London`s most influential people....

Last month, London's very own newspaper, The Evening Standard, published a list of the 1000 most influential people in London in 2008. Among them were 51 financiers.

Here is a selection of the chosen ones, with snippets from the newspaper's commentaries:

- Michael Spencer, 53, ICAP founder and CEO - "far and away the City's kingpin."
- Noam Gottesman, 47, GLG founder - "hugely rich? but publicity shy; no media picture of him exist."
- Clara Furse, 51, LSE CEO - "one of those responsible for taking London to the top in global finance."
- Christopher Hohn, 41, Children's Investment Fund founder - "makes a fortune with his hedge fund? then gives it to a charitable foundation run by his American wife."
- Crispin Odey, 49, Odey Asset Management founder - "thrived on the credit crisis after being one of the first to predict the coming crunch and taking a short position in Bradford & Bingley."
- Adair Turner, 53, FSA chairman - "a self-confessed technocrat."
- Peter Cruddas, 54, CMC founder and chairman - "lives in Monaco and has given ?100m to charity through his own foundation."
- Hector Sants, 52, FSA CEO - "poacher turned gamekeeper."
- Louis Bacon, 52, Moore Capital founder - "can move world markets and is said to be more powerful than George Soros."
- Michael Hintze, 55, CQS, founder and CEO - "A Russian speaker, his CV is daunting: his degrees include physics, pure mathematics and acoustics."
- Martin Hughes, 47, Toscafund owner - "former top banking analyst dubbed The Rottweiler."
- Johannes Huth, 46, KKR, head of Euro......................

Source:
http://www.opalesque.com/AMB2008/48243most_influential_people_in_finance.html