The women on this year's list come from 19 countries across six continents, including 13 from China.
Women are still rare at the helm of large multinational corporations. In 2019, only 14 of the heads of Fortune 500 companies were women — and that was an improvement from 12 in 2018. When we take a closer look at the most powerful women in business globally (outside the US), it stands to reason that bigger changes are afoot. One-third of
this year's list are newcomers who have just been appointed as the top leaders of multinational companies (such as Ping An's Chen Xinying , Solvay's Ilham Kadri, Puma Energy's Emma Fitzgerald), or promoted to leadership positions (e.g. Petrobras CFO Andrea Marquez de Almeida, Air France CEO Anne Rigay, Japan's Uniqlo CEO Akaida Maki).
Many names appear in industries where female executives are rare, such as chemicals, oil and gas, metal manufacturing, and so on. While they're new and their performance remains to be seen, it's important that they're in a position where things can change.
The women on this year's list come from 19 countries (every continent except Antarctica), including 13 from China. Fewer and fewer of them are on the list because of the family business behind them.
But there is one exception is Anna Botin, who has returned to the number one position in this year's women's list. She serves as executive chairman of international banking giant Santander Bank with annual revenues of $90.5 billion. Santander was founded by her father, but Botin has proven himself a competent leader over the past five years.
1 Ana Botín, Spain
Santander executive chairman
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Thanks to the solid performance of the multinational bank this year, Ana Botín is back at the top of the list s position. Ranked 85th in this year's Fortune Global 500, Santander had revenues of $90 billion in 2018. The growth came largely from the bank's presence in Latin American markets, especially Brazil and Mexico, and cost-cutting in Europe. Botin, who took over the company five years ago following the sudden death of her father, is making steady progress on her promise to strengthen Santander's capital and foster customer loyalty (up 40 percent since 2015, according to internal measurements). more), and digitizing the banking platform (32 million users and growing). But things didn't go as planned for Botin this year, and she made a huge mistake—hiring a new CEO and then firing him, culminating in a $100 million lawsuit.
2 Emma Walmsley, UK
GSK CEO
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Emma Walmsley has one distinguishing feature: her industry is male took over management, and she is one of a handful of women among the top executives in the industry. Walmsley is aggressively making his mark on Big Pharma. Walmsley has revamped the company's core business strategy since taking over in April 2017, the British drug giant with a market capitalization of hundreds of billions, GlaxoSmithKline. She was relentless when it came to negotiating agreements. It also hired big-name talents, such as research and development director Hal Baron, to prop up the company's drug production line. In January of this year, GlaxoSmithKline reached a US$5 billion agreement with Tessaro, a medical technology company dedicated to cancer treatment, which marks that GlaxoSmithKline will become a major player again after years of silence in the oncology field. If those changes weren't forward-looking enough, Walmsley also spearheaded a deal with 23andMe last year to integrate the genetic testing company's strengths into the company's drug strategy. In September of this year, Walmsley was also appointed director of Microsoft .
3 Dong Mingzhu (Dong Mingzhu), China
Chairman and President of Gree Electric Appliances
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One of China's most respected business leaders, Dong Mingzhu runs Gree, China's largest air-conditioning manufacturer, with an iron fist. Last year, when the company's largest shareholders demanded more funds be invested in financial derivatives, Dong Mingzhu, Gree's lifelong chairman , intimidated them by investing money in the semiconductor industry in order to free Gree from the US supplier rely. Dong Mingzhu, who has been elected to the National People's Congress several times, is so confident in Gree's long-term development that she even increased her bet with smartphone maker Xiaomi to 1 billion yuan (about 140 million U.S. dollars) to bet on Gree within five years. Who earns more. In the last gamble up to 2018, Gree won, as Gree's revenue rose 33% to $24z30 billion, but Dong Mingzhu did not collect the bet.
4 Jessica Tan, Co-CEO, COO, CIO of Ping An Group, China
Source: Eric Rechsteiner for Fortunez When I came into contact with Ping An Group. As a partner at McKinsey at the time, Chen Xinying helped Ping An develop a large new campus in China, but she said she was reluctant to do this project at the time. Now, though, she is the co-CEO of the $164 billion company, having joined Ping An in 2013, where she held a dual role — chief operating officer and chief information officer. Ping An, an insurance company in name, is actually a data-driven technology company. It ranks 29th in this year's Fortune Global 500. In terms of revenue, Ping An is the largest company on the list. As the chief operating officer, Chen Xinying led Ping An to deeply cut into the technology field. In her new co-CEO position, she continues to lead the development of technology projects, which is the core business of the Group.
