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Most Powerful Women - 2011

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RANK	NAME	TITLE	AFFILIATION	AGE
1	Chanda Kochhar	MD and CEO	ICICI Bank	49
2	Shikha Sharma	MD and CEO	Axis Bank	52
3	Mallika Srinivasan	Chairperson	TAFE	55
4	Aruna Jayanthi	CEO	Capgemini India	48
5	Zia J. Mody	Co-founder	AZB Parteners	55
6	Vinita Bali	MD	Britannia Industries	55
7	Shobhana Bhartia	Chairperson and editorial director	HT Media	54
8	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	Chairman and MD	Biocon	58
9	Chitra Ramkrishna	Joint MD	National Stock Exchang	48
10	Frenny Bawa	Ex-MD	RIM-India	51
11	Meenakshi Saraogi	Joint MD	Balrampur Chini Mills	66
12	Naina Lal Kidwai	Group general manager and country head	HSBC India	54
13	Preetha Reddy	MD	Apollo Hospital Enterprises	53
14	Amrita Patel	Chairman	National Dairy Development Board	69
15	Harshbeena Zaveri	MD and president	NRB Bearings	51
16	Kalpana Morparia	CEO	J.P. Morgan India	62
17	Mira Kulkarni	MD	Mountain Valley Springs India	54
18	Sujata Keshavan	Co-founder	Ray+Keshavan \| Brand Union	50
19	Roopa Kudva	MD and CEO	Crisil	47
20	Renuka Ramnath	Founder, MD & CEO	Multiples Alternate Asset Management	49
21	Kirthiga Reddy	India head	Facebook	40
22	Priya Paul	President	Park Hotels Group	45
23	Jasmeet Kaur Srivastava & Gitanjali Ghate	MDs	The Third Eye	47, 47
25	Rama Bijapurkar	Maketing consultant	—	54
26	Kaku Nakhate	President and country head India	Bank of America Merrill Lynch	44
27	Rekha M. Menon	Executive director	Accenture	52
28	Neelam Dhawan	MD	Hewlett-Packard India	51
29	Sangeeta Pendurkar	MD	Kellogg India	45
30	Vedika Bhandarkar	Vice Chairperson	Credit Suisse	43
31	Ektaa R. Kapoor	Joint MD	Balaji Telefilms	36
32	Vishakha Mulye	MD and CEO	ICICI Venture	44
33	Reshma Shetty	MD	Matrix India Entertainment Consultants	40
34	Sminu Jindal	MD	Jindal SAW	38
35	Renu Sud Karnad	MD	HDFC	59
36	Ritu Kumar	N/A	Ritu Kumar Design	67
37	Anuradha Desai	Non-executive chairperson, chairperson	Venky’s, V. H. Group of companies	49
38	Vandana Luthra	Founder and mentor	VLCC Health Care	52
39	Lynn De Souza	Chairman and CEO	Lintas Media Group	50
40	Bala Deshpande	Country head and senior MD	New Enterprise Associates India	45
41	Suvalaxmi Chakraborty	CEO	State Bank of Mauritius (India)	45
42	Farah Khan	Co-founder	Three’s Company	46
43	Meher Pudumjee	Chairperson	Thermax	45
44	Ashu Suyash	MD and country head, India	Fidelity International	44
45	Radhika Roy	MD and executive cochairperson	NDTV Group	54
46	Rajshree Pathy	Chairman and MD	Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals	54
47	Swati Piramal	Director, Vice chairperson	Piramal Healthcare, Piramal Life Sciences	55
48	Manisha Girotra	Chairperson and MD	UBS	42
49	Meera Sanyal	Country executive & chairperson	RBS India	51
50	Anita Arjundas	MD	Mahindra Lifespaces	44