Girls Can Do Anything Gallery of Inspriational Women - Peng Lei
Peng Lei (Lucy Peng) – Businesswoman
(China)
Co-founder
and CEO of Ant Financial Services
I chose
Peng Lei, otherwise known as Lucy Peng to appear in the Girls Can Do Anything gallery of inspirational women, because she’s
a highly successful business woman who founded her own company that has
recently been valued at around $60 billion. That’s a lot of money she’s
made. Personally, I’m not massively into
profit or commerce as such, but I wanted to include someone like Peng Lei in
the gallery of inspirational women, because she is, I guess, a classic example
of a successful woman.
She is
a clever woman who has made her own fortune and has created jobs for thousands
of people. She was listed as the 34th
most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2017. On that list, Angela Merkel
was first, followed by Theresa May and Melinda Gates. Oprah was 21st and
Beyonce was 50th. Incidentally, over half of the top 50 are from the United
States and our own Queen only ranks 26th. So the Queen is less powerful that
Oprah. Well, I guess that makes sense.
I’m
not quite sure how Forbes decides who is
the most powerful, but Peng Lei is definitely up there with them. So for all those children out there who want
to make a packet, who are interested in business and commerce, this it to show
that there are lots of women out there doing very, very nicely, thank you very
much!
Girls Can Do Anything is illustrated by Ali Pye and published on 2 August 2018 by Scholastic. Pre-order your copy here.