Shi Zhengrong
Age: 46
Chairman & CEO, Suntech Power
Shi moved to Australia in the late 1980s and earned a PhD from the University of New South Wales before returning to China and launching Suntech. The company, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2005, today is one of the world's top producers of crystalline silicon solar modules. He's currently on the defensive, though, fending off charges that Suntech and other Chinese producers are dumping products overseas—a charge he denies.
