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.
See the full list below:
| Rank | Name | Organization | 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 | 45 | |
| #11 | Jerome H. Powell | United States | 65 |
| #12 | Emmanuel Macron | France | 40 |
| #13 | Mark Zuckerberg | 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 |
Source: Punch
