Friday, November 13, 2009

The World's Most Powerful People – FORBES

Forbes in a special report on Nov 11, has released a list of 67 most important people in the world.

Here is the full list.

Obama for the most obvious reasons stands on top of this list. Four of them are Indians. Osama bin laden also takes a seat in this list (God knows where he is now)

1. Barack Obama 24. Kim Jong Il 47. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
2. Hu Jintao 25. Jean-Claude Trichet 48. Zhou Xiaochuan
3. Vladimir Putin 26. Masaaki Shirakawa 49. John Roberts Jr.
4. Ben S. Bernanke 27. Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan 50. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar
5. Sergey Brin and Larry Page 28. Akio Toyoda 51. William Keller
6. Carlos Slim Helu 29. Gordon Brown 52. Bernard Arnault
7. Rupert Murdoch 30. James S. Dimon 53. Joseph S. Blatter
8. Michael T. Duke 31. Bill Clinton 54. Wadah Khanfar
9. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud 32. William H. Gross 55. Lakshmi Mittal
10. William Gates III 33. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva 56. Nicolas Sarkozy
11. Pope Benedict XVI 34. Lou Jiwei 57. Steve Jobs
12. Silvio Berlusconi 35. Yukio Hatoyama 58. Fujio Mitarai
13. Jeffrey R. Immelt 36. Manmohan Singh 59. Ratan Tata
14. Warren Buffett 37. Osama bin Laden 60. Jacques Rogge
15. Angela Merkel 38. Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani 61. Li Rongrong
16. Laurence D. Fink 39. Tenzin Gyatso 62. Blairo Maggi
17. Hillary Clinton 40. Ali Hoseini-Khamenei 63. Robert B. Zoellick
18. Lloyd C. Blankfein 41. Joaquin Guzman 64. Antonio Guterres
19. Li Changchun 42. Igor Sechin 65. Mark John Thompson
20. Michael Bloomberg 43. Dmitry Medvedev 66. Klaus Schwab
21. Timothy Geithner 44. Mukesh Ambani 67. Hugo Chavez
22. Rex W. Tillerson 45. Oprah Winfrey  
23. Li Ka-shing 46. Benjamin Netanyahu  

 

For the full report click here

1 comment:

El Internacional! said...

Presophomoric dribble! But it allows an opening to write commentaries after publication of articles about the "list".