5 Isabelle Kocher, CEO of France
Engie
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A former French civil servant with multiple degrees in physics, she is now a French energy magnate Head of Engie and the only female CEO of a French top 40 company (CAC40). Since taking office in 2016, she has pushed the company to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and switch to sustainable energy. She has streamlined the company this year, saying Engie will exit 20 markets.
investors have mixed reviews for her approach. Engie, which ranked No. 126 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2019, saw a 1.5% drop in revenue in 2018 and a 24% drop in profits.
6 Alison Rose, UK
Royal Bank of ScotlandCEO
Source: Courtesy of RBS
When Rose was appointed deputy chief executive of NatWest in 2018, she Considered the most powerful woman in British banking. The bank is a "fence-fenced" arm of RBS and does not engage in high-risk investment banking. Afterwards, a big piece of news came out in September: Ross may succeed Ross McEwen as the new chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland. McEwen is credited with turning around the bank's slump, which saw RBS finally turn a profit two years ago after a decade of failure. Ross, who worked at the bank for 27 years, joined the senior management team in 2014 and the appointment made her the first woman to head a big four UK bank. Royal Bank of Scotland's revenue last year was $22.2 billion.
7 Shemara Wikramanayake, Australia
Macquarie Group CEO and Executive Director
Source: Courtesy of Macquaire Group
Himala took over as CEO of Macquarie Group late last year, becoming the first woman to head the investment bank, which is worth about $28 billion . This year, she set her sights on climate change, becoming a member of the World Bank's Global Adaptation Council, whose only three members are chief executives of multinational companies. Leveraging Macquarie's $82 billion investment in infrastructure, Himala is driving investment in green and sustainable development. Himala also closed a $680 million funding round in August to invest in renewable energy and technology.
8 Alison Cooper, chief executive of Imperial Brands, UK
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Like many players in the tobacco industry, Imperial Brands at the helm of Cooper is shifting business The focus shifts from traditional cigarettes to "new generation products". Under Cooper's leadership, the $21 billion company has expanded its blu vaping e-cigarette brand into new markets -- Spain, Portugal, Ireland and New Zealand -- and announced a cannabis deal in July The largest investment project in the history of the industry. Under this project, Imperial Brands will invest approximately US$100 million in Oxley Cannabis Group, a Canadian listed company, and grant its global authorization for e-cigarettes in exchange for 20% of the latter’s shares and board seats. However, the imperial brand's attention to new technology coincides with the strict review of the government by e-cigarettes, and the United States is considering banning the sale of flavored e-cigarettes that are attractive to young people.
9 Anne Rigail, France
CEO of Air France-KLM
Source: Romauld Meigneux—SIPA via AP CEO of Air France (part of the Air France-KLM group) and became one of only a handful of women at the helm of a major airline. Air France-KLM is one of the world's top 20 airlines and carried 101 million passengers last year, a company record. Rigayi was promoted from the position of executive vice president, when Air France was in the middle of salary negotiations with unions, and the problem has since been resolved. Air France's 2018 revenue was about $17.6 billion, but Air France-KLM's shares have fallen about 17 percent in the past six months due to lower bookings during the peak season.
10 Wu Wei (Maggie Wu), China
Alibaba chief financial officer and head of strategic investment
Source: Courtesy of Alibaba The first listing: one was in 2007, she was the chief financial officer of alibaba.com; the other was in 2014, she was the chief financial officer of Alibaba Group , and that listing was the largest listing project in the world at that time. There are rumors that Alibaba will be listed in Hong Kong for the second time this year, so Wu Wei will have three listings in his professional resume. Wu Wei used to be an auditor of KPMG. In June this year, she took on the post of director of strategic investment and took on greater responsibilities. She took over the position from Tsai Chongxin, executive vice president of the group.
11 Ge Yue (Isabel Ge Mahe), China
Executive Director of Apple Greater China
Source: Courtesy of Apple
In recent years, Apple has relied more on services such as Apple Pay and Apple Music instead of mobile phones or laptops for growth equipment. Ge Yue foresaw in 2017 that this would be particularly challenging in the Chinese market as WeChat dominated the market and WeChat The ecosystem integrates payment tools, information systems and games. Net sales in Greater China fell 4% year-on-year to $9.2 billion in the quarter ended June, while Apple's overall net sales edged up 1%. This means that the sales of Apple's iPhone 11 mobile phones have a huge relationship with the revenue of this region. In addition to operating the US$52 billion business segment in Greater China, Ge Yue also sought executive job opportunities outside Apple this year. In September, she joined the board of directors of Starbucks .
