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Best CEOs In The World 2019: 4 Oil Chiefs feature in top ten

12/08/2019

Unsurprisingly, Walmart CEO Douglas McMillon came first in the CEOWORLD magazine’s global ranking of the best chief executives across all industries for 2019. He is followed by Royal Dutch Shell’s global chief executive Ben van Beurden, and ArcelorMittal Chairman and CEO Lakshmi Mittal. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin H. Nasser took the No. 4 spot.

Royal Dutch Shell’s global chief executive Ben van Beurden was ranked number 2

The 2019 rankings placed BP’s chief executive, Bob Dudley in fifth ahead of ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods into sixth; while Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess ranked seventh, and Toyota Chief Executive Akio Toyoda eighth.

Overall, among the top 10 most influential CEOs in the world 2019, the ninth and tenth positions are held by Apple CEO Tim Cook and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the No. 11 spot, followed by the UnitedHealth Group CEO David Wichmann (No.12) and Samsung Electronics Chief Executive Kim Ki-Nam (No.13).

Meanwhile, Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg ranked No. 14 in the CEOWORLD magazine’s ranking of the most influential CEOs in the world 2019. McKesson CEO Brian Tyler came in fifteenth place, followed by Daimler’s CEO Ola Kallenius (sixteenth), CVS chief executive officer Larry Merlo (seventeenth), Total SA Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne (eighteenth), and Ford CEO Jim Hackett, ranked nineteenth. Chevron CEO Michael K. Wirth ranked 20th in the list

Best CEOs In The World 2019: Most Influential Chief Executives Top 10

 Rank  Name  Title  Country  Company
 1  C. Douglas McMillon  CEO  US  Walmart
 2  Ben van Beurden  CEO  Netherlands  Royal Dutch Shell
 3  Lakshmi Niwas Mittal  Chairman and CEO  Luxembourg  ArcelorMittal
 4  Amin H. Nasser  CEO and President  Saudi Arabia  Saudi Aramco
 5  Bob Dudley  Group CEO  UK  BP
 6  Darren Woods  Chairman and CEO  US  ExxonMobil
 7  Herbert Diess  Chairman and CEO  Germany  Volkswagen AG
 8  Akio Toyoda  President  Japan  Toyota Motor
 9  Timothy D. Cook  CEO  US  Apple
 10  Warren E. Buffett  CEO  US  BerkshireHathaway

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