Foreign Policy Magazine published a feature on “The Top 100 Global Thinkers who shaped the debate in 2011”.
Since there were many double winners, the total came to 127 “Thinkers”, of which 98 were men (77%) and 29 (23%) were women. Of the 29 women, the number of women were diluted even more since 8 were co-choices with a man (such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bill and Melinda Gates).
The women “thinkers” and their Foreign Policy rankings are shown below.
No. 5 Tawakkol Karman, Yemen human rights activist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
No. 7 co-nominees Eman Al Nafjan and Manal Al-Sharif, Saudi Arabia activists Al Nafjan for her blog (http://saudiwoman.me) and Al-Sharif for her driving video
No. 12 Condolezza Rice, co-winner with Dick Cheney
No. 13 Melinda and Bill Gates
No. 15 Christine Lagarde, managing director, International Monetary Fund
No. 20 Hillary and Bill Clinton
No. 23 Three male and 2 female U.S. ambassadors whose messages to Washington were outed by Wikileaks, causing political upheavals
No. 25 Co-nominee Carmen Reinhart, economist with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, co-author of “This Time is Different”
No. 27 Co-nominee Angela Merkel of Germany (with her Finance Minister)
No. 31 Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma
No. 34 Elizabeth Warren, law professor, consumer advocate and advisor to Obama, currently candidate for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts
No. 35 Amy Chua, writer of a controversial book on parenting Chinese-style
No. 42 Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil
No. 43 Co-nominee Saskia Sassen, sociologist, advocate of urban-based society
No. 46 Christina Romer, former head of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers
No. 47 Shery Rehman, M.P. of Pakistan, very brave advocate of secular democracy
No. 53 Samantha Power, White House Advisor on foreign affairs, author of book on genocide
No. 57 Ilda Boccassini, fiery prosecutor in criminal cases against Silvio Berlusconi of Italy
No. 60 Co-nominee Esther Duflo, economist at MIT, co-author of “Poor Economics: How the Poor Make Economic Decisions”
No 65 Nancy Birdsall, economist, president of Centre for Global Development, Washington
No. 70 Zaha Hadid, British architect
No. 75 Maria Bashir, very brave crusading pro-women prosecutor in Afghanistan
No. 79 Deepa Naroyan from India, director of Moving Out of Poverty Program
No. 81 Yoani Sanchez, dissenting Cuban blogger: http://www.desdecuba.com/generationy/
No. 87 Johanna Sigurdardottir, prime minister of Iceland
No. 90 Anne-Marie Slaughter, political scientist at Princeton U, former head of policy and planning at the U.S. State Department
No. 92 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, “de facto” prime minister and finance minister of Nigeria, former managing director of the World Bank
No. 94 Activist writer Arundhati Roy of India
No. 96 Mari Kuraishi, president of Global Giving Foundation, which pools small donations to fund specific projects: http://www.globalgiving.org