12 Wang Fengying (Wang Fengying), China
Great Wall Motor CEO and Vice Chairman
In the context of the overall decline in China's auto industry, Wang Fengying's job is not to lead China's leading automaker Great Wall Motor forward easy. The Hong Kong-listed company's profit rose 4% last year at the expense of cutting research and development costs in half. In the first half of this year, Great Wall's profit fell 59 percent, to $222 million, on a 16 percent drop in revenue. But Wang Fengying is still pushing Great Wall Motors to go overseas: a factory is under construction in Russia, a subsidiary has been established in India, and business is also planned in North America - although trade frictions may be hindered. Wang Fengying told China Daily: "For Great Wall Motors, the main battlefield is the global market." a seat.
13 Hilde Aasheim, Norway
CEO and President of Norsk Hydro
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After being appointed CEO of Norsk Hydro in May this year, Asheim becomes the first woman to head the global industrial company. Norsk Hydro had revenues of $17.8 billion in 2018 and employs 35,000 people in 40 countries. Since then, she has advocated sustainable development and is committed to making the company a leader in reducing the environmental impact of metals. Hydro currently has the lowest carbon footprint in aluminum production, and she hopes to get even lower. In addition to promoting green environmental protection, Asheim also proposed to update the company's board of directors and strictly control expenses to increase profits.
14 Chua Sock Koong (Chua Sock Koong), Singapore
Singtel Group CEO
Source: Courtesy of Government of Singapore
It has been a tough year for this strong Asian woman. Since 2007, Chua has led the Singtel Group, the largest telecommunications operator in Southeast Asia. She slashed her salary last year, nearly halving her salary from $6.1 million to $3.5 million, as Singtel needed to cover some loss-making digital investments. Singtel's cybersecurity business has halted persistent pre-tax losses, which posted a loss of US$102 million in 2018.
15 Wu Yajun (Wu Yajun), China
Chairman of Longfor Property
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has had an extraordinary career as a factory worker and journalist, working her way to become China One of the richest women. Wu Yajun and her ex-husband Cai Kui founded Longfor Real Estate in 1993. Later, with China's rapid economic development, Longfor Real Estate became a commercial real estate empire. After divorcing Cai Kui in 2012, Wu Yajun remained at the helm of Longfor, but last year she transferred 44% of the company's shares to her daughter Cai Xinyi. According to Longfor, this is an arrangement of the "succession plan". Wu Yajun still appears to be in control of the company, but the company says Cai Xinyi will run the company as her mother wants.
16 Michelle Scrimgeour, Chief Executive Officer, UK
Earlier this yearAt that time, the British insurance giant Law & General Insurance arranged for Scrimgeour to manage its investment management department with assets of 1.24 trillion US dollars. This position has been called "one of the most influential jobs in European asset management" by the Financial Times.
Scringele has worked at Merrill Lynch , BlackRock and M&G Investments. When she was in charge of asset management business in Europe, Middle East and Africa at Tianli Investment, she switched to Legal Communications Asset Management. In addition to supervising the vast business module of Legal Communications Asset Management, Scrimgeour also led the company's participation in a campaign in support of the homosexual phenomenon, which aimed to promote the recognition of the phenomenon in the banking and investment industries.
17 Joey Wat (Joey Wat), China
CEO of Yum China
Source: Anthony Kwan—Bloomberg via Getty Images 95% of the KFC stores, these stores account for 70% of Yum China's revenue, and opened more than 1,000 new KFC stores across the country. Before Yum China was established in 2016, Cuirong Wat was the president and CEO of KFC China, after which she became the group president and chief operating officer. Under her rule, Yum China expanded at a rate of two new stores a day. The group currently has more than 8,700 stores in China. Before Yum China was founded, sales edged up 1% last year after years of decline. Revenue rose 8% in 2018 to $8.42 billion.
18 Dominique Senequier, President of France
Ardian
Source: Courtesy of Ardian
Ardian is the world's largest private equity firm run by a woman, and Senequier continues to lead the company's tremendous growth . Assets under management rose more than 35% last year from $71 billion to $96 billion. One reason for this is Ardian's acquisition of a $5 billion private equity fund portfolio from Japan's Norin Central Bank. Senekier, who oversees 620 employees across 15 offices across Europe, the Americas and Asia, is raising $12 billion for a new fund.
