Foreign Policy magazine (FP) has selected President Mohamed Nasheed as one of its top 100 global thinkers of 2010.
FP placed the President 39th in its list of 100 people who have had the biggest impact in the world this year.
The magazine praises President Nasheed’’s efforts to bring the issue of climate change and cutting carbon emissions to the forefront of the global agenda, noting the success of the underwater cabinet meeting and the Maldives’’ aim of becoming carbon neutral.
FP said President Nasheed “has become the world’’s most environmentally outspoken president.”
“He has made his tiny country -- a string of atolls in the Indian Ocean that sits an average of just 7 feet above sea level -- a poster child for the need to stop global warming”, FP said.
Foreign Policy is one of the world’’s most prestigious magazines on global politics and economics having won United State’’s National Magazine Award for general excellence in 2009.
Foreign Policy says this year’’s list fully reflects the new world order, where post-Cold War reign of American power has ended and the long predicted “rise of the rest” has occurred.
Others selected as this year’’s most influential thinkers include: famed investor Warren Buffet and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who top this year’’s list; US President Barack Obama (3rd); British Prime Minister David Cameron (31st) and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (85th).
For more information:
- www.foreignpolicy.com/2010globalthinkers
- www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/29/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,32
