Fortune's 50 most powerful women

All the top Fortune 50 in International Business

(furthermore to this: FORTUNE 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business)

1. Patricia F. Russo Lucent,  Bio on Lucent site

..is chairman and chief executive officer of Lucent Technologies. As one of the founding executives of the company, she helped launch Lucent in 1996 and has spent more than 20 years of her career managing some of Lucent's and AT&T's largest divisions and most critical corporate functions. As Lucent's CEO since January 2002, she has led the company through one of the most challenging periods in the telecom industry's history and helped return the company to sustained profitability

2.	Anne Lauvergeon	Areva
3.	Anne-Marie Idrac	SNCF
4.	Linda Cook	Royal Dutch Shell
5.	Marjorie Scardino	Pearson
6.	Xie Qihua	Baosteel Group
7.	Marina Berlusconi	Fininvest
8.	Nancy McKinstry	Wolters Kluwer
9.	Ana Patricia Botín	Banesto
10.	Mary Ma	Lenovo

Comments

[George Alexander]

Russo's success is punctuated by the lay-off of over 125,000 Lucent employees (80% of the company) while receiving over $50 million of income and benefits. For what? Lucent's share price has dropped 50% since Russo took over in January 2002. Her crowning jewel is Lucent's merger with Alcatel, where she will reign as CEO, with the appropriately inflated income and more lay-offs to come.