The World Economic Forum has just published its annual list of Young Global Leaders, recognizing “between 200 and 300 outstanding young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world”.
The list of honorees, besides celebrities like Coldplay’s Chris Martin and F1 legend Michael Schumacher, includes a good number of people from the technology and Internet industry, so here’s a quick run-down of the names you might know:
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/mark-zuckerberg”>Mark Zuckerberg – founder and CEO of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/facebook”>Facebook
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/kevin-rose”>Kevin Rose – founder of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/digg”>Digg
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/chad-hurley”>Chad Hurley – co-founder and CEO of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/youtube”>YouTube
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/josh-silverman”>Josh Silverman – CEO of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/skype”>Skype
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/michael-birch”>Michael Birch – founder and CEO of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/bebo”>Bebo
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/premal-shah”>Premal Shah – President of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/kiva”>Kiva
Lisa Huddleson – Corporate Foundation Executive Director at <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/dell”>Dell
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/vinny-lingham”>Vinodan Lingham – CEO of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/synthasite”>Synthasite
Paul Bassat – CEO of Seek
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/suranga-chandratillake”>Suranga Chandratillake – co-founder and CEO of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/blinkx”>blinkx
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/mike-cannon-brookes”>Michael Cannon-Brooks – co-founder of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/suranga-chandratillake”>Atlassian
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/andrej-nabergoj”>Andrej Nabergoj – co-founder and CEO of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/noovo”>Noovo
Kamal Quadir – founder of CellBazaar
Ashok Vemuri – Senior VP, Banking and Capital Markets at <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/infosys-technologies”>Infosys Technologies
<a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/person/habib-haddad”>Habib Haddad – co-founder of <a href=”http://www.YODspica.com/company/yamli”>Yamli
Josh Spear – founding partner of Undercurrent
For the full list, click here (PDF).
Drawn from a pool of almost 5,000 candidates, the Young Global Leaders 2009 were chosen by a selection committee (PDF), chaired by H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, comprising 31 eminent international media leaders.
The recently published list of active YGLs includes names like Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google), Tony Fadell (Apple) Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com), John Battelle (Federated Media), Peter Thiel (Clarium Capital), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Uday Khemka (Sun), Tariq Krim (Jolicloud), Philipp Justus (PayPal), Lila Ibrahim (Intel), Esther Duflo and Kristin Forbes (MIT), Jack Ma Yun (AliBaba), Jorge Blanco (Avaya), Bill Nguyen (LaLa), Tero Ojanpera (Nokia), and Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook).
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