Faces to change the world
Ten people who could change the world identified in new report
The list also names Papa, who set up India’s first department of women’s studies at Alagappa University, Tamil Nadu, in 1988. She is currently associated with the Bangladesh-based Asian University for Women (AUW), which will be launched in September.
Should this list be taken seriously?
The New Statesman reminds the reader that the last time it compiled such a list, in 2005, it had picked Barack Obama.
The other eight faces to watch for:
Chuka Umunna, 30-year-old British lawyer and prospective parliamentary candidate for Streatham
Xian Zhang, 35-year-old Chinese music conductor
Joshua Foer, 25-year-old writer and U.S. ‘memory champion’
Athene Donald, professor of experimental physics at Cambridge University
Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, mayor of Tehran, academic and former police chief
Laura Robson, British tennis player
Mosiuoa Lekota, president of the Congress of the People, South Africa’s new opposition party
James Thornton, chief executive of American charity ClientEarth that takes up legal battles to protect the environment