FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
During some years, Foreign Policy magazine recognizes the world’s preeminent thought leaders and public intellectuals in its annual issue, "100 Leading Global Thinkers". The list has become one of Foreign Policy's most-read features. Honorees include a wide range of leaders, advocates, innovators, artists, government officials, and visionaries from around the world.
The editors of Foreign Policy select the 100 Global Thinkers based on their standout contributions over the past year and their ability to translate ideas into action that change and shape the world.
Since 2011, Foreign Policy has honored these leaders at an annual celebration, simultaneous to the release of the print issue, in Washington, D.C.
2005 list
The following appeared on the 2005 list.[1] This was known in that year as the "2005 FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll". It was conducted with Prospect magazine.
Note: This only lists the top 20 people.
2010 list
The following appeared on the 2010 list.[2]
- Warren Buffett and Bill Gates
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Robert Zoellick
- Barack Obama
- Zhou Xiaochuan
- Ben Bernanke
- Celso Amorim
- Ahmet Davutoglu
- David Petraeus
- Robert Gates
- Angela Merkel
- Michael Bloomberg and Feisal Abdul Rauf
- Nouriel Roubini
- Bill and Hillary Clinton
- Steven Chu
- George Soros
- Liu Xiaobo
- Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs
- Shivshankar Menon
- Ron Paul
- Mohamed ElBaradei
- Sergey Brin and Larry Page
- Christine Lagarde
- Salam Fayyad
- Elizabeth Warren
- Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn, William Perry, and George Shultz
- Paul Krugman and Raghuram Rajan
- Fareed Zakaria
- Shai Agassi
- Paul Collier
- Joseph Stiglitz
- David Cameron
- Cécile Duflot, Monica Frassoni, Renate Künast, Marina Silva
- Thomas Friedman
- John Kerry and Richard Lugar
- Paul Farmer
- Michelle Bachelet
- Martin Wolf
- Esther Duflo
- Mohamed Nasheed
- Abdolkarim Soroush
- Mehdi Karroubi
- Agnes Klingshirn and Peter Scott
- Nandan Nilekani
- Zheng Bijian
- Mohamed El-Erian
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Jacques Attali
- Robert Shiller
- Vaclav Smil
- Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart
- Ahmed Rashid
- Mo Ibrahim
- Miles Morland and Rosa Whitaker
- Paul Romer
- Christopher Hitchens
- John Bolton
- Nathan Myhrvold
- Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard Thaler
- Ory Okolloh
- Fan Gang
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Tariq Ramadan
- Vinod Khosla
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Bjørn Lomborg
- Sabina Alkire
- Clay Shirky
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Steven Pinker
- John Arquilla
- Louise Arbour
- Atul Gawande
- Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
- Michèle Flournoy and Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Richard Clarke
- Helene Gayle
- Lester Brown
- George Papandreou
- Niall Ferguson
- Ethan Zuckerman
- Hu Shuli
- Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
- Kamal Kar
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Han Han
- Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned
- Daron Acemoglu
- David Grossman
- Martha Nussbaum
- Edwidge Danticat
- Kishore Mahbubani
- Malalai Joya
- Madeleine Albright
- Carl Bildt
- Bruce Ackerman
- Unity Dow
- Michael Mandelbaum
- Tarja Halonen
- Ian Buruma
2011 list
The following appeared on the 2010 list.[3][4]
- Alaa Al Aswany
- Mohamed ElBaradei and Wael Ghonim
- Ali Farzat and Razan Zaitouneh
- Rached Ghannouchi and Khairat el-Shater
- Tawakkol Karman
- Wadah Khanfar
- Eman al-Nafjan and Manal al-Sharif
- Fathi Terbil
- Srđa Popović (activist) and Gene Sharp
- Ben Bernanke, Jean-Claude Trichet, and Zhou Xiaochuan
- Barack Obama
- Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice
- Bill and Melinda Gates
- Azim Premji
- Christine Lagarde
- Ahmet Davutoğlu and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
- Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg
- Ai Weiwei
- He Weifang and Yu Keping
- Bill and Hillary Clinton
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Bernard-Henri Lévy
- Gene Cretz, Elizabeth Dibble, Robert F. Godec, Carlos Pascual, and Anne W. Patterson
- Alexei Navalny, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and Sami Ben Gharbia
- Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
- David T. Beers
- Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schäuble
- Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad
- Mizuho Fukushima and Yuichi Kaido
- Nouriel Roubini
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Paul Krugman
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Elizabeth Warren
- Amy Chua
- Terry Engelder, Gary G. Lash, and George P. Mitchell
- Anna Hazare
- Michael Mullen
- David Cameron
- Paul Ryan
- Robert Zoellick
- Dilma Rousseff
- Edward Glaeser and Saskia Sassen
- Luis Moreno Ocampo and David Scheffer
- Robert Gates
- Christina Romer
