Axis Bank chief executive Shikha Sharma, 49, ranked 89th while ICICI Bank chief executive Chanda Kocchar, 48, was in the 92nd place in the magazine’s annual list.
Kraft Foods boss Irene Rosenfeld came second. media mogul Oprah Winfrey, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton completed the top five.
Singers Lady Gaga (7) and Beyonce Knowles (9) made the top 10 in this year’s list based “less on traditional titles and roles and more on creative influence and entrepreneurship,” Forbes said.
Obama had “given a new generation of girls and women around the world a role model”, the magazine said. Last year Forbes ranked the first African-American first lady at 40 while Merkel topped the list.
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Shikha Sharma
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