A number of financial services professionals have made it on to the World Economic Forum's 2012 list of young global leaders, including the recipient of a 'genius grant' at Harvard University and the head of Bank of America Merrill Lynch's global banking and markets division in Poland.

The WEF this morning named 192 young global leaders under the age of 40 from 59 countries. The selection committee was chaired by Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan.