1000 CEOs

The Innovators

William McKnight, President & Chairman (1949-66), 3M

Steve Jobs, Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, Apple

Francisco González Rodríguez, CEO, BBVA

Jamie Cooper-Hohn, President & CEO, CIFF

John T. Chambers, Chairman & CEO, Cisco Systems

Walt Disney, Founder & CEO (1923-66), The Walt Disney Company

Mark Zuckerberg, Founder & CEO, Facebook

Henry Ford, Founder & President (1906-19), Ford Motor Company

The inspired leader, by Marshall Goldsmith

Muhammad Yunus, Founder & Managing Director, Grameen Bank

Brian Goldner, President & CEO, Hasbro, Inc.

David Packard, Co-founder, Chairman & CEO (1964-68), HP

Amancio Ortega Gaona, Chairman, Inditex

Andy Grove, President, Chairman & CEO (1987-98), Intel Corp.

Ashok Khosla, President, International Union for Conservation of Nature

Nicholas W. Moore, MD & CEO, Macquarie Group Ltd

George W. Merck, President & Chairman (1925-57), Merck & Co., Inc.

Innovate and thrive

Bill Gates, Chairman & CEO (1976-2000), Microsoft Corp.

Jochen Zeitz, CEO, Puma AG

James Laurence Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research In Motion

Ma Yun, Co-founder & CEO, Alibaba.com Ltd

Jeff Raikes, CEO, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Richard D. Fairbank, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Capital One

Jiang Nanchun, Founder, Chairman & CEO (2003-08), Focus Media

Craig A. Dubow, Chairman, President & CEO, Gannett

Hans Helmerich, President & CEO, Helmerich & Payne

Qiu Bojun, Chairman & President, Kingsoft

Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO, LEGO

Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm, Inc.

Jeff M. Fettig, Chairman, President & CEO, Whirlpool Corp.

Green innovations

The Start-up Titans

Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon.com

Sunil Mittal, Chairman & CEO, Bharti Airtel

Michael Dell, CEO, Dell, Inc.

Adrian Gore, Founder & CEO, Discovery Holdings Ltd

Charles Ergen, President & CEO, DISH Network & EchoStar

Estée Lauder, Founder & CEO, Estée Lauder

Terry Tai-ming Gou, Founder & CEO, Hon Hai Precision

Mukesh Jagtiani, CEO, Landmark Group

The customer-centred approach

Philip Knight, Co-founder, Chairman & CEO (1964-2004), Nike, Inc.

Larry Ellison, Co-founder & CEO, Oracle

Juan Trippe, Founder, Pan American World Airways

Konosuke Matsushita, Founder & CEO (1918-61), Panasonic

Mike Lazaridis, President & Co-CEO, Research In Motion

Bob Simpson, Chairman & CEO, XTO Energy

Li Yanhong, President & CEO, Baidu

Wang Chuanfu, Chairman & CEO, BYD Group

Charles R. Schwab Jr, Founder & Chairman, Charles Schwab Corp.

Aubrey K. McClendon, Chairman & CEO, Chesapeake Energy

The power of instinct

Li Ka-shing, Founder & Chairman, Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd

Francisco D'Souza, Co-founder, President & CEO, Cognizant

Lisa N. Drakeman, President & CEO, Genmab

Shi Yuzhu, Chairman & CEO, Giant Interactive

Giorgio Armani, Co-founder & CEO, Giorgio Armani

S. & G. Hinduja, Chairman & President, Hinduja Group

Naresh Goyal, Founder & Chairman, Jet Airways

Leslie H. Wexner, Chairman & CEO, Limited Brands

Paul V. Galvin, Co-founder & CEO (1928-59), Motorola

Huang Jen-hsun, Co-founder, President & CEO, NVIDIA

Chen Tianqiao, Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, Shanda Entertainment

Charles Zhang, Chairman & CEO, Sohu.com

Anil Agarwal, CEO, Vedanta Resources

Ma Huateng, Chairman & CEO, Tencent Holdings Ltd

William R. Berkley, Founder & CEO, W.R. Berkley Corp.