- Sherry Rehman
- Steven Pinker
- Andrew Sullivan
- Ron Paul
- John McCain
- Francis Deng and Gareth Evans (politician)
- Samantha Power
- Mohamed A. El-Erian
- Martin Wolf
- Paul Collier
- Ilda Boccassini
- Thomas Friedman
- Jens Stoltenberg
- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- Mikko Hyppönen
- Herman Chinery-Hesse
- Meir Dagan
- Joseph Nye
- Nancy Birdsall
- Barry Eichengreen
- Robert D. Kaplan
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Kenneth Roth
- Zaha Hadid
- Daniel Kahneman
- Tyler Cowen
- Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman
- Rory Stewart
- Maria Bashir
- Bjørn Lomborg
- Cem Özdemir
- Lester R. Brown
- Deepa Narayan
- Desmond Tutu
- Yoani Sánchez
- Clay Shirky
- Jared Cohen and Alec Ross (author)
- Mustafa Barghouti
- Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Andy Sumner
- Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
- John Githongo
- Paul Farmer
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Kishore Mahbubani
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
- Lant Pritchett
- Arundhati Roy
- Boris Johnson
- Mari Kuraishi
- Arvind Subramanian
- Rick Falkvinge
- Teodoro Petkoff
- Stéphane Hessel
2012 list
The following are the honorees for the 2013 Leading Global Thinkers issue.[5]
- Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein
- Moncef Marzouki
- Bill and Hillary Clinton
- California computer scientist Sebastian Thrun
- Bill and Melinda Gates
- Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai
- President Barack Obama
- Congressman Paul Ryan
- Legal activist Chen Guangcheng
- Activist David Blankenhorn, economist Narayana Kocherlakota, and physicist Richard A. Muller
- James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel
- Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak and prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
- Former Mossad director Meir Dagan, and former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin
- Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and economist Scott Sumner
- Russian punk rockers Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
- Aeronautical engineer Abraham Karem and William McRaven, commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
- Ahlem Belhadj, president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women
- Activists Rima Dali and Bassel Khartabil
- Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank
- Philanthropist George Soros
- Malawi President Joyce Banda
- New York economist Ed Morse
- Economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez
- Nadim Matta, president of the Rapid Results Institute in Stamford, Conn.
- Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
- Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund
- Turkey’s foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- British economist Willem Buiter
- Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk
- Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
- Political scientist Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Writer Salman Rushdie
- Economist Paul Krugman
- Economist Nouriel Roubini
- Shai Reshef, founder, University of the People
- Computer scientists Daphne Killer and Andrew Ng
- Former vice president Dick Cheney and Keep America Safe director Liz Cheney
- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
- Russian computer security expert Eugene Kaspersky
- Sima Samar, chair, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
- Administrative assistant Debbie Bosanek and investor Warren Buffett
- Maryland author Charles Murray
- Military futurist Andrew Marshall (foreign policy strategist)
- Russian activist blogger Alexey Navalny
- Political scientists Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein
- Activist Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani
- Bahrain activists Bdulhadi, Maryam, and Zainab al-Khawaja, and Nabeel Rajab, of Bahrain Thirteen
- Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami
- American author Robert Kagan
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian finance minister
- Martin Feldstein, economist
- Mohamed El-Erian, CEO, Pimco
- Yu Jianrong, director, center for the Study of Social Problems, China
- Michael Sandel, political philosopher, Cambridge, Mass.
- John O. Brennan, White House counterterrorism adviser
- Jameel Jaffer, director, ACLU Center for Democracy, New York
- Bjørn Lomborg, director, Copenhagen Consensus Center, Czech Republic
- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir, Qatar
- Hew Strachan, British military historian
- Former Pakistan officials Husain Haqqani and Farahnaz Ispahani
- Economist Esther Duflo, Cambridge, Mass.
- Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Japanese physician
- Economist Daron Acemoglu and political scientist James Robinson, Cambridge, Mass.
- Economist Paul Romer, New York
- Alexander MacGillivray, general counsel, Twitter
- Ruchir Sharma, managing director, Morgan Stanley
- Author Chinua Achebe, Providence, R.I.
