Rank/Name/Job/Organization/Age
1
Barack Obama
President
United States of America 50
2
Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister
Russia 59
3
Hu Jintao
President
People's Republic of China68
4
Angela Merkel
Chancellor
Germany 57
5
Bill Gates
Co-Chair
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 56
6
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud
King
Saudi Arabia 87
7
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope
Roman Catholic Church 84
8
Ben Bernanke
Chairman of the Federal Reserve
United States of America 57
9
Mark Zuckerberg
Cofounder, Chairman and CEO
Facebook 27
10
David Cameron
Prime Minister
United Kingdom 45
11
Sonia Gandhi
President, Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress 64
12
Mario Draghi
President
European Central Bank 64
13
Nicolas Sarkozy
President
France 56
14
Wen Jiabao
Premier
People's Republic of China 69
15
Zhou Xiaochuan
Governor
People's Bank of China 63
16
Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State
United States of America 64
17
Michael Bloomberg
Mayor
New York City 69
18
Timothy Geithner
Secretary of the Treasury
United States of America 50
19
Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister
India 79
20
Warren Buffett
Chairman
Berkshire Hathaway 81
21
Silvio Berlusconi & family
Prime Minister
Italy 75
22
Dilma Rousseff
President
Brazil 63
23
Carlos Slim Helu & family
Chairman
Telmex 71
24
Rupert Murdoch
Chairman and CEO
News Corp. 80
25
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister
Israel 62
26
Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
Grand Ayatollah
Iran 72
27
Michael Duke
CEO
Wal-Mart 61
28
Jeffrey Immelt
CEO
General Electric 55
29
Zhou Yongkang
Secretary of the Commission for Political and Legislative Affairs
People's Republic of China 68
30
Sergey Brin
Cofounder, Director Of Special Projects
Google 38
30
Larry Page
CEO
Google 38
31
Ali Al-Naimi
Oil Minister
Saudi Arabia 76
32
Rostam Ghasemi
President
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 47
33
Lou Jiwei
Chairman
China Investment Corporation 60
34
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Chief of Army Staff
Pakistan 59
35
Mukesh Ambani
Chairman
Reliance Industries 54
36
Masaaki Shirakawa
Governor
Bank of Japan 62
37
Kim Jong-il
Supreme Leader
North Korea 69
38
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General
United Nations 67
39
Christine Lagarde
Managing Director
International Monetary Fund 55
40
Jeff Bezos
CEO
Amazon 47
41
Jamie Dimon
CEO
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 55
42
Robin Li
CEO
Baidu 42
43
Lloyd Blankfein
CEO
Goldman Sachs 57
44
Li Ka-shing
Chairman
Hutchison Whampoa Limited 83
45
Charles Koch
CEO
Koch Industries 76
45
David Koch
Executive Vice President
Koch Industries 71
46
Rex Tillerson
CEO
ExxonMobil 59
47
Lakshmi Mittal
Chairman
ArcelorMittal 61
48
Recep Erdogan
Prime Minister
Republic of Turkey57
49
Robert Zoellick
President
World Bank Group 58
50
Bill Clinton
Former President
United States of America 65
51
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
Tibet 76
Source: Forbes.com
