4 Indians Among 'World's Most Powerful Women' In Business

2. Chanda Kochhar
Managing Director and CEO, Icici Bank
Rank in 2013: 65
Rank in 2012: 59

After completing her masters in management, Kochhar joined the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) as a management trainee in 1984. Soon in 1993 she was among the core team members to set the ICICI bank.

Even though the Indian economy has been facing ups and downs, CEO of the nation’s largest private bank has successfully drawn another profitable year.

3. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Founder, Chair, Biocon
Rank in 2013: 85
Rank in 2012: 80

She is India’s richest self-made woman and the nation’s first bio-tech entrepreneur at the age of 25. Her company Biocon was started in the year 1978 and had revenues worth 15.55 billion ($280 million) in the year 2011–12.

Kiran knocked down two game-changing deals this year that comprises developing and marketing generic insulin with U.S.-based Mylan and the second one was to launch an oral insulin with Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Kiran occupies the 85th rank in the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, 2013.

4. Indra Nooyi
CEO, PepsiCo
Rank in 2013: 10
Rank in 2012: 12

Indra Nooyi rank among the top 10 in the global list of most powerful women. The PepsiCo chairman has been busy with few of the big changes within the company which definitely have been a great success. The most prominent is the company’s quarterly financial results that have mounted 1.2 percent higher to $13 billion.

Last year Nooyi was ranked 12 among world’s most powerful women, while this year she has successfully made her place among top 10.

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