Two Nigerian women made Forbes magazine’s World’s 100 Powerful Women 2014. They are; Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister for Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who came in at No. 44 and Oil magnate and Vice Chairman of Famfa Oil, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija, who came in at No. 96. Other women that made the list include Beyoncé – at No. 17, German Chancellor Angela Merkel at No.1, Malawian President Joyce Banda at 40, Michelle Obama at No.8, Lady Gaga at No. 67, Queen Elizabeth at No.35. Ellen Degeneres at No.46. Angelina Jolie at No.50, Gisele Bundchen at No. 89.

See full list below:



                 #1         Angela Merkel   59           Germany             Politics
                #2           Janet Yellen        67           United States    Finance
                #3           Melinda Gates  49           United States    Philanthropy/NGO
                #4           Dilma Rousseff  66           Brazil     Politics
                #5           Christine Lagarde             58           France  Philanthropy/NGO
                #6           Hillary Clinton    66           United States    Politics
                #7           Mary Barra          52           United States    Business
                #8           Michelle Obama               50           United States    Politics
                #9           Sheryl Sandberg               44           United States    Technology
                #10         Virginia Rometty              56           United States    Technology
                #11         Geun-hye Park 62           South Korea       Politics
                #12         Susan Wojcicki  45           United States    Technology
                #13         Indra Nooyi        58           United States    Business
                #14         Oprah Winfrey  60           United States    Media
                #15         Irene Rosenfeld               61           United States    Business

                #16         Maria das Graças Silva Foster      60           Brazil     Business
                #17         Beyonce Knowles            32           United States    Celebrity
                #18         Marissa Mayer  38           United States    Technology
                #19         Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner  61           Argentina            Politics
                #20         Meg Whitman   57           United States    Technology
                #21         Marillyn Hewson              60           United States    Business
                #22         Ursula Burns      55           United States    Technology
                #23         Helen Clark         64           New Zealand     Philanthropy/NGO
                #24         Safra Catz            52           United States    Technology
                #25         Michelle Bachelet            62           Chile      Politics
                #26         Nancy Pelosi      74           United States    Politics
                #27         Gina Rinehart    60           Australia              Metals & Mining
                #28         Amy Pascal         56           United States    Media
                #29         Laurene Powell Jobs & family     50           United States    Technology
                #30         Margaret Chan  66           China     Philanthropy/NGO

                #31         Ellen Kullman     58           United States    Business
                #32         Sofia Vergara     41           Colombia             Celebrity
                #33         Drew Gilpin Faust            66           United States    Philanthropy/NGO
                #34         Abigail Johnson 52           United States    Business
                #35         Queen Elizabeth II           88           United Kingdom               Politics
                #36         Arundhati Bhattacharya                58           India      Finance
                #37         Renee James     49           United States    Technology
                #38         Sri Mulyani Indrawati     51           Indonesia            Philanthropy/NGO
                #39         Anna Wintour    64           United States    Media
                #40         Joyce Banda       64           Malawi Politics
                #41         Wu Yajun & family           50           China     Real Estate
                #42         Bonnie Hammer               63           United States    Media
                #43         Chanda Kochhar               52           India      Business
                #44         Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala      59           Nigeria  Politics
                #45         Ertharin Cousin 57           United States    Philanthropy/NGO
                #46         Ellen DeGeneres              56           United States    Celebrity
                #47         Sheikh Hasina Wajed      66           Bangladesh         Politics
                #48         Amy Hood           42           United States    Technology
                #49         Angela Ahrendts              53           United States    Technology
                #50         Angelina Jolie    38           United States    Celebrity
                #51         Margaret Hamburg         58           United States    Politics
                #52         Arianna Huffington         63           United States    Media
                #53         Lucy Peng            41           China     Technology
                #54         Cher Wang          55           Taiwan  Technology
                #55         Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi               52           United Arab Emirates     Politics
                #56         Gail Kelly              58           Australia              Business
                #57         Peng Liyuan        51           China     Politics
                #58         Shakira Mebarak              37           Colombia             Celebrity
                #59         Ho Ching              61           Singapore            Business
                #60         Guler Sabanci    59           Turkey  Business

                #61         Aung San Suu Kyi             68           Burma   Politics
                #62         Zhang Xin & family           48           China     Business
                #63         Samantha Power             43           United States    Politics
                #64         Rosalind Brewer               51           United States    Business
                #65         Phebe Novakovic             56           United States    Business
                #66         Mary Callahan Erdoes    46           United States    Business
                #67         Lady Gaga           28           United States    Celebrity
                #68         Diane von Furstenberg  67           United States    Fashion and Retail
                #69         Adena Friedman              44           United States    Finance
                #70         Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf      75           Liberia   Politics
                #71         Padmasree Warrior         53           United States    Technology
                #72         Elvira Nabiullina                50           Russia   Politics
                #73         Mary Jo White   66           United States    Politics
                #74         Chua Sock Koong             57           Singapore            Technology
                #75         Miuccia Prada    65           Italy       Business

                #76         Carol Meyrowitz               60           United States    Business
                #77         Mary Meeker    54           United States    Technology
                #78         Helene Gayle     58           United States    Philanthropy/NGO
                #79         Tory Burch          47           United States    Fashion and Retail
                #80         Patricia Harris     57           United States    Philanthropy/NGO
                #81         Sun Yafang          58           China     Technology
                #82         Solina Chau         52           Hong Kong          Philanthropy/NGO
                #83         Yao Chen             34           China     Celebrity
                #84         Judy Faulkner    70           United States    Health care
                #85         Patricia Woertz 61           United States    Business
                #86         Lubna S. Olayan                58           Saudi Arabia       Business
                #87         Hu Shuli                61           China     Media
                #88         Risa Lavizzo-Mourey       59           United States    Philanthropy/NGO
                #89         Gisele Bundchen              33           Brazil     Celebrity
                #90         Gwynne Shotwell            50           United States    Construction & Engineering
                #91         Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani            31           Qatar     Philanthropy/NGO
                #92         Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw  61           India      Medicine
                #93         Sara Blakely        43           United States    Fashion and Retail
                #94         Fatima Al Jaber 44           United Arab Emirates     Business
                #95         Jennifer Li           46           China     Media
                #96         Folorunsho Alakija           63           Nigeria  Oil
                #97         Weili Dai               52           United States    Technology
                #98         Beth Brooke-Marciniak 54           United States    Business
                #99         Lila Tretikov        36           United States    Technology
                #100      Greta Van Susteren        59           United States    Media