World Business People

Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian politician and the current Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, the fourteenth person and the first woman to hold this position. She is also the deputy leader of the federal Australian...

Dr Anthony Hayward CCMI (born 1957) is the Chief Executive of oil and energy company BP Group, taking over from John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley on 1 May 2007.

Stanley "Stan" Fischer (Hebrew: סטנלי פישר‎) is an economist and the current Governor of the Bank of Israel.

Ratan Naval Tata (born December 28, 1937, in Mumbai) is the present Chairman of the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate founded by Jamsedji Tata and consolidated and expanded by later generations of his family. He is also the chairman of...

Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (born 9 September 1953, Namangan Province, Uzbek SSR, USSR) is a Russian based billionaire of Uzbek origin. According to the 2009 edition of Forbes magazine, the oligarch is one of Russia's richest men, with a fortune estimated...

Ahmed Mukhtar Arabic ,أحمد مختار (born 1967) is an Iraqi musician who is internationally renowned for his playing of the oud. He was born in Baghdad and is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad.

Tito Mboweni (born 16 March 1959) is the eighth Governor of the South African Reserve Bank. He succeeded Dr. Christian Lodewyk Stals on the 8 August 1999 and will be succeeded by Gill Marcus who will replace him as Governor...

Nicholas II (Russian: Николай II, Николай Александрович Романов, tr. Nikolay II, Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov, IPA [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ftɐˈroj, nʲɪkɐˈlaj əlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪʨ rɐˈmanəf]) (18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last...

Chakib Khelil (Arabic: شكيب خليل‎) is Algeria's Minister for Energy and Mines.

Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971) is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent. She is currently the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News, 60 Minutes correspondent, filing reports for the CBS Evening News and the...