Woman's HourWoman's Hour Power List The Top 20
The Top 20 of the 100 most powerful women in Britain
No. 1HM The Queen
Head of State
No. 2Rt Hon Theresa May MP
Home Secretary
No. 3Ana Botín
CEO of Santander UK
No. 4Baroness Hale of Richmond
Supreme Court Judge
No. 5Elisabeth Murdoch
Chairman of Shine Ltd
No. 6Professor Dame Sally Davies
Chief Medical Officer for England
No. 7Carrie Longton and Justine Roberts
Founders of Mumsnet
No. 8The Rt Hon Lady Justice Hallett
Judge in the Court of Appeal
No. 9Angela Ahrendts
CEO of Burberry
No. 10Dame Gail Rebuck
Chief Executive of Random House
No. 11Frances O'Grady
General Secretary of the TUC
No. 12Moya Greene
CEO of the Royal Mail
No. 13J .K. Rowling OBE
Novelist
No. 14Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport
No. 15Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell
Professor of Physiology, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester
No. 16Rosemary Squire OBE
Joint Chief-Executive of the Ambassador Theatre Group
No. 17Rt Hon Maria Miller MP
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; Minister for Women and Equalities
No. 18Sara Thornton CBE QPM
Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police and Vice President of the Association of Chief Police Officers
No. 19Professor Anne Glover CBE
Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission
No. 20Nicola Sturgeon MSP
Deputy First Minister of Scotland; Deputy Leader of the SNP
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