The Top Ten: Most Admired CEOs

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

December 10 - 17

Most Admired CEOs

Rank	Name	Company	Country
1.	Bill Gates	Microsoft	U.S.
2.	Steve Jobs	Apple	U.S.
3.	Warren Buffett	Berkshire Hathaway	U.S.
4.	Michael Dell	Dell	U.S.
5.	Richard Branson	Virgin Group	U.K.
6.	John Browne	BP	U.K.
7.	Carlos Ghosn	Nissan Motor & Renault	Japan/France
8.	N. R. Narayana Murthy	Infosys Technologies	India
9.	Jeffrey Immelt	General Electric	U.S.
10.	Rupert Murdoch	News Corporation	Australia

The 2005 CEO Capital study was conducted in 65 countries online with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) between May and July 2005. It was completed by 685 business influentials.

Source: Burson Marsteller.

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