100 Global Thinkers AUNG SAN SUU KYI 1 THEIN SEIN 1 MONCEF MARZOUKI 2 BILL CLINTON 3 HILLARY CLINTON 3 SEBASTIAN THRUN 4 BILL GATES 5 MELINDA GATES 5 MALALA YOUSAFZAI 6 BARACK OBAMA 7 PAUL RYAN 8 CHEN GUANGCHENG 9 DAVID BLANKENHORN 10 NARAYANA KOCHERLAKOTA 10 RICHARD A. MULLER 10 JAMES HANSEN 11 ANGELA MERKEL 12 EHUD BARAK 13 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU 13 MEIR DAGAN 14 YUVAL DISKIN 14 BEN BERNANKE 15 SCOTT SUMNER 15 MARIA ALYOKHINA 16 YEKATERINA SAMUTSEVICH 16 NADEZHDA TOLOKONNIKOVA 16 ABRAHAM KAREM 17 WILLIAM MCRAVEN 17 AHLEM BELHADJ 18 RIMA DALI 19 BASSEL KHARTABIL 19 MARIO DRAGHI 20 GEORGE SOROS 21 JOYCE BANDA 22 ED MORSE 23 THOMAS PIKETTY 24 EMMANUEL SAEZ 24 NADIM MATTA 25 AI WEIWEI 26 CHRISTINE LAGARDE 27 AHMET DAVUTOGLU 28 RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN 28 WILLEM BUITER 29 ELON MUSK 30 MARISSA MAYER 31 SHERYL SANDBERG 31 ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER 32 SALMAN RUSHDIE 33 PAUL KRUGMAN 34 NOURIEL ROUBINI 35 SHAI RESHEF 36 DAPHNE KOLLER 37 ANDREW NG 37 DICK CHENEY 38 LIZ CHENEY 38 CONDOLEEZZA RICE 39 EUGENE KASPERSKY 40 SIMA SAMAR 41 DEBBIE BOSANEK 42 WARREN BUFFETT 42 CHARLES MURRAY 43 ANDREW MARSHALL 44 ALEXEY NAVALNY 45 THOMAS MANN 46 NORMAN ORNSTEIN 46 MOHAMMAD FAHAD AL-QAHTANI 47 ABDULHADI AL-KHAWAJA 48 MARYAM AL-KHAWAJA 48 ZAINAB AL-KHAWAJA 48 NABEEL RAJAB 48 HARUKI MURAKAMI 49 ROBERT KAGAN 50 NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA 51 MARTIN FELDSTEIN 52 MOHAMED EL-ERIAN 53 YU JIANRONG 54 MICHAEL SANDEL 55 JOHN BRENNAN 56 JAMEEL JAFFER 57 BJORN LOMBORG 58 HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL THANI 59 HEW STRACHAN 60 HUSAIN HAQQANI 61 FARAHNAZ ISPAHANI 61 ESTHER DUFLO 62 KIYOSHI KUROKAWA 63 DARON ACEMOGLU 64 JAMES ROBINSON 64 PAUL ROMER 65 ALEXANDER MACGILLIVRAY 66 RUCHIR SHARMA 67 CHINUA ACHEBE 68 MA JUN 69 YEVGENIA CHIRIKOVA 70 RAND PAUL 71 SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI 72 WANG JISI 73 RAJ CHETTY 74 ASGHAR FARHADI 75 ADELA NAVARRO BELLO 76 NITISH KUMAR 77 ROGER DINGLEDINE 78 NICK MATHEWSON 78 PAUL SYVERSON 78 ELIOT COHEN 79 RAGHURAM RAJAN 80 PATRICE MARTIN 81 JOCELYN WYATT 81 ROBERT D. KAPLAN 82 KAI-FU LEE 83 BETH NOVECK 84 RADOSLAW SIKORSKI 85 PANKAJ MISHRA 86 TARIQ RAMADAN 87 JÜRGEN HABERMAS 88 RICKEN PATEL 89 VIVEK WADHWA 90 DANAH BOYD 91 SLAVOJ ZIZEK 92 MARTHA NUSSBAUM 93 JOHN COATES 94 JONATHAN ZITTRAIN 95 LUIGI ZINGALES 96 VIVIANE REDING 97 JONATHAN HAIDT 98 PETER BEINART 99 SANA SALEEM 100 «» 100 Global Thinkers 2012s Global Marketplace of Ideas and the Thinkers Who Make Them The backlash after the heady Arab revolutions of 2011. The rumblings of war with nuclear-aspiring Iran. The bloody persistence of Bashar al-Assad in civil war-torn Syria. Not to mention a Europe mired in its biggest crisis since World War II and an American presidential campaign that distracted and depressed in equal measure. If ever there were a year for Big Ideas, and a frustration at not hearing them from our leaders, 2012 was it. Which made it all the more rewarding -- if even more challenging than usual -- to identify this years Foreign Policy Global Thinkers. Its particularly inspiring to have settled on a most heroic and unlikely pair as our top honorees for 2012: Burmas Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein, the once-jailed dissident and the longtime general who