Jerry Yang, Co-founder & CEO (2007-08), Yahoo! Inc.

Family matters

The Motivators

Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group

Marcio Cypriano, President, Banco Bradesco

Amadeo Giannini, Founder, Bank of America

Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., President & CEO (1960-90), Bechtel Group Inc.

Bradbury Anderson, Chairman & CEO, Best Buy Co., Inc.

W. James McNerney Jr., CEO, The Boeing Company

Lawrence Kellner, Chairman & CEO, Continental Airlines

Jean-François Decaux, CEO, JCDecaux

Motivate success

Paul Walsh, CEO, Diageo

Peter Rose, Chairman & CEO, Expeditors International

Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman & CEO, General Electric

Galen Weston Sr., Chairman & President, George Weston Ltd.

Leo Burnett, CEO (1935-67), Leo Burnett Worldwide

Jean-Paul Agon, CEO, L'Oréal

Charles E. Merrill, Co-founder & Partner (1914-44), Merrill Lynch

Alan George Lafley, Chairman & CEO, Procter & Gamble

Talking the talk

Geoff Dixon, CEO (2001-08), Qantas Airways Ltd

Mukesh Ambani, CEO, Reliance Industries

Susan M. Ivey, Chairman, President & CEO, Reynolds American

Ricardo Semler, Majority Owner & CEO, Semco SA

Muriel Siebert, President & CEO, Siebert Financial Corp.

Om Prakash Bhatt, MD & Chairman, State Bank of India

Ditlev Engel, CEO, Vestas Wind Systems

Xavier Huillard, CEO, Vinci

Good citizens

Brett Godfrey, Co-founder & CEO, Virgin Blue

Martin Winterkorn, CEO, Volkswagen AG

H. Lee Scott Jr., President & CEO (2000-09), Wal-Mart Stores

Katharine Graham, CEO (1963-91), Washington Post Company

Angela Braly, President & CEO, WellPoint

Christina Gold, President & CEO, Western Union

Gail Kelly, CEO, Westpac Banking Corp.

Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, UN World Food Programme

Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization

James Leape, Director-General, WWF International

People power

Nadine Chakar, Chair, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing B.V.

Andrew Demetriou, CEO, Australian Football League

Kevin W. Sharer, President, Chairman & CEO, Amgen, Inc.

Richard E. Waugh, President & CEO, Bank of Nova Scotia

Tony Hayward, CEO, BP

Ben Verwaayen, CEO (2002-08), BT Group

N. Murray Edwards, Vice-Chairman, Canadian Natural Resources

R. Kerry Clark, Chairman & CEO, Cardinal Health, Inc.

Jørgen Buhl Rasmussen, President & CEO, Carlsberg A/S

Leslie Moonves, President & CEO, CBS Corp.

Sidney Toledano, President & CEO, Christian Dior

Robert W. Lane, Chairman & CEO, Deere & Co.

Fulvio Conti, CEO, Enel SpA

Carl-Henric Svanberg, President & CEO, LM Ericsson

Zhang Ruimin, Chairman & CEO, Haier Group

David M. Cote, Chairman & CEO, Honeywell International

Leading the team

Carol Scott, Founder & CEO (1979-2006), Imperial Car Rental

A.C.G. "Connie" Molusi, CEO (2003-07), Johnnic Comm.

Ingrid Matthäus-Maier, CEO (1999-2008), KFW Bank Group

Robert A. Niblock, CEO, Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Luiza Helena Trajano Rodrigues, CEO, Magazine Luiza

Mary Kay Ash, Founder & CEO (1963-2001), Mary Kay, Inc.

