Every week, professionals from around the world publish over 150,000 posts on LinkedIn. Those posts cover everything from the narrow to the macro; some of the now nearly 2 million writers come once, others have carefully honed their voice.

So who should you read? And if you’re a writer, who should you emulate?

We answer those questions today with the debut of LinkedIn Top Voices, our ranked list of the top 10 writers in eight different areas — finance, tech, marketing, healthcare, leadership, media, education, venture capital — who broke out from the crowd. We also looked at the Influencers, the roughly 500 top voices in the professional world, and analyzed which 10 Influencers our readers thought were at the head of the class in 2015.

Among some of the names who surfaced as member favorites:

• Karen Gross, the former president of Southern Vermont College, who uses her expertise in education to make sense of the protests on college campuses, the growing student debt burden and the debate over the glut in law schools.
• Olivia Barrow, a reporter for the Milwaukee Business Journal, who gives readers a behind-the-scenes take into producing a major story and shares her own thoughts on the future of news. (One prediction: the days of free news may be over, something she says is a very good thing.)
• Mina Radhakrishnan, the entrepreneur-in-residence at Redpoint Ventures, adds an informed opinion on issues affecting Uber (her previous employer), Airbnb and other such marketplaces, and writes about “products I’d have in a perfect world, if they were built exclusively for me.”
• Geoffrey Garrett, the dean at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, uses his travels around the world to help to inform his view on the future of the global economy.