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Other names mentioned for the position include Palmeiras Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, Atlético Mineiro Coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo and Corinthians Coach Mano Menezes.
The names that BusinessWeek floats as potential candidates for the position include Vint Cerf, the chief internet evangelist for Google; Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft; Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon; and Ed Felten, computer science professor at Princeton.
Other leading contenders for the position include former South Africa and Australia coach Mickey Arthur, ex-Worcestershire and Australia all-rounder Tom Moody and current Lancashire coach Peter Moores, who coached England from 2007 to 2009.
Possible candidates for the position include Transport Minister Binali Yildirim or Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, who is married to Erdogan's eldest daughter.
The duties of the poet laureate are not specific, and the position includes no office or salary.
May's stance found almost no support among her fellow Conservative MPs in the Commons, with those criticising the position including Bill Cash, Sarah Wollaston and Crispin Blunt.
Mehrotra is in the company of a host of distinguished unsuccessful candidates for the position, including CS Lewis, FR Leavis, Robert Lowell and Stephen Spender.
He beat out seven other candidates for the position, including the other finalist, the former Mexican trade minister Herminio Blanco Mendoza, who had the backing of the European Union.
Twelve candidates have signalled their interest in the position, including the director general of Unesco, Irina Bokova, the former New Zealand prime minister and UN development program administrator, Helen Clark, and the former UN climate change commissioner, Christiana Figueres.
In his opening remarks, he made no mention of other contenders for the position, including Caroline Kennedy, who made a surprising 11th-hour decision to withdraw her name from consideration.
His name wasn't one bandied about with those seen as major contenders for the position, including the more high-profile choreographers Wayne McGregor (the Royal's resident choreographer) and the British-born, Royal Ballet-trained Christopher Wheeldon and the former principal dancer Bruce Sansom.