19 Ho Ching (Ho Ching), Singapore
Temasek CEO and Executive Director
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As executive director and CEO of Singapore state investment company Temasek, Ho Ching manages A financial behemoth, Temasek employs 800 people in 11 offices around the world. As of the end of the first quarter of 2019, the company's assets were valued at $231 billion. The company recorded a shareholder return of 1.49% last year, investing $17 billion and divesting $20 billion by the end of March. Temasek's new investments are mainly in the US, followed by Europe and China. New investments include UST Global, a North American digital solutions provider, and DoorDash, a food delivery company.
Ho Ching joined Temasek in 2002, and the question of her successor has been haunting her. There are some signs that she may be considering retirement, such as Lee Theng Kit succeeding her as chairman of subsidiary Temasek International in March this year. The change, she said, was to ensure Temasek International was "ready for the disruptive challenges and opportunities of the next decade".
20 Jean Liu, president of Didi Chuxing, China
Source: Tomohiro Ohsumi—Getty Images market (90% share), the latest valuation is $56 billion. Didi’s road is not smooth. After two murders of passengers in 2018 and the murder of a driver in December of the same year, Chinese users complained about the company’s failure to respond in a timely manner.Outcry in response to public anxiety. After temporarily suspending the ride-hailing business, Didi intends to restart the project. Didi previously said it would spend 2 billion yuan ($290 million) this year to upgrade system security, including better software and driver training.
Under Liu Qing's leadership, Didi spun off its self-driving unit as a separate company earlier this year to raise external financing and better position itself to face competition. Didi's CTO will lead the self-driving car company and become CEO.
21 Ilham Kadri, Belgium
Solvay CEO
Source: Courtesy of Solvay
In March this year, Kadri became the CEO of the 156-year-old Belgian multinational. Solvay, which has a market capitalization of $12.9 billion, makes advanced materials and specialty chemicals, such as plastics as strong as metal, that are used in a wide variety of products including top-of-the-line cars and aircraft, medical devices and batteries. Kadri came to Solvay from Diversey, a cleaning products company in the United States. After she came, she adjusted the organization of the company and announced that she would deleverage the company. Later this year, she will Outline her grand strategy. Investors welcomed Solvay's move to sell off its non-specialty polyamides business.
22 Junko Nakagawa, Japan
CEO of Nomura Asset Management
In April this year, Junko Nakagawa became the first female head of Nomura Asset Management - she is responsible for nearly $500 billion in assets and in 12 The country's 1,500 employees. She has served the Japanese financial giant for 31 years, holding various leadership positions ranging from underwriting in capital markets to healthcare, and she is currently at the pinnacle of her career at the firm. Junko Nakagawa's office is in Nomura's Tokyo headquarters, and she considers giving priority to the development of the company's international business.
23 Anne Richards (Anne Richards), UK
CEO of Fidelity International
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Richards was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and she was the CEO of M&G Investments in 2018 In December, he switched to a competitor Fidelity International. At the helm of a firm with over $412 billion in assets under management and more than 2.4 million clients worldwide, she is charged with leading Fidelity International in a rapidly evolving and competitive asset management industry. She has also been a vocal voice for diversity and gender equality in the industry, speaking out against the "masculine" culture that prevents many women from pursuing careers in asset management.
24 Linda Jackson, France
Peugeot Citroen Group CEO
Source: Courtesy of Citroënz 4z
Jackson joined the French automaker Citroën in 2005 as finance director of the UK division, and now she is the company This is the sixth year since the company's first female CEO. Since his appointment in 2014, Citroen has experienced five consecutive years of growth, with a cumulative increase in sales revenue of 28%. In 2018, the Peugeot Citroen Group's Peugeot-Citroen-DS division achieved a record-breaking profit margin of 8.4% and a sales growth rate of 18.9%. After Autocar magazine named her the most powerful woman in the UK car industry in 2018, Jackson set big goals for the company's future. She wants to expand Citroen's markets outside Europe, including India and South Africa, to boost sales from 1.1 million to 1.5 million by 2021.
25 Jessica Uhl, Netherlands
Chief Financial Officer of Royal Dutch Shell
Source: Courtesy of Shell International BV
Jessica Uhl is a native of California, and currently works at Shell's headquarters in the Netherlands. She has been in charge of this stone since 2017CFO of an oil major. Royal Dutch Shell ranks third on this year's Fortune Global 500 and is the world's second-largest oil company behind Exxon Mobil, with Shell's 2018 revenue exceeding $396 billion. Ure joined Shell in the renewables business and has since publicly pushed for transparency in the natural resources industry, including on taxation and climate change issues. The oil major faces potentially conflicting demands over its transition to a low-carbon business, while global economic winds are turning: slower growth, lower oil prices and lower refining margins.
