List of female top executives
The world average of female top executives[1] is 8 percent. Thailand has the highest proportion of female CEOs in the world, with 30 percent of companies employing female CEOs, followed by the People's Republic of China, with 19 percent.[2] In the European Union the figure is 9 percent and in the United States it is 5 percent.[2] In 2024, 10.4% of the CEOs at companies in the Fortune 500 were female.[3]
Female CEOs
- Ida Liu CEO of Citi Private Bank
- Brenda C. Barnes, former CEO of Sara Lee
- Jhane Barnes, owner fashion design company
- Mary Barra, chairman and CEO of General Motors[4]
- Corie Barry, CEO of Best Buy
- Amanda Blanc, CEO of Aviva[5]
- Ana Botín, president of Banco Santander, Spain
- Gail Koziara Boudreaux, CEO of Anthem[6]
- Angela Braly, former president and CEO of WellPoint (now Anthem)
- Heather Bresch, Mylan Inc
- Roz Brewer, CEO of Walgreens[7]
- Michele Buck, CEO and president of The Hershey Company
- Ursula Burns, CEO and chairman of Xerox[8]
- Liz Claiborne, chairperson and CEO of Liz Claiborne, Inc.
- Zoe Cruz, co-president of Morgan Stanley[9]
- Alison Cooper, formerly CEO of Imperial Brands[10]
- Debra Crew, CEO of Diageo
- Margherita Della Valle, chief executive of Vodafone
- Mary Dillon, CEO of Ulta Beauty
- Patricia Dunn, former chairman of Hewlett-Packard
- Annika Falkengren, CEO of SEB, Sweden
- Kathryn Farmer, president and CEO of BNSF Railway
- Carly Fiorina, former chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- Janet Foutty, former CEO and chairperson of Deloitte Consulting
- Clara Furse, former CEO of London Stock Exchange
- Jody Gerson, CEO of Universal Music Publishing
- Jacqueline Gold, former CEO of Ann Summers[11]
- Julie Greenwald, CEO of Atlantic Music Group
- Linda Hasenfratz, CEO of Linamar
- Kathy Ireland, chairman, CEO and chief designer for Kathy Ireland Worldwide and chairman emeritus for Level Brands[12]
- Lisa S. Jones CEO of EyeMail Inc.[13]
- Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products
- Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, president and CEO of PepsiCo
- Karen S. Lynch, president and CEO of CVS Health
- Sylvia Rhone, CEO of Epic Records
- Ginni Rometty, former CEO of IBM[14]
- Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods
- Rasha Al Roumi, former CEO of Kuwait Airways[15]
- Patricia Russo, CEO of Lucent
- Güler Sabancı , CEO of Sabancı Holding, Turkey
- Mary Sammons, president and CEO of Rite Aid
- Martha Stewart, former CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
- Belinda Stronach, former president and CEO of Magna International
- Lisa Su, president, CEO and chair of AMD
- Cydni Tetro, CEO of Brandless[16]
- Therese Tucker, founder and CEO of BlackLine
- Laura Wade-Gery, CEO of Multi-channel at Marks & Spencer, former CEO of Tesco.com
- Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Geisha Williams, CEO and President of President of PG&E Corporation
- Shelley Zalis, CEO of The Female Quotient, former CEO of Ipsos Open Thinking Exchange[17]
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