In McKinsey’s 2024 annual book recommendations, 11 of our 50-plus contributors of CEOs, founders, editors in chief, and other leaders are also members of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders (YGL)—a community of committed professionals around the world driving impact in business, civic service, technology, sustainability, not-for-profit organizations, and more:
- Aakrit Vaish
- Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui
- Anthony Smaré
- Birgit Skarstein
- Lila Ibrahim
- May Habib
- Mina Al-Oraibi
- Philip Meissner
- Raju Narisetti
- Sahar Albazar
- Sophie Schmidt
Check out five of their recommended books below, and explore the full list to see what else these enterprising, socially minded leaders are reading.
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
Recommended by:
May Habib, cofounder and CEO, Writer; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Recommended by:
Anthony Smaré, executive chair, TrueNorth Capital, Papua New Guinea; chair, Paradise Foods; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding
Recommended by:
Lila Ibrahim, COO, Google DeepMind; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
What I Learned About Investing from Darwin by Pulak Prasad
Recommended by:
Aakrit Vaish, cofounder and CEO, Jio Haptik Technologies; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick
Recommended by:
Sophie Schmidt, founder and publisher, Rest of World; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum