Saturday, November 19, 2011

The World's Most Powerful People

Rank Name/Title Organization Age
1 Barack Obama

Barack Obama

President

United States of America 50
2 Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Prime Minister

Russia 59
3 Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao

President

People's Republic of China 68
4 Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel

Chancellor

Germany 57
5 Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Co-Chair

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 56
6 Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud

King

Saudi Arabia 87
7 Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope

Roman Catholic Church 84
8 Ben Bernanke

Ben Bernanke

Chairman of the Federal Reserve

United States of America 57
9 Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder

Facebook 27
10 David Cameron

David Cameron

Prime Minister

United Kingdom 45
11 Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi

President

Indian National Congress 64
12 Mario Draghi

Mario Draghi

President

European Central Bank 64
13 Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Sarkozy

President

France 56
14 Wen Jiabao

Wen Jiabao

Premier

People's Republic of China 69
15 Zhou Xiaochuan

Zhou Xiaochuan

Governor

People's Bank of China 63
16 Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton

Secretary of State

United States of America 64
17 Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

Mayor

New York City 69
18 Timothy Geithner

Timothy Geithner

Secretary of the Treasury

United States of America 50
19 Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh

Prime Minister

India 79
20 Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett

CEO

Berkshire Hathaway 81
21 Silvio Berlusconi & family

Silvio Berlusconi & family

Prime Minister

Italy 75
22 Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Rousseff

President

Brazil 63
23 Carlos Slim Helu & family

Carlos Slim Helu & family

Chairman

Telmex 71
24 Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

CEO

News Corp. 80
25 Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister

Israel 62
26 Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

Grand Ayatollah

Iran 72
27 Michael Duke

Michael Duke

CEO

Wal-Mart 61
28 Jeffrey Immelt

Jeffrey Immelt

CEO

General Electric 55
29 Zhou Yongkang

Zhou Yongkang

Secretary of the Commission for Political and Legislative Affairs

People's Republic of China 68
30 Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin

Co-Founder

Google 38
30 Larry Page

Larry Page

Co-Founder

Google 38
31 Ali Al-Naimi

Ali Al-Naimi

Oil Minister

Saudi Arabia 76
32 Rostam Ghasemi

Rostam Ghasemi

President

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 47
33 Lou Jiwei

Lou Jiwei

Chairman

China Investment Corporation 60
34 Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

Chief of Army Staff

Pakistan 59
35 Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani

Chairman

Reliance Industries 54
36 Masaaki Shirakawa

Masaaki Shirakawa

Governor

Bank of Japan 62
37 Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il

Supreme Leader

North Korea 69
38 Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General

United Nations 67
39 Christine Lagarde

Christine Lagarde

Managing Director

International Monetary Fund 55
40 Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos

CEO

Amazon 47
41 Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon

CEO

JPMorgan Chase & Co. 55
42 Robin Li

Robin Li

CEO

Baidu 42
43 Lloyd Blankfein

Lloyd Blankfein

CEO

Goldman Sachs 57
44 Li Ka-shing

Li Ka-shing

Chairman

Hutchison Whampoa Limited 83
45 Charles Koch

Charles Koch

CEO

Koch Industries 76
45 David Koch

David Koch

Executive Vice President

Koch Industries 71
46 Rex Tillerson

Rex Tillerson

CEO

ExxonMobil 59
47 Lakshmi Mittal

Lakshmi Mittal

Chairman

ArcelorMittal 61
48 Recep Erdogan

Recep Erdogan

Prime Minister

Republic of Turkey 57
49 Robert Zoellick

Robert Zoellick

President

World Bank Group 58
50 Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

Former President

United States of America 65
51 Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

Tibet 76
52 Larry Fink

Larry Fink

CEO

BlackRock 59
53 Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan

Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan

President

United Arab Emirates 63
54 Bill Gross

Bill Gross

Co-Founder

PIMCO 67
55 Joaquin Guzman Loera

Joaquin Guzman Loera

Drug Trafficker

Sinaloa Cartel 54
56 Ahmed Shuja Pasha

Ahmed Shuja Pasha

Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence

Pakistan 59
57 Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar

Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar

Leader

D-Company 55
58 Tim Cook

Tim Cook

CEO

Apple 51
59 Dmitry Medvedev

Dmitry Medvedev

President

Russia 46
60 Masayoshi Son

Masayoshi Son

CEO

SoftBank 54
61 Azim Premji

Azim Premji

Chairman

Wipro Limited 66
62 Yoshihiko Noda

Yoshihiko Noda

Prime Minister

Japan 54
63 Joseph Blatter

Joseph Blatter

President

International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) 75
64 Jill Abramson

Jill Abramson

Executive Editor

The New York Times 57
65 Bernard Arnault

Bernard Arnault

Chairman

Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) 62
66 Sebastian Pinera

Sebastian Pinera

President

Chile 61
67 John Boehner

John Boehner

Speaker

United States House of Representatives 61
68 Jacques Rogge

Jacques Rogge

President

International Olympic Committee 69
69 Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping

First Secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Party

People's Republic of China 58
70 Alisher Usmanov

Alisher Usmanov

Oligarch

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