Jack Ma featured in Foreign Policy magazine

Alibaba Founder Jack Ma has been listed among 2019's list of top "100 global thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine. Jack Ma is the only Chinese entrepreneur ranked, reports Chinanews.com.

Jack Ma or Ma Yun, Chairman of Alibaba Group, gives a lesson to village teachers during the 2018 Rural Teacher Awards launched by Jack Ma Foundation in Sanya city, south China's Hainan province, 13 January 2019. [Photo: IC]

The entire list has been split into 10 categories, including defense and security, energy and climate, technology, economics and business and science and health. The list includes influential politicians, businessmen and thinkers throughout the world.

Jack Ma is the top ranked businessmen on the list, ahead of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

In announcing its choice, Foreign Policy magazine says, “Few people can claim to have transformed an entire society. Jack Ma can make a credible case. Alibaba, the e-commerce company he founded in 1999, has enabled businesses to reach once inaccessible consumers, bringing a generation of Chinese citizens into contact with domestic and international markets and helping to fuel China’s breakneck growth.”

Since establishing Alibaba in 1999, Jack Ma has arguably become China's most influential entrepreneur.

The full Foreign Policy listing is due out on January 22, 2019.