- Ma Jun (environmentalist)
- Yevgenia Chirikova, Russian environmentalist
- U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, Washington
- Sri Mulyani Indrawati, managing director, World Bank
- Wang Jisi, dean, School of International Studies, Peking University, China
- Economist Raj Chetty, Cambridge, Mass.
- Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, Iran
- Adela Navarro Bello, Mexican journalist
- Nitish Kumar, chief minister, Bihar, India
- Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul Syverson, founders of the Tor Project, Walpole, Mass.
- Eliot Cohen, political scientist, Washington
- Raghuram Rajan, Indian economist
- Patrice Martin and Jocelyn Wyatt, directors, IDEO.org
- Robert D. Kaplan, chief geopolitical analyst, Stratfor, Stockbridge, Mass.
- Kai-fu Lee, CEO and chairman, Innovation Works, China
- Beth Noveck, law professor, New York
- Radoslaw Sikorski, foreign minister, Poland
- Pankaj Mishra, writer, Britain
- Tariq Ramadan, British scholar
- Jurgen Habermas, German philosopher
- Ricken Patel, executive director, Avaaz, New York
- Vivek Wadhwa, Californian entrepreneur
- danah boyd, social media researcher, New York
- Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian philosopher
- Martha Nussbaum, law and ethics professor, Chicago
- John M. Coates, neuroscientist
- Jonathan Zittrain, law professor, Cambridge, Mass.
- Luigi Zingales, Chicago economist
- Viviane Reding, vice president, European Commission, Belgium
- Jonathan Haidt, New York psychologist
- Peter Beinart, New York journalist
- Sana Saleem, Pakistani blogger
2013 list
The following are the honorees for the 2013 Leading Global Thinkers issue.[6]
- Edward Snowden
- Keith Alexander
- Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras
- Dilma Rousseff
- Ron Wyden
- Jesselyn Radack
- Moxie Marlinspike
- Kevin Mandia
- Dmitri Alperovitch
- John Kerry
- Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov
- Li Keqiang
- Wang Qishan
- Shinzo Abe
- Enrique Peña Nieto
- Hassan Rouhani
- Angela Merkel
- Mario Draghi
- Christine Lagarde
- Ben Bernanke
- Cécile Kyenge
- José Mujica
- Juan Manuel Santos
- Aminata Touré
- François Hollande
- Pope Francis
- Alexey Navalny
- Rand Paul
- Yair Lapid
- Arvind Kejriwal
- Nigel Farage and Alexis Tsipras
- Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin
- Tamara Morshakova
- Joko Widodo
- David Graeber and James C. Scott
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- David Lobell
- Thomas Peterson, Martin Hoerling, Peter Stott, and Stephanie Herring
- Todd Stern and Xie Zhenhua
- Azzam Alwash
- Jessica Gordon, Sylvia McAdam, Sheelah McLean, and Nina Wilson
- Ellen MacArthur
- Elon Musk
- Geordie Rose
- Thad Starner
- Kalev Leetaru
- Bre Pettis
- Chris Anderson
- Theodore Berger
- Xiaolin Zheng
- Jim Reeves and Martin Riddiford
- Alexey Davydov and Igor Kochetkov
- Xu Zhiyong
- Pu Zhiqiang
- Farea Al-Muslimi
- Malala Yousafzai
- Gulalai and Saba Ismail
- Hossam Bahgat and Heba Morayef
- Navi Pillay
- Urvashi Butalia and Kavita Krishnan
- Fatou Bensouda
- Julieta Castellanos
- Thant Myint-U
- Mary Jennings Hegar, Zoe Bedell, Colleen Farrell, and Jennifer Hunt
- Damian Evans, Bill Benenson, and Steve Elkins
- François Englert, Peter Higgs, and Fabiola Gianotti
- The Mars Rover Team
- Chris Hadfield
- Joshua Oppenheimer
- Paul Salopek
- Bassem Youssef
- Richard Mosse
- Zanele Muholi
- George Packer
- Thomas Friedman
- Hannah Gay, Katherine Luzuriaga, and Deborah Persaud
- Michael Fay, Paul Niehaus, Jeremy Shapiro, and Rohit Wanchoo
- Caroline Buckee
- Anand Grover
- Homi Kharas
- Sanjay Basu and David Stuckler
- Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
- Erica Chenoweth
- Mark Dybul
- Haifaa Al Mansour
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- NoViolet Bulawayo
- Mohsin Hamid
- Zaha Hadid
- Jia Zhangke
- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
- Tamara Chalabi and Jonathan Watkins
- Jeff Bezos
- Wang Jianlin
- Noura Al Kaabi
- Saad Mohseni
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Wang Gongquan
- Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant
- Stephen Schwarzman
2014 list
The following are the honorees for the 2014 Leading Global Thinkers issue.
