Shemara Wikramanayake, the CEO and Managing Director of Australian firm Macquarie Group, has been ranked 29th in The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2020 list compiled by the Forbes.
Forbes said Wikramanayake, who was born in the UK and was raised there and in Sri Lanka, immigrated to Australia with her parents when she was 13.
Wikramanayake is the managing director and CEO of the Macquarie group, a role she assumed in December 2018.
She joined Macquarie in 1987; she worked within Macquarie Capital for 20 years until being appointed as head of Macquarie Asset Management in 2008.
Wikramanayake has two sons, and has been open about how her husband, a former investment banker, helped make her career possible by staying at home.
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Christine Lagarde and Kamala Harris were ranked at the top three places respectively and they were followed by Ursula Von Der Leyen, Melinda Gates, Mary Barra, Nancy Pelosi , Ana Patricia Botin, Abigail Johnson and Gail Boudreaux among the top 10.
Oprah Winfrey was ranked at 20, Jacinda Arden at 32, Sheikh Hasina 39, Queen Elizabeth II at 46, Rihanna at 69 and Beyonce Knowles at 72 in the list.
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