Love him or loathe him, there’s no escaping Russell Brand. Now the controversial comedian and self-styled revolutionary has been voted the fourth most influential global thinker by an leading current affairs magazine.
Prospect magazine, which compiles an annual list of internationally renowned thinkers, has placed Brand among authors, philosophers and economists in this year’s top 10.
1. Thomas Piketty, French economist
2. Yanis Varoufakis, Greek finance minister
3. Naomi Klein, US author
4. Russell Brand, UK comedian and campaigner
5. Paul Krugman, US economist
6. Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
7. Jurgen Habermas, German philosopher
8. Daniel Kahneman, US-Israeli psychologist
9. John Gray, UK philosopher
10. Atul Gawande, US surgeon and writer