COVER STORY ASIA'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN
SOLINA CHAU
Citizenship/Residence
Hong Kong
Solina Chau is a businesswoman in Hong Kong, a
business partner in the Cheung Kong Group, and
director of the Li Ka Shing Foundation. Horizons
Ventures, also run by Ms Chau, which aside from
its remaining Facebook stake, now has more
than $350m at work in more than 50 different
start-ups.
She is also a major stockholder in Tom.com,
a publication and advertising company in the
People’s Republic of China. As of 2014, she is
listed as the 82nd most powerful woman in the
world by Forbes.
SRI MULYANI
INDRAWATI
Citizenship/Residence
Indonesia
She is an Indonesian economist. Ms. Indrawati
joined the World Bank in June 2010 and most senior
woman ever tasked with ending extreme poverty and
promoting shared prosperity. Previously she served as
Indonesia’s minister of finance in addition to being the
coordinating minister of economic affairs. Sri Mulyani
is known as a tough reformist and is largely credited
with strengthening Indonesia’s economy, increasing
investments and steering Southeast Asia’s largest
economy through the 2007–10 financial crisis. In 2014,
she was ranked as the 38th most powerful woman in the
world by Forbes magazine.
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Up Till October 15, 2015