The 13th annual Powerlist was judged by a panel chaired by Dame Linda Dobbs and published in October 2019; sponsored by J.P. Morgan & Co, PwC, linklaters and The Executive Leadership Council.
Top 10 Rank Individual Occupation Category Notability 1 Ismail Ahmed Businessperson Business, Corporate, Financiers & Entrepreneurs founder & chairman of WorldRemit 2 Pat McGrath Make-up Artist Arts, Fashion & Design founder of Pat McGrath Labs 3 Michael Sherman Businessperson Business, Corporate, Financiers & Entrepreneurs Chief strategy and transformation officer at BT Group 4 Jacky Wright Businessperson Technology Chief digital officer at Microsoft 5 Stormzy Grime Artist Media, Publishing & Entertainment Award-winning musician 6 Edward Enninful, OBE Editor-in-Chief Media, Publishing & Entertainment Editor-in-Chief British Vogue 7 Ebele Okobi Public policy director Technology Public policy director, Africa, the Middle East and Turkey for Facebook 8 Paulette Rowe Businessperson Technology Global Head, Payments and Financial Services Partnerships, Facebook 9 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Artist Arts, Fashion & Design Award-winning painter 10 Richard Iferenta Businessperson Business, Corporate, Financiers & Entrepreneurs Partner at KPMG
Outside Top 10
Also listed in the 2020 Powerlist were the following people, organised by industry:
Arts, Fashion and Design Adwoa Aboah - fashion model and founder of Gurls Talk Chi-chi Nwanoku, OBE - classical musician and founder of Chineke! Orchestra Duro Olowu - fashion designer Dr Shirley J Thompson, OBE - composer, conductor and Reader in Music, University of Westminster Isaac Julien, CBE - artist and filmmaker Lemn Sissay, OBE - poet, author, broadcaster Matthew Morgan - founder of Afropunk Festival Valerie Brandes - founder and CEO of Jacaranda Books
Business, Corporate, Financiers and Entrepreneurs Alan Smith - Global Head of Risk Strategy and Chief of Staff, Global Risk at HSBC Arunma Oteh, OON - academic scholar, St Antony's College, Oxford, former Treasurer and Vice President of the World Bank Bukola Adisa - Head of Framework and Design at Barclays Camille Drummond - Vice President, Global Business Services at BP Eric Collins - CEO and Founding Member, Impact X Capital Partners Gary Stewart - Director, Telefonica Open Future & Wayra UK Jason Black (J2K) - co-founder of Crep Protect and co-owner of Crepe and Cones Lindelwe Lesley Ndlovu - CEO, AXA Africa Specialty Risks, Lloyd's of London Netsai Mangwende - Head of Finance for Great Britain, Willis Towers Watson Pamela Hutchinson - Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Bloomberg Patricia Lewis - Managing Director & Head of European Loans and Special Situations Sales, BofA Securities Sandra Wallace - UK Managing Partner, DLA Piper Dame Sharon White - chairman, John Lewis Partnership Tavaziva Madzinga - CEO, Swiss Re UK & Ireland Tevin Tobun - founder and CEO, GV Group Gate Ventures Wol Kolade - Managing Partner, Livingbridge Yvonne Ike - Managing Director and Head of Sub Saharan Africa region, BofA Securities
Media, Publishing and Entertainment Ade Adepitan, MBE - TV presenter and Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Afua Hirsch - journalist, author, broadcaster Akala - rapper, journalist, poet and activist Anne Mensah - Vice-president of Content UK, Netflix Amma Asante, MBE - writer, director Charlene White - ITN News anchor David Olusoga, OBE - historian, Joint Creative Director of Uplands Television Ltd Femi Oguns, MBE - founder and CEO of Identity School of Acting Gary Younge - journalist and author Idris Elba, OBE - actor, writer, producer, musician and DJ John Boyega - Actor Kanya King, CBE -CEO/Founder, MOBO Awards Lorna Clarke - Head of Production, BBC Radio 2 & BBC Radio 6 Music Marcus Ryder - Chief International Editor of China Global Television Network Digital Mo Abudu - CEO/Executive Chair, EbonylifeTV Naomie Harris, OBE - actor Paulette Simpson - Executive, Corporate Affairs and Public Policy, Jamaica National Group; executive director, The Voice Media Group Reggie Yates - actor, broadcaster and DJ Reni Eddo-Lodge - journalist, author Simon Frederick - artist, photographer, director Sir Lenny Henry - actor, writer, campaigner Vanessa Kingori, MBE - publisher, British Vogue Yolisa Phahle - CEO, General Entertainment, Naspers Ltd
Politics, Law and Religion Baroness Floella Benjamin DBE, DL - Peer, House of Lords, policy maker, campaigner for children's rights David Lammy, MP - Member of Parliament for Tottenham Dr Sandie Okoro - Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel, World Bank Grace Ononiwu, CBE - Chief Crown Prosecutor, West Midlands Joshua Siaw, MBE - Partner, White & Case Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku - Head of International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Secretariat, OECD Martin Forde, QC - barrister Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin - Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons Segun Osuntokun - Managing Partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Public, Third Sector and Education Beverley De Gale, OBE & Orin Lewis, OBE - Founders, ACLT (African Caribbean Leukemia Trust) Dr Cheron Byfield - Governor and founder of King Solomon International Business School and CEO Excell3 Dr Dayo Olukoshi, OBE - Principal, Brampton Manor Academy Dr Margaret Casely-Hayford, CBE - chair, Shakespeare's Globe, Chancellor of Coventry University, Non-Executive Director, Co-op Group Marvin Rees - Mayor of Bristol Meghan, Duchess of Sussex - campaigner, actress Nira Chamberlain - President of Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Professor Funmi Olonisakin - Vice-president and Vice-Principal International and Professor of Security, Leadership and Development at King's College London Lord Woolley - Co-founder/Director, Operation Black Vote Sonita Alleyne, OBE - Master, Jesus College, Cambridge and member of BBC Trust
Science, Medicine and Engineering Dame Donna Kinnair - CEO & General Secretary, Royal College of Nursing Dr Emeka Okaro - Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Dr Ian Nnatu - Consultant psychiatrist Dr Joy Odili - Consultant plastic surgeon Dr Martin Griffiths - Lead trauma surgeon, Royal London Hospital & Clinical Director for Violence Reduction, NHS Dr Samantha Tross - Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Sylvia Bartley - Senior Global Director, Medtronic Philanthropy Prof. Laura Serrant, OBE - Head of Department and Professor of Community and Public Health Nursing at Manchester Metropolitan University Prof. Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, OBE - Chief Midwifery Officer, NHS England
Sports Anthony Joshua, OBE - boxer Dina Asher Smith - British record-holding sprinter Eniola Aluko - Footballer Lewis Hamilton, MBE - Formula One champion Luol Deng - former NBA player Nicola Adams, OBE - boxer Raheem Sterling - footballer
Technology Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, MBE - CEO and co-founder, Stemettes Baroness Oona King - Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, Snap Inc. Ian Greenstreet - founder and chairman, Infinity Capital Partners and Member on the advisory board, London Stock Exchange Ije Nwokorie - Senior Director, Apple Inc. Mariéme Jamme - CEO, SpotOne Global Solutions and Advisory Board Member, Data-Pop Alliance Martin Ijaha, CBE - founder, Neyber Nneka Abulokwe, OBE - founder and CEO, MicroMax Consulting
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