Pick the world's leaders and leading intellectuals

BBC News asks for a vote on who to include in an elite team of eleven thinkers, leaders and economists to run the world, as part of its "Who Runs Your World?" season.

My pick:
Thinkers: Noam Chomsky, Wangari Maathai (don't know why she's a thinker), Amartya Sen, and a tie between Tariq Ramadan and Shirin Ebadi.
Leaders: Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Kofi Annan.
Economists: George Soros, Alan Greenspan, Ahmed Al-Fahd Al-Sabah (as current head of the mighty OPEC), and a tie between J. R. Immelt (CEO of General Electric) and Sergey Brin (Google co-founder).

And FP asks to select the top five public intellectuals from a list of 100. The list includes philosophers like Dennet, Chomsky, Habermas, Rorty, Walzer and Nussbaum; religious figures like Benedict XVI, Yusuf Al Qaradawi and Ali Al-Sistani; and novelists, historians, economists and political scientists, among others, with many of the names common with the BBC selection. Canadians featured include Michael Ignatieff and Naomi Klein (there are none in the BBC list).

It's much harder to pick just five from so many people (although there are some quite obvious easy eliminations). I guess it depends on what the criteria for selection is. FP doesn't provide much direction, other than that we're supposed to pick the top five 'public' intellectuals.

I think I'd best get back to my readings, rather than spend more time on interesting but ultimately fruitless excercises.