Forty-two interviews accounting for roughly 60 hours of footage were conducted in the course of making "If Women Ruled the World." The interviewees provided invaluable insights that were critical in formulating the issues of the program. Though broadcast constraints forced us to limit the scope of the material we could use so that not all of the interviewees could be included, we are indebted to all of those who agreed to be interviewed and the following is a complete list.

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INTERVIEW LIST
1. Madeleine Albright, first female U.S. Secretary of State.
2. Louise Arbour, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and recently appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
3. Letitia Baldrige, Chief-of-Staff for Jacqueline Kennedy from 1961 to 1963.
4. Louise Bourgeoise, pioneer sculptor and artist.
5. Helen Gurley Brown, founder of Cosmopolitan magazine.
6. Kim Campbell, first female prime minister of Canada, 1993, first female minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, and currently chair of Harvard University's Council of Women World Leaders.
7. Kim Chernin, psychoanalyst, leading eating disorders specialist, and author of Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself.
8. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author of Mistress of Spices and The Arranged Marriage, among other highly acclaimed novels.
9. Cari Dominguez, Commissioner and Chairperson, EEOC
10. Sam Donaldson, ABC News White House correspondent.
11. Dina Dublon, CFO, J. P. Morgan Chase.
12. Helen Fisher, anthropologist at Rutgers University and author of the recent, The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They are Changing the World.
13. Betty Friedan, cofounder of NOW and author of the landmark, The Feminine Mystique.
14. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
15. Jane Goodall, author of the best selling In the Shadow of Man, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation, and Director of the Gombe Stream Research Centre in Tanzania.
16. Orrin Hatch, U.S. senator from Utah.
17. Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. senator from Texas, member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and deputy majority whip.
18. Frances A. Kaiser, Sheriff of Kerr County, Texas (a straight-shooting small-town sheriff featured last year on NBC News).
19. Claudia Kennedy, a three-star general, the U.S. Army's highest ranking woman, and on Parade magazine's top five list for first female president of the United States.
20. Angelina Jolie, actress.
21. Mary Matalin, political consultant and Deputy Campaign Manager of the 1992 Bush-Quayle Campaign.
22. Edith Mayo, curator emeritus of the first ladies' collections at the Smithsonian Institution and the curator of the Smithsonian's exhibit, "From Parlor to Politics: Women Entering Public LIfe at the Turn of the Century."
23. Tanya Metaksa, Executive Director of the NRA.
24. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News correspondent.
25. Her Majesty, Queen Noor, Jordan.
26. Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
27. Mary Ourisman, philanthropist.
28. Nora Pouillon, chef-proprietor of Restaurant Nora and of Asia Nora in Washington, D.C.'s and a pioneer in organic dining.
29. Sally Quinn, author of The Party and for many years a political reporter for the Washington Post.
30. Mamphela Ramphele, Managing Director, World Bank.
31. Janet Reno, first female U.S. Attorney General.
32. Elaina Richardson, Editor-in-Chief of Elle.
33. Anne Rosenzweig, chef-proprietor of The Lobster Club in New York.
34. Donna Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
35. Judith Shapiro, President of Barnard College.
36. Ruth Simmons, first African-American president of Smith College and the highest ranking African-American woman in academia.
37. Martha Stewart, Chairman and CEO, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
38. Ann Stock, former White House social secretary under the Clintons.
39. Helen Thomas, UPI White House Bureau Chief.
40. Liv Ullmann, actress/director.
41. Margaret Visser, author of The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners and of Much Depends on Dinner.
42. Richard Wrangham, professor of anthropology at Harvard University and author of Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence.