Latin America's Top 50 Businesswomen

In Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy, President Dilma Rousseff is garnering plenty of praise among local and foreign investors for her policies. Her counterpart in Argentina, Cristina Kirchner is less popular among executives. But which women are setting their mark in Latin America’s fast-growing business sector?

The editorial staff of Latin Business Chronicle has selected 50 of them in our second annual list of Latin America’s top businesswomen.

The group includes natives of Latin America as well as foreign executives who have a significant impact on the region, supervising companies that are among the top tax payers and employers in several countries in the region.

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Susan Segal: As head of the Council of the Americas, Segal is a leading powerbroker in Latin American business, with an impressive Rolodex of the key movers and shakers in the region. The Council of the Americas boasts as members leading international companies representing a broad spectrum of sectors, including banking and finance, consulting services, consumer products, energy and mining, manufacturing, media, technology, and transportation. However, with her background from Wall Street she took the organization to its next level after becoming its President & CEO in 2003. Before joining the council she was a founding partner of her own investment and advisory group focused primarily on Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic sector. Previously, Segal was a partner and Latin American Group head at JPMorgan Partners/Chase Capital Partners, where she was involved in several prominent Latin American deals. Before joining CCP, Segal was a senior managing director focused on Emerging Markets Investment Banking and Capital Markets at MHT/Chemical/Chase Banks. She was actively involved in the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, sitting on many Advisory Committees as well as serving as chairperson for the Chilean and Philippine Advisory Committees. In 1999, she was awarded the Order of Bernardo O’Higgins, Grado de Gran Oficial in Chile. Ten years later, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe honored her with the Cruz de San Carlos.