{"id":1240569,"date":"2022-12-12T11:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T06:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/?p=1240569"},"modified":"2022-12-12T11:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T06:26:30","slug":"finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-is-indias-most-powerful-woman-as-per-forbes-check-other-indian-women-in-this-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-is-indias-most-powerful-woman-as-per-forbes-check-other-indian-women-in-this-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Is India’s Most Powerful Woman As Per Forbes: Check Other Indian Women In This List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar are now part of a club comprising six Indians who have made it to the Forbes\u2019 annual list of The World\u2019s 100 Most Powerful Women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nirmala Sitharaman<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sitharaman who is ranked at number 36 has made it to the list for the fourth time in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the 63-year-old minister was ranked at number 37 in the list, while she was in the 41st spot in 2020 and 34th in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other prominent names<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Other Indians that made it to the list include HCLTech Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra (rank: 53), Securities And Exchange Board Of India (SEBI) Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch (rank: 54), and Steel Authority Of India Chairperson Soma Mondal (rank: 67).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malhotra, Mazumdar-Shaw and Nayar made it last year also at 52nd, 72nd and 88th spots respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year Mazumdar-Shaw is ranked 72, while Nayar is at 89th spot, according to the list released by Forbes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falguni Nayar<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Forbes list spoke about Nayar saying that the 59-year-old businessman \u201cworked as an investment banker for two decades, leading IPOs and helping other entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, she decided to work for herself, investing USD 2 million of her own savings to launch the beauty and retail company Nykaa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She took it public in 2021 and became India\u2019s \u201crichest self-made woman\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buch, the first female chair of SEBI<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On March 1, 56-year-old Buch became the first female chair of the SEBI, which oversees India\u2019s more-than USD 3 trillion stock market ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mondal, 59 became the first woman to chair the state-run Steel Authority of India (SAIL) in January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has led the company to record financial growth since taking over, with profits surged threefold to 120 billion rupees in her first year at the helm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaw most successful<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

69-year-old Mazumdar-Shaw was one of India\u2019s richest self-made women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She founded India\u2019s largest listed biopharmaceutical firm by revenue, in 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company has Asia\u2019s largest insulin factory in Malaysia\u2019s Johor region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also successfully forayed into the lucrative US market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How were the women judged?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The list was determined <\/a>by four main metrics: money, <\/p>\n\n\n\n