Here are the world’s most powerful women of 2020

Fortune has just announced the 2020 edition of its Most Powerful Women in Business list, which includes 16 FORTUNE 500 CEOs, and the return of Jane Fraser, who in February 2021 will become the first woman to head a major U.S. bank. 

Fortune has used the same four criteria to rank the Most Powerful Women list since its advent in 1998: the size and importance of each woman's business in the global economy; the health and direction of the business; the arc of her career; and her social and cultural influence. Now, to account for this moment of crisis and uncertainty, as well as positive change, the list also considers how the executives wield their power, and whether they are using their influence to shape their companies and the wider world for the better

Fortune list of most powerful women also suggested that while women remain vastly under-represented in C-suites around the world—helming just 13 of the worlds 500 largest companies—there are markedly more female executives each year taking their place at the highest ranks of corporate power.