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5. Yvonne Bauer
Hailing from Germany is 42-year-old Yvonne Bauer, a billionaire businesswoman, CEO and heiress to Bauer Media Group, Europe’s largest magazine publisher. She is the fifth generation of Bauers to lead the Bauer Media Group, which owns 600 magazines, 100 television and radio stations, and 400 digital publications than run globally. Yvonne graduated with a degree in German Philology from Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany, and currently has a net worth of $3.1 billion. Before stepping up as CEO in Bauer in 2005, Yvonne apprenticed at Hoffmann und Campe, one of Germany’s premiere publishing houses. In 2014, she married German television journalist and producer, Enno Koch, and they have 2 children together.