| Rank | Individual | Office / Position |
|---|
| 1 ▲ |  Hu Jintao | President of the People’s Republic of China |
| 2 ▼ |  Barack Obama | 44th President of the United States |
| 3 ▲ |  Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud | 6th King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques |
| 4 ▼ |  Vladimir Putin | Prime Minister of Russia |
| 5 ▲ |  /  Benedict XVI | 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church |
| 6 ▲ | Angela Merkel | Chancellor of Germany |
| 7 ▲ |  David Cameron | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| 8 ▼ | Ben Bernanke | 14th Chair of the Federal Reserve |
| 9 ▲ |  Sonia Gandhi | President of the Indian National Congress |
| 10 ▬ | Bill Gates | Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founder and chairman of Microsoft |
| 11 ▲ | Zhou Xiaochuan | 11th Governor of the People’s Bank of China |
| 12 ▲ | Dmitry Medvedev | President of Russia |
| 13 ▼ | /  Rupert Murdoch | Chairman of News Corporation |
| 14 ▼ |  Silvio Berlusconi | Prime Minister of Italy |
| 15 ▲ |  /  Jean-Claude Trichet | 2nd President of the European Central Bank |
| 16 ▲ |  Dilma Rousseff | 36th President of Brazil |
| 17 ▲ | Steve Jobs | Chief executive of Apple Inc. |
| 18 ▲ | Manmohan Singh | Prime Minister of India |
| 19 ▲ | Nicolas Sarkozy | President of France |
| 20 ▼ | Hillary Clinton | 67th United States Secretary of State |
| 21 ▼ |  Carlos Slim | Chief executive of Telmex |
| 22 ▼ | / Sergey Brin / Larry Page | Founders of Google |
| 23 ▼ | Michael Bloomberg | 108th Mayor of New York City
Founder of Bloomberg L.P. |
| 24 ▲ |  Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister of Israel |
| 25 ▼ | Mike Duke | Chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. |
| 26 ▲ |  Ali Hoseini-Khamenei | 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran |
| 27 ▲ |  Naoto Kan | Prime Minister of Japan |
| 28 ▼ | Timothy Geithner | 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury |
| 29 ▲ |  Ashfaq Parvez Kayani | Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan |
| 30 ▲ | Lou Jiwei | Chairman of the China Investment Corporation |
| 31 ▼ |  Kim Jong-il | Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea |
| 32 ▼ | Li Changchun | Propaganda Chief of the Communist Party of China |
| 33 ▼ | Warren Buffett | Chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway |
| 34 ▲ | Mukesh Ambani | Chairman of Reliance Industries |
| 35 ▼ | Jeffrey R. Immelt | Chairman of General Electric |
| 36 ▼ | / /  Sir Li Ka-shing | Chairman of Cheung Kong Holdings,
Hutchison Whampoa and Li Ka Shing Foundation |
| 37 ▲ | Dominique Strauss-Kahn | 10th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund |
| 38 ▼ | Masaaki Shirakawa | Governor of the Bank of Japan |
| 39 ▬ |  Tenzin Gyatso | 14th Dalai Lama |
| 40 ▲ | Mark Zuckerberg | Founder of Facebook |
| 41 ▲ |  /  Ban Ki-moon | Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| 42 ▼ | Lloyd Blankfein | Chairman of Goldman Sachs |
| 43 ▲ | Bernard Arnault | Chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy |
| 44 ▲ | Lakshmi Mittal | Chairman of ArcelorMittal |
| 45 ▲ | Robert Zoellick | 11th President of the World Bank Group |
| 46 ▲ | Robin Li | Chief executive officer of Baidu |
| 47 ▼ | James S. Dimon | Chairman of JPMorgan Chase |
| 48 ▼ | Laurence D. Fink | Chairman of BlackRock |
| 49 ▼ | Rex Tillerson | Chairman of ExxonMobil |
| 50 ▲ | William Keller | Executive editor of The New York Times |
| 51 ▲ |  Sebastián Piñera | 35th President of Chile |
| 52 ▼ | Igor Sechin | Deputy Prime Minister of Russia |
| 53 ▲ |  Abdallah Salem el-Badri | Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| 54 ▲ | Charles G. Koch / David H. Koch | Chief executive officer / Executive vice president of Koch Industries |
| 55 ▲ | Masayoshi Son | Chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile |
| 56 ▲ |  Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan | 2nd President of the United Arab Emirates |
| 57 ▼ |  Osama bin Laden | Founder of al-Qaeda |
| 58 ▲ | Eike Batista | Chief executive officer of the EBX Group |
| 59 ▼ | William H. Gross | Chief Investment Officer of the Pacific Investment Management Company |
| 60 ▼ | Joaquín Guzmán Loera | Leader of the Sinaloa Cartel |
| 61 ▼ | Ratan Tata | Chairman of the Tata Group |
| 62 ▲ | Wang Yong | Chairman of SASAC |
| 63 ▼ | Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar | Head of D-Company |
| 64 ▼ | Oprah Winfrey | Host of The Oprah Winfrey Show |
| 65 ▼ |  Joseph S. Blatter | President of FIFA |
| 66 ▲ | Jeff Bezos | Founder of Amazon.com |
| 67 ▼ |  Jacques Rogge | 8th President of the International Olympic Committee |
| 68 ▲ | Julian Assange | Editor in chief of WikiLeaks |
Devang Vibhakar is the Founder and Editor of www.SpeakBindas.com. He has interviewed more than 350 people. His effort was recognized by Limca Book of Records, twice. He has been to Scotland as well as Germany as part of vocational & cultural exchange programs and has compiled five books so far. He's passionate about bringing forth interesting stories & interviews of entrepreneurs to avid readers of SpeakBindas. He can be reached here.
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