Forbes India's most powerful women!!!

4 Indian women who featured in Forbes list of World's 100 Most Powerful Women 2020:

1. Nirmala Sitharaman

Rank: 41

• Nirmala Sitharaman was appointed as India's finance minister in May 2019, and is also the minister for corporate affairs.
• She is India's first full-time female finance minister.
• Before her career in politics, Sitharaman held roles at the U.K.-based Agricultural Engineers Association and BBC World Service.
• She has also served as a member of the National Commission for Women.

2. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Rank: 68

• Mazumdar-Shaw, India's richest self-made woman, founded India's largest listed biopharmaceutical firm by revenue, in 1978.
• The firm has successfully forayed into the lucrative US biosimilars market, catching the attention of investors.
• The company has sold 3 billion doses of insulin to date and has Asia's largest insulin factory in Malaysia's Johor region.
• Biocon has received Indian regulatory permission to conduct phase 4 trials for its drug Itolizumab as a potential treatment for Covid-19.
• Her philanthropic initiative, The Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, aims to create a sustainable, affordable cancer care model.

3. Roshni Nadar Malhotra

Rank: 55

• Malhotra is CEO of HCL Corporation, the holding company for all group entities and chairperson of the publicly traded company HCL Technologies.
• She's responsible for all strategic decisions for the $9.9 billion technology company.
• Founded by her father, Shiv Nadar, in 1976, HCL became a central player in India's rise as an IT hub.
• Malhotra took HCL's chairperson role from her father in July 2020.
• She is a trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, which is focused on education and has established some of India's top colleges and schools.

4. Renuka Jagtiani

Rank: 98

Renuka Jagtiani is the chairwoman and CEO of Landmark Group, one of Dubai’s leading retail and hospitality conglomerates, founded by her husband Micky Jagtiani in 1973. As per Bloomberg, Landmark Group operates retail stores, department stores, restaurants, fitness clubs, hotels and more. For the past two decades, she has been the force behind the company’s corporate strategies and expansions in the Middle East, Africa and India. She was also featured in the list of Fortune Most Powerful Women International. Her husband, Micky Jagtiani, too, is equally famous and prominent as one of UAE’s richest billionaires with a net worth of $2.8 billion on Forbes, as of December 16, 2020 (₹2,06,06 crore approx.)