World's Most Powerful People

Special Report

The World's Most Powerful People

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RANK	NAME	TITLE	ORGANIZATION	AGE
1	Barack Obama	President	United States of America	48
2	Hu Jintao	President	People's Republic of China	66
3	Vladimir Putin	Prime Minister	Russia	57
4	Ben S. Bernanke	Chairman	Federal Reserve	55
5	Sergey Brin and Larry Page	Founders	Google	36
6	Carlos Slim Helu	Chief executive	Telmex	69
7	Rupert Murdoch	Chairman	News Corp.	78
8	Michael T. Duke	President, CEO and Director	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	59
9	Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud	King	Saudi Arabia	85
10	William Gates III	Co-Chair	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	54
11	Pope Benedict XVI	Pope	Roman Catholic Church	82
12	Silvio Berlusconi	Prime Minister	Italy	73
13	Jeffrey R. Immelt	Chairman	General Electric Company	53
14	Warren Buffett	Chief executive	Berkshire Hathaway	79
15	Angela Merkel	Chancellor	Germany	55
16	Laurence D. Fink	Chairman	BlackRock, Inc.	57
17	Hillary Clinton	Secretary of State	United States of America	62
18	Lloyd C. Blankfein	Chairman	Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	55
19	Li Changchun	Propaganda Chief	Communist Party of China	65
20	Michael Bloomberg	Mayor & Founder	New York City & Bloomberg LP.	67
21	Timothy Geithner	Secretary	United States Treasury	48
22	Rex W. Tillerson	Chairman	ExxonMo Corp.	57
23	Li Ka-shing	Chairman	Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and Hutchison Whampoa Limited	81
24	Kim Jong Il	Chairman of National Defense Commission	North Korea	68
25	Jean-Claude Trichet	President	European Central Bank	66

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Special Report

The World's Most Powerful People

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RANK	NAME	TITLE	ORGANIZATION	AGE
26	Masaaki Shirakawa	Governor	Bank of Japan	60
27	Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan	Managing Director	Abu Dhabi Investment Authority	41
28	Akio Toyoda	Chief executive	Toyota Motor Corporation ADS	53
29	Gordon Brown	Prime Minister	United Kingdom	58
30	James S. Dimon	Chairman	JPMorgan Chase & Company	53
31	Bill Clinton	Former President	United States of America	63
32	William H. Gross	Chief Investment Officer	Pacific Investment Management Company	65
33	Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva	President	Brazil	64
34	Lou Jiwei	Chairman	China Investment Corporation	59
35	Yukio Hatoyama	Prime Minister	Japan	62
36	Manmohan Singh	Prime Minister	India	77
37	Osama bin Laden	Founder	al-Qaeda	52
38	Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani	Prime Minister	Pakistan	57
39	Tenzin Gyatso	Dalai Lama	Tibet	74
40	Ali Hoseini-Khamenei	Grand Ayatollah	Shi'a	70
41	Joaquin Guzman	Drug Trafficker	Sinaloa Cartel	52
42	Igor Sechin	Deputy Prime Minister	Russia	49
43	Dmitry Medvedev	President	Russia	44
44	Mukesh Ambani	Chairman	Reliance Industries Limited	52
45	Oprah Winfrey	Media Personality	The Oprah Winfrey Show	55
46	Benjamin Netanyahu	Prime Minister	Israel	60
47	Dominique Strauss-Kahn	Managing Director	International Monetary Fund	60
48	Zhou Xiaochuan	Governor	People's Bank of China	61
49	John Roberts Jr.	Chief Justice	United States Supreme Court	54
50	Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar	Head	D-Company	53

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RANK	NAME	TITLE	ORGANIZATION	AGE
51	William Keller	Executive Editor	The New York Times	60
52	Bernard Arnault	Chairman	Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy	60
53	Joseph S. Blatter	President	The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)	73
54	Wadah Khanfar	Director-General	Al Jazeera	41
55	Lakshmi Mittal	Chairman	ArcelorMittal ADS	59
56	Nicolas Sarkozy	President	France	54
57	Steve Jobs	Chief executive	Apple, Inc.	54
58	Fujio Mitarai	Chairman	Canon, Inc. ADR	74
59	Ratan Tata	Chairman	Tata Group	71
60	Jacques Rogge	President	International Olympic Committee	67
61	Li Rongrong	Chairman	State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council	65
62	Blairo Maggi	Governor	Mato Grasso	53
63	Robert B. Zoellick	President	World Bank	56
64	Antonio Guterres	High Commissioner for Refugees	United Nations	60
65	Mark John Thompson	Director-General	British Broadcasting Corporation	52
66	Klaus Schwab	Founder	World Economic Forum	71
67	Hugo Chavez	President	Venezuela	55