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8 - SEXY X2 MAGAZINE - JANUARY 2013
Jill Abramson
Executive Editor, New York Times Co.
Age: 58
Residence: New York, NY
Country of Citizenship: United States
Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Harvard Univer-
sity
Marital Status: Married
Children: 2
Profile
In year one as the first woman at the top of the New
York Times masthead, Jill Abramson has shuffled senior
editorial staff and captained the 161-year-old publication
through an ongoing digital transformation. Now behind
a paywall, NYTimes.com has recruited more than half
a million paid subscribers and attracts over 40 million
unique visitors worldwide each month. The native New
Yorker and Harvard grad attended SXSW Interactive for
the first time this year, discussing her vision of the future
of the Times, her pride in being the first female executive
editor of the paper and the rise of individual journalistic
brands on the site. In October 2011 she released her third
book, The Puppy Diaries, about raising her golden re-
triever, Scout. Her previous two books investigated U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the career
paths of the women in the 1974 class of Harvard Law.
Sonia Gandhi
President, Indian National Congress, India
Age: 66
Residence: New Delhi, India
Country of Citizenship: India
Marital Status: Widowed
Children: 2
Profile
As leader of India’s ruling political party, Gandhi has the
reins of the world’s second-most-populous country and
tenth-largest economy. Son Rahul is next in line to take
over India’s most famous political dynasty.