Top 20 overseas Indians

1. L.N. Mittal

 

Age: 60
Profession: Industrialist
Real Steel

• Because despite losing $23 billion last year, equivalent to the GDP of Cameroon, the eighth richest man in the world and the richest individual in Britain has untrammelled access to global leaders in business and politics.

2.Ajit Jain

Age: 59
Profession: Business executive

• Because he is tipped to succeed Warren Buffet, the world's richest man and smartest investor, whose Berkshire Hathaway controls an array of assets worth $109 billion.

Amartya SenAge: 77
Profession: Economist and Philosopher
This year's ranking: 3
Last year's ranking: 3
Fair Enough

• Because his firm commitment to social justice has never sounded as relevant as it does in a world of economic woe.
• Because the Harvard professor and Trinity College Fellow is in demand from governments looking for solutions, whether it is in France or India.

Indra Krishnamurthy NooyiAge: 55
Profession: Entrepreneur
This year's ranking: 4
Last year's ranking: 4
Feminine Fizz

• Because Pepsico's CEO was the star at the World Economic Forum last month where she demanded more women on panels which would "change the whole nature of Davos".

Salman RushdieAge: 63
Profession: Novelist and Essayist
This year's ranking: 5
Last year's ranking: 5
The Stuff of Fantasies

• Because he remains one of the most famous celebrity authors in the world and his planned book on 20 years of hiding from the fatwa is the most talked about event in international publishing.
• Because his new love is cinema and he's working on Deepa Mehta's screen version of Midnight's Children.

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