10 Most Powerful Women in Business

Fortune places GM CEO Mary Barra at the top of its list
Posted May 20, 2025 9:35 AM CDT
10 Most Powerful Women in Business
General Motors CEO Mary Barra addresses a news conference, Monday, April 15, 2024 in Detroit.   (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Fortune is out with its annual "most powerful women in business" list, this time using "a more complex scoring system" than in the past that "gives an edge to CEOs." Indeed, seven out the top 10 on the magazine's list boast that chief executive title, including the No. 1 pick, GM's Mary Barra. Fortune notes that of those who made the overall list of 100, just over half hail from the United States. Here are the top 10:

  1. Mary Barra, General Motors CEO
  2. Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO
  3. Jane Fraser, Citi CEO
  4. Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices CEO
  5. Ana Botin, Banco Santander executive chair
  6. Tan Su Shan, DBS Group CEO
  7. Thasunda Brown Duckett, TIAA CEO
  8. Marta Ortega, Inditex chair
  9. Abigail Johnson, Fidelity Investments CEO
  10. Meng Wanzhou, Huawei CFO
More on each leader, plus others who made the list, here. (More women stories.)

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