dubai indias financial capital mumbai is among the worlds most attractive cities in terms of professional and private life in a list topped by dubai and followed by amsterdam insead one of the worlds leading and largest graduate business schools carried out the survey titled insead alumni and found that dubai was rated worlds most attractive city to live and work in surprisingly london ranked 10 and paris 11 mumbai which ranked 13 is the only indian city to appear in the list of 15 best cities worldwide it came 13th in overall attractiveness seventh in economic dynamism 15th in quality of life and fifth in cost of living insead said dubai was followed by amsterdam which rated second then toronto singapore madrid hong kong new york tokyo shanghai london paris milano mumbai moscow and sao paulo respectively to some it might come as a surprise that dubai has been ranked as the best place to work globally by the insead alumni association but for insead in the region this is not a revelation todays business leaders and key decisionmakers recognise the dynamism of this country which leads many to choose to live work and actively immerse themselves in the regional business landscape miguel lobo associate professor of decision sciences and director of insead campus abu dhabi said dubai ranked first in economic dynamism third in overall attractiveness and received the fourth place in quality of life and cost of living insead alumni association france recorded and assessed the responses of 835 insead alumni with international working experience the assessments were drawn from 30 criteria dealing with professional and private life that include economic dynamism quality of labour access to funding etc quality of life sports and cultural facilities air quality etc and cost of living real estate dining and entertainment etc among others