The World's 50 Greatest Leaders
In business, government, philanthropy and the arts, and all over the globe, these men and women are transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same. Read more about our fourth annual list here. Read the 2018 edition of this list here.
- 1 Theo Epstein
- 2 Jack Ma
- 3 Pope Francis
- 4 Melinda Gates
- 5 Jeff Bezos
- 6 Ava DuVernay
- 7 H.R. McMaster
- 8 Tsai Ing-Wen
- 9 John McCain
- 10 Angela Merkel
- 11 LeBron James
- 12 John Kasich
- 13 John Delaney
- 14 Helle Thorning-Schmidt
- 15 Katharine Hayhoe
- 16 Bryan Stevenson
- 17 Janet Yellen
- 18 Brian Chesky
- 19 Samantha Bee
- 20 Paul Polman
- 21 John Roberts
- 22 Janeé Harteau
- 23 Joe Biden
- 24 Zhang Ruimin
- 25 Carmen Aristegui
- 26 Arundhati Bhattacharya
- 27 Shakira
- 28 Raj Panjabi
- 29 Svetlana Gannushkina
- 30 Elon Musk
- 31 Justin Trudeau
- 32 Rebecca Richards-Kortum
- 33 Strive Masiyiwa
- 34 Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour, Bob Bland, and Carmen Perez
- 35 Diana Natalicio
- 36 Ohood Al Roumi
- 37 Fazle Abed
- 38 Haruno Yoshida
- 39 Jamie Dimon
- 40 Yuri Milner
- 41 Randall Stephenson
- 42 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 43 Marc Benioff
- 44 Frank Mugisha
- 45 Dalia Grybauskaitė
- 46 Chance the Rapper
- 47 Hu Shuli
- 48 Sadiq Khan
- 49 Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor
- 50 Lisa Su