Most Powerful Women in Business

Rekha M. Menon, 62, Chairperson and Senior Managing Director, Accenture in India

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Rekha M. Menon: Humanity at Her Core

Rekha M. Menon—who uses empathy and business acumen in equal measure to drive change, both within and outside her organisation—enters the Hall of Fame in 2021

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Ameera Shah: The Crisis Warrior

Set up 90 more labs and 1,800 collection centres in the next three years.

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Anjali Bansal: The Sustainable Investor

Sustainability is the new Digital. Technology can help us address climate change

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Arundhati Bhattacharya: Banker who Moved to IT

Making India the fastest-growing market for Salesforce

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Divya Gokulnath: Educating the World

Launch learning programmes in multiple regional languages

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Falguni Nayar: Banker’s Instinct

Increasing Nykaa stores to 300, taking in-house brands to the Middle East, Europe

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Harshbeena Zaveri: Serenity Personified

We strongly believe our company will be amongst front runners in e-mobility

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Jyoti Deshpande: The Crisis Manager

Building India’s largest disrup- tive and platform-agnostic, truly integrated media company

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Kaku Nakhate: Go-to Investment Banker

Getting more Indian unicorns, decacorns to tap public markets

Nisaba Godrej, 43, Godrej Consumer Products

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Nisaba Godrej: The Next Godrej

Get to high growth rates in the domestic market and create a sound base for the African market

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Radhika Gupta: The Astute Asset Manager

Building Edelweiss into a Top 10 AMC in a steady and sustainable way

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Shobana Kamineni: Apollo’s Chief Innovator

The company’s vision for the next phase of development is to ‘Touch a Billion Lives’

Vishakha R.M., 57, IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company

Updated : Dec 19, 2021

Vishakha R.M.: Enterprising Insurer

The next business objective is to stay at rank 10th, as we were at rank 12th last year

Updated : Dec 18, 2021

MPW: Why Women Remain a Minority in India’s Startup Ecosystem

Despite venture capital investments continuing to shatter records and more unicorns popping up than ever before, the number of women-led start-ups, investments they raise, and even the count of women investors, remain low

Soumya Swaminathan, 62, World Health Organization

Updated : Dec 13, 2021

Soumya Swaminathan: The World’s Guardian Angel

Soumya Swaminathan has had an illustrious career spanning 30 years in clinical care and research, serving in various official capacities in India and abroad

Priyanka Chopra, 39, Actor, Investor, Entrepreneur

Updated : Dec 13, 2021

Priyanka Chopra: The Smart Investor

At a start-up event in January, Chopra said she was looking to invest in start-ups that are a mix of beauty and tech, as well as education

Gita Gopinath, 49, International Monetary Fund

Updated : Dec 13, 2021

Gita Gopinath: Sparkling Promise

In her three-year stint as the first woman Chief Economist of the IMF, Gopinath has left an indelible mark on the coveted institution and on the world economy

Updated : Dec 13, 2021

Bela Bajaria: Netflix Unlimited

The Head of Global TV at Netflix manages three kids at home, and also takes care of the entertainment needs of some 214 million subscribers worldwide

Updated : Dec 13, 2021

Aparna Bawa: Lady Whirlwind

With demand for video communication shooting through the roof owing to Covid-19, Zoom registered a 470 per cent increase in its customer base. How did she manage?