Nobel peace laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank that pioneered social business, has been ranked fifth among global influential thinkers in the Global Thought Leader 2014 survey carried out by the Zurich-based Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for Economic and Social Studies and MIT Sloan School researcher Peter Gloor. According to a press release issued by the Yunus Centre yesterday,
the top 100 most influential thinkers in the world have been identified through a systematic analysis of the English-speaking infosphere. “The list includes individuals who are influencing the way we think today, whose ideas are determining ours and whose ideas engage people most frequently.” With the help of software-based calculations to produce a simple "influence rank", Gloor presents the 2014 thought leaders ranking. It measures the global importance of creative minds. At the top position is Pope Francis followed by "Pope of the Internet" Tim Berners-Lee. Indian economist Amartya Sen and Czech writer Milan Kundera occupy the third and fourth positions. The global thought leaders ranking was derived from a list of 236 people from around the world, who invite further discourse through their ideas, the press release says. (Find more about the 2014 global thinkers at http://longform.tagesanzeiger.ch/vordenker/?lang=en#rankingglobal) Advertisement
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