Indian political scientist C Raja Mohan at the S Rajaratnam School of Political Studies of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has been named one of this year's Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. He is also a columnist for the Indian Express newspaper.
Singapore will host another top global thinker when former United Nations general secretary Kofi Annan joins the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore next year.
Also on the list is the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
Raja Mohan is one of the four Indians on the Foreign Policy list of global thinkers whose ideas shaped the world this year. The others are Noble laureates Amartya Sen and Rajendra Kumar Pachauri and environmentalist Sunita Narain.
Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of People's Bank of China, legal activist Xu Zhiyong of the Gongmeng Think Tank, journalist Hu Shuli and China scholar Minxin Pei are also on the list.
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke tops the list followed by US president Barack Obama, Iranian reformer Zahra Rahnavard, New York University economist Nouriel Roubini, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, former US president Bill Clinton, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, White House policy adviser Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler, US General David Petraeus, People's Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan and Egyptian theologian Sayyid Imam al-Sharif.
Journalists and columnists on the list include Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek, Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, Paul Krugman and Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, Vanity Fair and Slate columnist Christopher Hitchens, Malcolm Gladwell of the New Yorker and Chris Anderson of Wired magazine.
Techies on the list include Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and Tim Berners-Lee.
Also on the list are
- Pope Benedict XVI
- World Bank president Robert Zoellick
- International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Chief White House Economics Adviser Larry Summers
- Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz
- Columbia University economist Jeffrey D Sachs
- financier George Soros
- geographer Jared Diamond
- Harvard University historian Niall Ferguson
- Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa
- Johns Hopkins University political philosopher Francis Fukuyama
- Yale University historian Paul Kennedy
- biologist Richard Dawkins
- Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank
- Henry Kissinger
- former US vice president Dick Cheney.
International leaders on the list include British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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