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The Superclass List is a creation of David Rothkopf
David Rothkopf

David J. Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in U.S. foreign policy and economic strategy, as well as an international business consultant and professor....
 which his book Superclass: The Global Power Elite and The World They Are Making
Superclass (book)

Superclass - The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making is a controversial book about world government by US author David Rothkopf, released in March 2008 by publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux....
 is based upon. There are four key elements of success that unite the ones, the Superclass, that possess the unparalleled power over world affairs. These elements are: geography, pedigree, networking and luck.
he book Rothkopf tells us that the list exists and contains 6000 individuals, but is not to be shown in public as there will be so much discussions about who does or does not qualify to be on the list.






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The Superclass List is a creation of David Rothkopf
David Rothkopf

David J. Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in U.S. foreign policy and economic strategy, as well as an international business consultant and professor....
 which his book Superclass: The Global Power Elite and The World They Are Making
Superclass (book)

Superclass - The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making is a controversial book about world government by US author David Rothkopf, released in March 2008 by publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux....
 is based upon. There are four key elements of success that unite the ones, the Superclass, that possess the unparalleled power over world affairs. These elements are: geography, pedigree, networking and luck.

The verified list

In the book Rothkopf tells us that the list exists and contains 6000 individuals, but is not to be shown in public as there will be so much discussions about who does or does not qualify to be on the list. However, in lots of interviews he mention individuals that are on the list. This list contain names that he has verified to be on the list.

Argentina
  1. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
    Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

    Cristina Elisabet Fern?ndez de Kirchner , commonly known as Cristina Kirchner, is an Argentina politician from the Justicialist Party and the current President of Argentina....


Australia
  1. Rupert Murdoch
    Rupert Murdoch

    Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....


Brazil
  1. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

    Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva , known simply as Lula, is the thirty-fifth and current President of Brazil of Brazil and a founding member of the Workers' Party ....


Chile
  1. Andronico Luksic
    Andrónico Luksic

    Antonio Andr?nico Luksic Abaroa was a Chilean businessman of Croatian origin and founder of the Luksic Group. He was the richest person in Chile, the fourth in Latin America, and the 132nd in the world, having amassed a fortune of 4,200 million U.S....


China
  1. Hu Jintao
    Hu Jintao

    Hu Jintao is currently the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin in the Generations of Chinese leadership...
  2. Fu Chengyu
  3. Ding Lei
    Ding Lei

    Ding Lei , is the founder and CEO of NetEase. He made significant contributions to the development of computer networks in mainland China....
  4. Lou Jiwei
    Lou Jiwei

    Lou Jiwei , born December 1950 in Beijing, is a Chinese politician and financial figure. He formerly served as China's Vice Minister of Finance and now heads the China Investment Corp ....
  5. Yang Huiyan
    Yang Huiyan

    Yang Huiyan is the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings and is currently considered the wealthiest person in Mainland China, with an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion US dollar as of March 2008....
  6. Zhou Xiaochuan
    Zhou Xiaochuan

    Dr Zhou Xiaochuan is a Han Chinese economist, reformist and bureaucrat. As governor of the People's Bank of China, he is in charge of the monetary policy of the People's Republic of China....
  7. Richard Li Tzar Kai


Colombia
  1. Luis Alberto Moreno
    Luis Alberto Moreno

    Luis Alberto Moreno is a Colombian diplomat and journalist. He was elected president of the Inter-American Development Bank in July 2005.Alumni from the Gimnasio Campestre school in Bogota, Moreno was appointed to be Colombia?s Ambassador to the United States in September 1998 by President Andr?s Pastrana and ratified by President ?lvaro...
  2. Shakira
    Shakira

    Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll known simply as Shakira, is a Colombian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who emerged as a Prodigy in the music scene of Latin America in the mid-1990s....
  3. Julio Mario Santo Domingo
    Julio Mario Santo Domingo

    Julio Mario Santo Domingo is a Colombian businessman. He is listed by Forbes magazine as one of the wealthiest men in the world, and the second wealthiest in Colombia, with a fortune of $5.4 billion US dollars....


