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Burgess COMMENTARY |
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The World's Most Powerful People: The 71 Who Shape The World There are nearly 7.1 billion people on the planet. These are the 71 men and women who matter the most. Rank Name/Title Organization Age 1 Barack Obama President United States 51 2 Angela Merkel Chancellor Germany 58 3 Vladimir Putin President Russia 60 4 Bill Gates Co-Chair Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 57 5 Pope Benedict XVI Pope Roman Catholic Church 85 6 Ben Bernanke Chairman, Federal Reserve United States 59 7 Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud King Saudi Arabia 88 8 Mario Draghi President European Central Bank 65 9 Xi Jinping General Secretary, Communist Party China 59 10 David Cameron Prime Minister United Kingdom 46 11 Carlos Slim Helu & family Honorary Chairman América Móvil 72 12 Sonia Gandhi President, Indian National Congress India 66 13 Li Keqiang Vice Premier China 57 14 Francois Hollande President France 58 15 Warren Buffett CEO Berkshire Hathaway 82 16 Michael Bloomberg Mayor, New York City United States 70 17 Michael Duke CEO Wal-Mart Stores 63 18 Dilma Rousseff President Brazil 65 19 Manmohan Singh Prime Minister India 80 20 Sergey Brin Cofounder, Director Of Special Projects Google 39 20 Larry Page CEO Google 39 21 Ali Hoseini-Khamenei Grand Ayatollah Iran 73 22 Rex Tillerson CEO Exxon Mobil 60 23 Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Israel 63 24 Jeffrey Immelt CEO General Electric 56 25 Mark Zuckerberg Cofounder, Chairman and CEO Facebook 28 26 Rupert Murdoch Chairman and CEO News Corp 81 27 Jeff Bezos CEO Amazon.com 48 28 Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Chief of Army Staff Pakistan 60 29 Mario Monti Prime Minister Italy 69 30 Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General United Nations 68 31 Li Ka-shing Chairman Hutchison Whampoa 84 32 Ali Al-Naimi Oil Minister Saudi Arabia 77 33 Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan President United Arab Emirates 64 34 Jamie Dimon CEO JPMorgan Chase 56 35 Timothy Cook CEO Apple 52 36 Lloyd Blankfein CEO Goldman Sachs Group 58 37 Mukesh Ambani Chairman Reliance Industries 55 38 Christine Lagarde Managing Director International Monetary Fund 56 39 Lou Jiwei Chairman, China Investment Corporation China 62 40 Masaaki Shirakawa Governor, Bank of Japan Japan 63 41 Charles Koch CEO Koch Industries, Inc. 77 41 David Koch Executive Vice President Koch Industries, Inc. 72 42 Larry Fink Cofounder, CEO BlackRock 60 43 Akio Toyoda CEO Toyota Motor 56 44 Kim Jong-un Supreme Leader North Korea 29 45 Jim Yong Kim President World Bank 53 46 Steve Ballmer CEO Microsoft 56 47 Lakshmi Mittal Chairman and CEO ArcelorMittal 62 48 Hugo Chavez President Venezuela 58 49 Sebastian Pinera President Chile 63 50 Bill Clinton Chairman Clinton Global Initiative 66 51 Bill Gross Cofounder and Co-Chief Investment Officer Pacific Investment Management Company LLC 68 52 Zaheer ul-Islam Director-General, Inter-Services Intelligence Pakistan 56 53 Masayoshi Son CEO Softbank 55 54 Enrique Pena Nieto President Mexico 46 55 Terry Gou CEO Hon Hai Precision 62 56 Bernard Arnault Chairman and CEO LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton 63 57 Rostam Ghasemi President OPEC 48 58 Margaret Chan Director-General World Health Organization 65 59 John Roberts Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court United States 57 60 Yoshihiko Noda Prime Minister Japan 55 61 Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister Russia 47 62 Jiang Zemin Former General Secretary, Communist Party China 86 63 Joaquin Guzman Loera Drug Trafficker Sinaloa Cartel 55 64 Robin Li Founder and CEO Baidu 44 65 John Boehner Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives United States 63 66 Elon Musk Founder, CEO SpaceX 41 67 Alisher Usmanov Founder Metalloinvest 59 68 Kathleen Sebelius Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services United States 64 69 Joseph Blatter President FIFA 76 70 Alexey Miller CEO Gazprom 50 71 Reid Hoffman Chairman LinkedIn Corp 45 |
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Forbes
November 2012 |
| The text being discussed is available at http://www.forbes.com/powerful-people/list/ |