Dawn Butler, Emily Maitlis, Rihanna and the Queen feature on Vogue’s list of 25 most influential women of 2020

Dawn Butler, Emily Maitlis and Rihanna have been named among Vogue's most influential women
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Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones features alongside the Queen, Rihanna, London MP Dawn Butler and Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis in Vogue’s list of this year’s most powerful women.

The fashion bible’s annual list selects "the women of the moment” who are leading us through 2020 with “prescience, power and poise".

This year's edition of Vogue 25 seeks to highlight how, during the coronavirus pandemic, "as priorities shifted so did the spotlight".

The magazine describes Edgar-Jones as "the star of the lockdown must-watch Normal People" and notes that the BBC Three show's release during Covid-19 "accelerated" her "rise to fame".

NewsNight's Emily Maitlis was named among the 25 most influential women of 2020 (Chris Williamson/Getty Images)
(Chris Williamson/Getty Images)

It also suggests the pandemic "deepened" the Queen's relevance.

Pop star and businesswoman Rihanna and 2019 Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo features on the list, as does Labour MP Dawn Butler.

Pop sensation Rihanna also made this year's list
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Newsnight presenter Maitlis, June Sarpong, the BBC's first director of creative diversity, and Michaela Coel, the creator of hit series I May Destroy You, also appear.

The list also includes transgender model and activist Munroe Bergdorf and Maria Balshaw, the director of the Tate galleries.

Also featured are vaccinologist Professor Sarah Gilbert and domestic abuse commissioner Nicole Jacobs.

The Vogue 25 list in full:

 

- Anne Mensah, vice president of original series, Netflix

- Asma Khan, chef

- Bernardine Evaristo, novelist

- Caroline Rush, chief executive of the British Fashion Council

- Charlotte Tilbury, beauty innovator

- Daisy Edgar-Jones, actor

- Dawn Butler, Labour MP

- Dr Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer

- Emily Maitlis, broadcaster

- Emma Revie, chief executive of The Trussell Trust

- Florence Pugh, actor

- Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress

- June Sarpong, director of creativity diversity at the BBC

- Liza Bilal & Naomi Smith, Black Lives Matter activists

- Maria Balshaw, director ofTate

- Michaela Coel, writer and actor

- Munroe Bergdorf, model and activist

- Nicole Jacobs, domestic abuse commissioner

- Pippa Crerar, journalist

- Prof Sarah Gilbert, vaccinologist

- Rihanna, businesswoman

- Rosh Mahtani, designer

- Silvana Tenreyro, economist

- Steph Houghton, footballer

- The Queen

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