Egypt
  1. Amr Khaled
    Amr Khaled

    Amr Mohamed Helmi Khaled is an Egyptians Muslim activist and preacher. The New York Times Magazine, in reference to Khaled's popularity in Arab world, described him in its April 30, 2006 issue as "the world's most famous and influential Muslim television preacher." Amr Khaled has recently been chosen as number 13 of the world's most in...
  2. Amr Moussa
    Amr Moussa

    Amr Moussa , has been the current Secretary-General of the League of Arab States since his election to the position in May 2001. He is a former Egyptian Foreign Minister and diplomat....


Denmark
  1. Janus Friis
    Janus Friis

    Janus Friis is a Denmark entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application KaZaA, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype....


France
  1. Nicolas Sarkozy
    Nicolas Sarkozy

    Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio List of Co-Princes of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating Socialist Party candidate S?gol?ne Royal ten days earlier....
  2. Pascal Lamy
    Pascal Lamy

    Pascal Lamy is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization of the World Trade Organization, a French political advisor, a businessman, and a former European Commissioner for Trade....
  3. Michčle Alliot-Marie
    Michčle Alliot-Marie

    Mich?le Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie is the France Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories; she is the first woman to hold that position and the first woman to lead a major French political party....
  4. Baudouin Prot
    Baudouin Prot

    Baudouin Prot is the CEO of BNP Paribas, France's biggest banking group.He was born on May 24 1951. He graduated from HEC Paris and from the ?cole nationale d'administration....
  5. Jean-Claude Trichet
    Jean-Claude Trichet

    Jean-Claude Trichet is a French civil servant who is the current president of the European Central Bank since 2003. Trichet ranks 5th on the world's most powerful by Newsweek along with economic triumverates Ben Bernanke and Masaaki Shirakawa....


Germany
  1. Angela Merkel
    Angela Merkel

    , is the Chancellor of Germany . Merkel, elected to the Bundestag from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union since 9 April 2000, and Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary party group from 2002 to 2005....
  2. Josef Ackerman
  3. Josef Joffe
    Josef Joffe

    Josef Joffe is editor and publisher of Die Zeit, a weekly Germany newspaper, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, and an associate of the Olin Institu...
  4. Rene Obermann
  5. Reinhard Mohn
    Reinhard Mohn

    Reinhard Mohn . Retired from media conglomerate Bertelsmann which his family owns. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of M?nster....


India
  1. Lakshmi Mittal
    Lakshmi Mittal

    Lakshmi Mittal, or Lakshmi Niwas Mittal , is an Indian industrialist based in the United Kingdom. He was born in Sadulpur village, in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and he resides in Kensington, London....
  2. Sonia Gandhi
    Sonia Gandhi

    Sonia Gandhi is the Italian People-born Congress President of the Indian National Congress and the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi....
  3. Ratan Naval Tata
  4. Kalanidhi Maran
    Kalanidhi Maran

    Kalanithi Maran, born 1965, is the Chairman and Managing Director of Sun Network which owns television channels, FM radio stations, and newspapers in South India....
  5. Rana Talwar
    Rana Talwar

    Rana Talwar is the son of a bureaucrat. He was schooled at the exclusive Lawrence School, Sanawar. He began his career with the Bombay branch of Citibank....
  6. Kushal Pal Singh
  7. Mukesh Ambani
    Mukesh Ambani

    Mukesh Ambani is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private sector enterprise and a Fortune 500 company....
  8. Indra Nooyi
    Indra Nooyi

    Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is the chairperson and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company. On August 14, 2006, Nooyi was named the successor to Steven Reinemund as chief executive officer of the company....
  9. Tenzin Gyatso


Iran
  1. Ali Khamenei
    Ali Khamenei

    Grand Ayatollah Sayyid , also known as Ali Khamenei, is an Iranian politician and cleric. He has been Supreme Leader of Iran of Iran since 1989 and before that was president of Iran from 1981 to 1989....


