NEW YORK, July 29: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the world’s most powerful woman, beating out a host of presidents, celebrities and chief executives to top Forbes magazine’s global ranking of feminine clout. The annual list, unveiled on Thursday, was Forbes’s second ranking of the world’s 100 most powerful women and left Ms Rice two-for-two, having topped the 2004 version as US national security adviser.
Elizabeth MacDonald, senior editor at Forbes, cited Rice for “reinvigorating the role of Secretary of State with a form of diplomatic activism that we have not seen in a while.” —AFP
