Most Influential People

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 84
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 Tim Cook CEO Apple Corp. 50
18 Manmohan Singh Prime Minister India 78
19 Nicolas Sarkozy President France 56
20 Hillary Clinton Secretary of State USA 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 Yoshihiko Noda 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 59
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 54
35 Jeffrey Immelt CEO General Electric 55
36 Li Ka-shing Chairman Hutchison Whampoa & Chueng Kong Holdings 83
37 Christine Lagarde Managing Director IMF 55
38 Masaaki Shirakawa Governor Bank of Japan 61
39 Dalai Lama Dalai Lama Tibet 75
40 Mark Zuckerberg Founder Facebook 27
41 Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General United Nations 67
42 Lloyd Blankfein CEO Goldman Sachs 56
43 Bernard Arnault Chairman Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy 62
44 Lakshmi Mittal Chairman ArcelorMittal ADS 61
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 Jill Abrahamson Executive Editor The New York Times 57
51 Sebastian Pinera President Chile 61
52 Igor Sechin Deputy Prime Minister Russia 50
53 Abdalla Salem El-Badri Secretary General OPEC 71
54 Charles Koch CEO Koch Industries 75
54 David Koch Executive Vice President Koch Industries 71
55 Masayoshi Son CEO SoftBank 53
56 Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan President UAE 63
57 Ayman Al-Zawahri Leader Al Qaida 53
58 Eike Batista CEO EBX Group 54
59 Bill Gross Co-Founder PIMCO 67
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 69
68 Julian Assange Editor-In-Chief WikiLeaks 40
69 Steve Jobs Chairman Apple Corp. 56
70 Steve Wozniak Co-founder Apple Corp. 61
71 Ronald Wayne Co-founder Apple Corp. 77
72 Larry Ellison CEO Oracle Corp. 67
73 Paul Otellini Pres. and CEO Intel Corp. 60