Annual list includes also Mukesh Ambani, Lakshmi Mittal, Satya Nadella.
By Raif Karerat
Forbes has named Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi 9th in its annual list of the “World’s Most Powerful People,” a ranking of 73 individuals whose actions can cause waves on a global scale.
Modi’s first year in office has seen India’s GDP grow by more than 7.4 percent, largely due to his concerted efforts in the economic arena such as the “Make in India” initiative. Following the campaigns implementation in 2015, India emerged as the top international destination for foreign direct investment, surpassing the People’s Republic of China as well as the United States, according to the Times of India.
In order to ascertain their shortlist, Forbes reported that they considered candidates from various candidates around the world and measured their power along four dimensions: whether they have power over many people, the financial resources under their control, whether the candidate is powerful in multiple spheres, and lastly, whether they actively used their power.
The full list, per Forbes:
Rank | Name | Organization |
1 | Vladimir Putin | Russia |
2 | Angela Merkel | Germany |
3 | Barack Obama | United States |
4 | Pope Francis | Roman Catholic Church |
5 | Xi Jinping | China |
6 | Bill Gates | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
7 | Janet Yellen | Washington, United States |
8 | David Cameron | United Kingdom |
9 | Narendra Modi | India |
10 | Larry Page | |
11 | Mario Draghi | European Central Bank |
12 | Li Keqiang | China |
13 | Warren Buffett | Berkshire Hathaway |
14 | Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | – |
15 | Carlos Slim Helu | América Móvil |
16 | Francois Hollande | France |
17 | Jeff Bezos | Amazon.com |
18 | Ali Hoseini-Khamenei | Iran |
19 | Mark Zuckerberg | |
20 | Jamie Dimon | JPMorgan Chase |
21 | Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel |
22 | Jack Ma | – |
23 | Christine Lagarde | International Monetary Fund |
24 | Jeffrey Immelt | General Electric |
25 | Rex Tillerson | Exxon Mobil |
26 | Lloyd Blankfein | Goldman Sachs Group |
27 | Tim Cook | Apple |
28 | Akio Toyoda | Toyota Motor |
29 (tie) | Charles Koch | Koch Industries |
29 (tie) | David Koch | Koch Industries |
30 | Sergey Brin | |
31 | Li Ka-shing | CK Hutchison Holdings |
32 | Doug McMillon | Wal-Mart Stores |
33 | Jay Y. Lee | Samsung Group |
34 | Larry Fink | BlackRock |
35 | Rupert Murdoch | News Corp |
36 | Mukesh Ambani | Reliance Industries |
37 | Dilma Rousseff | Brazil |
38 | Elon Musk | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
39 | Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan | United Arab Emirates |
40 | Ban Ki-moon | United Nations |
41 | Shinzo Abe | Japan |
42 | Ding Xuedong | China |
43 | Park Geun-hye | South Korea |
44 | Michael Bloomberg | Bloomberg |
45 | Jim Yong Kim | World Bank |
46 | Kim Jong-un | North Korea |
47 | Igor Sechin | Rosneft |
48 | Ma Huateng | – |
49 | Abdel el-Sisi | Egypt |
50 | Haruhiko Kuroda | Japan |
51 | Masayoshi Son | Softbank |
52 | Enrique Pena Nieto | Mexico |
53 | Ali Al-Naimi | Saudi Arabia |
54 | Alexey Miller | Gazprom |
55 | Lakshmi Mittal | ArcelorMittal (ADR) |
56 | Robin Li | Baidu |
57 | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | Islamic State in Iraq and Syria |
58 | Hillary Clinton | United States |
59 | Michael Dell | Dell |
60 | John Roberts | United States |
61 | Satya Nadella | Microsoft |
62 | Stephen Schwarzman | Blackstone Group |
63 | Ginni Rometty | IBM |
64 | Bill Clinton | Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation |
65 | Mary Barra | General Motors |
66 | Bernard Arnault | LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton |
67 | Alisher Usmanov | Metalloinvest |
68 | Wang Jianlin | – |
69 | Justin Trudeau | – |
70 | Carl Icahn | Icahn Capital Management |
71 | Aliko Dangote | Dangote Group |
72 | Donald Trump | – |
73 | Margaret Chan | World Health Organization |