Who’s more powerful: the autocratic leader of a former
superpower or the handcuffed commander in chief of the most dominant
country in the world? READ MORE: h
This year the votes for the World’s Most Powerful went to Russian
President Vladimir Putin. He climbs one spot ahead of U.S. President
Barack Obama, who held the title in 2012.
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Here
is Forbes list of the most powerful people in the world. Surprisingly
the lists sees Russian President Putin clinch the top spot and US
President Obama below as number 2.
Putin has
solidified his control over Russia while Obama’s lame duck period has
seemingly set in earlier than usual for a two-term president — latest
example: the government shutdown mess.
Anyone watching this year’s chess match over Syria and NSA leaks has a clear idea of the shifting individual power dynamics.
The
Most Powerul People in the World list is an annual snapshot of the
heads of state, financiers, philanthropists and entrepreneurs who truly
rule the world.
It represents the collective wisdom of top FORBES
editors, who consider hundreds of nominees before ranking the planet’s
top 72 power-brokers – one for every 100 million people on Earth — based
on their scope of influence and their financial resources relative to
their peers.
This year’s list features 17 heads of state who run
nations with a combined GDP of some $48 trillion — including the three
most powerful people, Putin, Obama and Xi Jinping, the general secretary
of the Communist Party of China.
The 27 CEOs and chairs control
over $3 trillion in annual revenues, and 12 are entrepreneurs, including
new billionaires on the list,
Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote (No. 64), founder of Dangote Group, and Oracle’s Larry Ellison (
No. 58).
Speaking
of, this year’s class has 28 billionaires valued in excess of $564
billion. Here, a quick peek at the Most Powerful People in the World
2013:
Newcomers: Among the 13 newcomers are Pope Francis (
No. 4), Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee (
No. 41), Volkswagen’s Martin Winterkorn (
No. 49), South Korean President Park Geun-hye (
No. 52), IBM CEO Virginia Rometty (
No. 56), and Janet Yellen (
No. 72), nominated by President Obama as the next leader of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Rosneft CEO and Putin confidant Igor Sechin (
No. 60) and Jill Abramson (
No. 68), the executive editor of the New York Times, make a return appearance after dropping of the list in years past.
He’s Not No. 1:
This is the first year that Putin carries the crown. Obama has been on
the top of the list for every year with the exception of 2010, when Hu
Jintao, the former political and military leader of China, was No. 1.
Women Moving Up In Numbers:
This
year there are nine women on the list, representing 12% of the world’s
most powerful — in stark contrast to being 50% of the world’s
population. Both 2011 and 2012 featured six women leaders, and the
inaugural list from 2009 included only 3 — or just 4.4%.
Recently elected Park of South Korea joins the other female heads of state German Chancellor Angela Merkel (
No.5), Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff (
No. 20) and de facto head of India Sonia Gandhi (
No. 21).
Two of the world’s most important NGO’s are run by women: Christine Lagarde (
No. 35) leads the IMF and Margaret Chan (
No. 59) steers the World Health Organization.
Billionaires:
Worth a cumulative $564 billion. Sure they’re rich but many of these
billionaires deserve special attention for their philanthropic work,
including Warren Buffett (
No. 13), Michael Bloomberg (
No. 29), Li Ka-shing (
No. 30), Charles and David Koch (
No. 31), and
Mohammed Ibrahim (
No. 71).
Entrepreneurs Represent: There are 12 in total. As expected, many are headquartered on the West Coast: Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin (
No. 17), Mark Zuckerberg (
No. 24), Elon Musk (
No. 47), Ellison and Reid Hoffman (
No. 65).
Global entrepreneurial spirit spans from Japan’s Masayoshi Son (
No. 45) and China’s Robin Li (
No. 61) to
Africa’s Dangote and Ibrahim.
Year-over-year growth: The FORBES Most Powerful started in 2009, seeking to answer a straight yet complex question:
What is the true nature of power and can we really compare and rank heads of state with religious figures and drug traffickers?
The premise has always been to select one person for every 100 million on the planet.
The first list had 67 slots. This year we are up to 72.
At this fifth edition, it’s notable that most of the leaders who made the top 10 on the inaugural list are still on today:
Obama, Putin, Bill Gates (No. 6), U.S. Fed Chair Ben Bernanke (No. 7),
the King of Saudi Arabia (No. 8), Wal-Mart CEO Michael Duke (No. 10),
richest man in the world Carlos Slim Helu (No. 12), Page and Brin, and
Rupert Murdoch (No. 33).
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The Special Fraud Unit,
SFU, of the Nigeria Police at Milverton Street, Ikoyi, Lagos, southwest
Nigeria, disclosed that they have arrested the other five members staff
of the bank allegedly involved in the crime.
Winner of the 2011 Big Brother Africa game, Karen Igho, has shared yesterday a series of intimate statuses on Twitter. She says her ex boyfriend left her “because she became famous and he couldn’t deal with it”.
That is why all major markets in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, were this
morning, shut for business to honour the newly installed Iyaloja General
of Nigeria, Mrs. Folashade Tinubu Ojo.
A nursing mother, Mrs Glory Ojuala, has narrated how her husband, Alex
Ojuala, drugged her for three days in order to have sex with her a few
days after she was delivered of a baby at her matrimonial home in Lagos
State, western Nigeria.
No fewer than 24 people lost their lives and property valued N105
million destroyed in fire incidents in Gombe between January and
September, 2013.
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