Lista dos mais poderosos do mundo, publicada pela Forbes

1.Barack Obama

2.Hu Jintao

3.Vladimir Putin

4.Ben S. Bernanke

5.Sergey Brin and Larry Page

6.Carlos Slim Helu

7.Rupert Murdoch

8.Michael T. Duke

9.Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud

10.William Gates III

11.Pope Benedict XVI

12.Silvio Berlusconi

13.Jeffrey R. Immelt

14.Warren Buffett

15.Angela Merkel

16.Laurence D. Fink

17.Hillary Clinton

18.Lloyd C. Blankfein

19.Li Changchun

20.Michael Bloomberg

21.Timothy Geithner

22.Rex W. Tillerson

23.Li Ka-shing

24.Kim Jong Il

25.Jean-Claude Trichet

26.Masaaki Shirakawa

27.Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan

28.Akio Toyoda

29.Gordon Brown

30.James S. Dimon

31.Bill Clinton

32.William H. Gross

33.Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

34.Lou Jiwei

35.Yukio Hatoyama

36.Manmohan Singh

37.Osama bin Laden

38.Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani

39.Tenzin Gyatso

40.Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

41.Joaquin Guzman

42.Igor Sechin

43.Dmitry Medvedev

44.Mukesh Ambani

45.Oprah Winfrey

46.Benjamin Netanyahu

47.Dominique Strauss-Kahn

48.Zhou Xiaochuan

49.John Roberts Jr.

50.Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar

51.William Keller

52.Bernard Arnault

53.Joseph S. Blatter

54.Wadah Khanfar

55.Lakshmi Mittal

56.Nicolas Sarkozy

57.Steve Jobs

58.Fujio Mitarai

59.Ratan Tata

60.Jacques Rogge

61.Li Rongrong

62.Blairo Maggi

63.Robert B. Zoellick

64.Antonio Guterres

65.Mark John Thompson

66.Klaus Schwab

67.Hugo Chavez