2007's Best U.S. Leaders

America's Best Leaders is a collaboration between U.S.News & World Report and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

How They Were Picked
Learning to Lead
National Leadership Index 2007
Archives of Past Best Leaders

2007's Best U.S. Leaders
James Baker and Lee H. Hamilton, Chairmen, Iraq Study Group, 9/11 Commission
Kenneth Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express Company
Kenneth Fisher, Chairman, and CEO, The Fisher House Foundation
Dr. William H. Foege, Senior Medical Advisor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Michael J. Fox, Founder, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
Mary Houghton and Ron Grzywinski, Cofounders, ShoreBank Corp.
Andrea Jung, Chairman and CEO, Avon
Nicholas Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times
Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense
Yo-Yo Ma, Founder and Artistic Director, The Silk Road Project
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor, State of California
Ruth J. Simmons, President, Brown University
Pat Summit, Head of Women's Basketball Coach, University of Tennessee
Shirley M. Tilghman, President, Princeton University
Dr. Harold Varmus, President and CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center