26 Ornella Barra, UK
Walburg Alliance Co-COO
Source: Courtesy of WSM
Barra has had a huge impact on Walburg Alliance, a $131.5 billion global pharmacy chain , ranked 40th in this year's Fortune Global 500. Her responsibilities included a $230 pharmaceutical wholesale business, international retail pharmacies, and continued expansion of Walgreens Brands globally. Barra started out as a pharmacist and is now in charge of the company's global supply chain and the innovation of Walgreens Boots' global IT department. Her husband is Stefano Pesner, chief executive of Walgreens Boots United. Barra's work focus also includes: expanding the brand in the Chinese market, which the company believes is the most promising and important.
27 Adaire Fox-Martin, Germany
SAP’s global customer operations director and executive director
Source: Courtesy of SAP
As the executive director, Adaire Fox-Martin took over the global customer business in April this year. She worked with Jennifer Fox-Martin before Morgan is jointly responsible, and Morgan currently leads SAP's cloud computing business. Fomedai is thus directly responsible for the German software company's business growth and client relationships, as well as $27 billion in annual sales. The company has high hopes for her leadership as it hopes to hit $38.7 billion in sales by 2023.
28 Rachel Duan（Rachel Duan）, China
President and CEO of General Electric International Business, Global Senior Vice President
Source: Courtesy of GE
Recently, Duan Xiaoying was promoted to President and CEO of General Electric International Business, also became the The organization's first woman and first non-American leader. In her new role, she is responsible for GE's business growth in international markets, including the Middle East, Latin America, China, India, Asia Pacific, Africa and Central Europe. Duan Xiaoying formed a joint venture with Harbin Electric last year to manufacture and supply wind turbines to Chinese customers. She also signed an investment agreement, planning to build a GE offshore wind power manufacturing base in Guangdong. At the same time, she has obtained regulatory approval to set up a new fund to invest in clean energy infrastructure projects.
29 Susanne Schaffert, Switzerland
President of Novartis Oncology
Photo: Courtesy of Novartis
Novartis aspires to be an innovator in cancer medicine, and Schaffert is pushing for it. In January 2019, Shafet became the president of Novartis Oncology Division. Before that, she served as the president of the French Advanced Accelerator Application Company, which was acquired by Novartis in 2018 because of its unique cancer targeted therapy. The appointment was rewarded with a high dividend, the company said. Case in point: Novartis' global portfolio sales in cancer reached $6.9 billion in the first half of 2019, accounting for almost 40% of the company's total revenue, up 9% year-over-year. To some extent, the growth is due to Shafet's aggressive expansion of Kymriah's use. Kymriah is a pioneering leukemia therapy that reprograms a patient's own immune cells to fight cancer and is currently being implemented in more than 160 treatment centers in 20 countries.
30 Harriet Green, Singapore
CEO and Chairman, IBM Asia Pacific
Source: Courtesy of IBM
In January 2018, Green was promoted from general manager of IBM Watson Internet of Things to CEO of IBM Asia Pacific. She actively restructured the business and adjusted the share, including bringing the technical and business consulting teams into IBM Services, and adjusting the department to provide more centralized and customized services for Singapore. In 2018, the Asia-Pacific region achieved revenue of US$17.1 billion, accounting for a little more than 21% of the company's overall revenue last year, the same proportion as the previous year. Green is also trying to improve diversity. At present, women account for more than 40% of the team, which is one of the teams with the highest proportion of women in IBM's regions.
31 Helle Østergaard Kristiansen
(Helle Østergaard Kristiansen), Denmark
CEO of Danske Commodities
Source: Courtesy of Danske Commodities
In early 2019, Denmark’s global Christiansen became an energy trading sector A female CEO of Danske Commodities, which is Denmark's 10th-highest revenue company (about $10.7 billion in revenue in 2018). Christiansen, who previously served as chief financial officer at Danske, landed a big win in energy giant Equinor's $460 million takeover of Danske in February. As part of the deal, Danske will push short-term energy deals to focus on renewable energy. Equinor's plan includes investing 15% to 20% of total capital expenditure in new energy solutions annually by 2030. In July, Christiansen also made his first attempt to expand Danske's business into the US energy market.
