Also listed in the 2019
Powerlist were the following people, organised by industry:
Arts, Fashion and Design •
Chi-chi Nwanoku, OBE - Classical musician and founder of
Chineke! Orchestra •
Chris Ofili -
Turner Prize winning artist •
Delia Jarrett-Macauley - Chair of the
Caine Prize, writer and academic •
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, MBE - Poet, author, broadcaster •
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - Award-winning artist • Matthew Morgan - Founder of
Afropunk Festival •
Pat McGrath - Founder of Pat McGrath Labs, make-up artist •
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 • Brian Robinson - Senior managing director at
Goldman Sachs • Bukola Adisa - Head of Framework and Design at
Barclays • Eric Collins - Head of Operations at Touch Surgery • Gary Stewart - Director,
Telefonica Open Future and
Wayra UK •
Heather Melville - Director and Head of Client Experience,
PricewaterhouseCoopers UK. • Netsai Mangwende - Head of Finance for Great Britain,
Willis Towers Watson • Pamela Hutchinson - Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion,
Bloomberg • Sandra Wallace - UK Managing Partner,
DLA Piper • Tunji Akintokun - Director at
Cisco leading mid-market sales and partnerships for Africa • 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 Harewood, MBE - Actor •
David Olusoga, OBE - Historian, joint Creative Director of Uplands Television Ltd • Dumi Oburota - Founder of
Disturbing London •
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 • Jacqueline Simmons - Executive editor at
Bloomberg L.P. •
John Boyega - Actor •
Kanya King, CBE -CEO/Founder,
MOBO Awards • 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 •
Stormzy - Grime artist •
Thandie Newton - Actor •
Tunde Ogungbesan -
BBC head of diversity and inclusion •
Vanessa Kingori, MBE - Publisher,
British Vogue •
Wayne Hector - Songwriter • Yolisa Phahle - CEO,
M-Net Politics, Law and Religion • Baroness
Floella Benjamin DBE, DL - Peer,
House of Lords, Policy maker, campaigner for children's rights •
Chuka Umunna -
Labour Member of Parliament for
Streatham • Grace Ononiwu, CBE -
Crown Prosecutor • Joshua Siaw, MBE - Partner,
White & Case • Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku - Co-Director at Development Results •
David Lammy, MP -
Member of Parliament for
Tottenham Public, Third Sector and Education • Beverley Lewis, OBE - Co-Founder and Director of Operations, ACLT (African Caribbean Leukemia Trust) • Dr Cheron Byfield - Governor and Trust Member of
King Solomon International Business School • Dr
Margaret Casely-Hayford, CBE - Chair,
Shakespeare's Globe, lawyer and businessperson •
Marvin Rees -
Mayor of Bristol •
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex - Campaigner, actress • Nero Ughwujabo - Special Adviser to the Prime Minister
Theresa May •
Nira Chamberlain - President of
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications • Orin Lewis, OBE - Co-founder and chief-executive, ACLT (African Caribbean Leukemia Trust) • Patricia Gallan - Retired
Metropolitan Police Service assistant commissioner leading specialist crime and operations •
Lord Woolley - Co-founder/Director,
Operation Black Vote • David Waboso - Managing director of
Network Rail's Digital Railway
Science, Medicine and Engineering • Dr Emeka Okaro - Consultant
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist • Dr Ian Nnatu - Consultant
psychiatrist at
Charing Cross Hospital and Medical Director at Cygnet Hospital Harrow • Dr Joy Odili - Consultant
plastic surgeon at
St George's Hospital • Dr Sylvia Bartley - Senior Global Director, Medtronic Philanthropy • Dr
Samantha Tross - Consultant
Orthopaedic Surgeon • Prof.
Laura Serrant, OBE - Head of Department and Professor of Community and Public Health Nursing at
Manchester Metropolitan University Sports •
Anthony Joshua, OBE - Boxer •
Denise Lewis - TV presenter and Olympic Gold medal-winning athlete •
Dina Asher Smith - British record-holding sprinter •
Lewis Hamilton, MBE -
Formula One champion •
Luol Deng - Former NBA player • Sir
Mo Farah - Olympic Gold medal-winning athlete
Technology • Baroness
Oona King - Strategy for equity, diversity, inclusion & integrity for
Google • Ian Greenstreet - Founder and Chairman, Infinity Capital Partners and Member on the Advisory Board,
London Stock Exchange • Janet Thomas - Founder and CEO of TouchFX at Infinity Capital Partners •
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 ==See also==