Job: editor, Financial Times
Age: 57
Industry: publishing, digital media
2011 ranking: 36
As the newspaper industry grapples with the digital future, Financial Times editor Lionel Barber is executing arguably the most successful print to online transition in Fleet Street. The Pink 'Un's digital subscribers topped 300,000 in the second quarter of this year, overtaking its global print circulation which has been in decline.
Barber has been editor of the FT since 2005, when he succeeded Andrew Gowers, and has been credited with overseeing a resurgence in the paper's fortunes.
Such is his standing that he was rumoured to be a contender for the BBC director general's job, but he denied he was interviewed for the role.
