The 100 City people you need to follow on Twitter this year, day five: Thought leaders
On the final day of our list, we've gone abstract: having gone through entrepreneurs, analysts, chief executives and economists, our final day provides some food for thought for those looking for a bit of inspiration in their Twitter streams.
Whether they're well-known faces or small-time entrepreneurs; whether they've come up with a new way to lead, done a great TED talk, discovered the psychopathic personality makes the ideal leader or just want to help you become a better speaker, here – in no particular order – are our 20 most inspiring City(ish) tweeters.
| 1. | Belinda Parmar | @belindaparmar | Chief executive, Ladygeek | CEO of @ladygeek, OBE, Author of The Empathy Era & Little Miss Geek, Professor, Campaigner, World Economic Forum #YGL, UK Gov Advisory Board for STEM |
| 2. | Geoff Mulgan | @geoffmulgan | Chief executive, Nesta | Chief Exec of Nesta, writer, social entrepreneur, policy geek & infinitely curious about how the world works |
| 3. | Richard Lambert | @richardlambert5 | Former director-general, CBI | Consulting on proposals for a new independent body to raise standards of behaviour and competence in banking. #bankingstandards |
| 4. | Lord Browne | @LordJohnBrowne | Former chief executive, BP | The official Twitter account of Lord (John) Browne of Madingley. Momento historiae – don't lose the plot. |
| 5. | Simon Sinek | @simonsinek | Author, Leaders Eat Last | To run & jump & laugh & cry & love & hope & imagine…to experience as much as I can all for one purpose: to inspire. |
| 6. | Jamie Oliver | @jamieoliver | Entrepreneur | Official Jamie Oliver. |
| 7. | Rory Sutherland | @rorysutherland | Vice-chairman, Ogilvy & Mather |
Fat bloke at Ogilvy, IPA; The Spectator's Wiki Man.
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| 8. | Lisa Harouni | @LisaHarouni | Co-founder, digital forming | Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Forming, a software house that aims to democratising design for 3D printing technologies. Click to print… |
| 9. | Chris Anderson | @TEDChris | Founder, TED | Head of TED. Dreamer. Most days an optimist. TED = free talks on the web in Technology, Entertainment, Design & ideas worth spreading. |
| 10. | Natalie Campbell | @NatDCampbell | Founder, A Very Good Company | #Creator-Doer Founder @avgoodcompany and @HowSheMovesUK Author #7SimpleSteps Chair @NCYVS Trustee/Board @UnLtd and @WayraUnLtd Fellow @cloresocial @wcmt_uk |
| 11. | Tim Berners-Lee | @timberners_lee | Inventor, World Wide Web | Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) w3.org, the place to agree on web standards. Founded webfoundation.org – let the web serve humanity |
| 12. | Trevor Bayliss | @ClockworkTrev | Inventor, Clockwork radio |
Clockwork radio inventor. President of Trevor Baylis Brands, inventor service. Ask me about inventions, patents, copyright. Visit http://trevorbaylisbrands.com
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| 13. | Paul Kemp-Robertson | @ContagiousPaul | Co-founder, Contagious Communications | Co-founder of Contagious Communications; father of three; Boro fan; dweller of St Albans. Loves ripe bananas. Doesn't get enough sleep. |
| 14. | Joanna Shields | @joannashields | Chair, Tech City UK | Baroness Joanna Shields is Prime Minister @David_Cameron's Digital Advisor. Also Chair @TechCityUK and Non-Executive Director @LSEGplc. |
| 15. | Kate Robertson | @kateatoyw | Global president, Havas Worldwide | Co-Founder One Young World, Global President Havas Worldwide, mum. Passionate about the power of youth, the role of business in doing good & watching sport! |
| 16. | Dr Tomas Chamoro-Premuzic | @drtcp | Professor of business psychology, University College London | Business Psychologist / UCL Professor / VP @HoganAssessment / Conf!dence author / @HarvardBiz @Forbes & @guardian blogger / #leadership #personality #innovation |
| 17. | Paul Forkan | @paul7forkan | Co-founder, Gandys | Co- Founder of Gandys – Orphans for Orphans. |
| 18. | Professor Kevin Dutton | @profkevindutton | Author, The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success | Research psychologist at the University of Oxford. Author of the Good Psychopath's Guide to Success, Wisdom of Psychopaths and Flipnosis. Follow #goodpsychopath |
| 19. | Peter Botting | @PeterBotting | Storytelling and speaker coach | SpeakerCoach. Chief of Staff to a Jack Russel. MessageCraftⓇ – the art and science of Getting What You Want with Words for candidates, careers and corporates. |
| 20. | Tim Campbell | @tc_mbe | Founder, The Bright Ideas Trust | Knowledge is power. With connections that power is limitless… @weareams @bright_ideas @nrggym |
See the rest of this week's list below – or follow the full 100 as a Twitter list.
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