The 2019 Powerlist rankings were released in October 2018 and saw Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. included in the list for the first time, and named Ric Lewis as the most influential individual
Top 10 Rank Individual Occupation Category Notability 1 Ric Lewis Businessperson Business, Corporate, Financiers & Entrepreneurs Chief Exec & Chairman of Tristan Capital Partners 2 Sharon White Businessperson & Economist Business, Corporate, Financiers & Entrepreneurs Chief Executive at Ofcom 3 Ismail Ahmed Businessperson Business, Corporate, Financiers & Entrepreneurs Founder & CEO of WorldRemit 4 Jacky Wright Businessperson Technology Chief digital and information officer at HMRC 5 Sandie Okoro Lawyer Business, Corporate, Financiers & Entrepreneurs Senior VP and general counsel at the World Bank Group 6 Ebele Okobi Public policy director Technology Public policy director, Africa, the Middle East and Turkey for Facebook 7 Funmi Olonisakin Professor Public, Third Sector & Education Professor of Leadership studies, peace and conflict at King's College London 8 Paulette Rowe Businessperson Technology Global Head, Payments and Financial Services Partnerships, Facebook 9 Edward Enninful, OBE Editor-in-Chief Media, Publishing & Entertainment Editor-in-Chief British Vogue 10 Richard Iferenta Businessperson Business, Corporate, Financiers & Entrepreneurs Partner at KPMG
Outside Top 10
Also listed in the 2019 Powerlist were the following people, organised by industry:
Arts, Fashion and Design
Chi-chi Nwanoku, OBE - Classical musician and founder of Chineke! Orchestra Chris Ofili - Turner Prize winning artist Delia Jarrett-Macauley - Chair of the Caine Prize, writer and academic 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, MBE - Poet, author, broadcaster Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - Award-winning artist Matthew Morgan - Founder of Afropunk Festival Pat McGrath - Founder of Pat McGrath Labs, make-up artist 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 Brian Robinson - Senior managing director at Goldman Sachs Bukola Adisa - Head of Framework and Design at Barclays Eric Collins - Head of Operations at Touch Surgery Gary Stewart - Director, Telefonica Open Future and Wayra UK Heather Melville - Director and Head of Client Experience, PricewaterhouseCoopers UK. Netsai Mangwende - Head of Finance for Great Britain, Willis Towers Watson Pamela Hutchinson - Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Bloomberg Sandra Wallace - UK Managing Partner, DLA Piper Tunji Akintokun - Director at Cisco leading mid-market sales and partnerships for Africa 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 Harewood, MBE - Actor David Olusoga, OBE - Historian, joint Creative Director of Uplands Television Ltd Dumi Oburota - Founder of Disturbing London 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 Jacqueline Simmons - Executive editor at Bloomberg L.P. John Boyega - Actor Kanya King, CBE -CEO/Founder, MOBO Awards 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 Stormzy - Grime artist Thandie Newton - Actor Tunde Ogungbesan - BBC head of diversity and inclusion Vanessa Kingori, MBE - Publisher, British Vogue Wayne Hector - Songwriter Yolisa Phahle - CEO, M-Net
Politics, Law and Religion Baroness Floella Benjamin DBE, DL - Peer, House of Lords, Policy maker, campaigner for children's rights Chuka Umunna - Labour Member of Parliament for Streatham Grace Ononiwu, CBE - Crown Prosecutor Joshua Siaw, MBE - Partner, White & Case Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku - Co-Director at Development Results David Lammy, MP - Member of Parliament for Tottenham
Public, Third Sector and Education Beverley Lewis, OBE - Co-Founder and Director of Operations, ACLT (African Caribbean Leukemia Trust) Dr Cheron Byfield - Governor and Trust Member of King Solomon International Business School Dr Margaret Casely-Hayford, CBE - Chair, Shakespeare's Globe, lawyer and businessperson Marvin Rees - Mayor of Bristol Meghan, Duchess of Sussex - Campaigner, actress Nero Ughwujabo - Special Adviser to the Prime Minister Theresa May Nira Chamberlain - President of Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Orin Lewis, OBE - Co-founder and chief-executive, ACLT (African Caribbean Leukemia Trust) Patricia Gallan - Retired Metropolitan Police Service assistant commissioner leading specialist crime and operations Lord Woolley - Co-founder/Director, Operation Black Vote David Waboso - Managing director of Network Rail's Digital Railway
Science, Medicine and Engineering Dr Emeka Okaro - Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Dr Ian Nnatu - Consultant psychiatrist at Charing Cross Hospital and Medical Director at Cygnet Hospital Harrow Dr Joy Odili - Consultant plastic surgeon at St George's Hospital Dr Sylvia Bartley - Senior Global Director, Medtronic Philanthropy Dr Samantha Tross - Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Prof. Laura Serrant, OBE - Head of Department and Professor of Community and Public Health Nursing at Manchester Metropolitan University
Sports Anthony Joshua, OBE - Boxer Denise Lewis - TV presenter and Olympic Gold medal-winning athlete Dina Asher Smith - British record-holding sprinter Lewis Hamilton, MBE - Formula One champion Luol Deng - Former NBA player Sir Mo Farah - Olympic Gold medal-winning athlete
Technology Baroness Oona King - Strategy for equity, diversity, inclusion & integrity for Google Ian Greenstreet - Founder and Chairman, Infinity Capital Partners and Member on the Advisory Board, London Stock Exchange Janet Thomas - Founder and CEO of TouchFX at Infinity Capital Partners 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
See also Black British people
References
External links Powerlist