Forbes classe comme suit les 68 personnalités les plus influentes dans le monde, par ordre décroissant :
Rank - Name - Organization - Age
1 Hu Jintao President People's Republic of China 67
2 Barack Obama President United States of America 49
3 Abdullah Abdul King Saudi Arabia 86
4 Vladimir Putin Prime Minister Russia 58
5 Pope Benedict XVI Roman Catholic Church 83
6 Angela Merkel Chancellor Germany 56
7 David Cameron Prime Minister United Kingdom 44
8 Ben Bernanke Chairman Federal Reserve 56
9 Sonia Gandhi President Indian National Congress 63
10 Bill Gates Co-Chair Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 55
11 Zhou Xiaochuan Governor People's Bank of China 62
12 Dmitry Medvedev President Russia 45
13 Rupert Murdoch CEO News Corp. 79
14 Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister Italy 74
15 J. C. Trichet President European Central Bank 67
16 Dilma Rousseff President Brazil 62
17 Steve Jobs CEO Apple 55
18 Manmohan Singh Prime Minister India 78
19 Nicolas Sarkozy President France 55
20 Hillary Clinton Secretary of USA 63
21 Carlos Slim Helu Chairman Telmex 70
22 Larry Page Co-Founder Google 37
22 Sergey Brin Co-Founder Google 37
23 Michael Bloomberg Mayor New York City 68
24 Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Israel 61
25 Michael Duke CEO Wal-Mart 60
26 Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
Ali Hoseini-Khamenei Grand Ayatollah Iran 71
27 Naoto Kan Prime Minister Japan 64
28 Timothy Geithner Secretary of the Treasury USA 49
29 Ashfaq Parvez KayaniChief of Army Staff Pakistan 58
30 Lou Jiwei Chairman China Investment Corporation 59
31 Kim Jong-il Supreme Leader North Korea 68
32 Li Changchun Propaganda Chief People's Republic of China 66
33 Warren Buffett CEO Berkshire Hathaway 80
34 Mukesh Ambani Chairman Reliance Industries 53
35 Jeffrey Immelt CEO General Electric 54
36 Li Ka-shing Chairman Hutchison Whampoa 82
37 Dom. Strauss-Kahn Managing Director FMI 61
38 Masaaki Shirakawa Governor Bank of Japan 61
39 Dalai Lama Dalai Lama Tibet 75
40 Mark Zuckerberg Founder Facebook 26
41 Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General United Nations 66
42 Lloyd Blankfein CEO Goldman Sachs 56
43 Bernard Arnault Chairman Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy 61
44 Lakshmi Mittal Chairman ArcelorMittal ADS 60
45 Robert Zoellick President The World Bank Group 57
46 Robin Li CEO Baidu 41
47 Jamie Dimon Chairman JPMorgan Chase 54
48 Larry Fink CEO BlackRock 58
49 Rex Tillerson CEO ExxonMobil 58
50 Bill Keller Executive Editor The New York Times 61
51 Sebastian Pinera President Chile 60
52 Igor Sechin Deputy Prime Minister Russia 50
53 Abdalla Salem El-Badri Secretary General OPEC 70
54 Charles Koch CEO Koch Industries 75
54 David Koch Executive Vice President Koch Industries 70
55 Masayoshi Son CEO SoftBank 53
56 Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan President United Arab Emirates 62
57 Osama bin Laden Founder Al Qaida 53
58 Eike Batista CEO EBX Group 54
59 Bill Gross Co-Founder PIMCO 66
60 Joaquin Guzman Loera Drug Trafficker Sinaloa Cartel 55
61 Ratan Tata Chairman Tata Sons 72
62 Wang Yong Chairman SASAC Chine 55
63 Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar Leader D-Company 54
64 Oprah Winfrey Media Personality The Oprah Winfrey Show 56
65 Joseph "Sepp" Blatter President FIFA 74
66 Jeff Bezos CEO Amazon 46
67 Jacques Rogge President International Olympic Committee 68
68 Julian Assange Editor-In-Chief WikiLeaks 39
Source : http://www.forbes.com/wealth/powerful-people/list