Tan Su Shan, CEO of the largest bank in Southeast Asia, is the most powerful woman in makeshift in Asia for 2025

This year, the most powerful woman in Asia is the CEO of DBS, Tan Su Shan, who assumed the leading role in the largest bank in Southeast Asia in March. Since he took the helm, she had to direct the bank through a relaunched trade war and the return of alternative financial products such as cryptocurrencies.

“I told colleagues:” It will be a volatile year, so you would better complete, “said Tan in the last issue of Fortune review.

Second place goes to Grace Wang, founder of the Chinese technology manufacturer and apple supplier, LuxShare. Despite the intensification of American-Chinese tensions, Luxshare continues to win new customers, including, according to media reports, OpenAi, while the developer Chatgpt explores the creation of his own devices and is diversifying beyond existing customers.

She is followed by Huawei’s financial director, Meng Wanzhou, who has just started a six -month mandate as a rotating chair of the technology giant. Meng will now supervise Huawei’s thrust to help make China self -sufficient in advanced technology, especially since the company accelerates its production of Locally manufactured Flea.

Bonnie Chan, CEO of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) takes fourth place, while the Chinese city scholarship resumes momentum after a crisis of several years. Hong Kong welcomed the largest and the second largest Introduction on the world this year: the mayor list of the Catl battery manufacturer, and the beginnings of September on the Chinese minor Zijin Gold.

Kathy Yang, who won the role of rotating CEO at Foxconn in May, completes the top five. Yang has more than three decades of logistics experience, putting it in a privileged position to supervise the supply chains of the global manufacturer. Foxconn now generates more income from the assembly of servers for companies like NVIDIA, compared to the manufacture of iphones for the longtime Customer Apple.

Together, continental China, Hong Kong and Macao, with 34 leaders, occupy the largest share of the MPW Asia ranking. Singapore follows with 15 executives, while India and Thailand each contributed eight. About 40 leaders are new arrivals this year, notably the financial director of Sony Lin Tao, a CFO Fu Xin, the regional CEO Prudential Angel Ng and the Vice-President of twentyroup Le Thi Thu Thuy.

Beyond business: introduce FortuneThe most influential women Asia

However, power extends beyond the C Suite C, in particular in a diversified region and rapidly growing like Asia. This year, Fortune’The SA Asia team highlights several women outside business, recognizing success and influence in fields such as professional sports, pop culture and policies.

Take pop culture, now helping to stimulate the growing global profile of Asia. Asian films, television, music and video games won the world public – and clearly clearer than South Korea, K -Pop’s house. Blackpink, the group of girls who find himself, is now continuing his way to world domination as they embark on another world tour. And its individual members – FISA, Jennie, Jisoo and Rose – also try to light their own path in an industry that has been mainly dominated by large talent agencies.

Then there is politics and the development of policies. Asia has only one handful of women of women’s government. Among them, Josephine Teo de Singapore promotes the ambition of the city of the city to become an “AI nation”, while the governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike positions the Japanese capital as a hub for world finance and innovation at a time when the coat of the “Asian financial center” is still seizing them.

Professional sports are another area where Asian women are expanding their influence. Some of the most important, most important and commercial athletes – are a reminder that identity and heritage can often go beyond borders. Naomi Osaka and Eileen Gu have both grew up outside Asia, but have adopted their Japanese and Chinese heritage respectively, and have won new fans in their adopted countries.

Here is the accumulates on Fortune’S List of most influential women inaugural (and read our catches on each woman here)

Arts and culture

• Blackpink (Lisa, Jennie, Rose and Jisoo—The k-pop power in k-pop, avant-garde,
• Michelle Yeoh– Malaysian screen legend winner and pioneer winner
• Xin Zhilei—2025 Venice Film Festival Festival Best Actress Winner for The sun rises all

Public and political leadership

• Yuriko Koike—Tokyo Governor with three terms and electric broker behind the reform
• Joséphine Teo—Bregapore of the Minister of Digital Development and Information; Cybersecurity & Smart Nation Lead

Sporty

• Alexandra “Alex” Eala—Filipina Tennis Trailblazer, the first of the Philippines to win a match in the main drawing of the Grand Slam (US Open 2025)
• Eileen Feng Gu—Two -time Olympic champion Freestyle representing China and the fashion icon – Sport
• Naomi Osaka—Au-time tennis champion, activist and maternity icon
• Zheng Qinwen—Top Five Chinese Tennis Star, 2024 Australian Open Finalist and Paris 2024 Olympic Singles Gold Medalist