Asia Business Leaders Award

Selecting the award winners from a list of accomplished business leaders becomes more challenging every year. Under stringent, objective and transparent criteria, business leaders are judged by an independent panel of world-respected management strategists, academics, corporate personalities and CNBC’s executives. Heading the judging panel are representatives from CNBC’s knowledge partner The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Together with research partner Development Dimensions International, the distinguished panel goes through a unique three-phase judging process, starting from quantitative company data analysis to select the top performers from across Asia, followed by face-to-face interviews to assess candidates’ leadership qualities to the final phase of selecting the winners for the awards. Candidates are evaluated based on a combination of criteria including the companies’ financial performance, creativity, innovation and social responsibility and their ability to create short-term advantage, long-term value and competitive edge.

The Asia Business Leaders Awards' judging team is made up of an independent panel of world-respected management strategists, academics, corporate personalities and CNBC's executives.

The list of judges for this year's Awards are:

Professor Mark Zmijewski
Leon Carroll Marshall Professor of Accounting
Deputy Dean
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Glenn Sykes
Associate Dean - Europe & Asia
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Dr. Rich Wellins
Senior Vice President
Development Dimensions International Ltd

John Casey
Vice President, International News and Programming
CNBC Asia Pacific

Frank Ning
Chairman
COFCO Limited

Tan Lay Koon
President and Chief Executive Officer
STATS ChipPAC Ltd

Shiv Nadar
Founder - HCL, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer
HCL Technologies