GIC chair Vaidyan ranked 47th in Fortune top 50 list

Mumbai: Alice Vaidyan, the chairman and managing director of the state-run General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC Re) has been ranked in the US-based Fortune Magazine's '50 most powerful businesswomen 2018 list', making her the only entry from the country.

The 59-year-old Vaidyan is ranked 47 among the list of 50 most powerful businesswomen outside the US, which is led by Glaxosmithkline chief executive Emma Walmsley, ending the four-year reign of Banco Santander executive chair Ana Botin.

This is the 18th year that Fortune has ranked the most powerful business women outside the US.

Vaidyan took over as the head of the nation's only reinsurer in 2016, and under her management GIC's global ranking has gone to one of the top 10 among global reinsurance firms from 14 in 2016.