Tag: global thinkers

81. PATRICE MARTIN, JOCELYN WYATT For redesigning the war on poverty. Directors, IDEO.org | San Francisco The design world has long been preoccupied with dreaming up ever sleeker cars, laptops, ...

71. RAND PAUL For telling America to come home. Senator | Washington In the years since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Republican Party's base has grown increasingly wary ...

51. NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA For showing Africa how to break the resource curse. Finance minister | Nigeria As a candidate in this year's unusually public race for the World Bank presidency, ...

21. GEORGE SOROS For telling Europe the ugly truth. Philanthropist, investor | New York As Europe's crisis rages on, don't expect reassurance about the future of global capitalism from this ...

11. JAMES HANSEN For sounding the alarm on climate change, early and often. Director, Goddard Institute for Space Studies | New York "Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening," ...

From psychology to biography, economics to tech, see what some of the world’s top minds are reading.  When FP chose this year's 100 Global Thinkers, we asked each of them ...

The backlash after the heady Arab revolutions of 2011. The rumblings of war with nuclear-aspiring Iran. The bloody persistence of Bashar al-Assad in civil war-torn Syria. Not to mention a ...