.S.
27	Carol Meyrowitz	Chief executive, president, The TJX Cos.	U.S.
28	Hillary Rodham Clinton	U.S. senator, New York	U.S.
29	Hynd Bouhia	Director General, Casablanca Stock Exchange	Morocco
30	Anne Sweeney	President, Disney-ABC Television Group	U.S.
31	Valentina Matviyenko	Governor, St. Petersburg region	Russia
32	Nancy Tellem	President, CBS Paramount Television Entertainment Group	U.S.
33	Ann Livermore	Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard	U.S.
34	Marina Berlusconi	Chairman, Finivest Group and Mondadori Group	Italy
35	Nancy Pelosi	Speaker, House of Representatives	U.S.
36	Oprah Winfrey	Chairman, Harpo	U.S.
37	Gulzhan Moldazhanova	Chief Executive, Basic Element	Russia
38	Aung San Suu Kyi	Deposed prime minister; Nobel peace laureate	Myanmar
39	Lynn Laverty Elsenhans	Chief executive and president, Sunoco	U.S.
40	Melinda Gates	Co-founder, co-chairman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	U.S.
41	Gloria Arroyo	President	Philippines
42	Jane Mendillo	President and chief executive, Harvard Management Co.	U.S.
43	Linda Z. Cook	Executive director, gas and power, Royal Dutch Shell	Netherlands
44	Laura Bush	First lady	U.S.
45	Brenda Barnes	Chief executive, Sara Lee	U.S.
46	Christine Poon	Vice chairman, Johnson & Johnson	U.S.
47	Neelie Kroes	Competition commissioner, European Union	Netherlands
48	Amy Woods Brinkley	Global risk executive, Bank of America	U.S.
49	Susan E. Arnold	President, global business units, Procter & Gamble	U.S.
50	Susan Decker	President, Yahoo!	U.S.
51	Ana Patricia Botin	Chairman, Banesto	Spain
52	Tzipora Livni	Vice prime minister and minister of foreign affairs	Israel
53	Dominique Senequier	Chief executive officer, AXA Private Equity	France
54	Amy Pascal	Co-chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment	U.S.
55	Ursula Burns	President, Xerox	U.S.
56	Helen Clark	Prime minister	New Zealand
57	Laura Desmond	Chief executive officer, Starcom MediaVest Group Worldwide	U.S.
58	Queen Elizabeth II	Queen	U.K.
59	Mayawati Kumari	Chief minister, Uttar Pradesh	India
60	Judy McGrath	Chairman and chief executive officer, MTV Networks	U.S.
61	Meredith Vieira	Co-anchor, Today show, NBC News	U.S.
62	Katie Couric	Anchor, CBS Evening News, CBS News	U.S.
63	Barbara Walters	Correspondent, ABC News	U.S.
64	Sallie Krawcheck	Chairman and chief executive, Global Wealth Management, Citigroup	U.S.
65	Diane Sawyer	Anchor, Good Morning America, ABC News	U.S.
66	Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf	President	Liberia
67	Janice Fields	Chief operating officer and executive vice president, McDonald’s	U.S.
68	Zhang Xin	Chief executive officer, co-founder, Soho	China
69	Zaha Hadid	Founder, Zaha Hadid Architects	U.K.
70	Yang Mian Mian	President, Haier	China
71	Tarja Halonen	President	Finland
72	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Justice, Supreme Court	U.S.
73	Hyun Jeong-Eun	Chairman, Hyundai Group	South Korea
74	Mary McAleese	President	Ireland
75	Guler Sabanci	Chairman, Sabanci Holding	Turkey
76	Drew Gilpin Faust	President, Harvard University	U.S.
77	Lisa M. Weber	President, Individual Business, MetLife	U.S.
78	Dora Bakoyannis	Foreign minister	Greece
79	Beth Brooke	Global vice chairman, Ernst & Young	U.S.
80	Lee Myung-Hee	Chairman, Shinsegae Group	South Korea
81	Susan M. Ivey	Chief executive, Reynolds American	U.S.
82	Nancy McKinstry	CEO, Wolters Kluwer	Netherlands
83	Janet L. Robinson	President and chief executive, The New York Times Co.	U.S.
84	Margaret Chan	Director-general, World Health Organization	Switzerland
85	Clara Furse	Chief executive, London Stock Exchange	U.K.
86	Ellen J. Kullman	Executive vice president, DuPont	U.S.
87	Susan Desmond-Hellmann	President, product development, Genentech	U.S.
88	Eva Cheng	Chief executive, Greater China and Southeast Asia, Amway	China
89	Maha Al-Ghunaim	Chairman, managing director, Global Investment House	Kuwait
90	Christina Gold	Chief executive, Western Union	U.S.
91	Christiane Amanpour	Chief international correspondent, CNN	U.S.
92	Pamela Nicholson	President, Enterprise Rent-a-Car	U.S.
93	Ann Moore	Chairman, chief executive, Time Inc.	U.S.
94	Sharon Allen	Chair, Deloitte	U.S.
95	Jing Ulrich	Chairman and managing director, JPMorgan Chase China Equities	China
96	Queen Rania Al-Abdullah	Queen	Jordan
97	Virginia Rometty	Senior vice president, IBM Global Business Services	U.S.
98	Georgina Rinehart	Owner, chairman, Hancock Prospecting	Australia
99	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	Chairman and managing director, Biocon	India
100	Paula Rosput Reynolds	Chief Executive, Safeco	U.S.

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