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China's president named 2018 World's Most Powerful Person ahead of Putin and Trump.
 
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Wed, 9 May 2018   ||   Nigeria,
 

For what Xi Jinping was able to pull off this year, China's president sure deserves the number spot. In March, 2018, China’s congress amended its constitution in March, eliminating term limits and broadening Xi’s influence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (No. 2) has been knocked out of the top spot, a title that he held for four consecutive years. A little over one year into his term, President Donald Trump falls to the No. 3 spot.

See full list below...

 

#1

Xi Jinping

China

64

 

#2

Vladimir Putin

Russia

65

 

#3

Donald Trump

United States

71

 

#4

Angela Merkel

Germany

63

 

#5

Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com

54

 

#6

Pope Francis

Roman Catholic Church

81

 

#7

Bill Gates

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

62

 

#8

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud

Saudi Arabia

32

 

#9

Narendra Modi

India

67

 

#10

Larry Page

Google

45

 

 

#11

Jerome H. Powell

United States

65

 

#12

Emmanuel Macron

France

40

 

#13

Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook

33

 

#14

Theresa May

United Kingdom

61

 

#15

Li Keqiang

China

62

 

#16

Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway

87

 

#17

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

Iran

78

 

#18

Mario Draghi

European Central Bank

70

 

#19

Jamie Dimon

JPMorgan Chase

62

 

#20

Carlos Slim Helu

America Movil SAB de CV (ADR)

78

 

 

#21

Jack Ma

Alibaba Group

53

 

#22

Christine Lagarde

International Monetary Fund

62

 

#23

Doug McMillon

Wal-Mart Stores

51

 

#24

Tim Cook

Apple

57

 

#25

Elon Musk

Tesla

46

 

#26

Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel

68

 

#27

Ma Huateng

Tencent Holdings

46

 

#28

Larry Fink

BlackRock

65

 

#29

Akio Toyoda

Toyota Motor

62

 

#30

John L. Flannery

General Electric

56

 

 

#31

Antonio Guterres

United Nations

69

 

#32

Mukesh Ambani

Reliance Industries Ltd.

61

 

#33

Jean-Claude Juncker

European Union

63

 

#34

Darren Woods

ExxonMobil

53

 

#35

Sergey Brin

Alphabet

44

 

#36

Kim Jong-un

North Korea

34

 

#37

Charles Koch

Koch Industries

82

 

#38

Shinzo Abe

Japan

63

 

#39

Rupert Murdoch

News Corp

87

 

#40

Satya Nadella

Microsoft

50

 

 

#41

Jim Yong Kim

World Bank

58

 

#42

Stephen Schwarzman

Blackstone Group

71

 

#43

Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan

United Arab Emirates

70

 

#44

Haruhiko Kuroda

Japan

73

 

#45

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Egypt

63

 

#46

Li Ka-shing

CK Hutchison Holdings

89

 

#47

Lloyd Blankfein

Goldman Sachs Group

63

 

#48

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey

64

 

#49

Bob Iger

Walt Disney

67

 

#50

Michel Temer

Brazil

77

 

 

#51

Michael Bloomberg

Bloomberg

76

 

#52

Wang Jianlin

Dalian Wanda Group

63

 

#53

Mary Barra

General Motors

56

 

#54

Moon Jae-in

South Korea

65

 

#55

Masayoshi Son

Softbank Corp.

60

 

#56

Bernard Arnault

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton

69

 

#57

Justin Trudeau

Canada

46

 

#58

Robin Li

Baidu

49

 

#59

Michael Dell

Dell

53

 

#60

Hui Ka Yan

Evergrande Real Estate Group

59

 

 

#61

Lee Hsien Loong

Singapore

66

 

#62

Bashar al-Assad

Syria

52

 

#63

John Roberts

United States

63

 

#64

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico

51

 

#65

Ken Griffin

Citadel LLC

49

 

#66

Aliko Dangote

Dangote Group

61

 

#67

Mike Pence

United States

58

 

#68

Qamar Javed Bajwa

Pakistan

57

 

#69

Rodrigo Duterte

Philippines

73

 

#70

Abigail Johnson

Fidelity Investments

56

 

 

#71

Reed Hastings

Netflix

57

 

#72

Robert Mueller

United States

73

 

#73

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Islamic State

46

 

#74

Joko Widodo

Indonesia

56

 

#75

Gianni Infantino

FIFA

 

 

 

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