The FP Power Map

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The FP Power Map
MAY/JUNE 2013

The 500 most powerful people on the planet.



Is it possible to identify the 500 most powerful individuals on the planet -- one in 14 million? That's what we tried to do with the inaugural FP Power Map, our inventory of the people who control the commanding heights of the industries that run the world, from politics to high finance, media to energy, warfare to religion. Think of it as a list of all the most important other lists. Here's how they stack up -- and why (sorry, declinists!) Americans are still No. 1 in pretty much everything that matters. For now.

Sources and Methods: Where possible, we took a "list of lists" approach, consulting the authoritative rankings for a given industry and substituting judgment where quantitative assessments do not exist. Among our sources: Box Office Mojo Yearly Box Office, Citypopulation.de by Thomas Brinkoff, Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women, Forbes World's Most Powerful People, Global Finance World's 50 Biggest Banks, Fortune Global 500, Global Journal Top 100 NGOs, Institute of Media and Communications Policy International Media Corporations, Pensions & Investments/Towers Watson World 500, PFC Energy 50, SIPRI Military Expenditure Database and SIPRI Top 100 companies, Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute Fund Rankings, Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Thomson Reuters, Vanity Fair New Establishment List, Wall Street Journal MarketWatch World's Largest Mutual Funds.

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Mahmoud Abbas President, Palestinian Authority West Bank
Tony Abbott Liberal Party leader Australia
Shinzo Abe Prime minister Japan
Jill Abramson New York Times executive editor USA
Sheldon Adelson Las Vegas Sands CEO and chair USA
Aga Khan IV Ismaili Muslim imam Britain
Daniel Akerson General Motors CEO and chair USA
Rinat Akhmetov System Capital Management owner Ukraine
Karl Albrecht Aldi Süd owner Germany
Vagit Alekperov Lukoil president Russia
Keith Alexander National Security Agency director USA
Paul Allen Microsoft co-founder and Vulcan Inc. chair USA
Yukiya Amano International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Japan
Shlomo Amar Sephardic chief rabbi Israel
Mukesh Ambani Reliance Industries chair and managing director India
Yaakov Amidror National security advisor Israel
Celso Amorim Defense minister Brazil
Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz co-founder USA
A.K. Antony Defense minister India
Catherine Ashton European Union foreign minister Britain
Taro Aso Finance minister Japan
Bashar al-Assad President Syria
Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz al-Assaf Finance minister Saudi Arabia
Aung San Suu Kyi Opposition leader Burma
Jean-Marc Ayrault Prime minister France
Alberto Baillères Grupo Bal chair Mexico
John Baird Foreign minister Canada
Bernard Bajolet Directorate-General for External Security head* France
Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO USA
Ban Ki-moon United Nations secretary-general South Korea
Mario Barletta Radical Civic Union president Argentina
José Manuel Barroso European Commission president Portugal
Bartholomew I Ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople Turkey
Omar Hassan al-Bashir President Sudan
Fatou Bensouda International Criminal Court prosecutor Gambia
Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve chair USA
Pier Luigi Bersani Democratic Party secretary Italy
Jeff Bewkes Time Warner Inc. CEO and chair USA
Jeff Bezos Amazon CEO USA
Ted Bianco Wellcome Trust acting director Britain
Joseph Biden Vice president USA

see link for complete list .

*Note: The online edition of the FP Power Map has been updated to reflect changes since the May/June issue went to press: Bernard Bajolet has replaced Érard Corbin de Mangoux as the French intelligence chief, and Jiang Jiemin and Zhou Jiping have new titles.

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[Boon Mee]

Well, Fakebook usage can cause Psychosis.

Best don't go there...

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humour me Boon and tie your post in with the OP ?

[Boon Mee]

humour me Boon and tie your post in with the OP ?

Hmmm...perhaps it's time I got a pair of reading specs. Saw FP as FB. Sorry 'bout that!

Interesting that Piano Legs wasn't mentioned in that list. And, after Benghazie-Gate is over, she'll be lucky to keep her pension...

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Tony Abbott Liberal Party leader Australia

Credibility lost in the second name.

José Manuel Barroso

Saying that this clown is only there for "politics" ignoring the fact that he is a force for horrendous harm and almost evil in his push towards Europe being worse that the Soviet Union.
And boom - all credibility lost in the first handful of names.

Do people actually take this list seriously?