List of female top executives

The world average of female top executives^[1] is 8 percent. Thailand has the highest proportion of female CEOs in the world, with 30 percent of companies employing female CEOs, followed by the People's Republic of China, with 19 percent.^[2] In the European Union the figure is 9 percent and in the United States it is 5 percent.^[2] In 2024, 10.4% of the CEOs at companies in the Fortune 500 were female.^[3]

Female CEOs

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• Ida Liu CEO of Citi Private Bank
• Brenda C. Barnes, former CEO of Sara Lee
• Jhane Barnes, owner fashion design company
• Mary Barra, chairman and CEO of General Motors^[4]
• Corie Barry, CEO of Best Buy
• Amanda Blanc, CEO of Aviva^[5]
• Ana Botín, president of Banco Santander, Spain
• Gail Koziara Boudreaux, CEO of Anthem^[6]
• Angela Braly, former president and CEO of WellPoint (now Anthem)
• Heather Bresch, Mylan Inc
• Roz Brewer, CEO of Walgreens^[7]
• Michele Buck, CEO and president of The Hershey Company
• Ursula Burns, CEO and chairman of Xerox^[8]
• Liz Claiborne, chairperson and CEO of Liz Claiborne, Inc.
• Zoe Cruz, co-president of Morgan Stanley^[9]
• Alison Cooper, formerly CEO of Imperial Brands^[10]
• Debra Crew, CEO of Diageo
• Margherita Della Valle, chief executive of Vodafone
• Mary Dillon, CEO of Ulta Beauty
• Patricia Dunn, former chairman of Hewlett-Packard
• Annika Falkengren, CEO of SEB, Sweden
• Kathryn Farmer, president and CEO of BNSF Railway
• Carly Fiorina, former chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard
• Janet Foutty, former CEO and chairperson of Deloitte Consulting
• Clara Furse, former CEO of London Stock Exchange
• Jody Gerson, CEO of Universal Music Publishing
• Jacqueline Gold, former CEO of Ann Summers^[11]
• Julie Greenwald, CEO of Atlantic Music Group
• Linda Hasenfratz, CEO of Linamar
• Annie Hurlbut, CEO and co-founder of Peruvian Connection
• Kathy Ireland, chairman, CEO and chief designer for Kathy Ireland Worldwide and chairman emeritus for Level Brands^[12]
• Lisa S. Jones CEO of EyeMail Inc.^[13]
• Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products
• Joyce Mackenzie Liu, CEO of Pegafund
• Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, president and CEO of PepsiCo
• Marianne Nivert, former CEO of Telia (now TeliaSonera), Sweden
• Karen S. Lynch, president and CEO of CVS Health
• Sylvia Rhone, CEO of Epic Records
• Ginni Rometty, former CEO of IBM^[14]
• Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods
• Rasha Al Roumi, former CEO of Kuwait Airways^[15]
• Patricia Russo, CEO of Lucent
• Güler Sabancı , CEO of Sabancı Holding, Turkey
• Mary Sammons, president and CEO of Rite Aid
• Nicola Steele, CEO of Krispy Kreme ANZ
• Martha Stewart, former CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
• Belinda Stronach, former president and CEO of Magna International
• Lisa Su, president, CEO and chair of AMD
• Cydni Tetro, CEO of Brandless^[16]
• Therese Tucker, founder and CEO of BlackLine
• Laura Wade-Gery, CEO of Multi-channel at Marks & Spencer, former CEO of Tesco.com
• Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Geisha Williams, CEO and President of President of PG&E Corporation
• Shelley Zalis, CEO of The Female Quotient, former CEO of Ipsos Open Thinking Exchange^[17]
• Karla Lewis, CEO of Reliance Steel & Aluminum^[18]
• Sin Yin Tan - Ping An Insurance^[19]
• Stephanie Linnartz, CEO Under Armour^[20]

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