Nirmala Sitharaman Among Forbes List of World’s 100 most powerful women in 2019; Angela Merkel Tops

Nirmala Sitharaman Among Forbes List of World’s 100 most powerful women in 2019; Angela Merkel Tops

• India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been named among the Forbes 2019 list of ‘The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’. She has been ranked at 34th position.
• Sitharaman is India’s first female finance minister to hold the portfolio on full time basis.
• Along with Sitharaman, HCL Corporation CEO and Executive Director Roshni Nadar Malhotra (54) and Biocon Founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (65) are also in the top 100 list.
• The Forbes 2019 list of ‘The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’ has been topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
• President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde is on second spot.
• Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi is ranked third.