Top 50 global personalities with an outstanding commitment to diversity
Bill Gates, former Microsoft CEO and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has been named alongside his holiness the Dalai Lama , Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, and the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai in an inaugural “top 50 diversity figures in public life – global diversity list,” the list supported by the Economist magazine.
Others in the list of individuals with an outstanding commitment to diversity includes the likes of Sheryl Sandberg , Christine Amanpour, Caitlyn Jenner, Michelle Obama, Angelina Jolie, and Hilary Clinton.
| Name | About | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Christine Amanpour | Chief International, Correspondent for CNN | USA |
| Chris Anderson | Creator of TED | UK |
| Mariela Baeva | Writer and Former MEP | Bulgaria |
| Andre Banks | Co-Founder and Executive Director, All Out | USA |
| Caitlyn Jenner | Olympic Gold Medalist | USA |
| Angelina Jolie | Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian | USA |
| Prince Henry | His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales | UK |
| Maria Aparecida da Silva Bento | Campaigner, CEERT | Brazil |
| Elizabeth Broderick | Sex Discrimination Commissioner | Australia |
| Sonia Brown MBE | Founder and Director National Black Women's Network | UK |
| Trevor Chandler | Human Rights Campaigner | USA |
| Mai Chen | Managing Partner, Chen Palmer Public and Employment Law Specialists | New Zealand |
| Hillary Clinton | Former Secretary of State, Politician | USA |
| Ambassador Ruth Davis | 24th Director General, United States Foreign Service | USA |
| Bill Gates | Co-founder Microsoft | USA |
| Right Honourable Harriet Harman QC | Lawyer and Labour Party Politician | UK |
| Dalai Lama | His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet | India |
| Arden Hoffman | VP and Global Head of HR, Dropbox | USA |
| Dr Freeman Hrabowki | President, University of Maryland Baltimore County | USA |
| Jesse Jackson | Civil Rights Activist Baptist Minister & Politician | USA |
| Rabina Khan | Councillor, Tower Hamlets | UK |
| Teresa Ko | China Chairman and Founding Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP | China |
| Javier Torres-Goitia Torres MD | Healthcare Specialist | Bolivia |
| Luis Larrain | President, Fundacion Iguales | Chile |
| Richard Lui | Journalist and News Anchor, MSNBC and NBC News | USA |
| DeRay Mckesson | Leader, We The Protestors | USA |
| Purnima Mehta | Director General, American Institute of Indian Studies | India |
| Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka | United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director of UN Women | South Africa |
| Michelle Obama | Lawyer, Writer, First Lady | USA |
| Barack Obama | US President | USA |
| Hon. Donald H Oliver, Q.C | Retired Senator and Lawyer | Canada |
| Ratna Omidvar | Founding Executive Director, GDX | Canada |
| Dr Bindeshwar Pathak | Founder, Sulabh International | India |
| Rev. Gary Patterson | 41st Moderator, United Church of Canada | Canada |
| Queen Noor of Jordan | Queen | Jordan |
| Gwen Rhys | CEO, Women in the City | UK |
| Dr. E. Thomas Rowe | Creator, International Career Advancement Program | USA |
| Sheryl Sandberg | CEO, Facebook | USA |
| Ivan Scalfarotto | Politican & Activist | Italy |
| Debra Searle MVO, MBE | Expert, Diversity and Inclusion | UK |
| llen Johnson Sirleaf | President, Republic of Liberia | Liberia |
| Dr. Paula Thaqi | Director, Florida Department of Health | USA |
| Andreas Wiesand | Executive Director, European Institute for Comparative Cultural Research | Germany |
| Conchita Wurst | Winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest | Austria |
| Jean Wyllys | Lecturer, Journalist & Politician | Brazil |
| Malala Yousufzai | Activist for Female Education, Nobel Prize Laureate | Pakistan |
| Prof. Dr. Mohammed Yunus | Banker to the Poor | Bangladesh |
| Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero | Former Prime Minster | Spain |
| Jacki Zehner | CEO, Women Moving Millions | USA |
*Note: Nominated for by readers of the magazine, several thousand entries were received from around the world for this first-ever analysis. It was ratified by an independent panel of experts including Google’s former head of diversity Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe. The list has been welcomed by global corporate giants with many of them becoming founding partners. Companies including Standard Chartered, Barclays, KPMG, BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, WorldPay, UBS and AT Kearney have joined this elite group.
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