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Most Powerful Women

One trillion dollars in stock market value. That's what just the 27 CEOs on the Fortune Most Powerful Women list control. But there are 24 more women on our 18th annual list—including a special bonus pick whose name you know already. Read on to see who made it—and who didn't. See this year's other Most Powerful Women lists: Europe, Middle East, Africa Edition Asia-Pacific Edition
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  1. 1
    Mary Barra
  2. 2
    Indra Nooyi
  3. 3
    Ginni Rometty
  4. 4
    Marillyn Hewson
  5. 5
    Ellen Kullman
  6. 6
    Abigail Johnson
  7. 7
    Meg Whitman
  8. 8
    Sheryl Sandberg
  9. 9
    Irene Rosenfeld
  10. 10
    Phebe Novakovic
  11. 11
    Carol Meyrowitz
  12. 12
    Safra Catz
  13. 13
    Lynn Good
  14. 14
    Helena Foulkes
  15. 15
    Rosalind Brewer
  16. 16
    Angela Ahrendts
  17. 17
    Ursula Burns
  18. 18
    Marissa Mayer
  19. 19
    Susan Wojcicki
  20. 20
    Pam Nicholson
  21. 21
    Cathy Engelbert
  22. 22
    Heather Bresch
  23. 23
    Debra Reed
  24. 24
    Denise Morrison
  25. 25
    Susan Cameron
  26. 26
    Ruth Porat
  27. 27
    Carrie Tolstedt
  28. 28
    Sandra Peterson
  29. 29
    Mary Erdoes
  30. 30
    Judith McKenna
  31. 31
    Marianne Lake
  32. 32
    Kathleen Murphy
  33. 33
    Margaret Keane
  34. 34
    Barbara Rentler
  35. 35
    Bridget Van Kralingen
  36. 36
    Carolyn Tastad
  37. 37
    Ann-Marie Campbell
  38. 38
    Michelle Gloeckler
  39. 39
    Shari Ballard
  40. 40
    Crystal Hanlon
  41. 41
    Jane Fraser
  42. 42
    Kathleen Kennedy
  43. 43
    Diane Bryant
  44. 44
    Lynne Doughtie
  45. 45
    Ilene Gordon
  46. 46
    Debra Crew
  47. 47
    Kim Lubel
  48. 48
    Beth Mooney
  49. 49
    Sheri S. McCoy
  50. 50
    Beth Comstock
  51. 51
    Taylor Swift
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