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IBK CEO on the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” list

February 7, 2014
Kwon Seon-joo IBK CEO

Kwon Seon-joo
IBK CEO

By Kim Tae-jong

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) CEO Kwon Seon-joo was chosen as one of the 50 most influential businesswomen in the world by Fortune magazine, Friday.

In Fortune’s “List of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business: Global Edition,” the magazine said that Kwon was the first woman to become CEO of a bank in Korea and introduced IBK as the 105th-largest lender in the world.

She is the only Korean who was included on the list, ranked 47th.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra, the first woman to run a global automaker, topped the list with IBM Chairwoman and CEO Ginni Rometty in second place.

The list also includes Petrobras CEO Maria das Gra Silva Foster, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer and Google’s Senior Vice President for Advertising and Commerce Susan Wojcicki.

“By pushing into new territories and inspiring women in their home countries, these globetrotters are, quite literally, taking on the world,” the magazine said.