Powerlist 2020

The 13th annual Powerlist was judged by a panel chaired by Dame Linda Dobbs and published in October 2019; sponsored by J.P. Morgan & Co, PwC, linklaters and The Executive Leadership Council.

Also listed in the 2020 Powerlist were the following people, organised by industry:

Arts, Fashion and Design

• Adwoa Aboah - fashion model and founder of Gurls Talk
• Chi-chi Nwanoku, OBE - classical musician and founder of Chineke! Orchestra
• 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, OBE - poet, author, broadcaster
• Matthew Morgan - founder of Afropunk Festival
• 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
• Arunma Oteh, OON - academic scholar, St Antony's College, Oxford, former Treasurer and Vice President of the World Bank
• Bukola Adisa - Head of Framework and Design at Barclays
• Camille Drummond - Vice President, Global Business Services at BP
• Eric Collins - CEO and Founding Member, Impact X Capital Partners
• Gary Stewart - Director, Telefonica Open Future & Wayra UK
• Jason Black (J2K) - co-founder of Crep Protect and co-owner of Crepe and Cones
• Lindelwe Lesley Ndlovu - CEO, AXA Africa Specialty Risks, Lloyd's of London
• Netsai Mangwende - Head of Finance for Great Britain, Willis Towers Watson
• Pamela Hutchinson - Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Bloomberg
• Patricia Lewis - Managing Director & Head of European Loans and Special Situations Sales, BofA Securities
• Sandra Wallace - UK Managing Partner, DLA Piper
• Dame Sharon White - chairman, John Lewis Partnership
• Tavaziva Madzinga - CEO, Swiss Re UK & Ireland
• Tevin Tobun - founder and CEO, GV Group Gate Ventures
• 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 Olusoga, OBE - historian, Joint Creative Director of Uplands Television Ltd
• 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
• John Boyega - Actor
• Kanya King, CBE -CEO/Founder, MOBO Awards
• Lorna Clarke - Head of Production, BBC Radio 2 & BBC Radio 6 Music
• 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
• Vanessa Kingori, MBE - publisher, British Vogue
• Yolisa Phahle - CEO, General Entertainment, Naspers Ltd

Politics, Law and Religion

• Baroness Floella Benjamin DBE, DL - Peer, House of Lords, policy maker, campaigner for children's rights
• David Lammy, MP - Member of Parliament for Tottenham
• Dr Sandie Okoro - Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel, World Bank
• Grace Ononiwu, CBE - Chief Crown Prosecutor, West Midlands
• Joshua Siaw, MBE - Partner, White & Case
• Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku - Head of International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Secretariat, OECD
• Martin Forde, QC - barrister
• Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin - Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons
• Segun Osuntokun - Managing Partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Public, Third Sector and Education

• Beverley De Gale, OBE & Orin Lewis, OBE - Founders, ACLT (African Caribbean Leukemia Trust)
• Dr Cheron Byfield - Governor and founder of King Solomon International Business School and CEO Excell3
• Dr Dayo Olukoshi, OBE - Principal, Brampton Manor Academy
• Dr Margaret Casely-Hayford, CBE - chair, Shakespeare's Globe, Chancellor of Coventry University, Non-Executive Director, Co-op Group
• Marvin Rees - Mayor of Bristol
• Meghan, Duchess of Sussex - campaigner, actress
• Nira Chamberlain - President of Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
• Professor Funmi Olonisakin - Vice-president and Vice-Principal International and Professor of Security, Leadership and Development at King's College London
• Lord Woolley - Co-founder/Director, Operation Black Vote
• Sonita Alleyne, OBE - Master, Jesus College, Cambridge and member of BBC Trust

Science, Medicine and Engineering

• Dame Donna Kinnair - CEO & General Secretary, Royal College of Nursing
• Dr Emeka Okaro - Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
• Dr Ian Nnatu - Consultant psychiatrist
• Dr Joy Odili - Consultant plastic surgeon
• Dr Martin Griffiths - Lead trauma surgeon, Royal London Hospital & Clinical Director for Violence Reduction, NHS
• Dr Samantha Tross - Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
• Dr Sylvia Bartley - Senior Global Director, Medtronic Philanthropy
• Prof. Laura Serrant, OBE - Head of Department and Professor of Community and Public Health Nursing at Manchester Metropolitan University
• Prof. Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, OBE - Chief Midwifery Officer, NHS England

Sports

• Anthony Joshua, OBE - boxer
• Dina Asher Smith - British record-holding sprinter
• Eniola Aluko - Footballer
• Lewis Hamilton, MBE - Formula One champion
• Luol Deng - former NBA player
• Nicola Adams, OBE - boxer
• Raheem Sterling - footballer

Technology

• Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, MBE - CEO and co-founder, Stemettes
• Baroness Oona King - Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, Snap Inc.
• Ian Greenstreet - founder and chairman, Infinity Capital Partners and Member on the advisory board, London Stock Exchange
• Ije Nwokorie - Senior Director, Apple Inc.
• 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