Forbes.com’s list of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” includes Columbia College Chicago trustee Renetta McCann as number 41. Ahead of her are American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (fourth); U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (twentieth); entertainment media mogul Oprah Winfrey (twenty-first); U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton; and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (twenty-sixth).

McCann, who is chief executive of Starcom MediaVest Group, the largest media agency in the world, comes in ahead of Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University (number 47); First Lady Laura Bush (number 60); and Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News (number 63).