Narendra Modi, Kailash Satyarthi Among World's Greatest Leaders: Fortune

Fortune noted that Modi has put the bureaucrats on notice and has been taking action where he can. He has also greatly simplified the procedure for getting a visa to visit India, symbolically lowering the status of bureaucrats and raising that of potential outside investors, it added.

"Modi still faces such huge challenges as privatizing India's vast portfolio of state-owned businesses and deregulating labor markets. But simply by declaring those as goals, he has seized control of the national agenda and sent a message that it's time for all of India--not just its infotech services sector--to join the 21st century," Fortune said, citing forecasts by the IMF that India will be growing faster than China in the next couple of years.

On Satyarthi, Fortune said while he had been "overshadowed" by last year's other recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai, Satyarthi has led the global fight against child labor for more than three decades. It said no one has done as much to prevent child labour as he has.

The list includes European Central Bank President Mario Draghi at the second spot, followed by Chinese President Xi Jingping (3), Pope Francis (4), General Motors CEO Mary Barra (9), Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (17), Bill and Melinda Gates (18), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (25), J P Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon (38) and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (44).

The list also includes Indian-origin CEO of nonprofit Last Mile Health Raj Panjabi on the 34th spot. Panjabi, a native of Liberia, is working with Liberia's government to launch a national community health worker programme.
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