Ireland
  1. Bob Geldof
    Bob Geldof

    Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE, known as Bob Geldof , is an Republic of Ireland singer, songwriter, actor and political activist who became famous as a member of the Rock music The Boomtown Rats....


Italy
  1. Silvio Berlusconi
    Silvio Berlusconi

    is an Politics of Italy, entrepreneur, real estate and insurance tycoon, bank and media proprietor, sports team owner and songwriter. He is the second longest-serving Prime Minister of Italy , a position he has held on three separate occasions: from 1994 to 1995, from 2001 to 2006 and currently since 2008....


Netherlands
  1. Jeroen van der Veer
    Jeroen van der Veer

    File:Jeroen van der Veer.jpgJeroen van der Veer is the Chief executive officer of oil Corporation Royal Dutch Shell.Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 where he worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Cura?ao and the United Kingdom....


Japan
  1. Hiroshi Mikitani
  2. Osamu Suzuki
  3. Akira Mori
    Akira Mori

    is the president and Chief Executive Officer of Mori Trust Co., Ltd..His father, Taikichiro Mori, founded Mori Building, the company his older brother Minoru Mori now heads, following World War II, and was ranked by Forbes as the richest man in the world in 1991 and 1992....


Kenya
  1. Wangari Maathai
    Wangari Maathai

    Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai is an environmentalism and political activist. In 2004 she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for ?her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.? Maathai was an elected member of National Assembly of Kenya and served as Assistant Minister for Natural environment and Na...


Kuwait
  1. Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
    Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

    File:????? ????.jpgSheikh Sabah IV Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is the List of emirs of Kuwait of Kuwait. He was sworn in on January 29, 2006 after confirmation by the National Assembly of Kuwait....


Lebanon
  1. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah
    Hassan Nasrallah

    Hassan Nasrallah , b. August 31, 1960, Bourj Hammoud , Beirut, Lebanon, is the current and third Secretary General of the Lebanon Islamist party and paramilitary organization Hezbollah....


Liberia
  1. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
    Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the current President of Liberia of Liberia. She served as Minister of Finance under President William R. Tolbert, Jr....


Libya
  1. Patrice Motsepe
    Patrice Motsepe

    Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe is a leading South African mining entrepreneur. His company, African Rainbow Minerals, has interests in gold, ferrous metals, base metals, and platinum....


Mexico
  1. Mario Molina
  2. Genaro Larrea Mota Velasco
    Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco

    Germ?n Larrea Mota-Velasco , is one Mexico's richest people, he is the CEO of Grupo M?xico which is the largest mining corporation in Mexico and the third largest copper producer in the world....
  3. Guillermo Ortiz Martinez
  4. Carlos Slim Helú
    Carlos Slim Helú

    Carlos Slim Hel? is a Mexico businessman and philanthropist who is largely focused on the telecommunications industry. He is currently the second List of billionaires with a net worth of around United States dollar60 billion through his holdings....


Nigeria
  1. Aliko Dangote
    Aliko Dangote

    Aliko Dangote is a businessman based in Nigeria. He is the owner of the Dangote Group, which has operations in Nigeria and several other countries in West Africa....
  2. Odein Ajumogobia
  3. Francis Arinze


North Korea
  1. Kim Jung II
    Kim Jong-il

    Kim Jong-il is the de facto leader of the North Korea. He is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea ....


Qatar
  1. Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani


Russia
  1. Alexei Miller
    Alexei Miller

    Alexei Borisovich Miller is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom, Russia's largest company and the world's biggest List of countries by natural gas proven reserves producer....
  2. Vladimir Putin
    Vladimir Putin

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus....
  3. Vladimir Popovkin
  4. Andrey Likhachev
  5. Oleg Deripaska
    Oleg Deripaska

    Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska is a Russians billionaire and a member of the Board of Directors and CEO of UC Rusal, a Russian aluminium industry company ....


