The World's Most Powerful People (Forbes)

Rank Name Organization Age 1 Hu Jintao President People's Republic of China 68 2 Barack Obama President United States of America 49 3 Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud King Saudi Arabia 86 4 Vladimir Putin Prime Minister Russia 58 5 Pope Benedict XVI Pope Roman Catholic Church 83 6 Angela Merkel Chancellor Germany 56 7 David Cameron Prime Minister United Kingdom 44 8 Ben Bernanke Chairman Federal Reserve 57 9 Sonia Gandhi President Indian National Congress 64 10 Bill Gates Co-Chair Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 55 11 Zhou Xiaochuan Governor People's Bank of China 63 12 Dmitry Medvedev President Russia 45 13 Rupert Murdoch CEO News Corp. 80 14 Silvio Berlusconi & family Prime Minister Italy 74 15 Jean-Claude Trichet President European Central Bank 68 16 Dilma Rousseff President Brazil 63 17 Steve Jobs CEO Apple 56 18 Manmohan Singh Prime Minister India 78 19 Nicolas Sarkozy President France 56 20 Hillary Clinton Secretary of State United States of America 63 21 Carlos Slim Helu & family Chairman Telmex 71 22 Larry Page Co-Founder Google 38 22 Sergey Brin Co-Founder Google 37 23 Michael Bloomberg Mayor New York City 69 24 Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Israel 61 25 Michael Duke CEO Wal-Mart 61 26 Ali Hoseini-Khamenei Grand Ayatollah Iran 71 27 Naoto Kan Prime Minister Japan 64 28 Timothy Geithner Secretary of the Treasury United States of America 49 29 Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Chief of Army Staff Pakistan 58 30 Lou Jiwei Chairman China Investment Corporation 60 31 Kim Jong-il Supreme Leader North Korea 69 32 Li Changchun Propaganda Chief People's Republic of China 67 33 Warren Buffett CEO Berkshire Hathaway 80 34 Mukesh Ambani Chairman Reliance Industries 53 35 Jeffrey Immelt CEO General Electric 55 36 Li Ka-shing Chairman Hutchison Whampoa & Chueng Kong Holdings 82 37 Dominique Strauss-Kahn Managing Director International Monetary Fund 61 38 Masaaki Shirakawa Governor Bank of Japan 61 39 Dalai Lama Dalai Lama Tibet 75 40 Mark Zuckerberg Founder Facebook 26 41 Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General United Nations 66 42 Lloyd Blankfein CEO Goldman Sachs 56 43 Bernard Arnault Chairman Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) 62 44 Lakshmi Mittal Chairman ArcelorMittal ADS 60 45 Robert Zoellick President The World Bank Group 57 46 Robin Li CEO Baidu 42 47 Jamie Dimon Chairman JPMorgan Chase 55 48 Larry Fink CEO BlackRock 58 49 Rex Tillerson CEO ExxonMobil 59 50 Bill Keller Executive Editor The New York Times 62 51 Sebastian Pinera President Chile 61 52 Igor Sechin Deputy Prime Minister Russia 50 53 Abdalla Salem El-Badri Secretary General Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 70 54 Charles Koch CEO Koch Industries 75 54 David Koch Executive Vice President Koch Industries 70 55 Masayoshi Son CEO SoftBank 53 56 Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan President United Arab Emirates 63 57 Osama bin Laden Founder Al Qaida 53 58 Eike Batista CEO EBX Group 54 59 Bill Gross Co-Founder PIMCO 66 60 Joaquin Guzman Loera Drug Trafficker Sinaloa Cartel 56 61 Ratan Tata Chairman Tata Sons 73 62 Wang Yong Chairman State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China (SASAC) 56 63 Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar Leader D-Company 55 64 Oprah Winfrey Media Personality The Oprah Winfrey Show 57 65 Joseph "Sepp" Blatter President International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) 75 66 Jeff Bezos CEO Amazon 47 67 Jacques Rogge President International Olympic Committee 68 68 Julian Assange Editor-In-Chief WikiLeaks 40