Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is ranked amongst the top 100 thinkers across the globe according to American magazine Foreign Policy.
The Greek Prime Minister is ranked at 79 on the list ‘for making the best of Greece’s worst year’, according to the magazine.
He is heralded for spending “2010 telling Greeks hard truths about the unsustainable nature of their welfare state — and sounding an international warning that Greece is the canary in the European coal mine.”
The magazine goes on to say the austerity measures introduced in Greece were ‘ambitious enough to convince Europe to keep Greece afloat even as it has provoked riots in Athens. And he has argued that the disaster should be a wake-up call for the threat sovereign debt poses far beyond Europe’s borders.”
Warren Buffet and Bill Gates were rated equal first for their efforts to create a global network of philanthropists who ” who will transform philanthropy from a pastime of the wealthy into a calling for everyone who is rich.”
Others on the list of leading thinkers in 2010 include Barack Obama. Angela Merkel and Henry Kissinger.
Foreign Policy’s list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers was published for the second time in this month’s edition of of the magazine.