Nirmala Sitharaman turned India’s first full-time Finance Minister in Might 2019.
New Delhi:
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has ranked 32nd within the Forbes’ listing of world’s strongest ladies that additionally featured US Vice President Kamala Harris and musician Taylor Swift.
Three different Indian ladies named within the listing are HCL Company CEO Roshni Nadar Malhotra (rank 60), Metal Authority of India chairperson Soma Mondal (rank 70), and Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (rank 76).
European Fee chief Ursula von der Leyen topped the listing, adopted by European Central Financial institution boss Christine Lagarde on the second place and US Vice President Kamal Harris at quantity three.
Ms Sitharaman turned India’s first full-time Finance Minister in Might 2019 and in addition heads the Company Affairs ministry. She held roles at UK’s Agricultural Engineers Affiliation and BBC World Service earlier than becoming a member of politics, Forbes mentioned. She has additionally been a member of the Nationwide Fee for Girls.
Ms Malhotra is the daughter of the HCL founder and industrialist Shiv Nadar. Because the chairperson of HCL Applied sciences, she’s answerable for all strategic selections for the corporate, Forbes mentioned. She took over the position from her father in July 2020.
Ms Mondal is the primary lady chairperson of the state-run Metal Authority of India (SAIL), in keeping with Forbes. Having assumed the position in 2021, she has led the steelmaker to file monetary progress, her profile learn, because the agency’s income surged threefold in her first 12 months of management.
Forbes described Ms Mazumdar-Shaw has one among India’s richest self-made ladies. She had based the biopharmaceutical agency Biocon in 1978, which has Asia’s largest insulin manufacturing facility in Malaysia’s Johor area.