32 Maki Akaida, Japan
CEO of Uniqlo Japan, Senior Vice President of Fast Retailing
Maki Akaida is 40 years old and a senior vice president of Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo, where she spent most of her career group. In 2001, Akaida Maki joined the group and was responsible for the operation of stores with high demand in China and Japan. In June of this year, Akai Tian Maki took over as CEO of Uniqlo Japan, whose profit in 2018 was US$1.11 billion. Akaida Maki has nearly 20 years of experience in managing high-income stores, so when the founder Yanai Masa decided to resign, Akaida Maki was the first choice to take over as the CEO of the group, and Liu Jingzheng also expressed his hope that a woman would take over.
33 Ann Cairns, United Kingdom
MastercardExecutive Vice PresidentChairman
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In 2011, Cairns joined MasterCard as a member of the Global Management Committee. Last year he was executive vice president of the payments technology company, which had nearly $15 billion in revenue in 2018. During the promotion process, she also served as a corporate ambassador, focusing on advocating gender diversity and trying to maintain a gender balance of candidates for senior positions at Mastercard. Outside of work, Keynes also advocated gender balance. In June this year, she served as the co- chair of the well-known "30% club", an organization based in the UK, which mainly calls for more opportunities for women at all levels of global enterprises.
34 Emma FitzGerald (Emma FitzGerald), Singapore
CEO of Puma Energy
Source: Courtesy of Puma Energy He held key positions in the UK energy industry and worked for Royal Dutch Shell for 20 years. Her succession comes at a time of turmoil, and she also said this spring that 2018 was a "very difficult year" for the company. She reshuffled the management team just months before taking office. Puma Energy is partly owned by Singapore-based trading company Trafigura and partly by Angola's state-owned state oil and gas company Angola. The company's oil storage and retail service station business continues to expand, in Africa, Latin America and AsiaThere are retail gas stations in the Pacific region, but the International Monetary Fund is also monitoring Angola's macroeconomic stabilization measures due to economic tensions in Angola. In 2018, the company lost $25 million. Reports say Fitzgerald intends to sell assets to reduce debt.
35 Nancy McKinstry, Netherlands
Chairman and CEO of Wolters Kluwer
Source: Courtesy of Taco Anema/Wolters Kluwer
McKinstry is from the United States. Service provider Wolters Kluwer's first female CEO. In 2017-2018, McKinsey worked on a digital strategy, divesting some printing and distribution services and investing in industrial software instead. This strategy allowed the company to grow net income by 3% despite a 2% decline in total revenue ($4.7 billion). In 2018-2019, McKensky increased the proportion of female executives in Wolters Kluwer from 50% to 65%. Under her stewardship, the company's stock price rose about 19% last year and 364% over her entire tenure.
36 R. Alexandra Keith (R. Alexandra Keith), Switzerland
Procter & Gamble CEO of the beauty department
Source: Courtesy of P&G The title of executive officer, P&G said, is to strengthen the department's decision-making power in all aspects from supply chain management to commercialization. Keith, the chief executive of the global beauty division, is one of the promoted department heads. In 2018, her division's net sales were US$13.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%. From 2017 to 2018, Keith led the department to achieve an organic sales growth of 8%, setting a record high in 10 years. This is because she pays more attention to promoting the ingredients of cosmetics after analyzing the purchasing behavior of millennials. Her strategy led to a turnaround in Olay sales and the expansion of Native, a natural cosmetics brand. Olay also acquired Walker & Company, a personal care brand that primarily caters to people of color.
37 Fama Francisco, CEO of Procter & Gamble’s baby and feminine care business in Switzerland
Source: Courtesy of P&G The industry's strongest growth in net sales, profits and productivity, with net sales of baby care and feminine care products totaling $12.1 billion. Francisco has made drastic changes in P&G: Internally, in just 12 months, she changed the leadership of the baby care team, which accounted for 70% of men, to an equal mix of men and women; externally, she launched "Pampers" in 2019. Plan," which calls for the installation of thousands of changing tables in men's restrooms across North America to address fathers' parenting difficulties.
