New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and three other Indian were included in the Forbes’ list of world’s most powerful women. Nirmala Sitharaman is ranked 32nd in the list.
Three other Indian women named in the list are HCL Corporation CEO Roshni Nadar Malhotra (rank 60), Steel Authority of India chairperson Soma Mondal (rank 70), and Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (rank 76).
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen topped the list, followed by European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde at the second position and US Vice President Kamal Harris at number three.
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Nirmala Sitharaman became India’s first full-time Finance Minister in May 2019 and also heads the Corporate Affairs ministry. She held roles at UK’s Agricultural Engineers Association and BBC World Service before joining politics. She has also been a member of the National Commission for Women.
Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the daughter of the HCL founder and industrialist Shiv Nadar. As the chairperson of HCL Technologies, she’s responsible for all strategic decisions for the company. She took over the role from her father in July 2020.
Soma Mondal is the first woman chairperson of the state-run Steel Authority of India (SAIL. She took the position in 2021. The firm’s profits surged threefold in her first year of leadership.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has one of India’s richest self-made women. She had founded the biopharmaceutical firm Biocon in 1978, which has Asia’s largest insulin factory in Malaysia’s Johor region.
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