COVER STORY ASIA'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN
NAINA LAL
KIDWAI
The first Indian woman to graduate
from Harvard Business School
and also the first woman to
guide the functioning of a foreign
bank in India, Naina Lal Kidwai
is an Indian banker, Chartered
Accountant and business
executive. She is currently the
Group General Manager and
Country Head of HSBC India. She
is also a former President of the
Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
Her interests include microfinance
and livelihood creation for rural
women and environment. Naina,
also supports the world’s largest
youth driven organization - AIESEC
as a National Advisory Board
Member to AIESEC India. Mrs.
Kidwai has repeatedly ranked
in the Fortune global list of Top
Women in Business, 12th in the
Wall Street Journal 2006 Global
Listing of Women to Watch and
listed by Time Magazine as one of
their 15 Global Influentials 2002.
NGUYEN
THI NGA
Citizenship/Residence
Vietnam
Citizenship/residence
India
She is one of Vietnam’s richest women,
with her deep zest in banking, real estate,
resorts and retail, she has been chairman
of SeABank since 2007 , successfully turns
it from a provincial bank to a prominent
nationwide commercial joint stock bank
with 155 outlets and more than 2,100
staff, total assets of approx. USD 4.7
billion and charter capital of nearly
USD 300 million, providing full range
of banking services to both retail and
corporate customers. She founded and
controls BRG, a holding company with
3 golf courses in Vietnam, most notably
Kings’ Island Golf Resort and Doson
Seaside Golf Resort. She owns 2 hotels in
Hanoi that are managed by Hilton Hotels
Worldwide, and then there’s Intimex, a
trading and retail company more than
30%-owned by her family. All told her
businesses raked in revenue of more than
$435 million last year.