10 most powerful women of India in 2020

Priyanka Chopra Jonas is currently counted among the most successful and influential celebrities in the world. Apart from being an established actor, the global icon is also a successful entrepreneur who runs her own production company. In 2018, she became a tech investor after she invested in the dating app Bumble, which according to Fortune India registered over 2 million users, within a year of its launch in India. In 2020, she made her debut in the list of Fortune India’s Most Powerful Women in Business and ranked 37 on the list.

She became the first Indian woman football player to bag a contract with a foreign club, Scottish giant's Rangers F.C. In January, she was unveiled by the club and wore the number 10 jersey. In addition to football, Bala Devi also serves with the Manipur Police Department.

Lt. General Madhuri Kanitkar made history in the year 2020 as she became the third female Lieutenant General in Indian history and also the first woman pediatrician to achieve the second-highest post in the Indian Army.

Whenever someone speaks about 'Nirbhaya', they mention the name of Seema Kushwaha. She was Nirbhaya's lawyer, who fought a long and hard battle for seven years and stood by Nirbhaya's parents, to bring them the justice they had been denied for so long.

Ritu Karidhal featured in the Forbes India Self Made Women 2020 list. Ritu is also known as 'Rocket Woman of India' as she was the Deputy Operations Director of the Mars Orbiter Mission.

Eighty-two-year-old Bilkis, aka 'Dadi' of Shaheen Bagh, is on TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people's list of 2020. The two-month-long sit-in protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Shaheen Bagh were driven by the 'dadis' of Shaheen Bagh, who drew attention for their sheer will and loyalty towards what they believe in.

Ankiti Bose is the co-founder and CEO of Zilingo, a multi-national start-up in the e-commerce space, a technology and commerce platform for fashion retailers. She has been featured in Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list in 2018 as well as in Fortune's 40 Under 40 along with Bloomberg 50 in 2019. Ankiti Bose became the first woman co-founder of a $1 billion start-up and featured in Forbes India Self Made Women 2020.

Divya Gokulnath is a Teacher and a Businesswoman. She is the co-founder of the education app "Byju's-The Learning App". She is married to the founder of Byju's, Byju Raveendran. The ed-tech startup has pushed her and her husband, Byju Raveendran's net worth to over $3 billion.

Ameera Shah is an Indian entrepreneur and the Managing Director of Metropolis Healthcare, a multinational chain of pathology centers based in Mumbai, with presence in seven countries. She is among the Indian women on Forbes Asia's list of powerful businesswomen of 2020.

Roshni Nadar Malhotra is an Indian businesswoman, the chairperson of HCL Technologies, and the first woman to lead a listed IT company in India. Roshni is India’s wealthiest woman with a net worth of Rs 36,800 crore. She's also 54th on the list of most powerful women in the world, according to Forbes.