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Who's in and who's out
Gideon Spanier12 Jan 2009
Our annual magazine chronicles London's power-brokers and agenda-setters. However, influence can shift quickly. Gideon Spanier looks at who's in and who's out.
Up and coming
TV & Radio
Matt Smith, 26
Actor
The surprise choice to be the next Dr Who makes a reappearance in Influentials after we picked him out as a rising theatre star in 2007, following his West End turn in That Face. The success of
David Tennant as the Doctor guarantees Northampton-born Smith a great platform.
Making moves
Business
John Connolly, 58
Chief executive, Deloitte
Recession is good news for this top beancounter whose firm is in charge of two major corporate collapses in the space of a month — Woolworths and Waterford Wedgwood. Opera
fan Connolly has run Deloitte's for a decade.
New on the list
Law
Richard Alderman, 56
Director, Serious Fraud Office
Newly appointed SFO chief is shaking up the City with an investigation into the UK end of the Bernard Madoff fraud. Alderman, a former top legal brain at the Inland Revenue, is keen to end the SFO's reputation as the “Serious Farce Office”.
Feeling the squeeze
Retail
Sir Stuart Rose, 59
M&S executive chairman
Facing renewed pressure after presiding over the worst sales at M&S for a decade. Rose, who turns 60 in March, has had to shut stores, cancel bonuses and freeze his pay. And with rival Sainsbury's doing well, M&S shareholders may become restless.
Off the list
Sport
Kevin Pietersen, 28
Former England cricket captain
Charismatic and brilliant batsman who proved a flop when he became captain. When Pietersen fell out spectacularly with the coaching staff, he lost the support of the team — which was no way to prepare for the Ashes this summer.
Making moves
Literary Life
Sadie Jones, 41
Novelist
Multi-award-winning debut novelist has picked up another gong, The Costa First Book Prize, for The Outcast, about a dysfunctional boy growing up in Fifties England. The former screenwriter and mother of two, who grew up in Chelsea, is tipped to adapt the novel for the cinema and is also working on a second book.
