It is a remarkable phenomenon that CEOs of Indian origin make up an increasing proportion of the world's top 500 companies. According to a study by Harvard Business Review, 30% of the CEOs of the world's top 500 companies are of Indian origin, which means that one out of every three people at the helm of the world's top companies is Indian. Let's take a look at typical examples of Indians in various industries around the world, but this is only a small part.
Rishi Sunak has been the head of the British Conservative Party and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since October 2022. He is the first prime minister of Indian origin in British history and the youngest prime minister of the country since 1812. Sunak was born in the UK in 1980 to an immigrant family of Indian origin, received a British aristocratic education from an early age, and graduated from Oxford University. "Rich gold", "elitist arrogance", "ungrounded, and incomprehensible to the people's suffering" are the evaluations of many Britons about him.
Nikki Haley is one of the youngest governors in U.S. history. Her parents were both immigrants of Indian origin, her father was a professor and her mother was a housewife, who later opened a clothing store. Haley has shown leadership qualities and political interests from an early age. She graduated from high school on a full scholarship and attended Clemson University to major in accounting. She has served as the president of the student council and participated in events such as debate tournaments and Model United Nations. She also helped her family run a clothing store and developed a wealth of business and financial knowledge. Currently, Haley is one of the most popular and influential figures in the United States and has announced her candidacy for the 2024 United States.
After Tharman Shanmutaman was elected to Singapore** in September this year, the number of countries in the world with Indian origin serving as prime minister, prime minister or ** in addition to India has reached seven countries with Indian origin serving as prime minister, prime minister or **, namely the United Kingdom, Ireland, Singapore, Portugal, Guyana, Mauritius and Suriname. Tharman Shanmugaratnam is a master of economic and financial management, and has served as a minister and deputy prime minister for many times, making great contributions to Singapore's economic development. His economic acumen has been widely recognized around the world and he is known as Singapore's "economic think tank".
Amartya Sen was born in 1933 in West Bengal, India. In 1959, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England. He has taught at well-known universities in the United Kingdom and the United States, and has served as the president of the American Economic Association, the president of the Econometric Society, and the president of the International Economic Association. His outstanding contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory led him to become the seventh Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. He is an outstanding contributor to the study of social choice, welfare distribution and poverty, and he has been known as a "bearer of the conscience of economics" and an "economist of the poor" for his concern with people suffering around the world.
Indra Nooy, who grew up in India and was the CEO of PepsiCo, was named No. 4 on Forbes' list of the world's most powerful women in August 2011. In 1976, Nooi came to Yale University to study Xi management, which laid the foundation for her later career in business. With his resume in a prestigious school and work experience in a number of famous companies, Nui successfully joined PepsiCo in 1994 and rose through the ranks. Her many constructive strategic proposals have contributed to PepsiCo's successful transformation.
In 2022, Howard Schultz, the father of Starbucks, announced that he would step down forever, and Rushman Narasinghan (second from left), who was the CEO of British houseware giant Reckitt Benckiser, officially became the new coach of Starbucks this year. Born in India in 1991, Narasimhan went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, where he received a master's degree in business administration and a master's degree in German. Since then, he has held senior positions in business giants such as McKinsey, PepsiCo, and Reckitt Benckiser. Schultz praised Narasimhan very much, calling his successor "the right person to lead Starbucks to a new chapter."
Satya Nadella was born in 1967 in Hyderabad, India's sixth-largest city. After earning a bachelor's degree in electrical and communications engineering in India, he went to the University of Wisconsin in the United States to pursue a master's degree in computer science and later a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. Nadella is the third CEO in Microsoft's history. He has worked at Microsoft for more than 20 years and has accumulated a wealth of experience and skills. As a leader, he emphasizes fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, focusing on the ethical imperative of AI. 
Sundar Pichai is the current CEO of Google and was born in Chennai, India, in 1972. His family was poor, and when he was 12 years old, his family had the first **. Even so, Pichai was admitted to the Indian Institute of Technology, known as the "crown jewel of Indian science", majoring in metallurgical engineering. Teachers who have taught Pichai say he has always been the top student in his class. After graduating, Pichai went on to study at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. Google Chrome, Android operating system, Google cloud storage services and many other key application products are from his hands.