Fortune India's 2025 ranking of the Most Powerful Women in India is out. It includes extraordinary women leaders driving change across business, government, media, and social sectors. Reported by Sounak Mukhopadhyay from Mint.
The list highlights influential women across industries such as technology, media, healthcare, finance and corporate leadership.
Technology & IT Services
Prominent leaders from the technology and corporate sector include Devika Bulchandani, Global CEO of Ogilvy (Rank 35), Leena Nair, Global CEO of Chanel (Rank 16), and Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson of HCLTech (Rank 4).
Media & Entertainment
The ranking also features well-known figures from the entertainment and media industry. Bollywood actors Alia Bhatt (Rank 40), Deepika Padukone (Rank 39) and Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Rank 37) are included in the list.
Other media leaders featured are Jyoti Deshmukh (Rank 32), President – Media & Content Business at Reliance Industries, and Monika Shergill (Rank 44), VP Content at Netflix India. Netflix CEO Bela Bajaria ranks 5th.
Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
In the healthcare sector, the Reddy Sisters — Shobhana Kamineni, Sangita Reddy, Preetha Reddy and Suneeta Reddy — who lead Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, jointly hold Rank 3.
The list also includes Vibha Padalkar (Rank 30), MD & CEO of HDFC Life; Vinita Gupta (Rank 18), CEO of Lupin; Suchitra Ella (Rank 36), Managing Director of Bharat Biotech; and Natasha Poonawalla (Rank 49), Executive Director of the Serum Institute of India.
Prabha Narasimhan, Managing Director & CEO of Colgate-Palmolive India, is ranked 25, while Nyrika Holkar, Executive Director of Godrej & Boyce, holds Rank 24. Kalli Purie, Vice Chairperson of the India Today Group, ranks 10th.
Finance & Banking
The finance and banking category is led by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who tops the list at Rank 1. Rajya Sabha Member Sudha Murty is ranked 6th, while Priti G Adani, Chairperson of the Adani Foundation, holds Rank 19.
Gita Gopinath, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is ranked 9th.
Other Key Leaders
Nita Ambani, Founder and Chairperson of Reliance Foundation, secures Rank 2 on the list. Other notable names include Isha Ambani (Rank 8), Director at Reliance Retail Ventures; Malika Srinivasan (Rank 22), Chairman & Managing Director of TAFE; and Nandini Piramal (Rank 33), Non-Executive Director at Piramal Enterprises.
Check the Top 50 most powerful women in India, according to Fortune India:
| RANK | NAME | AFFILIATION |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | Devina Mehra | First Global |
| 49 | Natasha Poonawalla | Serum Institute of India |
| 48 | Anamika Khanna | AK-OK |
| 47 | Ghazal Alagh | Honasa Consumer Pvt. Ltd (Mamaearth) |
| 46 | Kaviya Kalanithi Maran | Sun TV Network and Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| 45 | Lakshmi Venu | TVS Holdings |
| 44 | Monika Shergill | Netflix India |
| 43 | Prativa Mohapatra | Adobe India |
| 42 | Ananya Birla | Svatantra Microfin and Birla Cosmetics |
| 41 | Nivruti Rai | Invest India |
| 40 | Alia Bhatt | N/A |
| 39 | Deepika Padukone | N/A |
| 38 | Falguni Nayar | Nykaa |
| 37 | Priyanka Chopra Jonas | Purple Pebble Pictures |
| 36 | Suchitra Ella | Bharat Biotech |
| 35 | Devika Bulchandani | Ogilvy |
| 34 | Dipali Goenka | Welspun Living |
| 33 | Nandini Piramal | Piramal Enterprises and Piramal Pharma |
| 32 | Jyoti Deshpande | RIL |
| 31 | Vaishali Nigam Sinha | Renew and Sustainability |
| 30 | Vibha Padalkar | HDFC Life |
| 29 | Smriti Irani | BJP |
| 28 | Sindhu Gangadharan | SAP Labs India and Nasscom |
| 27 | Sandhya Devanathan | Meta |
| 26 | Daisy Chittilapilly | Cisco India and Saarc |
| 25 | Prabha Narasimhan | Colgate-Palmolive India |
| 24 | Nyrika Holkar | Godrej & Boyce |
| 23 | Neerja Birla | Mpower |
| 22 | Mallika Srinivasan | TAFE |
| 21 | Pallavi Shroff | Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas |
| 20 | Avarna Jain | Saregama |
| 19 | Priti G Adani | Adani Foundation |
| 18 | Vinita Gupta | Lupin Ltd |
| 17 | Sangita Jindal | JSW Foundation |
| 16 | Leena Nair | Chanel |
| 15 | Swati Piramal | Piramal Group |
| 14 | Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | Biocon and Biocon Biologics |
| 13 | Shobhana Bhartia | HT Media |
| 12 | Arundhati Bhattacharya | Salesforce India and South Asia |
| 11 | Zia J. Mody | AZB & Partners |
| 10 | Kalli Purie | India Today Group |
| 9 | Gita Gopinath | IMF |
| 8 | Isha Ambani | Reliance Retail Ventures |
| 7 | Savitri Jindal | Hisar (Haryana) |
| 6 | Sudha Murty | Rajya Sabha |
| 5 | Bela Bajaria | Netflix |
| 4 | Roshni Nadar Malhotra | HCLTech |
| 3 | Reddy Sisters | Apollo Hospitals Enterprise |
| 2 | Nita Ambani | Reliance Foundation |
| 1 | Nirmala Sitharaman | Government of India |
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