joined hands to open up one of the worlds most repressive dictatorships. Its also testament to the notion that individuals and their ideas can truly change the world, a theme that resonates in ways large and small throughout this years list, from digital-age visionaries like Sebastian Thrun (whose robot cars may just make him the Henry Ford of a new era) to rare political leaders like Malawian President Joyce Banda, who is imagining a new Africa freed from toxic corruption. Still, many others on this years list are there not necessarily for reinventing the world but for waging its ever-more complicated intellectual battles -- think Paul Ryan budget austerity versus Paul Krugman stimulus. If you want to shape the global conversation, you have to be a part of it. Indeed, if theres one theme to this years list, its all about the perils and possibilities of free speech in this globalized age. As Columbia University President Lee Bollinger notes in a powerful essay, Today, we quickly experience how censorship anywhere becomes censorship everywhere. In an age when ideas, good and bad, travel the world at hyperspeed, we are proud to celebrate the brave thinking of those at the cutting edge of this global debate over freedom of expression. Welcome to the global marketplace of ideas, 2012 edition. More From Global Thinkers The Global Thinkers Book Club From psychology to biography, economics to tech, see what some of the worlds top minds are reading. What Our Thinkers Think -- and Write 20 must-read books written by experts from this years list. The FP Global Thinkers Twitterati A whos who of the foreign-policy Twitterverse in 2012. Inside The List The Lady and the General Meet the political odd couple driving democratic reform in Burma. BY KURT M. CAMPBELL Free Speech in the Digital Age The new global battle for freedom of expression is changing alliances. BY LEE C. BOLLINGER The Best Small Ideas of 2012 The small innovations that could make a big difference. BY TINA ROSENBERG The FP Survey: The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd The worlds top experts weigh in on the year gone by and whats on the horizon for 2013. The Grexits of 2013 Four geopolitical buzzwords that could be just around the corner. BY IAN BREMMER 4 Digital Threats to Worry About The dangers that define the digital age. BY EUGENE KASPERSKY Yes, Congress Is That Bad Americas unprecedented political paralysis is undermining the country. BY THOMAS MANN, NORMAN ORNSTEIN Forget the BRICs Meet 7 unheralded countries to watch. BY RUCHIR SHARMA The Opposite of Thinking A key ingredient missing in our policymaking these days: creativity. BY DAVID ROTHKOPF Why Birth Control Is Still a Big Idea Contraceptives empower women -- and thats good news. BY MELINDA GATES Why Family Is a Foreign-Policy Issue Why helping women strike a work-life balance would change the world. BY ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER The Imperfect World of George Soros An exclusive interview with the billionaire investor. BY CHRYSTIA FREELAND A Change Is Gonna Come Chen Guangcheng on freedom, violence, and the possibility of a revolution in China. BY ISAAC STONE FISH A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The work of Chinas most famous dissident artist, Ai Weiwei. THE 100 GLOBAL THINKERS
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