VOTE: Who Is Top Of Your Grazia Brit Power List?

Who Is Top Of Your Grazia Brit Power List?

Who's your pick of the Grazia Brit Power List? [images: Getty]

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This week, Forbes published their list of the world's 100 most powerful women. As only four of them were Brits, we got thinking about the influencers we'd include on our own power list. All you need to do is tell us who is top of your power players table.

CELEBRITY

Emma Watson [Getty]
Emma Watson [Getty]

Cara Delevingne - With 13 million Instagram followers and high profile campaigns for Burberry, Tom Ford, DKNY and Chanel, she's revolutionised the world's eyebrows and still found time to move on to acting

Emma Watson - Cutting her teeth in one the world's most famous children's franchise, she's shown there is life after Potter with a degree from Brown and an astounding role as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and spokesperson for #HeForShe

Victoria Beckham - She's made the switch from global pop domination to fashion renown look as easy as hoovering in skyscraper heels. That's true Girl Power.

Kate Moss - Moving from waifish 90s postergirl, through noughties rock'n'roll pin-up, on to fashion mega brand, Mossy's had power over our wardrobes for years

Amal Clooney - The human rights lawyer on speed dial for beleaguered world leaders, internet insiders (she's consulted on the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange) and now Hollywood A-listers (mainly getting husband George out of trouble for his comedy pranks), she's even special advisor for the UN

Hemsley sisters – The nutrition queens introduced us to the joys of spiralized veg. We're still undecided on the bone broth.

Sam Taylor-Johnson – The photographer and artist turned movie director has shown that you don't just have to bow to ego to make it in Hollywood. Plus she's given power to all cougars...

WRITING

J.K. Rowling [Getty]

J.K. Rowling – Who would have thought writing a novel about a kid wizard at an Edinburgh cafe table would single-handedly breathe new life into the British publishing and film industries? She's also a good cause firebrand never shy to express herself on the topics which matter most

Caitlin Moran - Columnist, novellist, TV writer and artfully dishevelled doyenne of the Twitterati, Moran has shaped a new phase for feminism in the UK and beyond

Sharon Horgan – The Catastrophe actress shows that career switches can pan out extremely well - having only started writing when she was 30. She’s now writing Sarah Jessica Parker’s next big show for HBO called Divorce.

TECH/ BUSINESS

Kathryn Parsons - Founder and CEO of Decoded, which teaches digital skills, including how to code, helping to empower women in tech

Rachel Whetstone - Head of communications and public policy at Google; soon to move to the same role at taxi company Uber.

Nicola Mendelsohn - Facebook’s vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The company’s most senior employee outside the US.

FASHION

Stella McCartney [Getty]

Caroline Rush - Chief executive of the British Fashion Council. Credited with helping to transform Britain into a major player in the global fashion world.

Anna Wintour - British-born editor of American Vogue and one of the world’s most influential fashion figures.

Stella McCartney - Fashion designer known for shunning the use of leather and fur in her collections, and for her enormously popular sportswear collaboration with Adidas.

POLITICS/ CAMPAIGNING

Stella Creasy [Getty]

Laura Bates - Founder of the Everyday Sexism Project highlighting women’s experiences of inequality and harassment.

Leyla Hussein and Nimco Ali - Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) survivors and co-founders of Daughters of Eve, the anti-FGM campaign group.

Liz Kendall - MP for Leicester West and candidate for Labour leader. Formerly Shadow Minister for Care and Older people.

Theresa May - Britain’s Home Secretary and the most powerful woman in Government.

Nicola Sturgeon - Leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party, which has changed the political landscape of Britain after winning 56 of 59 seats north of the border.

Clare Foges - David Cameron’s 33-year-old former speech writer, who has just left Number 10 to set up a scheme called Stand and Deliver to empower young people in public speaking.

Stella Creasy - MP for Walthamstow who won a landslide majority in this year’s election. Known as a formidable voice in Westminster on feminist issues including misogyny on social media.

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Who is top of your Grazia Brit Power List?

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