Newsweek has an article in the January 5, 2009, issue on The Global Elite, profiling the 50 most powerful people of the world. 1: Barack Obama 2: Hu Jintao 3: Nicolas Sarkozy 4-5-6: Economic Triumvirate 7: Gordon Brown 8: Angela Merkel 9: Vladimir Putin 10: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud 11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 12: Kim Jong Il 13-14: The Clintons 15: Timothy Geithner 16: Gen. David Petraeus 17: Sonia Gandhi 18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 19: Warren Buffett 20: Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani 21: Nuri al-Maliki 22-23: The Philanthropists 24: Nancy Pelosi 25: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan 26: Mike Duke 27: Rahm Emanuel 28: Eric Schmidt 29: Jamie Dimon 30-31: Friends of Barack 32: Dominique Strauss-Kahn 33: Rex Tillerson 34: Steve Jobs 35: John Lasseter 36: Michael Bloomberg 37: Pope Benedict XVI 38: Katsuaki Watanabe 39: Rupert Murdoch 40: Jeff Bezos 41: Shahrukh Khan 42: Osama bin Laden 43: Hassan Nasrallah 44: Dr. Margaret Chan 45: Carlos Slim Helú 46: The Dalai Lama 47: Oprah Winfrey 48: Amr Khaled 49: E. A. Adeboye 50: Jim Rogers That's right, Katsuaki Watanabe, President of Toyota, is number 38. [IMGLINK]http://ndn2.newsweek.com/media/17/wantanabe-toyota-YR3801-hsmall-vertical.jpg[/IMGLINK]
And yet he may be giving up his job to Toyoda early this year... Founder's grandson may take over struggling Toyota - Yahoo! Finance
I supposed one doesn't need to be a media-tycoon or an influential industrialist to be in amongst the top-50. Just look at who is at 42nd.....
What about The High King of Ireland.....Bono!!,there's a bit of a joke here in Ireland...Pope John Paul 11 and Bono in a photo together and someone asks "who's that standing beside Bono"
Number 39 is a good Adelaide boy. His first newspaper was the Adelaide paper "The News" and my dad worked for him. Funny how you can start in a little city of 1,000,000 and end up with a global empire.
I don't agree with that ranking. Too many powerful people aren't there, and I argue the journalist has been too much superficial.
its all just one persons opinion. he may have had input from several different people, but its still just one person's opinion... personally, i dont think very highly of his opinions
Angela Merkel,the same person who criticised the Irish Government for first suggesting to shore up the banking system[in Ireland anyway] and then did a u-turn and thought it was a good idea....Merkel me a**e!!
I don't care how much everyone hates President Bush or how much of a lame duck he is, not putting the sitting President of the US in the number one position is a major clue that this writer is an idiot.