38 Jane Jie Sun, China
CEO of Ctrip
Source: Billy H.C. Kwok—Bloomberg via Getty Images Work for online travel agency Ctrip (the English name will soon be Trip.com Group). She has held various positions and is currently working at Ctrip's Shanghai headquarters. Ctrip's market capitalization on Nasdaq is nearly US$19 billion, and its revenue in 2018 reached US$4.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 16%. Despite macroeconomic headwinds, Ctrip's financial performance is still good, according to Sun Jie's statement that "the Sino-US trade dispute has affected Chinese tourists traveling to the US." Sun Jie attaches great importance to improving the diversity of Ctrip's employees and creating opportunities for women. Currently, one-third of Ctrip's executives are women. Ctrip provides a series of benefits for female employees, including reimbursement for taxis for pregnant womencosts, and funding for employees who wish to freeze their eggs.
39 Han Seong-Sook, Korea
Seong-Sook CEO and President
Han Seong-Sook, a leading Internet provider in South Korea, received a large investment last year to increase artificial intelligence and Naver Pay , Webtoon and its Japanese communications subsidiary Line, among other new services. Relevant investments have cut the company's profit by US$5 billion, but relying on the boost of artificial intelligence technology, the core search , content and advertising businesses of World Union Interactive performed well, and revenue in the second quarter of 2019 increased by 17%. World Union Interactive is facing increasingly fierce competition in the domestic market, so it is simultaneously looking for growth opportunities overseas. The measures include establishing joint venture mobile banking in neighboring countries and promoting the Webtoon business to the world.
40 Belinda Wong, China
Starbucks China CEO and Chairman
Source: Courtesy of Starbucks
Wang Jingying is an old face of Starbucks. She reorganized the Chinese business into two departments, retail and digital venture capital, and she was responsible for both businesses. As competitors such as Ruixing become more and more popular in China, Wang Jingying chose to speed up the launch of new services and products in stores to enhance competitiveness: as of June, 1300 stores launched the online order service "饭快Starbucks Now"; opened the first Starbucks Reserve Coffee • Roastery; pilot the first Coffee Express Starbucks Now store-different from the typical model, the store is mainly responsible for take-out orders and delivery. Last year, Starbucks opened more than 600 new stores, and Wang Jingying plans to increase the total number of stores to 6,000 by 2022.
41 Carolyn McCall (Carolyn McCall), CEO of UK
ITV
Source: Courtesy of Matt Frost/iTV
The TV industry has been completely caught up in the fierce battle with streaming media, McCall's iTV Of course it is inevitable. iTV and the BBC have formed a formidable alliance, and they will launch in the UK in the fourth quarter of 2019 called BritBox, which will include original TV series and programs currently airing in the UK, such as Broadchurch, Gavin & Stacey and Shame Opened Love Island and so on. Currently, BritBox has landed in the United States and Canada. Despite BritBox's strong background, it's unclear whether it can hold up against rivals such as Netflix and Disney, which have become industry giants in their own right. BritBox was launched in response to falling TV viewing, competition from the Internet and falling ad revenue - which iTV had pessimistically forecast for the future in May, citing a drop in ad revenue. At an event hosted by Fortune in June, McCall said that today is an era where consumers are willing to pay for premium content, which is similar to when she was CEO of The Guardian 10 years ago. worlds apart.
42 Paula Santilli (Paula Santilli), Mexico
CEO of PepsiCo Latin America
Source: Courtesy of PepsiCo
On May 1 this year, Santilli became the CEO of PepsiCo's Latin America business. The $7.4 billion business has 70,000 employees, 24,000 sales channels and 34 markets, including Mexico and Brazil among PepsiCo's six largest markets. Santilli was previously president of PepsiCo Foods Mexico, which accounts for more than half of PepsiCo's total sales in Latin America and employs 40,000 people. Santilli has just been promoted, but he is already doing well in his new role—sales in Latin America rose 10% in the second quarter, likely thanks to successful marketing campaigns involving big names in international football such as Lionel Messi.
43 Gina Rinehart, Executive, Australia
Hancock Exploration Company Chairman
As the well-known richest man in Australia, mining queen Gina Rinehart inherited Hancock Exploration Company after her father died in 1992. She has since grown the business into iron ore, coal, mining and dairy. The company reported revenue of more than $6 billion in 2018, significantly higher than in 2017, boosted by a profitable iron ore business. But it is also her high-profile legal battles that have attracted the attention of the Australian public, including an iron ore mining rights case and a long-running dispute with two of her four children over stakes in the company. In May, Rinehart won a lawsuit that prevented the High Court of Australia from intervening in the equity dispute.
