The People Shaping Tomorrow
A continuously updated editorial directory of the executives, founders and institutional leaders whose decisions move markets, industries and societies. Each entry is an AI-drafted profile reviewed by the Leaders & Impact newsroom.
83 profiles · updated continuously
83 profiles
Jensen Huang
Founder & Chief Executive Officer · NVIDIA
The Taiwanese-American engineer who turned a graphics-card maker into the indispensable infrastructure provider of the artificial-intelligence economy.
Satya Nadella
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer · Microsoft
The Hyderabad-born engineer who rebuilt Microsoft around cloud infrastructure and turned its early partnership with OpenAI into the most consequential corporate alliance of the AI era.
Jamie Dimon
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer · JPMorgan Chase
The longest-tenured chief executive of a global systemic bank, and the single most-quoted private voice on the state of the world economy.
Jerome Powell
Chair
Larry Fink
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Bernard Arnault
Chair & Chief Executive Officer
Sundar Pichai
Chief Executive Officer
Warren Buffett
Chairman
Tim Cook
Chief Executive Officer
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer
Christine Lagarde
President
Mukesh Ambani
Chairman & Managing Director
Bill Gates
Co-Chair
Sam Altman
Chief Executive Officer
Stephen Schwarzman
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Robin Zeng
Founder & Chair
Ursula von der Leyen
President
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Zhang Yiming
Co-Founder
Amin H. Nasser
President & Chief Executive Officer
Wang Chuanfu
Founder & Chair
Lee Jae-yong
Executive Chair
Dr. Lisa Su
Chair & Chief Executive Officer
Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director
Sir Demis Hassabis
Chief Executive Officer
Carlos Slim Helú
Honorary Chair
Pony Ma
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Masayoshi Son
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Andy Jassy
President & Chief Executive Officer
Dario Amodei
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Kenneth C. Griffin
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Ajay Banga
President
Darren Woods
Chair & Chief Executive Officer
Albert Bourla
Chair & Chief Executive Officer
Akio Toyoda
Chairman
Robert A. Iger
Chief Executive Officer
Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Chair
Laurent Bien Legbane
Global Chairman
Doug McMillon
President & Chief Executive Officer
Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen
Chief Executive Officer
Aliko Dangote
President & Chief Executive Officer
António Guterres
Secretary-General
David Solomon
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Lei Jun
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Pascal Soriot
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director-General
Mary Barra
Chair & Chief Executive Officer
Jane Fraser
Chief Executive Officer
Patrick Pouyanné
Chair & Chief Executive Officer
François-Henri Pinault
Chair & Chief Executive Officer
Mark Carney
UN Special Envoy & Senior Adviser
Gautam Adani
Chairman
Ana Botín
Executive Chair
MacKenzie Scott
Founder
David Vélez
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Joaquin Duato
Chair & Chief Executive Officer
Ted Sarandos
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Chey Tae-won
Chairman
Bruce Flatt
Chief Executive Officer
Patrick Collison
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Melinda French Gates
Founder
Johann Rupert
Chair
Marcos Galperin
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Oliver Blume
Chief Executive Officer
Strive Masiyiwa
Founder & Executive Chair
Eddie Wu
Chief Executive Officer
Marc Rowan
Chief Executive Officer
Cristiano Amon
President & Chief Executive Officer
Wael Sawan
Chief Executive Officer
Stéphane Bancel
Chief Executive Officer
Dame Emma Walmsley
Chief Executive Officer
Ray Dalio
Founder & Mentor
Tony O. Elumelu
Chairman
Dame Anna Wintour
Global Chief Content Officer
Shou Zi Chew
Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Ek
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sir Mo Ibrahim
Founder
Luiza Trajano
Chair of the Board
Christian Sewing
Chief Executive Officer
David Zaslav
President & Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Patrice Motsepe
Founder & Executive Chair
Brian Chesky
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Brunello Cucinelli
Founder & Executive Chair