PepsiCo Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Indra Nooyi is the only Indian origin woman in Fortune’s ’51 Most Powerful Women’ list that is topped by Mary Barra, CEO and chairman, General Motors.
| RANK | NAME | TITLE | AFFILIATION | AGE |
| 1 | Mary Barra | CEO and Chairman | GM | 54 |
| 2 | Indra Nooyi | CEO and Chairman | PepsiCo | 60 |
| 3 | Marillyn Hewson | CEO, Chairman, and President | Lockheed Martin | 62 |
| 4 | Ginni Rometty | CEO, Chairman, and President | IBM | 59 |
| 5 | Abigail Johnson | CEO and President | Fidelity Investments | 54 |
| 6 | Sheryl Sandberg | COO | 47 | |
| 7 | Meg Whitman | CEO and President | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 60 |
| 8 | Phebe Novakovic | CEO and Chairman | General Dynamics | 58 |
| 9 | Irene Rosenfeld | CEO and Chairman | Mondelez International | 63 |
| 10 | Safra Catz | Co-CEO | Oracle | 54 |
| 11 | Lynn Good | CEO, Chairman, and President | Duke Energy | 57 |
| 12 | Helena Foulkes | President of CVS/pharmacy, EVP of CVS Health | CVS Health | 52 |
| 13 | Ruth Porat | CFO, Google and Alphabet | Alphabet | 58 |
| 14 | Angela Ahrendts | SVP, Retail and Online Stores | Apple | 56 |
| 15 | Cathy Engelbert | CEO | Deloitte LLP | 51 |
| 16 | Susan Wojcicki | CEO, YouTube | 48 | |
| 17 | Pam Nicholson | CEO and President | Enterprise Holdings | 56 |
| 18 | Tricia Griffith | CEO and President | Progressive | 51 |
| 19 | Rosalind Brewer | CEO and President, Sam’s Club | Walmart | 54 |
| 20 | Ann-Marie Campbell | EVP, U.S. stores | Home Depot | 51 |
| 21 | Susan Cameron | CEO and President | Reynolds American | 57 |
| 22 | Debra Reed | CEO and Chairman | Sempra Energy | 60 |
| 23 | Heather Bresch | CEO | Mylan | 47 |
| 24 | Denise Morrison | CEO and President | Campbell Soup | 62 |
| 25 | Ursula Burns | CEO and Chairman | Xerox | 57 |
| 26 | Karen Lynch | President | Aetna | 53 |
| 27 | Sandra (Sandi) Peterson | Group Worldwide Chairman | Johnson & Johnson | 57 |
| 28 | Marianne Lake | CFO | JP Morgan Chase | 46 |
| 29 | Margaret Keane | CEO and President | Synchrony Financial | 57 |
| 30 | Mary Erdoes | CEO, JPM Asset Management | JPMorgan Chase | 49 |
| 31 | Amy Hood | CFO and EVP | Microsoft | 44 |
| 32 | Vicki Hollub | CEO and President | Occidental Petroleum | 56 |
| 33 | Judith McKenna | EVP and COO, Walmart U.S. | Walmart | 50 |
| 34 | Barbara Rentler | CEO | Ross Stores | 59 |
| 35 | Kathleen Murphy | President, Personal Investing | Fidelity Investments | 53 |
| 36 | Lynne Doughtie | CEO and Chairman | KPMG U.S. | 53 |
| 37 | Carolyn Tastad | Group President, North America | Procter & Gamble | 55 |
| 38 | Bridget Van Kralingen | SVP, Industry Platforms | IBM | 53 |
| 39 | Julie Sweet | Group CEO, North America | Accenture | 48 |
| 40 | Marni Walden | EVP/President, Product Innovation and New Businesses | Verizon Communications | 49 |
| 41 | Crystal Hanlon | President, Northern Division | Home Depot | 51 |
| 42 | Shari Ballard | Senior EVP and President, U.S. Retail | Best Buy | 50 |
| 43 | Mary Mack | Senior EVP and Head of Community Banking | Wells Fargo | 53 |
| 44 | Diane Bryant | EVP and GM, Data Center Group | Intel | 54 |
| 45 | Jennifer Taubert | Company Group Chairman | Johnson & Johnson | 53 |
| 46 | Jane Fraser | CEO, Latin America | Citigroup | 49 |
| 47 | Debra Crew | COO/President, R.J. Reynolds | Reynolds American | 45 |
| 48 | Beth Comstock | Vice Chair | General Electric | 56 |
| 49 | Bonnie Hammer | Chair, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group | Comcast | 66 |
| 50 | Anne Finucane | Vice Chairman | Bank of America | 64 |
| 51 | Beyoncé | Queen Bee | – | 35 |