The powerful people in the world are determined based on the amount of human and financial resources that have sway over, as well as their influence on world events.
Here is a list of the 50 most powerful people in the world;
1. Donald Trump
Donald Trump presides over the world’s most influential country, giving him unparallel responsibility and power.
2. Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping, the general secretary of China’s Communist Party. He has been labelled by many as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
3. Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is determined to resurrect Russia as a superpower. In the past year, he’s supported a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine and launched a military operation in support of Syria’s Bashar-al Assad.
4. Angela Merkel
5.Warren Buffett
6.Narendra Modi
7.Pope Francis
8.Janet Yellen
9.Charles and David Koch
- Bill Gates
11.David Cameron
12.Francois Hollande
13.Jiang Jianqing
14.Shinzo Abe
15.Abigail Johnson
- Jeff Bezos
- Larry Page
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Larry Fink
- Jamie Dimon
- Sergey Brin
- Li Ka-Shing
- Jack Ma
- Mario Draghi
- Carlos Slim Helu
- Rob and Jim Walton
- Amancio Ortega
- Tim Cook
- Wang Jianlin
- Dilma Rousseff
- King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud
- Ali Khamenei
- Michael Bloomberg
- Rex Tillerson
- Christine Lagarde
- Oprah Winfrey
- Larry Ellison
- Elon Musk
- Satya Nadella
- Ban Ki-moon
- Steve Schwarzman
- Park Geun-Hye
- Robin Li
- Ginni Rometty
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Sheldon Adelson
- Rupert Murdoch
- Joaquin El Chapo Guzman
- Mukesh Ambani
- Jay Z and Beyonce