26 Women On 2010 Foreign Policy 100 Global Thinkers List

GlobeTracker| Warren Buffett and Bill Gates head this year’s Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list. The duo was joined by Ted Turner on today’s ‘This Week with Christiane Amanpour’.  Video is here.

The first woman on the Foreign Policy 100 Global Thinkers list is German chancellor Angela Merkel in #10.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is listed with her husband former president Bill Clinton in #13 spot.

Others in the 26 women on the Foreign Policy Top 100 Global thinkers list (as a single page) include:

22. Christine Lagarde, France’s finance minister

24. Elizabeth Warren, Obama White House adviser

32. Cécile Duflot, Monica Frassoni, Renate Künast, Marina Silva: Green Party Leaders | France, Belgium, German, Brazil

33. Michelle Bachelet, Undersecretary-General, UN Women | New York

38. Esther Duflo, Economist, MIT, head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Poverty Action Lab

42. Agnes Klingshirn and Peter Scott, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

50. Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart, co-founders Institute for State Effectiveness | Afghanistan, Washington

59. Ory Okolloh, Executive Director, Ushahidi | Kenya

61. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, scholar, American Enterprise Institute

66. Sabina Alkire, economist, Oxford Institute | Britain

71. Louise Arbour, CEO, International Crisis Group | Belgium

73. Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, authors “This Time Is Different’, eight centuries of financial crises

74. Michèle Flournoy and Anne-Marie Slaughter, American foreign policy experts

75. Aung San Suu Kyi, democracy dissident

77. Helene Gayle, CEO, Care USA | Atlanta

82. Hu Shuli, editor Century Weekly | China

85. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President | Liberia

86. Han Han, blogger and novelist | China

87. Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned, First Lady | Qatar

90. Martha Nussbaum, philosopher, University of Chicago | Chicago

93. Malalai Joya, activist | Afghanistan

94. Madeline Albright, former secretary of state, Washington

97. Unity Dow, judge | Botswana

99. Tarja Halonen, president | Finland

There were 20 women on last year’s 2009 Foreign Policy 100 Global Thinkers List.