Nine Indian-origin people feature in Forbes 2011 list of under-30 achievers - Forbes lists them as "Tomorrow's Brightest Stars" who are "reinventing the world".
Following are the nine Indians in Forbes' '30 under 30' list, 2011 -
In pic: Manvir Nijhar, Co-Head Of European Equity Derivatives Sales at Citigroup.
This 28-year-old London School of Economics graduate left BNP Paribas after a four-year stint to give "Citi's derivatives business a jolt."
Kunal Shah, a 29-year-old Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.
He is the youngest managing director the global financial giant has ever seen, Shah was promoted at 27 and is the "Cambridge math grad turned rock star emerging markets trader."
This 27-year-old Maneet Ahuja is a producer at CNBC and a hedge fund expert who has been on Wall Street since she was 17.
This 24-year-old Nikhil Arora, co-Founder of 'Back To The Roots' sells 'grow-your-own-mushroom' kits using 1 million lbs of recycled coffee grounds.
Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora, are the Co-Founders of Back To The Roots.
Param Jaggi, 17, Inventor, Austin College -
Award-winning high schooler who created algae-filled device that fits over a car's tailpipe and turns carbon dioxide into oxygen. He received a sustainability award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for his anti-pollution invention.
Making a mark in the field of science is 29-year-old Raj Krishnan, Chief Executive of Biological Dynamics who is developing blood tests that use electric fields to detect key signals that a patient has cancer from the blood.
Vikas Mohindra, Financial Advisor at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch - This 25-year-old broker gathered $ 38 million in three years from scratch, including a $ 5 million retirement savings plan.
This 23-year-old Vivek Nair, Chief Executive of Damascus Fortune, who is developing a technology that transforms industrial carbon emissions into carbon nanotubes.
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