Powerful People 2010 - Forbes.com

Powerful People 2010 - Forbes.com

top 100 most powerful in the world..

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	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	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	82
37	Dominique Strauss-Kahn Managing Director	International Monetary Fund	62
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	71
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	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