44 Margarita LDC, Switzerland
Louis Dreyfus holding company supervisory boardChairman
Source: Jean Catuffe—Getty Images
Louis Dreyfus is one of the world's largest integrated agricultural trading companies, which trades and processes coffee, Cotton and many other crops, the business covers the world. Margarita Louis Dreyfus took over the company after her husband's death in 2009 and has since steadily increased her stake. In January 2019, she fully acquired the shares held by other members of the Louis Dreyfus family, thus obtaining 96% of the shares. In addition, this company has been very "lively"-in September 2018, after appointing Ian McIntosh as CEO, which is the fifth CEO since 2011, Louis Dreyfus has fully adjusted this year. Management was replaced, with new traders in charge of each major business unit. Meanwhile, the company’s profit rose 12 percent in 2018, helped in part by record volumes of soybeans sold from Brazil to China.
45 Wei Sun Christianson (Wei Sun Christianson), China
Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific Co-CEO and China CEO
Source: Courtesy of Morgan Stanley
Wei Sun is a clear supporter of China’s further opening up of capital markets. Under her leadership, Morgan Stanley's China business has been in a leading position. Data from Thomson Financial shows that in 2018, Morgan Stanley took the lead in China's M&A market, but ceded the leading position in the equity capital market to Goldman Sachs , both in terms of transaction value and number of transactions. Sun Wei is also co-head of Morgan Stanley's Asia business, which generated $2.4 billion in revenue (excluding Japan) in the second quarter of this year. Sun Wei has been focusing on expanding Morgan Stanley's Asian business, which saw revenue growth last year reach an all-time high.
46 Yang Huiyan (Yang Huiyan), China
Country Garden Group co-chairman
Source: Fang Xing—Imaginechina via AP
Yang Huiyan is the richest woman in China. At the same time, she is also one of the richest people in the world under the age of 40, which is mainly due to the shares of Country Garden that her father, Country Garden founder Yang Guoqiang transferred to her in 2007. But that's not to say Yang Huiyan herself hasn't contributed to Country Garden's success. Yang Huiyan attended meetings of Country Garden's board of directors with her father when she was a teenager, and was promoted from vice chairman to co-chairman at the end of 2018. Today, Yang Huiyan, 38, manages the company with her father. Country Garden is one of the largest real estate companies in China, and its business has also extended to Malaysia, and Australia.
47 Linda Hasenfratz, CEO of Linamar Corporation, Canada
Source: Fortune
In 1990, Linda Hasenfratz started her own business in Ontario, Canada, where her father built an auto parts factory career, became head of the business in 2002 and has remained one of the few female CEOs in Canada. As an important and candid member of the Canadian manufacturing industry, in 2018 her companyAchieved revenue of US$5.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 7%. But the business, and the entire industry in which it operates, face significant headwinds. As Hasenfreds publicly pointed out in June this year, US President Donald Trump's tariffs and policies bear "100%" responsibility for the decline in demand for the Canadian auto industry.
48 Nunu Ntshingila, Head of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa
Source: Courtesy of Facebook Platform sales in the region, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. In September 2019, the number of users in the sub-Saharan region alone exceeded 155 million, up from 139 million in July 2018. Nisinkira's goal of eventually connecting more than a billion Africans through Facebook's platform has been made difficult by the continent's unreliable, and sometimes no, internet availability. In her area, more than 98% of monthly users use Facebook on mobile phones. Before Facebook, Nisinkira served as director of communications at Nike and chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather.
49 Andrea Marques de Almeida
(Andrea Marques de Almeida), Brazil
Petrobras Chief Financial Officer
Source: Courtesy of Andrea Marques de Almeida
Became March 2019, Almeida, Brazil The chief financial officer of the national oil company, she spent the previous 25 years as the treasurer of the multinational mining giant Vale . In his new role, Almeida will oversee the multibillion-dollar business. Currently, Petrobras ranks 74th in the Fortune Global 500. The job is difficult — Petrobras has been cleaning up and trying to restore its reputation since January 2018 when the company was ordered to pay $2.95 billion to settle a corruption case in the United States. Still, in 2018, the company had revenue of nearly $95.6 billion and a profit of about $7.2 billion.
50 Renuka Jagtiani, Chairman and CEO of Landmark Group, UAE
Landmark Group
Jagtiani is the co-chairman and co-chairman The chairman is her husband Mickey Gatiani. In 1973, Landmark Group started in Bahrain , initially only set up a baby products store. Today the company is huge, with more than 2300 retail stores, restaurants and hotels in 22 countries. For more than 20 years, Gatiani has focused on corporate strategy, including entering several new markets in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa. She also launched Landmark Group's e-commerce business a few years ago.
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