50 Most Influential (Bloomberg ranking)
The 50 Most Influential ranking has been published by Bloomberg Media since 2011, annually featuring 50 individuals or initiatives with "the ability to move markets or shape ideas and policies".
Initially published in Bloomberg Markets until the 2016 edition. Bloomberg Businessweek took over from 2017 onwards.[1]
According to Bloomberg Media, the list is composed on the basis of recommendations and assessments by Bloomberg 's journalists and analysts in the United States and internationally as well as data from Bloomberg Terminal.[1]
The ranking has repeatedly been used as a reference or even as a news topic by news media other than Bloomberg, particularly in 2015 when political leaders were included.[2][3][4][5]
Lists
2021 ranking
The 2021 ranking was published on December 1, 2021.[6] It also includes The Usual Suspects, Notable Alums, and Ones to Watch.
- Business: Xu Yangtian, David Zaslav.
- Finance: 13 Anonymous Junior Investment Bankers.
- Science & Technology: Vanessa Pappas, Andy Jassy, Peter Beck, Hoesung Lee, Frances Haugen, Andre Soelistyo, David Baszucki, Patrick Collison and John Collison, MiMi Aung, Falguni Nayar.
- Politics: Alexey Navalny, Jimmy Lai, Darnella Frazier, Elise Stefanik, Kate Jenkins, Cori Bush, Eugene Goodman, Stop AAPI Hate (Cynthia Choi, Russell Jeung, and Manjusha Kulkarni), Lina Khan, John Nkengasong.
- Entertainment: Bang Si-hyuk, Jia Ling, Allyson Felix, Jason Sudeikis, Mike Winkelmann, Olivia Rodrigo, Hwang Dong-hyuk, Paige Bueckers, Britney Spears, Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
2020 ranking
The 2020 ranking was published on December 7, 2020, with many individuals being noted for their contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It included the below categories, as well as The Usual Suspects and Ones to Watch.[7]
- Business: Sumit Singh, Aurora James, Strive Masiyiwa, Reed Hastings, Wang Xing, John Foley, Byju Raveendran, Viya, Forrest Li.
- Finance: Vladimir Tenev, Changpeng Zhao.
- Science & Technology: Keller Rinaudo, Anthony Fauci.
- Politics: .
- Entertainment: Billie Eilish, Bong Joon-ho, Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, Celeste Barber, Sarah Cooper, Colin Kaepernick, Donna Langley, Guy Fieri, Jason Hehir, Renee Montgomery, Aya Kyogoku and Hisashi Nogami, Marcus Rashford.
- Non-categorized: Papa Giovanni Hospital's Front-Line Workers, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies.
2019 ranking
The 2019 ranking was published on December 4, 2019.[8]
- Business: Boris Jordan, Eric Yuan, Shari Redstone, Ethan Brown, Zhang Yong and Shu Ping, Ritesh Agarwal, Rhianna, Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, Vicki Hollub, Ann Sarnoff, Emma Walmsley, Doug McMillon, Kevin Mayer, Brian Niccol, Popeyes' fried chicken sandwich, Ramon Ang, Kylie Jenner.
- Finance: Stephanie Kelton, James Mwangi, Jon McAuliffe and Michael Kharitonov, David Marcus, Bruce Flatt, Gita Gopinath, Mortimer "Tim" Buckley, Robert Smith.
- Tech & Science: Ankiti Bose, Lisa Su, Tobias Lütke, Event Horizon Telescope leadership team, Rappi founders (Simón Borrero, Sebastian Mejia, and Felipe Villamarin), Joey Levin.
- Politics: .
- Entertainment: Lil Nas X, Gabriela Cámara , United States women's national soccer team , Phoebe Waller-Bridge, David Simon, Kevin Feige, Simone Biles, Bhushan Kumar, Kaws.
2018 ranking
The 2018 list featured other separated groups such as The Usual Suspects, for recurring appearing people, and also Ones to Watch, some of which nominated for 2018's ranking. It was published in the Bloomberg Businessweek issue of the 10th of December 2018.[9]
- Business: Ben van Beurden, Audrey Gelman, Leanne Caret, Stuart Vevers, Brian Roberts, Sonia Cheng, Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo, Bruce Linton.
- Politics: Time's Up Legal Defense Fund (Tina Tchen, Roberta Kaplan, Hilary Rosen, Fatima Goss Graves), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Tim Scott, Chrystia Freeland, Liu He, Gavin Barwell, Rose Marcario, José Andrés, Xavier Becerra, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Abiy Ahmed, Cyril Ramaphosa, Mahathir Mohamad, Mick Mulvaney.
- Finance: The Fed's nucleus (Eric Glen Weyl and Eric Posner, Steven Maijoor, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Kenneth Hayne, Stacey Cunningham.
- Tech & Science: Amy Hood, Nadiem Makarim, John Maraganore and Jeff Marrazzo, Mukesh Ambani, John Krafcik, Daniel Ek, Mudassir Sheikha, Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru, Sarah Friar, Donna Strickland, Drew Houston.
- Entertainment: Tim Sweeney, Reese Witherspoon, Byron Allen.
- Not-categorized: Founders of Delaney Tarr, Ryan Deitsch).
2017 ranking
The 2017 list featured a new categorization of individuals and eliminated the ranked positions. It was published in the Bloomberg Businessweek issue of the 4th of December 2017.[10]
- Business: Bobby Kotick, Ken Frazier, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Marillyn Hewson, Marcos Galperin, Aliko Dangote, Marc Lore, Andrew Zobler, Jeff Bezos, Paul Gaudio, Mary Barra, Charif Souki, Alessandro Michele.
