Latest Issue:

100 SUCCESSFUL WOMEN

In our second list of the 100 most powerful women in the world, Madam Chair celebrates the women who are helping to shape global consciousness through their ingenuity, generosity and courage to dream. If the last two years since we fi rst ran this list has shown us anything, it’s that the inevitability of change still has the power to surprise. Governments have fallen, corporations have stumbled and some of the biggest luminaries in entertainment have seen their stars dim in the aftermath of scandal. In the resulting vacuum a fresh crop of faces has risen in the worlds of politics, business, fi nance, and the arts. Many have been working patiently behind the scenes for years and are only now coming into their own, joining an exclusive global community of female leaders at the top of their game.

In preparing this year’s list we allowed ourselves to be guided by the same ideas that governed our choices the fi rst time around. We did not look for angels or paragons of moral behaviour, but for women whose infl uence on the way we think was indisputable and whose impact on the community made news. We looked for women whose work, strength and ability to see things differently from the rest of us, put them in a different class of leadership. We also looked hard for women of colour, although this remained a challenging task as much of the public sphere continues to be dominated by their Western counterparts.