Forbes lists Barack Obama as the world’s most powerful person

Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Turbo in Buzz

Forbes Magazine lists US President Barack Obama as the world’s most powerful man. Forbes magazine today released world’s most powerful people and Obama tops the list of world’s most powerful people.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is third most powerful man, the Vatican Pope Benedict XVI is the 11th most powerful, Mike Duke (Wal-Mart CEO) is the 8th most powerful and media superstar Oprah Winfrey the 45th most powerful.

Forbes compiled the list of World’s Most Powerful People for the first time. The editors were asked to compile based on their studies if the person can influence others, the financial resources he can have control on and also studied if a person was powerful in several spheres.

Forbes made a list of 67 world’s most powerful people with an equation of 1:100 million. Here’s is the list of top 10 world’s most powerful people:

US President, Barack Obama
Chinese President, Hu Jintao
Russian President, Vladimir Putin
US Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke
Google Men, Sergey Brin and Larry Page
Mexican Communications behemoth, Carlos Slim Helu
Rupert Murdoch
Wal-Mart’s Mike Duke
Saudi Arabian Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud
Microsoft founder, Bill Gates