Financial Times Person of the Year
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The British business newspaper Financial Times each year nominated a "Person of the Year" to the person the newspaper has considered has demonstrated considerable influence in a given year.
The complete list of past recipients can be found here
Past Persons of the Year include:
- 2015 - Angela Merkel (Chancellor, Germany)[1]
- 2014 - Tim Cook (CEO, Apple Inc)[2]
- 2013 - Jack Ma (Founder, Alibaba Group)[3]
- 2012 - Mario Draghi (President, European Central Bank)[4]
- 2011 - Arab Youth (Arab Spring)
- 2010 - Steve Jobs (CEO, Apple Inc)
- 2009 - Lloyd Blankfein (CEO, Goldman Sachs)
- 2008 - Barack Obama (US President Elect)
- 2007 - Jean-Claude Trichet (President, European Central Bank)
- 2006 - Lakshmi Mittal (CEO, ArcelorMittal)
- 2005 - Sergey Brin and Larry Page (co-founders of Google)
- 2003 - Jeffrey Immelt (CEO General Electric)[5]
- 2002 - J. Craig Venter (genomics scientist)[6]
- 1980 - Lech Wałęsa (Leader of the Polish Solidarity movement)[7]
- 1975 - Helmut Schmidt
References
- ^ "Angela Merkel - Financial Times Person of the Year".
- ^ "Tim Cook - Financial Times Person of the Year".
- ^ "Jack Ma - Financial Times Person of the Year".
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ "Mario Draghi - Financial Times Person of the Year".
- ^ "Jeffrey R. Immelt: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". investing.businessweek.com. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
- ^ "bios/j_craig_venter_phd". visionsfortomorrow.net. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
- ^ Europa Publications (2003). The International Who's Who 2004. Europa Publications. p. 1761. ISBN 9781857432176. Retrieved 2015-06-19.