Forbes’ Power List
Here are some facts from the Forbes magazine’s first-ever World’s Most Powerful People list
- Only three Indian businessmen feature: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, ArcelorMittal chairman Lakshmi N Mittal, and Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata.
- Dawood Ibrahim and Osama Bin Laden and a Mexican drug trafficker Jaoquin Guzman too feature in the strange list at ranks 50, 37 and 41, respectively.
- Infosys co-founder and UIDAI chief Nandan Nilekani and Ratan Tata have been named a separate list of India’s seven most powerful people.
- Forbes prepared the list with four primary criteria in mind:
The number of people that a person influences;
A person’s ability to project power beyond his/her immediate sphere of influence;
What kind of financial resources does the person control of have access to; and
How actively does the person wields his/her power. - Following table show the top 20 people and 4 Indian featuring in this list.
20 Most Powerful People in The World | ||
Rank | Name | Designation |
1 | Barak Obama | President USA |
2 | Hu Jintao | People’s Republic of China |
3 | Vladimir Putin | Prime Minister Russia |
4 | Ben S. Bernanke | Chairman : Federal Reserve |
5 | Sergey Brin and Larry Page | Founders Google |
6 | Carlos Slim Helu | Chief executive , Telmex Mexico |
7 | Rupert Murdoch | Chairman, News Corp. U.S. |
8 | Michael T. Duke | President, CEO and Director , Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. |
9 | Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud | King, Saudi Arabia |
10 | William Gates III | Co-Chair , Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation U.S |
11 | Pope Benedict XVI | Pope, Roman Catholic Church , Vatican City |
12 | Silvio Berlusconi | Prime Minister , Italy |
13 | Jeffrey R. Immelt | Chairman , General electric |
14 | Warren Buffett | Chief executive, Berkshire Hathaway |
15 | Angela Merkel | Chancellor, Germany |
16 | Laurence D. Fink | Chairman, Blackrock Inc. |
17 | Hillary Clinton | Secretary of States, USA |
18 | Lloyd C. Blankfein | Chairman, Goldman Sachs |
19 | Li Changchun | Propaganda Chief , Communist Party of China |
20 | Michael Bloomberg | Mayor & Founder, New York City & Bloomberg LP. |
Indian’s in This List | ||
36 | Man Mohan Singh | Prime Minister of India |
44 | Mukesh Ambani | Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited |
55 | Laxmi Mittal | ArcelorMittal ADS |
59 | Ratan Tata | Chairman Tata Group, India |