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

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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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