Chinese President emerges World’s Most Powerful Man

Chinese President, Xi Jinping, has emerged the World’s Most Powerful Person according to the 2018 Forbes The World’s 75 Most Powerful People ranking released on Tuesday.
Under his administration, China’s Congress amended its constitution in March, broadening Xi’s influence and eliminating term limits, thereby giving him life presidency. This is the Chinese president’s first time in the top spot.

He displaced Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who has been relegated to second place.
President Donald Trump falls to the No. 3 spot.
Businessman, Aliko Dangote is the only Nigerian on the list.
Newcomers to the list include Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud, Crown Prince, Saudi Arabia (No. 8), who has risen to power and will be the fulcrum around which the region’s geopolitics move for the next generation.

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S/N NAME COUNTRY AGE

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 Erdgan	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	48