Sitharaman, Falguni Nayar Among 6 Indians In Forbes' List Of '100 Most Powerful Women'

Ranked at number 36, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made the list for the fourth time in a row. Sitharaman is the first full-time female finance minister of India. Last year she was ranked at number 37 on the list. [Image Credit: Getty]

Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar is also featured in the list this year. In 2012, Nayar started Nykaa, the beauty and retail company, by investing $2 million of her own savings. She took it public in 2021 and became India's richest self-made woman, Forbes noted. [Image Credit: Getty]

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw was also featured on the list as one of India's richest self-made women. In 1978, Shaw founded India's largest listed biopharmaceutical firm by revenue. The firm has successfully forayed into the lucrative US market. The company has Asia's largest insulin factory in Malaysia's Johor region, Forbes noted. [Image Credit: Getty]

HCL Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra is responsible for all strategic decisions for the $12 billion technology company. 41-year-old Malhotra took HCL's chairperson role from her father Shiv Nadar in July 2020. [Image Credit: Getty]

SEBI Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch was also featured on the list. Buch is the first female chair of the SEBI, the market regulator which oversees the $3 trillion market. Puri Buch has also worked as MD and CEO at ICICI Securities. [Image Credit: Getty]

Soma Mondal is the first woman to become the chairperson of the Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL). She led SAIL to record earnings of more than 1.03 trillion rupees, annual revenue growth of 50%, while profits surged threefold to 120 billion rupees, for the year ended March 31, 2022. [Image Credit: Twitter/SAIL]