Nirmala Sitharaman In Forbes' List As India's Most Powerful Women
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been featured as the most powerful Indian woman in Forbes” list of the world”s most powerful women 2023. Sitharaman secures the 32nd spot on the list. 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) are the other Indian women included in the list.
Ursula von der Leyen of Germany tops the list, following Christine Lagarde (Germany), Kamala Harris( United States), Giorgia Meloni( Italy), Taylor Swift (United States), Karen Lynch (United States), Jane Fraser (United States), Abigail Johnson (United States), Mary Barra (United States) and Melinda French Gates( United States) is in the top 10 positions.
Ursula von der Leyen has been president of the European Commission since 2019. A physician by profession, Ursula served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019.
Nirmala Sitharaman has been India”s finance minister since May 2019. She also serves as minister for corporate affairs. Nirmala Sitharaman is the first full-time female finance minister in India. In a resounding career, Nirmala Sitharaman also held roles at the U.K.-based Agricultural Engineers Association and BBC World Service and served as a member of the National Commission for Women.
Nadar Malhotra, who holds the 60th rank on the Forbes list, is the chairperson for HCLTech, a multinational IT services and consulting firm based in India. She is the daughter of Shiv Nadar, founder of the HCL. Malhotra also assumes the role of trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation.
Soma Mondal, the first woman to chair the state-run Steel Authority of India (SAIL), has an emphatic career with three decades of metal industry experience. As an electrical engineering graduate, Mondal started her career with state-owned National Aluminum Co. before joining SAIL as the director in 2017. During her tenure at SAIL, she successfully launched a production capacity extension project with a cost of 80,000 million rupees.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw founded the biopharmaceutical firm Biocon in 1978. The company has Asia”s largest insulin factory in Malaysia”s Johor region.