Steven Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

Junior John Ngulube, CEO, Munich Re of Africa

Sibongile Mkhabela, CEO, Nelson Mandela Children's Fund

Daniel Vasella, Chairman & CEO, Novartis AG

Daniel R. DiMicco, Chairman, President & CEO, Nucor Corporation

Brenda C. Barnes, Chairman & CEO, Sara Lee

Gary C. Kelly, Chairman, President & CEO, Southwest Airlines

Peter Sands, CEO, Standard Chartered

Richard Templeton, Chairman, President & CEO, Texas Instruments

Jeffrey L. Bewkes, President & CEO, Time Warner

Frederic M. Poses, Chairman & CEO (2000-08), Trane, Inc.

David Morgan, CEO (1999-2006), Westpac Banking Corp.

Carol A. Bartz, CEO, Yahoo!, Inc.

David C. Novak, President & CEO, Yum! Brands, Inc.

The diversity dividend

The Organizers

Lynn Blodgett, President & CEO, Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.

Henri de Castries, CEO, AXA Group

Helene D. Gayle, President & CEO, CARE

Reto Francioni, Chairman & CEO, Deutsche Börse AG

Fred Smith, Founder, Chairman, President & CEO, FedEx

Alfred P. Sloan, CEO (1923-46), General Motors Company

James Wood, President & CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust

Andrew Witty, CEO, GlaxoSmithKline

The anatomy of companies

Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director, State Hermitage Museum

Takeo Fukui, President & CEO (2003-09), Honda Motor Company Ltd

Juan Manuel Suárez Del Toro Rivero, President, IFRC

James E. Burke, Chairman & CEO (1976-89), Johnson & Johnson

Richard T. Clark, CEO, Merck & Co., Inc.

Barbara Stocking, Director, Oxfam GB

Frédéric Oudéa, CEO, Société Générale

Howard Stringer, President, Chairman & CEO, Sony Corp.

Towards a collaborative future

Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate Gallery

Ann Veneman, Executive Director, UNICEF

D. Scott Davis, CEO, United Parcel Service.

George David, President & CEO (1994-2008), United Technologies

Jean-Bernard Lévy, CEO, Vivendi

James J. Schiro, CEO, Zurich Financial Services

William C. Rhodes III, CEO, AutoZone

Jürgen Hambrecht, Chairman & CEO, BASF

E. Hunter Harrison, President & CEO, Canadian National

Koichi Fukaya, President & CEO (2003-08), Denso Corp.

Dorothy Thompson, CEO, Drax Group

Luis Ubiñas, President, Ford Foundation

Jean-Pierre Garnier, CEO (2000-08), GlaxoSmithKline

Clara Furse, CEO, London Stock Exchange Group

The oversight of the board

Hisakazu Imaki, President & CEO (2003-08), Mazda Motor Corp.

Paul G. Allen, Co-founder, Microsoft Corp.

Terunobu Maeda, President & CEO, Mizuho Financial Group

Mark G. Parker, President & CEO, Nike, Inc.

Michio Kariya, President & CEO, Nikon Corp.

Heliane Canepa, CEO (2001-07), Nobel Biocare

Ray R. Irani, Chairman, President & CEO, Occidental Petroleum

Jesús F. Reyes Heroles, CEO, PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos)

José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, President & CEO, Petrobrás

William H. Swanson, Chairman & CEO, Raytheon Company

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Josh Silverman, CEO, Skype

Richard L. George, President & CEO, Suncor Energy

Marijn Dekkers, President & CEO, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

Carol Meyrowitz, President & CEO, The TJX Companies, Inc.

Philippe P. Dauman, President & CEO, Viacom

Taking time out

The Strategists

Shantanu Narayen, CEO, Adobe Systems

Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO (2005-07), Siemens AG

Kenneth Chenault, Chairman & CEO, American Express

Patricia Woertz, CEO, Archer Daniels Midland Company

Warren Buffett, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

Laurence D. Fink, Chairman & CEO, BlackRock, Inc.

Norbert Reithofer, CEO, BMW

David O'Reilly, Chairman & CEO, Chevron Corp.

