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by Bruce Nussbaum
March 18,
2008
from
Bloomberg Website
recovered through
Archive Website
Italian
version
The World Economic Forum out
of Davos just announced its new
2008 list of YGLs:
Young Global Leaders...
In a growing universe of
private social networks, the YGL network has got to be one of
- if not THE - most exclusive around.
A few weeks ago, I
predicted that Cameron Sinclair, who founded
Architecture for Humanity would
become a YGL - and he did.
YGLers can find out who fellow members of the social network are in
any particular city around the world by clicking on the map site
(can't do it here, sorry). Works for regions too...
Want to chat with a
fellow YGLer if you're visiting Silicon Valley, call up,
If you're in New York
City, Business News TV star Maria Bartiromo is a YGLer.
Sinclair's on the list of some 200 new YGLers from 65 countries that
include,
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Vikram Akula,
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, SKS Microfinance, India
(I spent a dinner with Vikram and his outfit is helping
hundreds of thousands of people - and has a portfolio of
loans that's sounder than Bear Stearns)
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Steffi Graf,
Founder and Chairperson, 'Children for Tomorrow', Germany
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Wadah Khanfar,
Director-General, Al Jazeera Satellite Network, Qatar
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Mugo Kibati,
Group Chief Executive Officer, East African Cables, Kenya
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Shakira Mebarak,
Singer and Manager, Pies Descalzos Foundation, Colombia
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Michelle Peluso,
Chief Executive Officer, Travelocity.com, USA,
...among others.
Anderson Cooper
anchor
on CNN is a new YGL. So is the
actor, Leonardo DiCaprio...
Eric Anderson, the
CEO of Space Adventures made the cut.
We have royalty on the YGL list.
The Queen of Morocco,
Lalla Salma and the King of Bhutan, H.R.H King Jigme
Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck.
The global royal network
is not something most of us are connected to but it is fascinating
for the Queen of Jordan to bring them into the YGL social network
(I'm assuming she's the one who knows them).
The Director-General of Al Jazeera Satellite Network, Wadah
Khanfar from Morocco is a new YGL.
So is the Governor of
Louisiana, Bobby Jindal.
Hmm... One of my favorites on the 08 list is George Walker,
Managing Director and Global Head of Investment Management for -
Lehman Brothers.
Elon Musk, the chairman of Tesla Motors, the much-publicized
electric sports-car company, is a new YGL.
There are other YGLers from the past, who are in the social network:
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Sergey Brin,
Co-Founders of Google, USA
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Crown Prince
Haakon of Norway
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Malvinder M.
Singh, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director,
Ranbaxy Laboratories, India
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Hiroshi Nakada,
Mayor of Yokohama, Japan
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Nicky
Newton-King, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, JSE, South
Africa
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Carlos Danel,
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Banco Compartamos, Mexico
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Jack Ma Yun,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba Group,
People's Republic of China
The YGL grouping is
perhaps the paramount networking network in the globe.
It already includes such
notables as,
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Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, Co-Founders of Google, USA
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Crown Prince
Haakon of Norway
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Malvinder M.
Singh, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director,
Ranbaxy Laboratories, India
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Hiroshi Nakada,
Mayor of Yokohama, Japan
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Nicky
Newton-King, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, JSE, South
Africa
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Carlos Danel,
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Banco Compartamos, Mexico
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Jack Ma Yun,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba Group,
People's Republic of China
Jimmy Wales,
founder of Wikipedia is YGLer, as is Newsweek's columnist Fareed
Zakaria.
You can check out
this year's winners - and the work
the YGLers are doing in health, education and other fields - at the
YGL site.
I do have one question
when it comes to selecting this unique group of achievers.
That's the selection
committee.
The selection committee
is chaired by Queen Rania of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
and is composed mostly of media titans.
Here are many of the 31
judges:
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Nicolas Beytout
Editorial Director, Les Echos, France
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Carl-Johan
Bonnier Chairman, Bonnier AB, Sweden
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Ferruccio de
Bortoli Editor-in-Chief, Il Sole - 24 Ore, Italy
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Hubert Burda
Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, Hubert Burda Media,
Germany
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Carlo Caracciolo
Chairman, Gruppo Editoriale l'Espresso, Italy
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Juan Luis Cebrian
Echarri Chief Executive Officer, Grupo Prisa, Spain
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Chang Dae-Whan
Chairman and Publisher, Maeil Business Newspaper and TV,
Republic of Korea
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Mathias Döpfner
Chief Executive Officer, Axel Springer AG, Germany
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Jorge
Fontevecchia Publisher and Owner, Diario Perfil, Argentina
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Steve Forbes
President and Chief Executive Officer, Forbes Inc., USA
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Tom Glocer Chief
Executive Officer, Reuters Group Plc, United Kingdom
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Shekhar Gupta
Editor-in-Chief and Group Chief Executive Officer, The
Indian Express, India
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Hisashi Hieda
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fuji Television
Network Inc., Japan
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Juan-Pablo
Illanes Director, Empresa Periodistica El Mercurio SAP,
Chile
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Nabil A. Al
Khatib Executive Editor, Al Arabiya News Channel, United
Arab Emirates
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Jihad B. Khazen
Director, Al Hayat Newspaper Ltd, United Kingdom
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Arnaud Lagardčre
General Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Lagardčre SCA,
France
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Giovanni Di
Lorenzo Editor-in-Chief, Die Zeit, Germany
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James R. Murdoch
Chief Executive Officer, British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc,
United Kingdom
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Gavin K. O'Reilly
Chief Operating Officer, Independent News & Media Plc,
Ireland
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Nduka Obaigbena
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Thisday, Nigeria
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Aroon Purie
Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer, The India Today
Group, India
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Michael Ringier
Chairman, Ringier AG, Switzerland
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Jonathan
Rothermere Chairman, Daily Mail and General Trust Plc (DMGT),
United Kingdom
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Prannoy Roy
President, New Delhi Television (NDTV), India
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Rui Chenggang
Director and Anchor, China Central Television, People's
Republic of China
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Marjorie Scardino
Chief Executive, Pearson Plc (The Financial Times Group),
United Kingdom
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Peter Sullivan
Group Editor-in-Chief, Independent Newspapers, South Africa
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Arthur Sulzberger
Chairman and Publisher, The New York Times, USA
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Robert Thomson
Editor-in-Chief, The Times, United Kingdom
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Elizabeth G.
Weymouth Washington Post Group, Newsweek, USA
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Mehmet Ali
Yalçindag President and Chief Executive Officer, Dogan Media
Group, Turkey
Is this the optimal group
of people to decide on the young global leaders of tomorrow?
Aren't many of them in
mainstream media struggling with business models that are melting
down, hapless in the face of new technologies?
What do you think...?
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