Young Global Leaders

Young Global Leaders
The new list of Young Global Leaders has 43 people from East Asia, 21 from South Asia (including India), 46 from Europe, 14 from Middle East and North Africa, 17 fro m sub-Saharan Africa, 38 from North America, and 18 from Latin America. 12 Indians and four persons of Indian origin are among the 197 Young Global Leaders named by the World Economic Forum.

The Indians who were named Young Global Leaders are:

• Agatha Sangma , Minister of State for Rural Development of India .
• Ashok Aram, managing director, Abraaj Capital.
• Ashok Giri Durgesh, chief executive officer and founder, Vindhya e-Infomedia Private Ltd.
• Manisha Girotra, managing director and chairperson, UBS Securities (India) Pvt. Ltd.
• Nandita Das , filmmaker and actress.
• Narendra Murkumbi, co-founder, vice chairman and managing director, Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd
• Sandeep Naik, co-head, Apax Partners India.
• Sangeeth Varghese, founder, Leadcap Trust.
• Sangita Singh, senior vice president and head of enterprise application services, Wipro Technologies.
• Sanjeev Sanyal, founder and managing trustee, Sustainable Planet Institute.
• Sriram Raghavan, chief executive officer and co-founder, Comat Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
• Tejpreet Singh Chopra, government relations & strategy development, General Electric.

Three Indian Americans featuring in this list are:

• Anand Chandrasekaran, director, products, Openwave Systems Inc.
• Sanjay Gupta, senior vice president and advisor to the executive chairman, Abraxis BioScience.
• Shamina Singh, chief operating officer, global community relations, CitiGroup.

Indian Canadians in this list are :

• Ricken Patel, co-founder and executive director, Avaaz.org, from Canada .