Sonia World’s 7th Most Powerful Woman: Forbes

Forbes magazine on Wednesday named German Chancellor Angela Merkel the world’s most powerful woman, calling her the “undisputed” leader of the European Union and head of its only “real global economy.”

Merkel, who has topped the list of the world’s 100 most powerful women in all but one of the years since she became chancellor in November 2005, beat out US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and, in 3rd place, Dilma Rousseff, who became Brazil’s first woman president on January 1 2011.

“German Chancellor Angela Merkel is head of the one real global economy in Europe and is the ‘undisputed’ leader of the EU,” Forbes said.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi figures as the seventh most powerful woman of the world in theForbes list which is topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

64-year-old Sonia Gandhi, who is recouping from an unspecified surgery in a US hospital, is ranked seventh jus ahead of US First Lady Michell Obama in a list of 100 most powerful women of the world released by the Forbesmagazine.

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