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Powerful People - Forbes.com November 2010
Rank
Name
Title
Organization
1
Hu Jintao
President
People's Republic of China
2
Barack Obama
President
United States of America
3
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud
King
Saudi Arabia
4
Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister
Russia
5
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope
Roman Catholic Church
6
Angela Merkel
Chancellor
Germany
7
David Cameron
Prime Minister
United Kingdom
8
Ben Bernanke
Chairman
Federal Reserve
9
Sonia Gandhi
President
Indian National Congress
10
Bill Gates
Co-Chair
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
11
Zhou Xiaochuan
Governor
People's Bank of China
12
Dmitry Medvedev
President
Russia
13
Rupert Murdoch
CEO
News Corp.
14
Silvio Berlusconi
Prime Minister
Italy
15
Jean-Claude Trichet
President
European Central Bank
16
Dilma Rousseff
President
Brazil
17
Steve Jobs
CEO
Apple
18
Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister
India
19
Nicolas Sarkozy
President
France
20
Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State
United States of America
21
Carlos Slim Helu
Chairman
Telmex
22
Larry Page
Co-Founder
Google
22
Sergey Brin
Co-Founder
Google
23
Michael Bloomberg
Mayor
New York City
24
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister
Israel
25
Michael Duke
CEO
Wal-Mart
26
Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
Grand Ayatollah
Iran
27
Naoto Kan
Prime Minister
Japan
28
Timothy Geithner
Secretary of the
Treasury
United States of America
29
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Chief of Army Staff
Pakistan
30
Lou Jiwei
Chairman
China Investment Corporation
31
Kim Jong-il
Supreme Leader
North Korea
32
Li Changchun
Propaganda Chief
People's Republic of China
33
Warren Buffett
CEO
Berkshire Hathaway
34
Mukesh Ambani
Chairman
Reliance Industries
35
Jeffrey Immelt
CEO
General Electric
36
Li Ka-shing
Chairman
Hutchison Whampoa & Chueng Kong Holdings
37
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Managing Director
International Monetary Fund
38
Masaaki Shirakawa
Governor
Bank of Japan
39
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
Tibet
40
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder
Facebook
41
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General
United Nations
42
Lloyd Blankfein
CEO
Goldman Sachs
43
Bernard Arnault
Chairman
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)
44
Lakshmi Mittal
Chairman
ArcelorMittal ADS
45
Robert Zoellick
President
The World Bank Group
46
Robin Li
CEO
Baidu
47
Jamie Dimon
Chairman
JPMorgan Chase
48
Larry Fink
CEO
BlackRock
49
Rex Tillerson
CEO
ExxonMobil
50
Bill Keller
Executive Editor
The New York Times
51
Sebastian Pinera
President
Chile
52
Igor Sechin
Deputy Prime Minister
Russia
53
Abdalla Salem El-Badri
Secretary General
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
54
Charles Koch
CEO
Koch Industries
54
David Koch
Executive VP
Koch Industries
55
Masayoshi Son
CEO
SoftBank
56
Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan
President
United Arab Emirates
57
Osama bin Laden
Founder
Al Qaida
58
Eike Batista
CEO
EBX Group
59
Bill Gross
Co-Founder
PIMCO
60
Joaquin Guzman Loera
Drug Trafficker
Sinaloa Cartel
61
Ratan Tata
Chairman
Tata Sons
62
Wang Yong
Chairman
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China (SASAC)
63
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar
Leader
D-Company (crime syndicate)
64
Oprah Winfrey
Media Personality
The Oprah Winfrey Show
65
Joseph "Sepp" Blatter
President
International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)
66
Jeff Bezos
CEO
Amazon
67
Jacques Rogge
President
International Olympic Committee
68
Julian Assange
Editor-In-Chief
WikiLeaks
See Also:
The Time 100 - The World's Most Influential People
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last updated 11 Feb 2009