These extraordinary men and women are transforming business, government, philanthropy, and so much more. Here, is the second annual list which included some of the world’s top thought leaders in governance, academia, corporate, tech-world. It included the like’s of Pope Francis who placed fourth, Apple’s Tim Cook at the first position, facebook’s mark Zuckerberg at twenty-five. other Africans in the list included Liberian Africa’s first female President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who placed sixteen.
FIRST 10 ON THE FORTUNE WORLD’S GREATEST PEOPLE
1. TIM COOK
2. MARIO DRAGHI
3. XI JINPING
4. POPE FRANCIS
5. NARENDRA MODI
6. TAYLOR SWIFT
7. JOANNE LIU
8. JOHN ROBERTS JR.
9. MARY BARRA
10.JOSHUA WONG
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PATRICK AWUAH, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, ASHESI UNIVERSITY
He made millions at Microsoft and then decided to make a difference back home in Ghana. Awuah founded a state-of-the-art, tech-focused university in this sub-Saharan nation—a region where just 5% of college-age kids go to school. Many students at Ashesi University, founded in 2002, are the first in their families—or villages, for that matter—to attend college. And notably, of the 168 students in the incoming class, 51% are women.
