The Taiwanese-American engineer who turned a graphics-card maker into the indispensable infrastructure provider of the artificial-intelligence economy.
Portrait · NVIDIA
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Chairman & Chief Executive Officer · Microsoft
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BankingChairman & Chief Executive Officer · JPMorgan Chase
The longest-tenured chief executive of a global systemic bank, and the single most-quoted private voice on the state of the world economy.
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Central BankingChair · U.S. Federal Reserve
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Live monitoring of the Leadership Impact Score across the top of the index.
| Name | Organization | Sector | Region | Impact | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jensen Huang | NVIDIA | Semiconductors | Americas | 98.4 | ▲ 3.2% |
| Satya Nadella | Microsoft | Software & Cloud | Americas | 97.8 | ▲ 1.4% |
| Jamie Dimon | JPMorgan Chase | Banking | Americas | 97.2 | ▲ 0.6% |
| Jerome Powell | U.S. Federal Reserve | Central Banking | Americas | 96.9 | ▲ 0.3% |
| Larry Fink | BlackRock | Asset Management | Americas | 96.8 | ▲ 0.9% |
| Bernard Arnault | LVMH | Luxury Goods | Europe | 96.7 | ▲ 0.4% |
| Sundar Pichai | Alphabet | Internet & AI | Americas | 96.5 | ▲ 0.8% |
| Warren Buffett | Berkshire Hathaway | Investments & Insurance | Americas | 96.4 | ▲ 0.2% |
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