In addition to those cited in this report, the author is particularly grateful for the insights, many of them off the record, of Hal Sirkin, Nandan Nilekani, Alvaro Rodriguez Arragui, Bernard Charles, Joshua Ramo, Michelle Guthrie, Arjun Divecha, Len Blavatnik, Viktor Vekselberg, Malvinder Singh, Bill Ford, Michael Green, Lord John Browne, John Studzinski, Bill Rhodes, Diana Farrell, Mikhail Fridman, Graham Mackey, Thor Bjorgolfsson, Ram Charan, Nabil Habayeb, Diana Glassman, David Rubenstein, Eli Jacobs, Dambisa Moyo, Alastair Newton and Michael Patsalos Fox.

ECONOMIST: Sources and acknowledgments

While the Rhodes and the Marshall have produced a list of famous leaders, including Bill Clinton, Susan Rice and Rachel Maddow (Rhodes) and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman (Marshall), the Mitchell is too young to have such an illustrious roster.

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Bill Clinton went to Oxford University and surrounded himself with Rhodes scholars who liked to discuss the German educational model.

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