Chennai Girl in Forbes' Most Powerful Women List

Our own Chennai Girl, Indira Nooyi is the most powerful business woman and is the fourth powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes List.

Now, will Sunita Narain of CSE make the list next year?

Rank	Name	Occupation	Country
1	Angela Merkel	Chancellor	Germany
2	Condoleezza Rice	Secretary of State	US
3	Wu Yi	Vice Premier	China
4	Indra Nooyi	Chief Executive-Designate, PepsiCo	US
5	Anne Mulcahy	Chairman and Chief Executive, Xerox	US
6	Sallie Krawcheck	Chief Financial Officer, Citigroup	US
7	Patricia Woertz	Chief Executive, Archer Daniels Midland	US
8	Anne Lauvergeon	Chairman, Areva	France
9	Brenda Barnes	Chairman and Chief Executive, Sara Lee	US
10	Zoe Cruz	Co-President, Morgan Stanley	US
11	Irene Rosenfeld	Chief Executive, Kraft Foods	US
12	Melinda Gates	Co-Founder, Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	US
13	Sonia Gandhi	President, National Congress Party	India
14	Oprah Winfrey	Chairman, Harpo	US
15	Anne Sweeney	Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks	US
16	Mary Sammons	Chief Executive, President, Rite Aid	US
17	Michelle Bachelet	President	Chile
18	Hillary Rodham Clinton	Senator, New York	US
19	Ann Livermore	Executive Vice President, Hewlett-Packard	US
20	Helen Clark	Prime Minister	New Zealand
21	Safra Catz	President and Chief Financial Officer, Oracle	US
22	Margaret Whitman	Chief Executive, President, eBay	US
23	Julie Gerberding	Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	US
24	Susan Arnold	Vice Chairman, Beauty & Health, Procter & Gamble	US
25	Patricia Russo	Chairman and Chief Executive, Lucent Technologies	US
		Courtesy: www.forbes.com & IBNLive.com