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Seven of the 22 "true leaders" identified in the August issue of the Australian Financial Review's Boss magazine are engineers. According to the magazine, true leaders are those who have the "X factor" to "survive these turbulent and contradictory times". The engineers on the list are: 1. Metallurgist Geoff Garrett, chief executive of the CSIRO 2. Photovoltaic engineer Scientia Professor Martin Green, executive research director of the Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence at the University of NSW 3. Civil engineer Grant King, managing director of Origin Energy 4. Chemical engineer Christopher Roberts, president and chief executive of Cochlear.