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The most influential women in the world 2016, Forbes rating

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Forbes Magazine published the ranking of the most influential women in the world in 2016. It includes 100 women from 29 countries representing sectors such as politics, business, technology and philanthropy.

The average age of the rating participants is 57 years. The youngest on the list is Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (41 years old), and the oldest is British Queen Elizabeth II (90 years old).

Here's what the top 10 most influential ladies on the planet look like.

10. Ana Patricia Botin

The most influential female banker in the world, the offspring of one of the European great banking dynasties. After the death of Emilio Botin's father in 2014, Ana became chairman of the board of directors of the largest financial and credit group Santander in Spain.

9. Margaret Whitman

The first in the ranking, but not the last influential woman associated with the world of IT-technologies. He is CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. And before that I managed to work as the CEO of eBay. Under her leadership, the young company soon turned into a giant online auction. In the first year of the “reign,” Whitman eBay was worth $ 86 million, and ten years later, already $ 7.7 billion.

8. Susan Wojcicki

You’ll rarely see an Internet user who does not know about YouTube. But many do not know what controls this largest video platform woman. Susan Wojcicki took over as CEO of YouTube in 2014. Since then, she is one of the women who form a popular culture throughout the world. “Google is pretty big,” she says, “but I look at YouTube and I feel that it’s Google 10 years ago. And I see the potential for growth. "

7. Cheryl Sandberg

Sandberg has a wide range of tasks on Facebook: business operations, personnel, sales management, marketing, and communication. For her work, she receives a generous reward, and already in 2014 she was on the list of women billionaires.

6. Christine Lagarde

July 5, 2011, Christine Lagarde became the eleventh managing director of the IMF, as well as the first woman who happened to take this post. On February 19, 2016, the IMF Executive Board elected her as managing director for a second five-year term. It will begin on July 5, 2016.

5. Mary Barra

She was promoted from CEO to President of General Motors in January 2014.

This fragile-looking woman is not afraid to make harsh decisions, such as the closure of Australian, Russian and Indonesian GM branches or the departure of the Chevrolet brand from the European car market due to low profitability rates. In 2014, General Motors was shocked by the scandals surrounding the return of 30 million cars due to a defect in the ignition switch. Two years have passed and GM is booming.

4. Melinda Gates

Computer genius and tycoon Bill Gates once claimed that Melinda made him want to marry her. But this desire was contrary to the rationalist views of Gates on marriage.

In 2015, the co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Foundation, together with her husband, spent $ 4.2 billion on charity work. Part of this money was spent on upholding the rights of women and girls in different states.

3. Janet Yellen

Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, US Central Banking System.

Ms. Yellen previously headed the White House Council of Economic Advisers under the Bill Clinton administration.

2. Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton seems to go head to head with Donald Trump in the battle for the post of American president.

Mrs. Clinton was already in the White House as the first lady with her husband Billy Clinton and as Secretary of State under the administration of Barack Obama, and may soon be there as the first woman president.

1. Angela Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel leads the ten most influential women in 2016 for the sixth consecutive year - and the 11th time in total.

Opening the borders of her country to more than a million immigrants from Syria and other Muslim countries over the past few years, Merkel decided to play an interesting geopolitical strategy called “explicit humanism”. What this will turn out for Germany - time will tell.

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