Top 10 Global Women CEOs from Singapore - 2024

Women CEOs are powerful leaders who have broken through glass ceilings across industries, bringing innovation, strategic vision, and inclusive leadership styles into their roles. Much of their success involves the ability to navigate complex challenges connected with the building of diverse high-performing teams. Such leaders have the capacity to build and drive growth, embrace change, and inspire others. Their achievements continue paving the way for future generations of women in executive positions.

Singaporean women CEOs are a crucial pillar in the nation's torrid economic and social landscape. It is their leadership that has driven innovation and growth within the technology, finance, and healthcare sectors to the manufacturing industry. With this, they break barriers and lead high-profile companies, not only showing remarkable business acumen but also setting an example for a future generation of women leaders. Their impact does not stop here. Singaporean women at the helm of CEOs become drivers of an agenda that creates room for diversity and inclusion across organizations, thereby institutionalizing an environment where different perspectives are accepted and welcomed. This would create an environment for more balanced decisions and instil a climate of collaboration and respect. It would also facilitate further improvement in social corporate responsibility, particularly in sustainability and ethics. Their leadership on such values sets the new standards for corporate behaviour and inspires other companies to follow suit. More broadly, having women CEOs in Singapore further emphasizes a very important aspect: how to break through the glass ceiling and achieve gender equality in the leadership circle. By challenging traditional gender norms and being role models for diverse leadership teams, they contribute significantly to a more balanced and dynamic business environment.

In this issue, The Global Women Leader magazine brings a list of 'Top 10 Global Women CEOs from Singapore - 2024', who are domineers of change in the corporate realm of the country. This list of ten leading and inspiring women is crafted by a team of CEOs, VCs, and the editorial board, delivering inspiring stories of their journey and the contributions & roles played by them in the creation and empowerment of an economically powerful nation.