Raimondo makes Fortune list of World’s Greatest Leaders

GOV. GINA M. RAIMONDO ranked 38th on Fortune's list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
GOV. GINA M. RAIMONDO ranked 38th on Fortune's list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo has made it onto Fortune’s third annual list of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, sharing space with Pope Francis, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and U2’s Bono.
The list, released Thursday, ranks Raimondo 38th.
Wrote Fortune, “America’s smallest state just tackled one of the country’s biggest fiscal problems. Countless state and local governments struggle with under-financed pension plans, and Rhode Island’s was one of the worst before 2014.”
It said Raimondo, as state treasurer, retooled the system, cutting cost-of-living increases, upsetting public sector unions and prompting lawsuits.
“But voters rewarded Raimondo by electing her governor. In 2015 she negotiated legal settlements that preserved her pension reforms, inspiring hope in cash-strapped statehouses everywhere,” Fortune wrote.
First on the list is Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO. The pope came in fourth, Ginsburg, ninth, and Bono, 14th.
View the entire list HERE.
Fortune wrote that people may not recognize many names on the list.
“In our media-saturated, personality-obsessed global culture, how can that be? Yet it is so, and that’s what makes this group so heartening. It turns out the world is full of people you’ve never heard of who are rallying followers to make life better in ways you never imagined,” Fortune wrote.

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  1. She completely threw cities and towns under the bus with regard to pension liabilities. She knew Cicilline and Taveras were lying about the finances in Providence and violating US securities law misleading Municipal Bond Holders. Yet she endorsed Cicilline and let Taveras off the hook by not turning Taveras into the SEC as she knew she should.