贾庆文／选译

2006年9月1日美国最新一期《福布斯》公布了2006年“全球最有影响力女性”的排名，德国总理默克尔取代美国国务卿赖斯，成为全球最有影响力的女性。在公布的100名女性榜单上，中国国务院副总理吴仪、中国人民银行副行长吴晓灵、海尔集团总裁杨绵绵也都位列榜上，分别居第3、第35和第70位。

※ Angela Merkel （Chancellor, Germany）

Tired of battling disgruntled government officials and voters, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder called for early elections last year. Big mistake. It bounced him out of his position and brought pro-market Merkel,the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party,to power. The first female chancellor in Germanys history, and the first woman to lead Germany since it became a nation-state in 1871,Merkel is a favorite of German business. From humble beginnings as a Lutheran pastors daughter in Hamburg,she graduated with a doctorate of physics from the University of Leipzig. Unassuming and diplomatically astute, Merkel was later named secretary-general of the Christian Democratic Union,Germanys largest conservative political party,after the Kohl government fell in 1998. Along with her pro-free-market reform agenda,Merkel advocates a strong German-American relationship,evidenced by her support of the proposals to bring Iran to the nuclear negotiating table. Merkel has been overhauling the governments health care system and cumbersome corporate tax policies. She has also put her strict budgetary imprint on the sprawling European Union budget debates. With her conciliatory powers, Merkel has managed to maintain impressive approval ratings both home and abroad.

※ Condoleezza Rice （Secretary of State US）

As his ratings collapse largely due to the progress of the Iraq war, U.S. President George W. Bush increasingly seeks counsel from one of his closest advisers,Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,51. A pragmatist now quite familiar with the halls of power,Rice is Americas top diplomat and has demonstrated growing influence over U.S. foreign policy in Bushs second term,defending Bushs policies around the globe. A foreign policy realist who favors face-to-face negotiations,Rice made a surprise visit to Beirut in an attempt to hammer out a ceasefire agreement in the recent fighting in the Middle East, and she is working to defang Iran and North Korea,both intent on stepping up their nuclear programs. In fact, Rice is an inveterate globetrotter, racking up nearly a half million miles so far this year visiting dozens of countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Rices message is one of “transformational democracy”, a political philosophy she laid out in a speech at Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service in January. It states that the U.S. will “work with our many partners around the world to build and sustain democratic, well-governed states that will respond to the needs of their people.” Rice won rave reviews recently for her piano performance at Asian security talks in Kuala Lumpur. She has hinted that her next career move may be in music, rather than a rumored presidential run.

※ Indra Nooyi（Chief Executive-Designate,PepsiCo US）

Few people could handle either the presidential or the chief financial officer job at a company worth $100 billion. But not only has Nooyi held both offices since 2001,she was recently hand-picked to become Pepsis new chief executive,Nooyi has a string of career successes that helped her land the corner office at the food and beverage giant. She was the lead negotiator on Pepsis $13.8 billion purchase of Quaker Oats and worked on its acquisition of Tropicana, as well as the spin-offs of its restaurant and bottling businesses. Lately,Nooyi has had to contend with a Pepsi Challenge of another sort-allegations from a research organization in India that Pepsi soda is laced with pesticides,charges that were also leveled at Pepsicos rival Coca-Cola. (Indias health ministry recently said it found no evidence to back the claim.) Previously, Nooyi was an executive at Asea Brown Boveri,Motorola and Boston Consulting Group. Before emigrating to the U.S. from India in 1978,Nooyi was a product manager at Johnson & Johnson and Mettur Beardsell,a textile outfit,in India. Nooyi,who fronted an all-female rock band in college,is on the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

◇ 安吉拉·默克尔德国总理

由于厌倦了同心怀不满的官员和投票者的争斗,前德国总理哈尔德·施罗德呼吁去年提前进行大选。这是个严重错误。这不仅使他失去了官职，而且还提前使默克尔，这位基督教民主党人的领导人获得了总理职位。她成为德国历史上的第一位女总理，而且是自德国1871年建国以来第一位领导德国的妇女。默克尔在德国商界中非常受人欢迎。作为汉堡路德教会一位地位卑微牧师的女儿，默克尔在莱比锡大学获得了物理学博士学位。科尔政府在1998年倒台后，由于谦逊和外交上的机敏，默克尔被提名为基督教民主党——德国最大的保守政党的总书记。伴随着她支持自由市场改革的议程，默克尔提倡强大的德美关系，提议把伊朗核问题提到谈判桌面上来。默克尔还一直致力于修改德国的卫生保健系统和烦琐的公司税收政策。她还用她严格的预算影响并打破欧盟财政预算的僵局。由于她使用调和的权力，默克尔所做的一切在德国国内外都给人们留下了深刻的印象。

◇ 康多莉扎·赖斯美国国务卿

因为美国总统布什的沉浮主要取决于伊拉克战争的进程，他愈加要在他最亲密的顾问中寻求一位国务卿，她就是现年51岁的康多莉扎·赖斯。赖斯是一位实用主义者，如今已非常熟悉她的岗位职责，她是美国的最高外交官，在布什的第二个任期中已经显示出她日益增长的影响，她捍卫了布什第二任期的全球外交政策。作为一位赞成面对面进行协商谈判的外交政策现实主义者，赖斯突然造访贝鲁特，在最近硝烟四起的中东地区试图使各方签订一份停火协议，她还努力去解决伊朗和朝鲜问题，这两个国家都试图去发展它们的核计划。事实上，赖斯是一位资深的世界观光旅行家，今年到目前为止她的行程几乎达到50万英里，访问了几十个国家，包括伊拉克和阿富汗。赖斯的演说词是一种“转换生成的民主政治”，这是她在一月份乔治敦大学外交学院的演讲词中展示出来的一种政治哲学。它表明美国将“与全世界的众多伙伴去建立和维持民主、优良管理的国家，将满足其人民的需要。”在吉隆坡亚洲安全会晤中赖斯因她弹奏的钢琴而获得了人们的热情赞扬。她暗示说她事业的下一步或许是在音乐方面，而不是谣传的竞选总统。

◇ 英德拉·努伊百事公司首席执行官

很少有人能够在资产达1000亿美元的公司中处理好总裁和首席财政官员的工作。但不仅仅是因为百事自从2001年来拥有了两个办事处，努伊最近被精心选出来担任百事公司的新任执行总裁，她已经取得了一系列成功，这帮助她在食品和饮料大公司中站稳了脚跟。她是百事公司花费138亿美元购买贵格饮料公司的首席谈判代表，并致力于它获得的热带产品饮料公司，还有下属的饭店和瓶装饮料公司。最近努伊已经开始应付百事公司另一类型的挑战——在印度的一个研究机构断言百事公司的苏打里面添加了杀虫剂，控告中还包括与百事公司同一级别的竞争对手——可口可乐公司。（最近印度的卫生部长说现在还没有发现支持这一控告的证据。）早先，努伊是ABB公司、摩托罗拉公司和波士顿咨询集团公司的一位总裁。在1978年从印度移民到美国前，努伊在印度一家名叫约翰逊约翰逊和米特·比德赛尔的纺织公司中担任产品经销经理。努伊在大学中指挥着一个女摇滚乐队，她还是纽约联邦贮备银行和纽约林肯中心表演艺术管理委员会成员。