Nita Ambani tops among Forbes Asian women |
Reliance Foundation chair Nita Ambani has been named the most powerful businesswoman in Asia by Forbes, topping a list of 50 women leaders from the region that includes eight from India.SBI chairman and managing director Arundhati Bhattacharya was ranked No. 2 on the 2016 “Asia`s 50 Power Businesswomen” list that features trailblazing women from India, China, Indonesia, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand and the Philippines.The list acknowledges the “inroads women are making in the business world but gender inequality persists. Women are best positioned to know what it will take to get more of them into commanding roles in the workforce and keep them there. Apart from Ambani and Bhattacharya, six women from India cracked the list, including Mu Sigma chief executive officer Ambiga Dhiraj (14), Welspun India CEO Dipali Goenka (16), Lupin CEO Vinita Gupta (18), ICICI Bank managing director and CEO Chanda Kochhar (22), VLCC Health Care founder and vice chairman Vandana Luthra (26), and Biocon founder, chairman and managing director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (28).
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