Each year Newsweek publishes a special end-of-the-year issue. Usually it gives a list of memorable events, people, etc. This year with the world just a bit of a mess they published a list of the person’s who are the most influential globally. I’m posting the list and please keep in mind that not everyone on this list is a person we actually want to have such world wide influence but they do…hence them being on the list.
- President Elect Barack Obama – United States of America
- Hu Jintao – President, China
- Nicolas Sarkozy – President, France
- Ben Bernanke – U.S Federal Reserve Banker
- Jean – Claude Trichet – European Central Bank (ECB)
- Masaaki Shirakawa – Bank of Japan
- Gordon Brown – Prime Minister, United Kingdom
- Angela Merkel – Chancellor, Germany
- Vladimir Putin – Former President of Russia – soon to be again…
- Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud – King, Saudia Arabia
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – Supreme Leader, Iran
- Kim Jong II – Dictator/Leader, North Korea
- Hillary Clinton – Former NY Senator, Secretary of State
- Bill Clinton – Former United State President – Future to be seen…
- Timothy Geithner – President Elect Obama’s Treasury Secretary – Savior of the Ecnomony ????
- General David Petraeus – United States Military
- Sonia Gandhi – President, Congress Party, India
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – President, Brazil
- Warren Buffett – Titan of American Finance
- General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani – Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan
- Nuri al – Maliki – Prime Minister, Iraq
- Bill Gates – Philanthropist
- Melinda Gates- Philanthropist
- Nancy Pelosi – Speaker of the House,
- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan – President, United Arab Emirates
- Mike Duke – CEO-Designate, Wal-Mart Stores
- Rahm Emanuel – President Elect Obama’s Chief of Staff
- Eric Schmidt – Owner, Google
- Jamie Dimon – CEO, JPMorgan Chase
- David Axelrod – Communications Director, President Elect Obama
- Valerie Jarrett – Public Liason, President Elect Obama
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn – Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
- Rex Tillerson – CEO, Exxonmobile
- Steve Jobs – Apple Founder and CEO
- John Lasseter – CEO, Pixar Animation
- Michael Bloomberg – Mayor, New York City
- Pope Benedict XVI – Head of the Roman Catholic Church
- Katuaki Wantanabe – CEO, Toyota
- Rupert Murdoch – Chairman and CEO, News Corp.
- Jeff Bezos – CEO, Amazon.com
- Shahrukh Khan – King of Bollywood
- Osama bin Laden – Global Terrorist
- Hassan Nasrallah – Most Influential radical Shiite Leader in the Arab World
- Dr. Margaret Chan – Director-General, World Health Organization
- Carlos Slim Helu – Mexican Tycoon
- The Dalai Lama – Tiebetan Leader
- Oprah Winfrey – Media Mogul
- Amr Khaled – Egyptian Televangelist
- E.A. Adeboye – Pastor, The Redeemed Christian Church of God
- Jim Roger – CEO, Duke Energy
-Koop
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