World's Most Powerful People

1

Hu Jintao

President

People's Republic of China682

Barack Obama

President

United States of America503

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud

King

Saudi Arabia874

Vladimir Putin

Prime Minister

Russia595

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope

Roman Catholic Church846

Angela Merkel

Chancellor

Germany577

David Cameron

Prime Minister

United Kingdom458

Ben Bernanke

Chairman

Federal Reserve579

Sonia Gandhi

President

Indian National Congress6410

Bill Gates

Co-Chair

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation5511

Zhou Xiaochuan

Governor

People's Bank of China6312

Dmitry Medvedev

President

Russia4613

Rupert Murdoch

CEO

News Corp.8014

Silvio Berlusconi & family

Prime Minister

Italy7515

Jean-Claude Trichet

President

European Central Bank6816

Dilma Rousseff

President

Brazil6317

Steve Jobs

CEO

Apple5618

Manmohan Singh

Prime Minister

India7919

Nicolas Sarkozy

President

France5620

Hillary Clinton

Secretary of State

United States of America6321

Carlos Slim Helu & family

Chairman

Telmex7122

Larry Page

Co-Founder

Google3822

Sergey Brin

Co-Founder

Google3823

Michael Bloomberg

Mayor

New York City6924

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister

Israel6125

Michael Duke

CEO

Wal-Mart6126

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

Grand Ayatollah

Iran7227

Naoto Kan

Prime Minister

Japan6528

Timothy Geithner

Secretary of the Treasury

United States of America5029

Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

Chief of Army Staff

Pakistan5930

Lou Jiwei

Chairman

China Investment Corporation6031

Kim Jong-il

Supreme Leader

North Korea6932

Li Changchun

Propaganda Chief

People's Republic of China6733

Warren Buffett

CEO

Berkshire Hathaway8134

Mukesh Ambani

Chairman

Reliance Industries5435

Jeffrey Immelt

CEO

General Electric5536

Li Ka-shing

Chairman

Hutchison Whampoa & Chueng Kong Holdings8337

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Managing Director

International Monetary Fund6238

Masaaki Shirakawa

Governor

Bank of Japan6239

Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama

Tibet7640

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder

Facebook2741

Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General

United Nations6742

Lloyd Blankfein

CEO

Goldman Sachs5743

Bernard Arnault

Chairman

Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)6244

Lakshmi Mittal

Chairman

ArcelorMittal ADS6145

Robert Zoellick

President

The World Bank Group5846

Robin Li

CEO

Baidu4247

Jamie Dimon

Chairman

JPMorgan Chase5548

Larry Fink

CEO

BlackRock5849

Rex Tillerson

CEO

ExxonMobil5950

Bill Keller

Executive Editor

The New York Times6251

Sebastian Pinera

President

Chile6152

Igor Sechin

Deputy Prime Minister

Russia5153

Abdalla Salem El-Badri

Secretary General

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)7154

Charles Koch

CEO

Koch Industries7554

David Koch

Executive Vice President

Koch Industries7155

Masayoshi Son

CEO

SoftBank5456

Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan

President

United Arab Emirates6357

Osama bin Laden

Founder

Al Qaida5458

Eike Batista

CEO

EBX Group5459

Bill Gross

Co-Founder

PIMCO6760

Joaquin Guzman Loera

Drug Trafficker

Sinaloa Cartel5661

Ratan Tata

Chairman

Tata Sons7362

Wang Yong

Chairman

State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China (SASAC)5663

Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar

Leader

D-Company5564

Oprah Winfrey

Media Personality

The Oprah Winfrey Show5765

Joseph "Sepp" Blatter

President

International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)7566

Jeff Bezos

CEO

Amazon4767

Jacques Rogge

President

International Olympic Committee6968

Julian Assange

Editor-In-Chief