Paula G. Rosput Reynolds has been Chief Restructuring Officer of American International Group, Inc., since October 23, 2008.
In this position, Ms. Reynolds oversees AIG's divestiture of assets and serves as chief liaison with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a center-left politician who was the President of Chile from March 2006 to March 2010 — the first woman to hold this position in the country's history. She won the 2006 presidential election in a runoff, beating center-right billionaire businessman and former senator Sebastián Piñera, with 53.5% of the vote.
A moderate Socialist, she campaigned on a platform of continuing Chile's free market policies, while increasing social benefits to help reduce the country's gap between rich and poor, one of the largest in the world. She was inaugurated on March 11, 2006.
Bachelet — a pediatrician and epidemiologist with studies in military strategy — served as Health Minister and Defense Minister under President Ricardo Lagos. She is a separated mother of three and a self-described agnostic.
A polyglot, she speaks Spanish, English, German, Portuguese and French. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked her as 25th in the list of the 100 most powerful women in the world (she was #27 in 2007, and #17 in 2006). In 2008, TIME magazine ranked her 15 on its list of the world's 100 most influential people.
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Mary F. Sammons is an American businessperson from Portland, Oregon. She is the president and chief executive officer of Rite Aid Corporation.
She formerly was the president and chief executive officer of Fred Meyer. She graduated from Marylhurst College (now Marylhurst University).
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Chanda Kochhar is currently the Managing Director (MD) of ICICI Bank and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). ICICI Bank is India's largest private bank and overall second largest bank in the country.
She also heads the Corporate Centre of ICICI Bank. Kocchar has also consistently figured in Fortune's list of "Most Powerful Women in Business" since 2005.
In 2009, she debuted at number 20 in the Forbes "World's 100 Most Powerful Women list".
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Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino is the CEO of Pearson PLC. She became the first female Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company when she was appointed CEO of Pearson in 1997. She is also a non-executive director of Nokia and former CEO of the Economist Group.
Scardino is a graduate of Baylor University and the University of San Francisco School of Law and the winner of the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal. Before 1985 she was the editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, The Georgia Gazette, where she worked with her husband Albert Scardino, later a media reporter for The New York Times.
She is also a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum and serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation and the Carter Center. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
In 2007 she was listed 17th on the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the World.
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