Courtesy Bloomberg Businessweek
2018's icons and innovators
The Bloomberg 50 lists the icons and innovators who've changed the global business landscape in measurable ways over the past year.
- Chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen
- Britain's Gavin Barwell, chief of staff to Prime Minister Theresa May
- California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
- Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland
- China's Liu He
- Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario
- White House's Mick Mulvaney, acting director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- The new populists (Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.)
- Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
- The Parkland activists
- Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
- The Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund founders (Tina Tchen, Roberta Kaplan, Hilary Rosen, and Fatima Goss Graves)
A look at the people in business, entertainment, finance, politics, and technology and science whose 2018 accomplishments were particularly noteworthy. Some who made the list are familiar faces up to new tricks, such as actor-producer Reese Witherspoon; others, like Sarah Friar, CEO of Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, are just starting to make their mark.
Once you’re done with 2018, go to the bottom of the page to find out which 20 people you might be reading about in 2019.
