Financial Times, the 25 most powerful women in the world: who is the Italian Francesca Bellettini

There are celebrities, but also Iranian women who take to the streets for their rights. The Financial Times has collected the stories of twenty-five women who have left their mark. They are the 25 most influential in the world in 2022 according to the newspaper. There are writers, entrepreneurs, sportswomen. She unites her that she broke the mold and fought for change. The only Italian is Frances Bellettini.

Cesena, born in 1970, a degree in Mouthfulsthe beginning in the world of finance and then the transition to that of fashion: Goldman Sachs International, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Prada, Helmut Lang, the arrival at the Kering Group dates back to 2003. Now she is the managing director of Yves Saint Laurent, a brand of the Kering group. It brought Saint Laurent to 5 billion in expected revenues in the medium term. In the motivations Jo Ellison, editor of How To Spend it, she explains: “It’s the quietest people you should really pay attention to.”

Other managers appear: Jane Fraser of Citigroup and Karen Lynch of CVS Health, but also the Welsh Amanda Blanc, CEO of Aviva. In the list the Ukrainian lawyer Oleksandra Matviichukla who leads the civil rights organization Center for civil liberties awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. You are not the only Nobel among the 25, there is too Annie Ernaux awarded for literature.

In the heroes category there are sportswomen and tennis players Serena Williamswho left the fields this year, and Sarina Wiegman, coach of the English women’s soccer team European champions.

Also included Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first black justice of the US Supreme Court. There are the prime ministers of Finland, Sanna Marin, and of Barbados, Mia Mottley, the vice president of Colombia France Elena Márquez Mina, the Pakistani minister of climate change, Sherry Rehman.

Jamie Fiore Higgins, a former senior banker at Goldman Sachs, denounced racism and sexism on Wall Street in the book Bully Market. Rina Gonoi she is the ex-soldier who exposed the sexual abuse in the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Famous is the name of MacKenzie Scott, the philanthropist ex-wife of Jeff Bezos who since 2019 has donated over 12 billion dollars to over 1,200 organizations dealing with gender equality, reproductive rights, racial justice.

Talking about the Iranian women who protest after the killing of Mahsa Amini because she wore the veil incorrectly is the historical face of CNN Christiane Amanpour. “You never know where riots will lead in an authoritarian state. But Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi told me that democracy will come to Iran through the gates these women have opened. The only question is when.” The cry of Iranian women is: “Women, Life, Freedom” that is women, life, freedom.

Creators it is the category in which it appears Meghan MarkleWith her the actress Michelle Yeoh and the director and animator Domee Shi, at Pixar since 2011. There are the musician Billie Eilishvoice of a generation, and the German Anne Imhof described by Marina Abramovic: «I had the feeling that I had just witnessed something important, something that is happening right now to human beings in this world».

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