Honours, Awards and International Recognition
Forbes magazine ranked Nooyi fourth on the 2008 and 2009 list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. Fortune magazine has named Nooyi number one on its annual ranking of Most Powerful Women in business for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2008, Nooyi was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. In 2008, she was elected to the Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In January 2008, Nooyi was elected Chairwoman of the US-India Business Council (USIBC). Nooyi leads USIBC's Board of Directors, an assembly of more than 60 senior executives representing a cross-section of American industry.
Nooyi has been named 2009 CEO of the Year by Global Supply Chain Leaders Group.
In 2009, Nooyi was considered one of "The TopGun CEOs" by Brendan Wood International, an advisory agency. In 2010 she was named #1 on Fortune's list of the "50 Most Powerful Women" and #6 on Forbes' list of the "World's 100 Most Powerful Women". After five years on top, PepsiCo's Indian American chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi has been pushed to the second spot as most powerful woman in US business by Kraft's CEO, Irene Rosenfeld.
Nooyi was named to Institutional Investor's Best CEOs list in the All-America Executive Team Survey in 2008 to 2011.
| Year | Name | Awarding organization | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Honorary Doctor of Laws | Wake Forest University. | |
| 2011 | Honorary Doctor of Laws | University of Warwick. | |
| 2011 | Honorary Doctorate of Law | Miami University. | |
| 2010 | Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters | Pennsylvania State University. | |
| 2009 | Honorary Degree | Duke University. | |
| 2009 | Barnard Medal of Honor | Barnard College. | |
| 2008 | Honorary Degree | New York University. | |
| 2007 | Padma Bhushan | President of India. | |
| 2004 | Honorary Doctor of Laws | Babson College. |
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