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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