Meet the 10 Most Powerful Women in the World (2022)

The fight for gender equality has over the years yielded great results. This is evident in the records of women breaking barriers and making impacts locally and even internationally. Contrary to the women’s seclusion in some portfolios in the past, women are now taking positions and setting records like never before. However, this article is set to help you meet the 10 most powerful women in the world in 2022 according to the Forbes list of the World’s Most Powerful Women.

The Most Powerful Women in the World: 2022 List

1. Kamala Harris – (United States)

The Vice President of the United States of America

Kamala Harris is the current and first female vice president of the United States. Before her election as vice president in 2021, she was the elected District Attorney of San Francisco, California Attorney General, and a Senator of the United States. This is evidence that she has been serving the country for most of her life.

Furthermore, as the 49th serving vice president of the United States, she is currently the highest-ranking female official in the history of the United States. And good to also note that, asides from being the first female vice president, she is likewise the first African-American woman to attain this post.

However, she is the first on the list of the most powerful women in the world in 2022.

2. Queen Elizabeth II – (Britain)

The Queen of England

Queen Elizabeth II is the current and longest reigning Britain Monarch in history. She is also the Monarch of 14 other Commonwealth realms.

Queen Elizabeth has reigned as a constitutional monarch through significant political shifts like Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the United Kingdom’s devolution, Africa’s decolonization, and the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Communities and secession from the European Union. This is why she is considered the world’s oldest and longest-reigning queen, the world’s longest-serving female head of state, the world’s oldest and longest-reigning current monarch, and the world’s oldest and longest-serving incumbent head of state.

However, she has been reigning for over 70 years and is second on the list of the most powerful women in the world in 2022.

3. Michelle Obama – (United States)

Former First Lady of the United States

Michelle Obama was the 44th first lady of the United States of America alongside her husband Barack Obama between the years 2009-2017. She was also the first African-American female to be the first lady in the United States breaking a record similar to that of Kamala Harris’.

Furthermore, she is also an attorney and author. In her early legal career, she worked at the law firm Sidley Austin where she first met Barack Obama. She also worked in nonprofits and at the University of Chicago, where she served as associate dean of Student Services and vice president for Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center. After which she married Obama in 1992.

However, she is third on the list of the most powerful women in the world in 2022.

4. Oprah Winfrey – (United States)

Oprah Winfrey is an American Talk Show Host, Tv Producer, Actress, Author and Philanthropist. She has over the years, continually donate to philanthropy, as she is dedicated to helping the poverty-stricken people across the world. She set out to change and impact as many lives as possible.

According to Wikipedia, Oprah Winfrey has by 2012, already given out up to $400 million for educational courses. This is 2022 already, we can only imagine how much she has given out already by now. However, the educational course is not the only sector she donates to, she has several other sectors to which she donates massively.

Furthermore, her own foundation, the Oprah Angel’s Network has massively been working on its philanthropic project. They are closely following their mission of supporting charitable projects and providing grants to nonprofit organizations across the world.

She is the 4th on the list of the most powerful women in the world in 2022.

5. Jill Biden – (United States)

Wife of the President of the United States. First Lady of the United States

Jill Biden is the current first lady of the United States of America as the wife of the current President, Joe Biden. She is also an American educator and has been an English lecturer at Northern Virginia Community College since 2009.

Furthermore, she was also formerly a second lady of the United States alongside her husband being the Vice President. That was during the Obama-Biden Tenure. She planned to continue teaching at a community college in the Washington, D.C. region, and she was as expected, approached by a number of them.

However, she is 5th on the list of the most powerful women in the world in 2022.

6. Greta Thunberg – (Sweden)

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish Environmental Activist. She is well-known for pressuring world leaders to take prompt climate-change mitigation measures.

Thunberg’s involvement started when she urged her parents to make lifestyle changes that would lower their environmental impact. In August 2018, at the age of 15, she started spending her school days outside the Swedish Parliament holding a placard with the writing, Skolstrejk för klimatet (School strike for climate).

She however rose to prominence because she is a direct and harsh speaking youth. And she uses this style to condemn world leaders for failing to take sufficient action to address the climate catastrophe, both in public and in front of political leaders and assemblies.

She is 6th on the list of the most powerful women in the world in 2022.

7. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – (United States)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an American Politician and Activist. She has been a member of the Democratic Party since 2019 and has represented New York’s 14th congressional district. Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever elected to the United States Congress, having assumed office at the age of 29. She is known for having a large social media presence in proportion to her fellow members of Congress.

Furthermore, in what was widely regarded as the biggest upset victory in the 2018 midterm election primaries, she defeated Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley, a 10-term incumbent. She comfortably defeated Republican Anthony Pappas in the November general election. In the 2020 election, she defeated John Cummings and was re-elected.

She is 7th on the list of the most powerful women in the world in 2022.

8. Kim Kardashian – (United States)

Kim Kardashian is an American socialite, media personality, model, and businesswoman. And a participant in the Keeping Up with the Kardashians family show.

Kardashian has a large internet and social media following, with hundreds of millions of followers on Twitter and Instagram. She also has a number of goods associated with her name, including the 2014 mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, a line of clothing and accessories, the 2015 photo book Selfish, and her eponymous personal app.

She is 8th on the list of the most powerful women in the world in 2022.

9. Tsai Ing-wen – (Taíwan)

Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician and has been the president of the China republic (Taiwan) since 2016. She is Taiwan’s first female president. And she has been the DPP’s chair since 2020, having previously served from 2008 to 2012 and 2014 to 2018.

Tsai was named one of Time’s most influential people in 2020 and was ranked 9th on Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful women in 2021, behind Kamala Harris, as the second female politician. She is however 9th on the list of the most powerful women in 2022.

10. Simone Biles – (Unites States)

Simone Biles is an American Artistic Gymnast who has set a huge world gymnastic record. She is considered the most decorated gymnast of all time having 32 Olympic and World Championship medals. And she has also won up to seven Olympic medals, the most ever won by an American gymnast.

Furthermore, Simone Biles is also referred to as one of the best and most powerful gymnasts of all time. In short, Biles has a whole lot of record-breaking titles to her name and is therefore considered one of the most powerful women in the world in 2022.

However, she is the 10th and the last on the list of the most powerful women in the world for this article.

Here is a summary of the list of the most powerful women in the world in 2022:

• Kamala Harris – United States
• Queen Elizabeth II – Britain 
• Michelle Obama – United States
• Oprah Winfrey – United States
• Jill Biden – United States
• Greta Thunberg – Sweden
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – United States
• Kim Kardashian – United States
• Tsai Ing-wen – Taíwan
• Simon Biles – United States