Josef Ackermann, CEO, Deutsche Bank

Frank Appel, Chairman & CEO, Deutsche Post World Net

Strategies for success

The Rebuilders

Margaret Whitman, CEO (1998-2008), eBay

Paolo Scaroni, CEO, Eni SpA

Rex W. Tillerson, Chairman & CEO, ExxonMobil

Didier Lombard, CEO, France Telecom

Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs

Gerd Leipold, Executive Director, Greenpeace International

Carlos Fernández González, CEO, Grupo Modelo SA de CV

Jean-François van Boxmeer, Chairman & CEO, Heineken

Darwin Smith, Chairman & CEO (1971-91), Kimberly-Clark

Alwaleed Al Saud, Chairman & CEO, Kingdom Holding Co.

Route to the top

The Value Squeezers

Eric Daniels, CEO, Lloyds TSB plc

Nobuo Kuroyanagi, CEO, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group

Satoru Iwata, President & CEO, Nintendo Company Ltd

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President & CEO, Nokia

Marjorie Scardino, CEO, Pearson

Tom Albanese, CEO, Rio Tinto

Henning Kagermann, CEO, SAP AG

Jeffrey Noddle, Chairman & CEO, Supervalu, Inc.

Atsutoshi Nishida, President, Director & CEO, Toshiba Corp.

Michael Frenzel, CEO, TUI AG

Richard Bond, President & CEO (2006-09), Tyson Foods

Richard Kovacevich, Chairman & CEO (1998-2007), Wells Fargo

The first 100 days

The Visionaries

George W. Buckley, Chairman, President & CEO, 3M

Jean-Cyril Spinetta, Chairman & CEO, Air France-KLM

Thomas J. Wilson II, Chairman, President & CEO, Allstate Corp.

Daniel Hajj Aboumrad, CEO, América Móvil

Sergio Balbinot, Co-CEO, Assicurazioni Generali

David R. Brennan, CEO, AstraZeneca

Michael John Turner, CEO (2002-08), BAE Systems

Mark Thompson, Director-general, British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC)

Todd Stitzer, CEO, Cadbury Global

Fred Green, President & CEO, Canadian Pacific Railway

Lou Jiwei, Chairman & CEO, China Investment Corporation (CIC)

Wang Jianzhou, Chairman & CEO, China Mobile Ltd

Vikram Pandit, CEO, Citigroup

H. Lawrence Culp Jr., President & CEO, Danaher Corp.

Wolfgang Mayrhuber, Chairman & CEO, Deutsche Lufthansa

Wulf H. Bernotat, Chairman & CEO, E. ON

Randy Eresman, President & CEO, EnCana Corp.

C. Kevin McArthur, President & CEO (2006-08), Goldcorp, Inc.

Paul S. Otellini, President & CEO, Intel Corp.

Olavo Egydio Setúbal, CEO (1986-2008), Banco Itaú

The power of persuasion.

Thomas J. Falk, Chairman, President & CEO, Kimberly-Clark

Wolfgang Reitzle, CEO, Linde Group

Mike Jatania, CEO, Lornamead Group

Clarence Cazalot, President & CEO, Marathon Oil Corp.

David B. Snow Jr., Chairman & CEO, Medco Health Solutions, Inc.

Gerard Kleisterlee, CEO, Philips

Alan Joyce, CEO, Qantas Airways Ltd

Dai Houliang, Senior Vice-president & CFO, Sinopec Corp.

Christopher Dale Pratt, Chairman & Director, Swire Pacific

Mário Cesar Pereira de Araújo, CEO, TIM Participações

Ann Moore, Chairman & CEO, Time, Inc.

W. Edmund Clark, President & CEO, TD Bank Financial Group

Patrick Cescau, CEO (2005-08), Unilever

William R. Klesse, Chairman & CEO, Valero Energy Corp.

Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chairman & CEO, Verizon Communications

Vittorio Colao, CEO, Vodafone Group plc

Leif Johansson, President, Director & CEO, Volvo

Robert A. Iger, President & CEO, Walt Disney

Richard Goyder, CEO, Wesfarmers

Michael Luscombe, CEO & MD, Woolworths Ltd

Passing on the torch

Herbert Hainer, CEO, Adidas AG

Gail J. McGovern, President & CEO, American Red Cross

Cynthia Carroll, CEO, Anglo American

Randall L. Stephenson, Chairman, President & CEO, AT & T, Inc.

Andrea Jung, CEO, Avon

Gunter Thielen, CEO (2002-07), Bertelsmann AG

John Chidsey, Chairman & CEO, Burger King

Lee Iacocca, President, Chairman & CEO (1978-92), Chrysler

Sergio Marchionne, CEO, Fiat

G. Richard Wagoner Jr, Chairman & CEO (2000-09), GM

Leading turnarounds

Lou Gerstner, Chairman & CEO (1993-2002), IBM

Samuel Palmisano, President & CEO, IBM

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, IMF

Carlos Ghosn, President & CEO, Nissan & Renault

Rochelle B. Lazarus, Chairman & CEO, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Inc.

Mary Sammons, CEO, Rite Aid

John Rose, CEO, Rolls-Royce plc

Jeroen van der Veer, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell

Yun Jong-yong, CEO (1996-2008), Samsung Electronics Company

Mervyn Davies, Chairman & CEO (2001-06), Standard Chartered

Cool heads in a crisis

Harold Kvisle, President & CEO, TransCanada Corp.

Anne Mulcahy, Chairman & CEO, Xerox Corp.

Miles D. White, Chairman & CEO, Abbott Laboratories

William P. Sullivan, President & CEO, Agilent Technologies

Patricia Russo, CEO (2006-08), Alcatel-Lucent

Gregory Case, President & CEO, Aon

Rahul K. Bajaj, Chairman & CEO (1968-2005), Bajaj Auto

James M. Cornelius, Chairman & CEO, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Willie Walsh, CEO, British Airways

Douglas R. Conant, President & CEO, Campbell Soup Company

Wendell P. Weeks, Chairman & CEO, Corning Incorporated

Oswald J. Grübel, Co-CEO (2003-07), Credit Suisse

René Obermann, CEO, Deutsche Telekom

David N. Farr, Chairman, President & CEO, Emerson Electric

Shigetaka Komori, President & CEO, FUJIFILM Holdings Corp.

Nicholas D. Chabraja, Chairman & CEO, General Dynamics

James L. Ziemer, President & CEO, Harley-Davidson, Inc.

Jack Bovender, Chairman & CEO, HCA

Making the numbers

John B. Hess, CEO, Hess Corp.

Corrado Passera, CEO, Intesa Sanpaolo

Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, Chairman & CEO, ITC

Nam Joong-soo, CEO, KT Corp.

James S. Tisch, President & CEO, Loews Corp.

Stuart Rose, CEO, Marks & Spencer plc

Brian Duperreault, President & CEO, Marsh & McLennan (MMC)

James A. Skinner, Chairman & CEO, McDonald's Corp.

John H. Hammergren, Chairman & CEO, McKesson Corp.

Eckhard Cordes, Chairman & CEO, Metro AG

Gregory Brown, President & CEO, Motorola

Bart Becht, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser

Antonio Brufau, Chairman & CEO, Repsol YPF

Alan J. Lacy, Chairman & CEO (2000-06), Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Toshifumi Suzuki, Chairman & CEO, Seven & I Holdings Co. Ltd

Peter Löscher, CEO, Siemens AG

Daniel R. Hesse, CEO, Sprint Nextel

Ekkehard D. Schulz, Chairman, ThyssenKrupp AG

John Murphy, CEO, Visy

Alan Parker, CEO, Whitbread

The business of ethics

Michael Diekmann, Chairman & CEO, Allianz

Kenneth D. Lewis, CEO, Bank of America

Fujio Mitarai, President & CEO, Canon, Inc.

