Business tycoon and India\u2019s richest man, Mukesh Ambani,and human rights lawyer Indira Jaising have been named by Fortune magazine as the World\u2019s Greatest Leaders of 2018.<\/p>\n
The Fortune magazine\u2019s 2018 ranking of the 50 Greatest Leaders released today also has architect Balkrishna Doshi in the list which includes Apple CEO Tim Cook, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and football coach Nick Saban.<\/p>\n
Ambani, who turned 61 today, has \u201cin less than two years, brought mobile data to the masses \u2014 and completely upended the country\u2019s telecom market\u201d, Fortune said, ranking him No.24 behind the likes of South Korean President Mon Jae-in, Chinese vice premier Liu He and French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince Ambani, chief of the $47 billion conglomerate Reliance Industries, launched Jio — the first mobile network in the world to be entirely IP-based — in September 2016, the company has signed up a staggering 168 million subscribers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe secret? Offering dirt-cheap data and free calls (and plowing billions of dollars into the infrastructure that transmits them). The effect, dubbed \u2018Jio-fication\u2019, has driven India\u2019s higher-price carriers to drop costs (if not run them out of business), and it fuelled a 1,100% rise in India\u2019s monthly data consumption,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
On Jaising, founder, Lawyers Collective, Fortune said,\u201cWhen the poorest in India need a voice, they find one in Jaising, a lawyer who has dedicated her life to battling injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ranked No.20, she has fought on behalf of victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, helped Syrian Christian women in India win property rights equal to their male counterparts\u2019, and helped draft India\u2019s first domestic violence law, said Fortune.<\/p>\n
Her work has recently led her to Myanmar, where she was appointed by the UN to lead an investigation into the persecution of Rohingya Muslims, it said.<\/p>\n
The World\u2019s Greatest Leaders list started in 2015. The past lists featured global notables like Xi Jinping, Pope Francis, Jeff Bezos, Angela Merkel, Aung San Suu Kyi, Paul Ryan, Jack Ma, Milinda Gates, Gen HR McMaster, Sen John McCain, Janel Yellen, and Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Narendra Modi featured in the 2015 list while Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was on the 2016 Greatest Leaders ranking. The then State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya was on the 2017 list.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s list is topped by \u2018The Students\u2019 of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and other schools of US that witnessed gun violence. Ranking Doshi at No.43, Fortune said he is the winner of this year\u2019s Pritzker Prize, architecture\u2019s highest honour.<\/p>\n
Doshi has spent the bulk of his 70-year career championing accessible housing, earning the moniker \u2018the architect for the poor\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis designs include the Aranya low-cost housing project in Indore, a labyrinth of homes and courtyards that provide around 80,000 residents with a balance of open spaces and communal living, and the mixed-income Life Insurance Corporation Housing in Ahmedabad, where several generations of a family can occupy levels of the same building. Underlying all his work is the ideal that all economic classes deserve good housing,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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