Four Indians feature in 40 under 40 influencer list

 – Venkatesh Iyer

NEW DELHI, Sept 4: Four Indians feature in the list of 40 most influential people under 40 in the world released by the Fortune Communications for the year 2020. All the four incidentally are in the technology category with no Indian finding a place in the list of 40 in   the finance, government and politics, healthcare, and media categories.

The four Indians included the twins Isha and Akash Ambani, Byju Raveendran and Manu Jain.

According to Fortune Magazine, 2020 has been a year of monumental challenges and change. Coming out with only one list of 40 emerging leaders will not suffice hence the list includes 40 influential people under 40 years in five different categories of Finance, Government and Politics, Media and Entertainment, Technology.

Till last year only 40 influencers were chosen but this year the list has been expanded to 200.

Giving details of the methodology adopted this year in preparing the list the magazine said, “The methodology was not restricted to the dimensions of the business alone or the influence they hold in their area of business. They were, quizzed about the vision for the next decade. How they hope to combat the crisis, they find themselves in? How they’re going to deal with up with the future? One notable question within the area of finance was what have you learned about business and life from the pandemic?

“Additionally, the list this year doesn’t include names of last year’s winners and this is done to channelize attention on more number of achievers and that includes people that stood for inequality, poverty or how they withstood the COVID-19 pandemic,” it said.

Following is the list (in alphabetical order)