People
World's Most Powerful People
Forbes ranking of the world's most powerful individuals.
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Order↕ | Name↕ | Nationality↕ | Position/Function↕ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xi Jinping | China | General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 2 | Vladimir Putin | Russia | President of Russia |
| 3 | Donald Trump | United States | President of the United States (left office in 2021, returned in 2025) |
| 4 | Angela Merkel | Germany | Chancellor of Germany (resigned in 2021) |
| 5 | Jeff Bezos | United States | CEO of Amazon |
| 6 | Pope Francis | Vatican City/ Argentina | Bishop of Rome, Pope of the Catholic Church (died in 2025) |
| 7 | Bill Gates | United States | Founder of Microsoft |
| 8 | Mohammed bin Salman | Saudi Arabia | Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia |
| 9 | Narendra Modi | India | Prime Minister of India |
| 10 | Larry Page | United States | Co-founder of Google |
| 11 | Jerome Powell | United States | Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve |
| 12 | Emmanuel Macron | France | President of France |
| 13 | Mark Zuckerberg | United States | CEO of Facebook, Inc (renamed Meta Platforms, Inc in 2021) |
| 14 | Theresa May | United Kingdom | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (resigned in 2019) |
| 15 | Li Keqiang | China | Premier of China (resigned in 2023) |
| 16 | Warren Buffett | United States | Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway |
| 17 | Ali Khamenei | Iran | Supreme Leader of Iran |
| 18 | Mario Draghi | Italy | President of the European Central Bank (resigned in 2019) |
| 19 | Jamie Dimon | United States | CEO of JPMorgan Chase |
| 20 | Carlos Slim | Mexico | Chairman of Telmex, Chairman Emeritus of América Móvil |
| 21 | Jack Ma | China | Founder of Alibaba |
| 22 | Christine Lagarde | France | Director of the International Monetary Fund (resigned in 2019) |
| 23 | Doug McMillon | United States | CEO of Walmart |
| 24 | Tim Cook | United States | CEO of Apple Inc. |
| 25 | Elon Musk | South Africa, Canada and United States | Founder and CEO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla |
| 26 | Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel | Prime Minister of Israel |
| 27 | Ma Huateng | China | Chairman and CEO of Tencent |
| 28 | Larry Fink | United States | Co-founder and CEO of BlackRock |
| 29 | Akio Toyoda | Japan | Chairman of Toyota |
| 30 | John L. Flannery | United States | CEO of General Electric (resigned in 2018) |
| 31 | António Guterres | Portugal | Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| 32 | Mukesh Ambani | India | Chairman of Reliance Industries |
| 33 | Jean-Claude Juncker | Luxemburg | President of the European Commission (resigned in 2019) |
| 34 | Darren Woods | United States | CEO of ExxonMobil |
| 35 | Sergey Brin | United States | Co-founder of Google, President of Alphabet (resigned in 2019) |
| 36 | Kim Jong-Un | North Korea | General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (North Korea) |
| 37 | Charles Koch | United States | Chairman and CEO of Koch, Inc. |
| 38 | Shinzo Abe | Japan | Prime Minister of Japan (resigned in 2020, died in 2022) |
| 39 | Rupert Murdoch | United States | Chairman of News Corp (resigned in 2023) |
| 40 | Satya Nadella | United States | Chairman and CEO of Microsoft |
| 41 | Jim Yong Kim | United States | President of the World Bank (resigned in 2019) |
| 42 | Stephen A. Schwarzman | United States | Chairman and CEO of Blackstone Group |
| 43 | Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan | United Arab Emirates | President of the United Arab Emirates (resigned in 2023) |
| 44 | Haruhiko Kuroda | Japan | Governor of the Bank of Japan (resigned in 2023) |
| 45 | Abdul Fatah Khalil Al-Sisi | Egypt | President of Egypt |
| 46 | Li Ka-Shing | Hong Kong | Chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings (resigned in May 2018) |
| 47 | Lloyd Blankfein | United States | CEO of Goldman Sachs (resigned at the end of 2018) |
| 48 | Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Turkey | President of Turkey |
| 49 | Bob Iger | United States | CEO of The Walt Disney Company |
| 50 | Michel Temer | Brazil | President of Brazil (resigned in 2019) |
| 51 | Michael Bloomberg | United States | Founder and CEO of Bloomberg (resigned in 2023) |
| 52 | Wang Jianlin | China | Chairman, founder, and majority shareholder of Dalian Wanda Group |
| 53 | Mary Barra | United States | Chair of Board and CEO of General Motors |
| 54 | Moon Jae-in | South Korea | President of South Korea (resigned in 2022) |
| 55 | Masayoshi Son | Japan | Founder, chairman and CEO of SoftBank |
| 56 | Bernard Arnault | France | Founder, chairman and CEO of LVMH |
| 57 | Justin Trudeau | Canada | Prime Minister of Canada (resigned in 2025) |
| 58 | Robin Li | China | CEO of Baidu |
| 59 | Michael Dell | United States | Founder, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies |
| 60 | Hui Ka Yan | China | Chairman and Communist Party secretary of Evergrande Group |
| 61 | Lee Hsien Loong | Singapore | Prime Minister of Singapore (resigned in 2021) |
| 62 | Bashar al-Assad | Ba'athist Syria | President of Syria (removed from office in 2024) |
| 63 | John Roberts | United States | Chief Justice of the United States |
| 64 | Enrique Peña Nieto | Mexico | President of Mexico (resigned in November 2018) |
| 65 | Kenneth C. Griffin | United States | Chairman of Citadel Investment Group |
| 66 | Aliko Dangote | Nigeria | President and CEO of Dangote Group |
| 67 | Mike Pence | United States | Vice President of the United States (left office in 2021) |
| 68 | Qamar Javed Bajwa | Pakistan | de facto Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces (retired in 2022) |
| 69 | Rodrigo Duterte | Philippines | President of the Philippines (resigned in 2022) |
| 70 | Abigail Johnson | United States | CEO of Fidelity Investments |
| 71 | Reed Hastings | United States | Founder and chairman of Netflix |
| 72 | Robert Mueller | United States | Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice (office abolished in 2019) |
| 73 | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | Iraq | Self-proclaimed Caliph of the Islamic State (died in 2019) |
| 74 | Joko Widodo | Indonesia | President of Indonesia (resigned in 2024) |
| 75 | Gianni Infantino | Switzerland | President of FIFA |
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