José Luis Durán, Chairman & CEO (2005-08), Carrefour SA

Ralph Norris, MD & CEO, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

James Sinegal, Founder & CEO, Costco.

Louis Gallois, CEO & Co-CEO, Airbus & EADS

Jack Welch, Chairman & CEO (1981-2001), General Electric

Driving efficiency

Mark Hurd, CEO, Hewlett-Packard

Frank Blake, CEO, Home Depot

Ingvar Kamprad, Founder & CEO (1943-86), IKEA

James Dimon, Chairman & CEO, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Ray Kroc, Founder & CEO, McDonald's

Dominic D'Alessandro, President & CEO, Manulife Financial

Jeffrey B. Kindler, Chairman & CEO, Pfizer, Inc.

Gordon M. Nixon, President & CEO, Royal Bank of Canada

From values to value

Steve Burd, Chairman, President & CEO, Safeway, Inc.

Andrew Gould, Chairman & CEO, Schlumberger Ltd

Osamu Suzuki, President, COO & CEO, Suzuki Motor Corp.

Terry Leahy, CEO, Tesco

Katsuaki Watanabe, President & CEO (2005-09), Toyota Motor Corp.

Koichiro Matsuura, Director-general, UNESCO

Sam Walton, Founder, Wal-Mart

Nils Smedegaard Andersen, CEO, A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group

Alain J.P. Belda, Chairman & CEO, Alcoa

Matthew K. Rose, Chairman, President & CEO, BNSF Corp.

Gregg Engles, Chairman & CEO, Dean Foods Company

John Donahoe, President & CEO, eBay

William P. Lauder, President & CEO, Estée Lauder Companies

The advantages of power sharing

Kendall J. Powell, Chairman & CEO, General Mills

John Rishton, President & CEO, Koninklijke Ahold N.V.

Robert J. Stevens, Chairman, President & CEO, Lockheed Martin

Akimitsu Ashida, President & CEO, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines

John J. Mack, Chairman & CEO, Morgan Stanley

Steve Odland, Chairman & CEO, Office Depot, Inc.

Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman & CEO, Pirelli Group

Harry Roels, CEO (2003-07), RWE AG

Paula Rosput Reynolds, CEO (2006-08), Safeco

Mats Jansson, CEO, SAS

Gregg W. Steinhafel, President & CEO, Target Corp.

John E. Potter, Postmaster General & CEO, US Postal Service

Giving a little back

Irene Khan, Secretary General, Amnesty International

Frank Chapman, CEO, BG Group

Bill Allen, President (1945-68) & Chairman (1968-78), Boeing Company

Angela Ahrendts, CEO, Burberry

Lew Frankfort, Chairman & CEO, Coach, Inc.

Roberto Goizueta, Chairman & CEO (1981-97), Coca-Cola

Kushal Pal Singh, CEO, DLF

Andrew N. Liveris, Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical Company

The vision thing

Pierre Gadonneix, CEO, EDF

Alexei Borisovich Miller, Deputy Chairman & CEO, Gazprom

Roberto Civita, Chairman & CEO (1990-2000, 2005-07), Abril Group

Chung Mong-koo, Chairman, Hyundai-Kia

Kundapur Vaman Kamath, CEO, ICICI Bank

Sarthak Behuria, Chairman & Managing Director, Indian Oil Corp.

Irene Rosenfeld, Chairman & CEO, Kraft Foods, Inc.

Allan Moss, CEO (1993-2008), Macquarie Bank

J. Willard Marriott Sr., Founder & CEO (1927-72), Marriott

Satoshi Miura, President & CEO, NTT Corp.

Deciding factors

Indra Nooyi, President, Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo, Inc.

