Robin Li
Age: 41
Chairman & CEO, Baidu
He has out-Googled Google. Li co-founded Baidu 10 years ago, and the search engine today dominates the Chinese market. In 2005, Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the Nasdaq 100 index, and last year Li launched a Japanese version. Li, who earned a master's in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994, has patented the hyper link analysis he developed and which his company now uses.