- A) Agitators
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
- Vladimir Putin
- Alexander Dugin
- Abubakar Shekau
- Alexander Borodai
- Hajjaj al-Ajmi
- Abd al-Rahman Khalaf al-Anizi
- Jihadi John (died Nov. 2015)
- B) Decision-Makers
- Narendra Modi
- Angela Merkel
- Amit Shah
- Hassan Rouhani
- Luis Videgaray
- Catherine Samba-Panza
- Aydan Özoguz
- Luis Almagro
- José Mujica
- Matteo Renzi
- C) Challengers
- Benny Tai
- Joshua Wong
- Tetyana Chornovol
- Thomas Piketty
- Oriol Junqueras
- Alex Salmond
- Marine Le Pen
- The Female Fighters of Kurdistan
- Anat Admati
- Benjamin Lawsky
- Leopoldo López
- Thuli Madonsela
- Suthep Thaugsuban
- Kara Swisher
- Houcine Abassi
- D) Naturals
- Akira Miyawaki
- Ruth Buendia
- Katharine Hayhoe
- Partha Dasgupta
- Veerabhadran Ramanathan
- Ioane Teitiota
- John Kovac
- Sonja Heikkilä
- Aleta Baun
- E) Innovators
- Mylswamy Annadurai
- Janet Iwasa
- Jennifer Lewis
- Emmanuelle Charpentier
- Jennifer Doudna
- Boaz Barak
- Alexander Glaser
- Robert Goldston
- Florent Boudoire and Artur Braun and Edwin Constable and Jakob Heier and Rita Toth
- Palmer Luckey
- Thierry N’Doufou
- Christina Watson
- Elizabeth Holmes
- Steven Mollenkopf
- Arye Kohavi
- Mike Janke
- Phil Zimmermann
- F) Advocates
- Hanna Hopko
- Rami Abdul Rahman
- Hagai El-Ad
- Zainab Bangura
- Bernard Kinvi
- Patrick Nainangue
- Lena Klimova
- Yevgeny Vitishko
- Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar
- Ilham Tohti
- Biram Dah Abeid
- Wendy Young
- Gloria Amparo
- Maritza Asprilla Cruz
- Mery Medina
- Xiao Meili
- G) Chroniclers
- Shubhranshu Choudhary
- Elena Ferrante
- Hajooj Kuka
- Michael Lewis
- Cristina de Middel
- Roberto Trotta
- Binyavanga Wainaina
- Maryam Mirzakhani
- John Oliver
- Jennifer Eberhardt
- Padmini Prakash
- Siân Evans
- Dorothy Howard
- Richard Knipel
- Jacqueline Mabey
- Michael Mandiberg
- Laurel Ptak
- Farah Baker
- H) Healers
- Josephine Finda Sellu
- Kevin Whaley
- Larry Zeitlin
- Kathryn Hunt
- Tanya Luhrmann
- Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
- Deepak Kapur
- John Rother
- Michael Sofia
- Weng Kung Peng
- Brian Grimberg
- John Lewandowski
- Sangeeta Bhatia
- I) Artists
- Kara Walker
- Maymanah Farhat
- Mohannad Orabi
- Jason deCaires Taylor
- Alexander Ponomarev
- Nadim Samman
- Rithy Panh
- Sam Hopkins
- Kiluanji Kia Henda
- Camille Henrot
- Silver X
- Anila Rubiku
- Shamsia Hassani
- Hong Sung-dam
- Shigeru Ban
- J) Moguls
References
- ↑ "Prospect/FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals Results". Foreign Policy magazine. 15 October 2005. Archived from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ↑ "The FP top 100 global thinkers". Foreign Policy magazine. 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ "The FP top 100 global thinkers". Foreign Policy magazine. 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ↑ "The FP Top 100 GlobalThinkers". scribd.com. Scribd. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
December 2011 issue
- ↑ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ↑ "The Leading Global Thinkers of 2013 - Foreign Policy". Retrieved 12 July 2016.
External links
- http://globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/ - As of April 2016, this shows the 2014 list
- http://ceoworld.biz/2014/11/18/list-top-100-global-thinkers-making-difference-world-2014-fp-edition