Roberto Marinho, Chairman (1931-2003), Globo

Anil Ambani, CEO, Reliance ADA

Edward Rogers Jr, President & CEO (1962-2008), RCI

Abdullah S. Jum'ah, President & CEO (1995-2008), Saudi Aramco

Ratan Tata, Chairman & CEO, Tata Group

Ruben K. Vardanyan, President & CEO, Troika Dialog

Steven Roth, CEO, Vornado Realty Trust

Turning the company green

John Mackey, Chairman & CEO, Whole Foods Market

Nancy McKinstry, CEO, Wolters Kluwer

Anna Christina Ramos Saicali, President & CEO, B2W

Werner Wenning, Chairman & CEO, Bayer

Laurent Beaudoin, CEO (1979-99, 2004-08), Bombardier, Inc.

Cem Boyner, Chairman & CEO, Boyner Holdings AS

Mark P. Mays, President & CEO, Clear Channel Communications, Inc.

Antonio M. Perez, Chairman & CEO, Eastman Kodak Company

Dale Vince, Founder & MD, Ecotricity

Juliet Davenport, CEO, Good Energy

Daniel Servitje, CEO, Grupo Bimbo

Luis Frias, Chairman & CEO, Grupo Folha UOL

Emilio Botín, President, Santander Group

David J. Lesar, Chairman, President & CEO, Halliburton

Focusing on the future

Katherine J. Harless, President & CEO (2006-08), Idearc, Inc.

John V. Faraci, Chairman & CEO, International Paper

Yang Yuanqing, Chairman, Lenovo Group Ltd

Håkan Samuelsson, Chairman & CEO, MAN AG.

Stanley Fink, CEO (2000-07), Man Group

Judith McGrath, Chairman & CEO, MTV Networks

Miuccia Prada, Chief Designer, Prada

Patrizio Bertelli, CEO, Prada

Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Chairman & CEO (2005-08), ProLogis

Ralph Izzo, Chairman, President & CEO, Public Service Enterprise Group

Pierre-André de Chalendar, CEO, Saint-Gobain

Galina Ilyashenko, General Director & CEO, Seventh Continent

Gérard Mestrallet, Chairman & CEO, GDF Suez

Jonathan Schwartz, President & CEO, Sun Microsystems

Tom Carroll, President & CEO, TBWA Worldwide, Inc.

Catherine Elizabeth Hughes, CEO, Radio One

Executive education

The Controversialists

Michael Szymanczyk, Chairman & CEO, Altria Group, Inc.

August A. Busch IV, President & CEO (2006-08), Anheuser-Busch

Philip Green, CEO, Arcadia Group

François Pinault, Founder, PPR & Artemis Group

Stelios Haji-Ioannou, CEO, easyGroup

Gianni Agnelli, President (1966-2003, Honorary from 1996), Fiat

Carlos Slim Helú, Founder & Chairman, Grupo Carso

José Ignacio Sánchez Galán, CEO, Iberdrola

The art of confidence

Bernard Arnault, Chairman & CEO, LVMH & Christian Dior

Maurice Saatchi, Co-founder, Saatchi & Saatchi & M & C Saatchi

Rupert Murdoch, Chairman & CEO, News Corp.

Michael O'Leary, CEO, Ryanair

Subroto Roy, Chairman & CEO, Sahara Group

Christophe de Margerie, CEO, Total SA

Kerkor Kerkorian, President & CEO, Tracinda Corp.

Donald Trump, Chairman & CEO, Trump Organization

Polished public relations

Vijay Mallya, CEO, United Breweries

Richard Branson, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Virgin Group

Fu Chengyu, CEO, China National Offshore Oil Corp.

Brian L. Roberts, Chairman & CEO, Comcast Corp.

John W. Rowe, Chairman, President & CEO, Exelon Corp.

Andrew Forrest, CEO, Fortescue Metals Group Ltd

Ren Zhengfei, President & CEO, Huawei Technologies Company Ltd

Gareth Davies, CEO, Imperial Tobacco

Koo Bon-moo, Chairman & CEO, LG Group

Vagit Alekperov, Founder & President, LUKOIL

Nabeel Gareeb, CEO (2002-08), MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.

