PUBLISHED: 15 Dec 2024 at 17: 29
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra is listed among the” 100 World’s Most Powerful Women 2024″ by Forbes Magazine.
Ms. Paetongtarn is in 29th place on the world list, ahead of Sandy Ran Xu, the CEO of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com ( 27th ), and Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s minister of finance and corporate affairs ( 28th ), according to Prime Minister Office Minister Jiraporn Sindhuprai.
Other women leaders in the Southeast Asia region on the list include Ho Ching, Temasek Trust chairwoman ( 32nd ), Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Minister of Finance of Indonesia ( 49th ), Helen Wong, Group CEO of OCBC in Singapore ( 59th ), and Jenny Lee, Senior Managing Partner of Granite Asia in Singapore (96th ).
Ms Paetongtarn was listed in the” Time 100 Future” in the president’s group by Times newspaper before, said Ms Jiraporn.
Ms Paetongtarn, the government’s 31st prime minister, became the government’s youngest at the age of 37.
” Mr Paetongtarn is the youngest female prime minister in the background of Thailand”, said Ms Jiraporn.
She has shown leadership in handling a number of domestic crises, particularly those involving the management of flooding in many provinces and the school bus fire incident, where she has urged agencies to act swiftly and fast, including pushing forward various initiatives from former prime minister Srettha Thavisin’s administration.
Those policies include a three-year producer loan suspension, tourism excitement with a free card, the 10, 000 bass money handout scheme, the marriage equality law and the 30-baht widespread healthcare project, she said.
According to Forbes, the 2024 Power List was determined by four key components: income, advertising, influence and spheres of influence. ” For democratic leaders, we weighed gross domestic products and populations, for corporate leaders, income, estimates and employee matters were important. Media mentions and cultural approach were taken into account for all, according to the report.
More than 1 billion people were identified as the 100 people who, by legislation or by example, have a combined$ 33 trillion in financial power and influence. Their leadership across financing, technology, media and past stands as a powerful response to those who question a person’s ability to wield energy, said the magazine.