Forbes “50 Over 50” 2025 Record
Clockwise from Prime Left: Halle Berry by Cliff Watts for Forbes; Maria Shriver by Rebecca Miller for Forbes; Freada Kapor Klein by Rebecca Miller for Forbes; Suma Krishnan by Jamel Toppin for Forbes
NEW YORK, NY – July 30, 2025 – As we speak, Forbes has unveiled its 2025 “50 Over 50” record, together with Know Your Worth and its founder Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Now in its fifth 12 months, the annual record features a cohort of 200 girls who haven’t solely achieved nice strides of their careers, however who’re creating their biggest skilled impression after the age of fifty.
The record covers 4 totally different classes – way of life, impression, innovation and funding – that shine a light-weight on the entrepreneurs, innovators and artists who’re reaching impression at scale, and doing so within the second half of their lives.
This 12 months’s 50 Over 50 record options highly effective girls who’re making monumental strides in society by way of their initiatives and management together with Ellie Hollander (Impression class), President & CEO, Meals on Wheels, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams (Innovation), actress Julie Andrews (Life-style) and Colette Kress, CFO of NVIDIA (Funding).
“The 2025 50 Over 50 record demonstrates the methods by which girls could make their biggest skilled impression of their sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth a long time of life,” says Maggie McGrath, editor, ForbesWomen. “This 12 months’s record specifically stands out in the way in which that the work represented touches each nook of America; these girls are actively working to make the nation higher than they discovered it, whether or not by way of making our monetary system extra equitable or discovering biotech breakthroughs for uncommon illness. Their resilience reminds us that success and innovation don’t have any age restrict.”
“This 12 months‘s record proves that we’re not simply shining a light-weight on just a few particular girls, however tapping right into a groundswell of highly effective, impactful and easily outstanding girls who’re reaching their highest heights after which persevering with to take action properly after the age of fifty,” says Mika Brzezinski, founding father of Know Your Worth and co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I couldn’t be extra pleased with how this record is rising on a world degree and is making a neighborhood that’s setting the usual for younger ladies — exhibiting them the way in which down that lengthy runway of alternative.”
This 12 months’s record additionally contains:
● Halle Berry, (Life-style) – the primary, and to this point solely, Black lady to win an Academy Award for Greatest Actress, is now specializing in girls’s well being at 58 along with her firm Respin, a menopause-focused well being care firm.
● Maria Shriver, (Impression) – after seeing her father endure from Alzheimer’s, Shriver based the Ladies’s Alzheimer’s Motion in 2010 to higher examine the gender disparities in mind illness. As we speak, at 69, Shriver is constant to develop the muse, which turned part of the Cleveland Clinic in 2022. Shriver can also be the founding father of Shriver Media and this 12 months revealed a best-selling guide, “I Am Maria.”
● Freada Kapor Klein, (Funding) – Kapor Klein, and husband Mitch Kapor, began Kapor Capital in 1999 and, in 2011, modified its technique to speculate completely in social mission–oriented startups. At 72, her agency has 138 energetic investments and $224 million in property underneath administration. Within the final three years, seven of its portfolio corporations have reached unicorn standing.
● Suma Krishnan, (Innovation) – Krishnan was in her late 40s when she had the thought for a topical gene remedy to deal with a uncommon pores and skin dysfunction known as dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa and later went on to cofound and self-fund Krystal Biotech. As we speak, at 60, Krishnan’s firm is value greater than $4 billion (market cap) and has one FDA-approved remedy in the marketplace, with others within the works.
Extra characteristic tales operating throughout the 50 Over 50 package deal embrace:
● At 81, Kelly Bishop Is Still Reinventing Herself
● How Halle Berry Became The New Face Of Menopause
● Vanna White Is Television’s Most Unshakable Star
● How This Founder Turned A Crocs-Inspired Tote Into A $100 Million Business
Produced in partnership with Mika Brzezinski’s Know Your Worth, Brzezinski will share extra on this 12 months’s 50 Over 50 record this morning throughout Morning Joe on MSNBC.
To have a good time this 12 months’s record, Forbes and Mika Brzezinski’s Know Your Worth will host its 2025 invite-only 50 Over 50 Celebratory Luncheon within the fall. The luncheon will convene the record members, enterprise executives, tradition leaders and extra to an in-person gathering that includes connection, merriment, inspiration and intimate conversations with fellow record honorees.
In 2026, Forbes and Know Your Worth will likely be internet hosting its fifth annual 30/50 Summit in Abu Dhabi coinciding with Worldwide Ladies’s Day, honoring girls record makers from the Forbes 50 Over 50 and 30 Below 30 lists. The immersive occasion, led by Mika Brzezinski, Huma Abedin and Maggie McGrath, will deliver collectively dynamic girls from each platforms for the chance to create cross-generational alliances and supply steerage and insights to girls at each stage of their profession, whereas additionally providing numerous views and wealthy cultural immersion.
For details about the 2026 occasion and to obtain updates about subsequent 12 months’s summit, please go to 2026 Forbes 30/50 Summit.
For the total record go to: Forbes.com/50over50
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Forbes Media Contacts:
Christina Vega Magrini, cmagrini@forbes.com
Feryal Nawaz, fnawaz@forbes.com
Know Your Worth Media Contact:
Claudia Meyer-Samargia, Claudia.MeyerSamargia@nbcuni.com
