World Economic Forum (WEF) included 17 Indians in its list of Young Global Leaders for 2008. The list of 245 leading executives, public figures and intellectuals from all over the world also included Indian young leader’s name like Wadia Group chairman Jeh Wadia, SKS Microfinance CEO Vikram Akula, Bhatia Enterprises chairman Sabeer Bhatia, music composer A R Rahman and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.
The Indians included in the list are:
• Vikram K Akula, CEO, SKS Microfinance
• Sabeer Bhatia, chairman, Bhatia Enterprises
• Anurag Behar, MD, Wipro [Get Quote] Infrastructure Engineering Ltd
• Barkha Dutt, senior editor, NDTV
• Suhas Gopinath, CEO, Globals ITeS
• C V Madhukar, director, PRS Legislative Research
• Sandeep Parekh, executive director, SEBI
• Sachin Pilot, Member of Parliament
• Meher Pudumjee, chairperson, Thermax Limited
• Ratul Puri, executive director, Moser Baer India Ltd
• Allah Rakha Rahman, music composer
• Trilochan Sastry, founder, Association for Democratic Reform Centre for Collective Development
• Anoushka Shankar, musician, sitar player
• Pooja Shetty, director, Adlabs Films
• Joseph Sigelman, founder, PetroTiger
• Pia Singh, managing director, DLF Universal Retail
• Jeh Wadia, chairman, Wadia Group
Each year WEF conducts a survey to recognise and acknowledge the top 200-300 young leaders all aged 40 or younger from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world.
The list is filtered from the pool of 5,000 nominations from 65 countries by a selection committee chaired by Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The committee also includes 31 eminent international media leaders, including Thomas H Glocer, chief executive officer, Reuters, UK; Arthur Sulzberger, chairman and publisher, The New York Times, USA; Robert Thomson, publisher, Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal, USA; and Hisashi Hieda, chairman and chief executive officer, Fuji Television Network, Japan.
The current Young Global Leaders for 2008 include 121 business leaders, as well as leaders from government, academic, the media and society from 60 countries. The new class represents all regions, including East Asia (64), Europe (58), the Middle East and North Africa (12), North America (45), South Asia (24), sub-Saharan Africa (21) and Latin America (21).
“The World Economic Forum is a true multi-stakeholder community of global decision-makers. We need the Young Global Leaders to be a voice for the future in the global thought process and as a catalyst for initiatives in the global public interest,” said Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, in a statement.
“I feel greatly honored for having been selected as one of the Young Global Leaders, and I am very confident that through this platform every YGL will be highly instrumental in empowering the youth and will be successful in bringing in significant changes. It’s a great privilege for me to be associated with the prestigious World Economic Forum and I will make sure to use this opportunity to share my entrepreneurial spirit for reducing the unemployment of eligible youth in developing and underdeveloped nations,” said Suhas Gopinath, chief executive officer and president, Globals ITeS, India.
A few other young leaders includes Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google, USA; Crown Prince Haakon of Norway; Malvinder M Singh, chief executive officer and managing director, Ranbaxy Laboratories [Get Quote], India; Hiroshi Nakada, mayor of Yokohama, Japan; Nicky Newton-King, deputy chief executive officer, JSE, South Africa; Carlos Danel, co-chief executive officer, Banco Compartamos, Mexico; and Jack Ma Yun, chairman and chief executive officer, Alibaba Group, People’s Republic of China.
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