Andrea Jung Chairman and Chief Executive, Avon Products

Andrea Jung BORN in 1959 in Toronto.Grew up in Wellesley, Mass. Shanghai-born mother, an accomplished pianist, worked as a chemical engineer. Hong Kong-born father was an architect.BA in English literature from Princeton University in 1979Jung, who became Avon's chief in 1999 and chairman in 2001, sticks to the beauty firm's original business model, using its sales force of five million, despite the explosion of online sales and the proliferation of specialty outlets like Sephora. Jung, who speaks Mandarin Chinese, has had to contend with weak profits and flat revenue growth lately and has had trouble selling into China