PICS: Most Powerful Asia-Pacific Women

Fortune list of 25 most powerful women "shaping the new world order" in the Asia-Pacific region...

As many as eight Indian women, led by ICICI bank chief Chanda Kochhar, have made it to the Fortune list of 25 most powerful women "shaping the new world order" in the Asia-Pacific region.

Kochhar, ranked highest among Indian women, is second across the region, while three others ¡ª SBI's Arundhati Bhattacharya (4th), HPCL's Nishi Vasudeva (5th) and Axis Bank's Shikha Sharma (10th) ¡ª have also made it to the top 10.

The list is topped by Australian banking major Westpac's chief Gail Kelly.

Other Indians on the top-25 list include Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (19th), National Stock Exchange CEO Chitra Ramkrishna (22nd), HSBC's Naina Lal Kidwai (23rd) and TAFE chairman and CEO Mallika Srinivasan (25th).

Among Indians, Bhattacharya is ranked second after Kochhar and is the first woman to hold the three-year post at SBI, who oversees a 208-year-old institution with $400 billion in assets and 218,000 employees dispersed among 16,000 bank branches across India.

On the other hand, Vasudeva, 58, became the first woman to head an Indian oil company and is "and one of only four women to helm a Global Fortune 500 firm in the Asia-Pacific region".

NSE's Ramakrishna is the only woman on the list heading a stock exchange.