2014's Most Powerful Women In The World

#4 Dilma Rousseff, 66, President, Brazil

The President of the host World Cup 2014 Country, Brazil, Dilma Rousseff is the first woman President of Brazil. She is also the first economist to hold the office, she served as chief of staff and was a career civil servant who had never held nor run for elected office before prior becoming the President of world’s seventh-largest national economy with GDP of nearly $2.4 trillion. Brazil is also set to host the Olympic Games in 2016. She is influential, fearless, powerful and charming even at the age of 66.

#5 Christine Lagarde, 58, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, France

One of the world’s most powerful women, Christina Lagarde is currently a French lawyer and Union for a Popular Movement politician who has been the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 2011. Being a lawyer by training, she did well in the world of French politics and was the first female finance minister of the G8while also holding various other posts in the French government. In her earlier years, she represented France in synchronized swimming. Christina Lagarde became prominent for her own abilities and was widely praised for working with other major countries to smoothen the economic crash of 2008.

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