Hugh Grant, Chairman, President & CEO, Monsanto

Christian Streiff, Chairman & CEO (2006-09), PSA Peugeot Citroën

Sergey Bogdanchikov, President, Rosneft

Older and wiser?

The Globalists

Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman & CEO, Arcelor Mittal

Alfredo Sáenz Abad, CEO, Banco Santander

Marius Kloppers, CEO, BHP Billiton

Baudouin Prot, CEO, BNP Paribas

Paul Adams, CEO, British American Tobacco

Gregory Page, Chairman & CEO, Cargill

James Mulva, Chairman & CEO, ConocoPhillips

Dieter Zetsche, Chairman & CEO, Daimler AG

Global opportunities

Franck Riboud, Chairman & CEO, Groupe Danone

Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google

Thomas Krens, Director (1988-2008), Guggenheim Foundation

Stefan Persson, CEO, H & M

Michael Geoghegan, CEO, HSBC Group

Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder, Chairman & CEO (2002-07), Infosys

Andrea Guerra, CEO, Luxottica

Steen Riisgaard, President & CEO, Novozymes A/S

Indian leaders

Wendelin Wiedeking, CEO, Porsche AG

Leigh Clifford, CEO (2000-07), Rio Tinto

Graham Mackay, CEO, Sabmiller

Jacques Lamarre, President & CEO, SNC-Lavalin Group, Inc.

Howard Schultz, Chairman & CEO, Starbucks

César Alierta, Chairman & CEO, Telefónica

Solomon Trujillo, CEO (2005-09), Telstra

Frank P. Lowy, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Westfield Group

The China generation

Azim Premji, Chairman & CEO, Wipro

Robert B. Zoellick, President, World Bank Group

Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP

Michael Davis, CEO, Xstrata plc

Michael Smith, CEO, ANZ

Xu Lejiang, Chairman, Baosteel Group

John Varley, CEO, Barclays Bank

Martin Bouygues, Chairman & CEO, Bouygues Group

Alberto Weisser, Chairman & CEO, Bunge Ltd

John P. Wiehoff, Chairman & CEO, C.H. Robinson Worldwide

Bill Gammell, CEO, Cairn Energy plc

James W. Owens, Chairman & CEO, Caterpillar

Brazil's new bosses

Lorenzo H. Zambrano, Chairman & CEO, Cemex

Roger Agnelli, CEO, Vale

Muhtar Kent, President & CEO, Coca-Cola

Wei Jiafu, President & CEO, China Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO)

Brian A. McNamee, CEO, CSL Ltd.

Charles O. Holliday Jr, Chairman & CEO (1998-2008), DuPont

Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, CEO, Finmeccanica

Luis Alejandro Pagani, President & CEO, Grupo Arcor

Joaquín Ayuso García, Chairman & CEO, Grupo Ferrovial, SA

Claus-Dietrich Lahrs, CEO, Hugo Boss AG

Carlos Alves de Brito, CEO, InBev

Brad D. Smith, President & CEO, Intuit

Tigers of the far east

Ian Cheshire, CEO, Kingfisher plc

Bruno Lafont, Chairman & CEO, Lafarge

Paul Bulcke, CEO, Nestlé

Zhou Jiping, President & Vice-chairman, PetroChina Company Ltd

Mohamed Hassan Marican, President & CEO, Petronas

William J. Doyle, President & CEO, PotashCorp

Paul Desmarais Jr, Chairman & Co-CEO, Power Corp. of Canada

Prasert Bunsumpun, President & CEO, PTT

Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman & CEO, Schneider Electric

Helge Lund, President & CEO, StatoilHydro ASA

Kunio Takeda, Chairman & CEO, Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Masaaki Furukawa, President, Toyota Tsusho Corp.

Alessandro Profumo, CEO, UniCredit Group

Arun Sarin, CEO (2003-08), Vodafone

James T. Ryan, President & CEO, W.W. Grainger, Inc.

Yin Yimin, President & Executive Director, ZTE Corp.