Nancy McKinstry

Most Powerful Women 2015
pickup Nancy McKinstry, Chairman and CEO Wolters KluwerPhotograph by Simon Dawson—Bloomberg via Getty Images
  • Title
    Chairman and CEO
  • Affiliation
    Wolters Kluwer
  • Country
    Netherlands
  • Age
    56

The first female—and first American—CEO of Wolters Kluwer in the Netherlands, McKinstry has led a digital transformation of the 175-year old Dutch publishing house. Wolters Kluwer’s stock price has doubled since she took charge a decade ago, and the firm has returned half of its cash to shareholders in 2015 in the form of dividends and share buybacks. McKinstry is the only CEO of a Dutch-listed company who has fulfilled the government’s target to have 30% women on company boards by 2016. And over half of the company’s 19,000 employees are women. —Rupali Arora

Personal Information

CountryNetherlands
Previous Rank11
Newcomer?NO

Company Information

2014 Revenues4,862
2014 Profits628
Market Value (as of 09/01/15)9,451