- Politics: Nikki Haley, Mohammed bin Salman, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, Margrethe Vestager, Scott Pruitt, Beatrice Fihn, Robert Mueller, Rachel Maddow, Michel Barnier, Jerry Brown, Luisa Ortega Díaz, Russian botnets (in reference to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections).
- Finance: .
- Tech: .
- Entertainment: .
2016 ranking
The 2016 ranking abandoned the prior rankings' five or six categories, and was a straightforward ranking from most to least influential among the 50. It was published in the Bloomberg Businessweek issue of the October 2016.[11]
- Larry Summers (49), John Oliver(50)
2015 ranking
The 2015 ranking was published in the November 2015 issue of Bloomberg Markets.[12] Unlike previous rankings, it included heads of state and government, and ranked all individuals mentioned from 1 (Janet Yellen) to 50 (Ruchir Sharma). It also added a sixth category compared with previous rankings, focused on technological innovation and venture capital.
- (41), Richard Davis (22)
- Bankers: Lloyd Blankfein (8), Jamie Dimon (11), Ana Botín (16), Elizabeth Warren (19), Tidjane Thiam (23), John Stumpf (36), Jiang Jianqing (39)
- Policy Shapers: Janet Yellen (1), Xi Jinping (2), Barack Obama (6), Angela Merkel (9), Narendra Modi (13), Mario Draghi (14), Paul Krugman (30), Wang Qishan (33), John Taylor (43), George Osborne (45)
- Tech Builders: Fan Bao (22), Ruth Porat (24), Elon Musk (25), Marc Andreessen (27), Renaud Laplanche (28), Blythe Masters (44), Elizabeth Holmes (47), Jane Gladstone(49)
- Money Managers: Larry Fink (4), Abigail Johnson (12), Ray Dalio (18), Jeffrey Gundlach (21), Paul Singer (26), Jonathan Gray (34), Ken Griffin(35), Michael Kim (42)
- Thinkers: Thomas Piketty (20), Pope Francis (31), Christine Lagarde (38), Richard Thaler (46), Mo Ibrahim (48), Ruchir Sharma (50)
2014 ranking
The 2014 ranking was published in the October 2014 issue of Bloomberg Markets.[13]
- Money Managers: Jeffrey Ubben.
- Thinkers: .
- Corporate Power Brokers: .
- Bankers: .
- Policy Makers: Preet Bharara, Mario Draghi, Jason Furman, Idris Jala, Benjamin Lawsky, George Osborne, Raghuram Rajan, Xiao Gang, Janet Yellen, Zhou Xiaochuan.
2013 ranking
The 2013 ranking was published in the October 2013 issue of Bloomberg Markets.[14]
- Bankers: Ana Patricia Botin, Jamie Dimon, Isabelle Ealet, Sergio Ermotti, Jiang Jianqing, Gordon Nixon, Ruth Porat, John Stumpf
- Policy Makers: .
- Money Managers: Stephen Schwarzman, Dominique Senequier.
- Power Brokers: Lee Kun Hee, Jorge Paulo Lemann, Maurice Levy, Marissa Mayer, Dilip Shanghvi, Masayoshi Son, Alisher Usmanov.
- Thinkers: Michael Woodford, Andy Xie.
2012 ranking
The 2012 ranking was published in the October 2012 issue of Bloomberg Markets.[15]
- Corporate Power Brokers: Chung Mong Koo, Tim Cook, John Fredriksen, the Koch Brothers, Yuri Milner, Ginni Rometty, Carlos Slim, Tadashi Yanai, Mark Zuckerberg.
- Money Managers: .
- Policy Makers: Adair Turner, Janet Yellen, Zhou Xiaochuan.
- Thinkers: Nicolas Veron.
- Bankers: Gerald McCaughey, Ruth Porat, John Stumpf.
2011 ranking
The 2011 ranking was published in the October 2011 issue of Bloomberg Markets.[16]
- Policy Makers: Timothy F. Geithner, Christine Lagarde, Ali Al-Naimi, Masaaki Shirakawa, Wang Qishan, Elizabeth Warren, Zhou Xiaochuan.
- Bankers: Robert Diamond, Jamie Dimon, James Gorman, Stuart Gulliver, Anshu Jain, Jiang Jianqing, Chanda Kochhar, Kenneth Moelis, Vikram Pandit.
- Money Managers: James Simons, George Soros.
- Corporate Innovators: Carlos Slim Helu, Ratan Tata,
- Thinkers: Nassim Taleb.
Multiple appearances
Listed six times
- Lloyd Blankfein (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
- Warren Buffett (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
- Mario Draghi (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
- Laurence D. Fink(2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Listed five times
- Jamie Dimon (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016)
- Jiang Jianqing (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- John Stumpf (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
- Elon Musk (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
- Janet Yellen (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Listed four times
- Jeff Bezos (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017)
- Mary Callahan Erdoes (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)
- Carl Icahn (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
- Paul Krugman (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015)
- Ruth Porat (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016)
- Zhou Xiaochuan (2011, 2012, 2014, 2016)
Listed three times
- Mary Barra (2014, 2016, 2017)
- Preet Bharara (2012, 2013, 2014)
- Ana Patricia Botín(2013, 2014, 2015)
- Tim Cook (2012, 2014, 2015)
- Ray Dalio (2011, 2012, 2015)
- Jeffrey Gundlach (2012, 2015, 2016)
- Jorge Paulo Lemann (2013, 2015, 2016)
- Ken Moelis (2011, 2014, 2016)
- Stephen A. Schwarzman (2013, 2014, 2016)
- Paul Singer (2014, 2015, 2016)
- Masayoshi Son (2013, 2016, 2017)
- Joseph Stiglitz (2011, 2012, 2016)
- Lael Brainard (2014, 2016, 2018)
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