(LegalLaw247.com, March 21, 2012 ) New York, United States of America Every year the World Economic Forum chooses up to 200 outstanding individuals from around the world to become young global leaders.
Past recipients of this title have included David Cameron Prime Minister of Great Britain, Larry Page, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Google and Zhang Xin, Chief Executive Officer, SOHO China. Young global leaders come from all walks of life; from business, media, entertainment, politics, sport and art and from all corners of the world.
The only thing they all have in common is their drive, their professional zeal and their commitment to change the world.
Among this year's 192 young global leaders chosen from a pool of several thousand candidates, are Fatima Bhutto, a poet from Pakistan, Aimee Mullins, an athlete and actress from America, Salman Khan, Founder of the Khan Academy and Denis Benchimol Minev, a Chief Financial Officer from Brazil who has made huge steps in reducing the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
American Aimee Mullins is known to many for her roles as an actress. However, she first found public recognition as an athlete. Aimee was born without fibulae in both legs and doctors warned her parents that she would be wheelchair bound her entire life. At the age of one, doctors amputated both her legs beneath the knees and Aimee was soon walking and running on prosthetic legs. At 17 she was one of three people awarded a full scholarship by the Department of Defense and became the youngest person in the world to have gained Pentagon top-level access, she worked there in her summer breaks. In 1996 she became the first amputee to compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association games where she set world records for the 100m, 200m and long-jump. She has been president of the Women's Sport Foundation, Vice President of J.O.B, America's oldest non-profit employment service for people with disabilities and she is the founder of the SPIRE Institute.
Fatima Bhutto is a poet and journalist from Pakistan who has been honoured for her poetry and her works to support her grandmother's political party, the Pakistan People's Party. She is granddaughter of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the niece of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and daughter of Murtaza Bhutto. Like many other young leaders she has studied in many countries, in Pakistan, America and Great Britain. Her first book, Whispers of the Desert, was an intricate collection of poems which first launched her to her current fame. Her second book, 8:50 a.m. 8 October 2005 was also received with much critical acclaim. She currently writes columns for The Daily Beast, New Statesman and other publications around the world. Fatima resides with her Step-Mother at the famous residence 70 Clifton Road in Old Clifton, Karachi.
Salman Khan, from America, was a hedge-fund analyst who holds three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: a BS in mathematics, a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MS in electrical engineering and computer science as well as a MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2006 he started to tutor his cousin in mathematics over the internet, using Yahoo's Doodle Notepad. Soon others were asking for his help so he set up a YouTube account for his tutorials. In 2009 he quit his job and set up the Khan Academy, a free online tutoring service available to all. His YouTube channel currently has over 250,000 subscribers. Khan has been featured on the The Colbert Report, PBS NewsHour, CNN and National Public Radio. He lives with his wife, who is a medical specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine, and their son in Mountain View, California.
Denis Minev, a Stanford University graduate with a Wharton MBA living in the middle of the Amazon rainforest is another new member of the select group. He has been dedicated to environmental conservation and poverty alleviation in the Brazilian Amazon, an area equivalent to more than half of the US. His work has taken him to the state government (as Secretary for Planning) to the founding of two NGOs and serving on the boards of several more. During his time in the Amazonas state government, deforestation rates fell by more than 50% while economic growth actually accelerated. He helped set up the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation, the Museum of the Amazon, as well as the Governors Climate and Forests Task Force (a partnership with California and Indonesia), all organizations focused on improving living conditions of the more than 20 million people who inhabit the Amazon while taking care of the environment.
These four young leaders will join other 188 young global leaders of 2012 and become part of the Forum of Young Global Leaders community of 713 outstanding individuals. They will convene at the Annual Summit to be held on the 14-18 April in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
All Young Global Leaders have already proven themselves to be actively engaged in improving their community and will now be integrated into events organized by the World Economic Forum and encouraged to launch their own initiatives and task forces, on their own or with other Young Global Leaders to further change the world for the better.
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About Young Global Leaders
The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a unique worldwide community of more than 700 exceptional young leaders who share a commitment to shaping the global future.
It is set up and managed by the World Economic Forum: an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
All nominees must be under the age of 40. The nominees must then satisfy rigorous selection criteria. Out of the thousands of candidates nominated each year, only between 100 and 200 extraordinary individuals are honoured each year with the title Young Global Leader at which time they are invited to become Active Members and sign the YGL Charter of rights and responsibilities.
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