Business

These are the most trusted CEOs in the world right now

Staff Writer

 ·20 May 2018

The Reputation Institute (RI) has announced its first-ever CEO RepTrak study – showing which company leaders are considered the most reputable in 2018.

The largest reputation study of its kind, the data is based on more than 28,000 individual ratings collected in the first quarter of 2018 across the G15 economies.

The results indicate Sundar Pichai of Google is the world’s most reputable CEO. Pichai stands out for his responsible leadership and is viewed as excellent on the merits of fiscal, social and environmental responsibility, RI said.

Denise Morrison of the Campbell Soup Company and Tatsumi Kimishima of Nintendo received honourable mentions among the world’s Top 10 most reputable CEOs.

“The rubric for what it takes to be a great leader is quickly shifting,” said Stephen Hahn-Griffiths, chief reputation officer at Reputation Institute.

“Assessing a CEO’s performance based solely on financial returns is no longer enough. There is a new era emerging in which the intangibles of reputation are driving political, social and economic change, and giving CEOs reason to reconsider their role as a leader. To be relevant as a contemporary leader today, you need to be a CEO with conscience.”

The RepTrak results show strong leadership across a range of industries internationally, including financial services, technology, food and beverage, consumer and hospitality. Within the global study, six of the top 10 CEOs are executives of US companies and three are CEOs of  European businesses.

The list of top 10 business leaders globally recognized in RI’s 2018 CEO RepTrak study (in alphabetical order) are:

Read: How much CEOs, CFOs and directors earn in South Africa