20 MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

Rank	Name/Title	Organization	Age
1	Barack Obama President	United States of America	50
2	Vladimir Putin Prime Minister	Russia	59
3	Hu Jintao President	People's Republic of China	68
4	Angela Merkel Chancellor	Germany	57
5	Bill Gates Co-Chair	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	56
6	Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud King	Saudi Arabia	87
7	Pope Benedict XVI Pope	Roman Catholic Church	84
8	Ben Bernanke Chairman of the Federal Reserve	United States of America	57
9	Mark Zuckerberg Cofounder, Chairman and CEO	Facebook	27
10	David Cameron Prime Minister	United Kingdom	45
11	Sonia Gandhi President, Indian National Congress	Indian National Congress	64
12	Mario Draghi President	European Central Bank	64
13	Nicolas Sarkozy President	France	56
14	Wen Jiabao Premier	People's Republic of China	69
15	Zhou Xiaochuan Governor	People's Bank of China	63
16	Hillary Clinton Secretary of State	United States of America	64
17	Michael Bloomberg Mayor	New York City	69
18	Timothy Geithner Secretary of the Treasury	United States of America	50
19	Manmohan Singh Prime Minister	India	79
20	Warren Buffett Chairman	Berkshire Hathaway	81