Banco do Brasil’s Tarciana Medeiros Ranks No. 18 on Forbes 2025 Most Powerful Women List

Overview

• Medeiros is the only Brazilian on this year’s list and appears for the third consecutive year.
• Forbes highlights her 2023 UN General Assembly speech urging more financing for sustainable businesses.
• Her tenure features a US$250 million partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank for renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure.
• She became the first woman to lead Banco do Brasil in January 2023 after joining the bank in 2000.
• This year’s ranking is led by Ursula von der Leyen, followed by Christine Lagarde and Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi, with Forbes noting the cohort’s influence over more than 1 billion people and about US$37 trillion in economic power.