Ellen J. Kullmanborn is an American business executive. She is President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company ("DuPont") in Wilmington and a former director of General Motors.

Kullman began her business career at General Electric and joined DuPont in 1988 as marketing manager in the company's medical imaging business. In her previous role as executive vice president she was responsible for four of DuPont's business platforms as well as leading the company's growth in markets outside the USA.

On September 23, 2008, DuPont announced that its board of directors had elected Kullman President and a director of the company with effect from October 1, 2008 and Chief Executive Officer with effect from January 1, 2009. She is the nineteenth executive, and the first woman, to lead the company in its 206 year history. As a result of her new role at DuPont, Fortune magazine has named Kullman fifteenth in its list of the world's fifty most powerful women, and The Wall Street Journal has named her eighth on its 2008 list of "Women to Watch".

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Ms. Clark was appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer effective January 2005. Ms. Clark joined Marathon in January 2004 as senior vice president and chief financial officer.

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Charlene Begley is president and chief executive officer of GE Enterprise Solutions and a senior vice president for GE. She was named to this position in August 2007. She is driving growth initiatives in technology, emerging markets, vertical solutions and the global infrastructure.

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She is a member of the ruling family of Sharjah and the niece to His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi.

Lubna graduated from the California State University, Chico with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, and has an Executive MBA from the American University of Sharjah.

Lubna received a honorary doctorate of science from California State University, Chico.

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Ana Patricia Botin was born in 1960 in Santander. She is chairman of the Spanish bank, Banco Español de Crédito, and previously worked for seven years at JP Morgan in the United States. In 1988 she came back to Spain and began working for the Santander Group.

Botín holds a degree in economics from Bryn Mawr College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

In 2005 Botin was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the 99th most powerful woman in the world.

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Ann Margaret Veneman, born June 29, 1949, is currently the Executive Director of UNICEF. She was the first woman to become the United States Secretary of Agriculture. She announced her resignation as Secretary on November 15, 2004, which took effect on January 20, 2005.

On January 18, 2005, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced Secretary Veneman's appointment as the fifth Executive Director of UNICEF. The appointment was made effective with the end of the term of former UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy on May 1, 2005.

She is currently a board member of Malaria No More, a New York-based nonprofit that was launched at the 2006 White House Summit with the goal of ending all deaths caused by malaria.

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Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, born 1947 in Hong Kong, is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Chan was elected by the Executive Board of the WHO on 8 November 2006, and was endorsed in a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on the following day.

Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994-2003), representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003-2006).