Indian Women Shine, Make Their Way In Fortune’s List of Most Powerful Women In APAC

Eight Indian women have made it to the Fortune list of 25 most powerful women who have shaped the new world order in the Asia-Pacific region. Indian women who have made a mark include: ICICI CEO Chanda Kochhar, State Bank of India’s Arundhati Bhattacharya, and HPCL’s Nishi Vasudeva, and have earned the second, fourth and fifth rankings respectively.

Other Indian women in the top 25 are: Axis Bank's Shikha Sharma (10th), Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (19th), National Stock Exchange (NSE) CEO Chitra Ramkrishna (22nd), HSBC's Naina Lal Kidwai (23rd) and TAFE chairman and CEO Mallika Srinivasan (25th).

Fortune Magazine, releasing the latest rankings, said "More and more businesswomen are taking tougher jobs and helming bigger firms. More than a third of the women on our Asia-Pacific list are making their MPW (most powerful women) debut."

Meanwhile, Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo's India-born CEO, has been ranked third among the world's most powerful business women by Fortune. She is only Indian-origin woman on this year's global list, which has been topped by IBM chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty and General Motors CEO Mary Barra.
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