Forbes' Most Powerful Women 2009: Gloria Arroyo is #44

Philippines' Most Unpopular President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been named once again as one of the most powerful women in the world.

On Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women list for 2009, GMA is at #44, three ranks down from her #41 placement last year.

It's now GMA's fourth time in the 100 Most Powerful list: #9 in 2004, #46 in 2006, #41 in 2008 and #44 in 2009.

Gloria Arroyo's description on Forbes' site:
In July, she became Southeast Asia's first leader to meet U.S President Barack Obama in the White House, a boon to an otherwise lame-duck presidency. Arroyo's tumultuous six-year term ends with new elections in May 2010. Potential power grab in the works: Congressional allies are pushing through changes to the Constitution that would see the Philippines adopt a parliamentary system; then Arroyo could get around the presidential term limit by becoming prime minister. Critics contend this may further sink the stalling economy that earlier in the year hit a 10-year-low GDP growth of 0.4%. Arroyo also has her hands full dealing with rise in domestic terrorism.

This year's most powerful is once again (for the 4th time) Angela Merkel from Germany.

See full list below...

Rank Name 1 Angela Merkel 2 Sheila Bair 3 Indra Nooyi 4 Cynthia Carroll 5 Ho Ching 6 Irene Rosenfeld 7 Ellen Kullman 8 Angela Braly 9 Anne Lauvergeon 10 Lynn Elsenhans 11 Cristina Fernandez 12 Carol Bartz 13 Sonia Gandhi 14 Ursula Burns 15 Anne Mulcahy 16 Safra Catz 17 Christine Lagarde 18 Gail Kelly 19 Marjorie Scardino 20 Chanda Kochhar 21 Mary Sammons 22 Michelle Bachelet 23 Paula Reynolds 24 Carol Meyrowitz 25 Andrea Jung 26 Patricia Woertz 27 Guler Sabanci 28 Barbara Desoer 29 Brenda Barnes 30 Risa Lavizzo-Mourey 31 Ann Livermore 32 Cathie Lesjak 33 Marina Berlusconi 34 Melinda Gates 35 Nancy Pelosi 36 Hillary Rodham Clinton 37 Jane Mendillo 38 Margaret Chan 39 Susan Chambers 40 Michelle Obama 41 Oprah Winfrey 42 Queen Elizabeth II 43 Nancy McKinstry 44 Gloria Arroyo 45 Ana Patricia Botin 46 Ann Veneman 47 Yulia Tymoshenko 48 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 49 Janet Robinson 50 Dominique Senequier 51 Janet Napolitano 52 Anne Sweeney 53 Neelie Kroes 54 Gail Boudreaux 55 Sonia Sotomayor 56 Mary Schapiro 57 Kathleen Sebelius 58 Ellen Alemany 59 Susan Ivey 60 Amy Pascal 61 Helen Clark 62 Judy McGrath 63 Stacey Snider 64 Navanethem Pillay 65 Janet Clark 66 Sherilyn McCoy 67 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 68 Tarja Halonen 69 Mary McAleese 70 Virginia Rometty 71 Angela Ahrendts 72 Terri Dial 72 Sri Indrawati 74 Deirdre Connelly 75 Johanna Sigurdardottir 76 Queen Rania 77 Christina Gold 78 Colleen Goggins 79 Hasina Wajed 80 Hyun Jeong-eun 81 Amy Schulman 82 Penny Pritzker 83 Drew Faust 84 Melanie Healey 85 Elizabeth Smith 86 Deb Henretta 87 Ann Moore 88 Sallie Krawcheck 89 Pamela Nicholson 90 Janice Fields 91 Stephanie Burns 92 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw 93 Eva Cheng 94 Efrat Peled 95 Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi 96 Charlene Begley 97 Mindy Grossman 98 Sharon Allen 99 Heidi Miller 100 Mary Erdoes

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