Worlds 100 Most Powerful Women: Nirmala Sitharaman Ranked 37th - Forbes 2021

Highlights:

• Nirmala Sitharaman, India's Finance Minister, has been rated 37th on Forbes' list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women for 2021.
• For the third year in a row, she has been included on the list. In 2020, she was ranked 41st, while in 2019, she was ranked 34th.
• Falguni Nayar, founder and CEO of Nykaa, was rated 88th on the list as India's eighth woman billionaire and wealthiest self-made billionaire.
• Only four Indian women made Forbes' list of the world's 100 most powerful women in 2021.
• Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson of HCL Technology and India's first female CEO of a publicly traded IT business, was ranked 52nd on the list.
• The executive chairperson and creator of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, was ranked 72nd on the list. In 1978, she launched India's largest publicly traded biopharmaceutical company.
• Forbes' list of World's 100 Most Powerful Women
• Forbes' 2021 World's 100 Most Powerful Women was topped by MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, novelist, and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, replacing outgoing German chancellor Angela Merkel, who led the list 15 times out of 17 versions.
• Second on the list was Kamala Harris, the first woman and the first person of colour (Black) to be elected Vice President of the United States of America.
• Janet Yellen, the first woman to be named Treasury Secretary in the United States, is rated 39th on the list.
• Others on the list include Oprah Winfrey (number 23), Jacinda Ardern (number 34), Rihanna (number 68), and others.
• The youngest woman on the list is Taylor Swift (31 years old), who is ranked 78th, and the oldest is Queen Elizabeth II (95 years old), who is placed 70th.