The 50 Most Powerful People of the World, According to Forbes

	Name	Principal Functions	Country of citizenship
1	Vladimir Putin	President of Russia	Russia
2	Barack Obama	President of the US	USA
3	Xi Jinping	General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party	China
4	Pope Francis	Head of the Roman Catholic Church	Vatican
5	Angela Merkel	Chancellor of Germany	Germany
6	Janet Yellen	Head of the United States Federal Reserve System	USA
7	Bill Gates	Head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	USA
8	Mario Draghi	Head of the European Central Bank	Italy
9	Sergey Brin	Cofounder of Google	Russia/USA
9	Larry Page	Cofounder of Google	USA
10	David Cameron	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	UK
11	Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud	King of Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia
12	Warren Buffett	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway	USA
13	Li Keqiang	Premier of China	China
14	Carlos Slim Helu	Head of América Móvil and other Holdings	Mexico
15	Narendra Modi	Prime Minister of India	India
16	Jeff Bezos	CEO of Amazon	USA
17	Francois Hollande	President of France	France
18	Jamie Dimon	CEO of JPMorgan Chase	USA
19	Ali Hoseini-Khamenei	Supreme Leader (Grand Ayatollah) of Iran	Iran
20	Rex Tillerson	CEO of Exxon Mobil	USA
21	Jeffrey Immelt	CEO of General Electric	USA
22	Mark Zuckerberg	CEO of Facebook	USA
23	Michael Bloomberg	CEO of Bloomberg	USA
24	Charles Koch	Heads of Koch Industries	USA
24	David Koch	Heads of Koch Industries	USA
25	Timothy Cook	CEO of Apple	USA
26	Benjamin Netanyahu	Prime Minister of Israel	Israel
27	Lloyd Blankfein	Head of Goldman Sachs	USA
28	Li Ka-shing	Head of Hutchison Whampoa	China
29	Doug McMillon	President and CEO of Walmart Stores, Inc	USA
30	Jack Ma	Founder and Head of Alibaba Group	China
31	Dilma Rousseff	President of Brazil	Brazil
32	Rupert Murdoch & Family	Head of News Corporation	Australia
33	Christine Lagarde	Head of the international Monetary Fund (IMF)	France
34	Akio Toyoda	Head of Toyota Motors	Japan
35	Jay Y. Lee	Business magnate and Vice Chairman of Samsung	South Korea
35	Lee Kun-Hee	Chairman of Samsung	South Korea
36	Mukesh Ambani	Head of Reliance Industries	India
37	Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan	President of the United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates
38	Masayoshi Son	Head of Softbank	Korea/Japan
39	Larry Fink	Chairman and CEO of BlackRock	USA
40	Ban Ki-moon	United Nations Organization	South Korea
41	Robin Li	Chairman and CEO of Baidu Inc	China
42	Igor Sechin	Rosneft	Russia
43	Ding Xuedong	Head of China International Capital Corp	China
44	Bill Clinton	Former US President and Head of Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation	USA
45	Jim Yong Kim	President of the World Bank	South Korea/USA
46	Park Geun-hye	President of South Korea	South Korea
47	Alexey Miller	Head of Gazprom	Russia
48	Haruhiko Kuroda	Head of the Bank of Japan	Japan
49	Kim Jong-un	President of North Korea	North Korea
50	Ali Al-Naimi	Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources	Saudi Arabia