Saudi Arabia
  1. Bandar bin Sultan
    Bandar bin Sultan

    Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud is a Saudi politician and was Saudi Arabia Ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. He was appointed Secretary-General of the National Security Council by Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on 16 October 2005....
  2. Al-Waleed bin Talal
    Al-Waleed bin Talal

    *Khaled bin Al-Waleed*Reem bint Al-WaleedHRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud is a member of the House of Saud, and an entrepreneur and international investor....


Singapore
  1. Ho Ching
    Ho Ching

    Ho Ching and the Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings and the wife of the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong . Ms Ho is also a Cantonese Singaporean....


South Africa
  1. Nelson Mandela
    Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first President of South Africa of South Africa to be elected in a universal suffrage democratic election, serving in the office from 1994?99....
  2. Patrice Motsepe
    Patrice Motsepe

    Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe is a leading South African mining entrepreneur. His company, African Rainbow Minerals, has interests in gold, ferrous metals, base metals, and platinum....


South Korea
  1. David Yonggi Cho
    David Yonggi Cho

    David Yonggi Cho is a Korean Christian Religious minister. He is Senior Pastor and founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church , the world's largest congregation with a membership of 830,000 ....


Portugal
  1. José Manuel Barroso


Sweden
  1. Carl Bildt
    Carl Bildt

    , Order of St Michael and St George is a Sweden politician and diplomat. Formerly Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservatism Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, Bildt has served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006....
  2. Marcus Wallenberg
  3. Ingvar Kamprad
    Ingvar Kamprad

    Ingvar Feodor Kamprad is a Swedish people entrepreneur who is the founder of the home furnishing retail chain store IKEA. he is the 7th wealthiest person in the world according to Forbes magazine, with an estimated net worth of around US$31 1,000,000,000 ....
  4. Fredrik Reinfeldt
    Fredrik Reinfeldt

    John Fredrik Reinfeldt is the current Prime Minister of Sweden of Sweden and leader of the liberal conservatism Moderate Party .A native of Stockholm County, Reinfeldt joined the Moderate Youth League in 1983, and by 1992 had risen to the rank of chairman, a position he held until 1995....
  5. Carl-Henric Svanberg
    Carl-Henric Svanberg

    Carl-Henric Svanberg is a Sweden businessman who is the current CEO of telecommunications company Ericsson.Born in the north of Sweden, Svanberg studied in the south and graduated with a Masters degree in Applied Physics from the Link?ping Institute of Technology....


About 20-30 Swedes are on the list.

Switzerland
  1. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
    Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

    Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is a former CEO of the Nestl? Group.Brabeck-Letmathe was born in a family with its origins in Iserlohn in North West Germany....


Turkey
  1. Kemal Dervis
    Kemal Dervis

    Kemal Dervis is a Turkish economist and politician. He was born on January 10, 1949 in Istanbul to a Turkish people father and a Dutch people-German people mother....


United Arab Emirates
  1. Khalifa Mohammad Al-Kindi


United Kingdom
  1. Gordon Brown
    Gordon Brown

    James Gordon Brown UK Member of Parliament is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Brown assumed office in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party....
  2. Mike Turner
    Michael Turner (businessman)

    Mike Turner, Order of the British Empire is the former Chief Executive Officer of the aerospace and defence company BAE Systems. He received a CBE for services to the Aerospace Industry in the Queen's 1999 Birthday Honours....
  3. Richard Branson
    Richard Branson

    Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group brand of over 360 companies. Branson's first successful business venture was at age 16, when he published a magazine called Student....
  4. Bernie Ecclestone
    Bernie Ecclestone

    Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestone is the president and CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration and owns a stake in Alpha Prema, the parent company of the Formula One Group of companies....
  5. Lakshmi Mittal
    Lakshmi Mittal

    Lakshmi Mittal, or Lakshmi Niwas Mittal , is an Indian industrialist based in the United Kingdom. He was born in Sadulpur village, in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and he resides in Kensington, London....
  6. John Silvester Varley
  7. Mark Thompson
    Mark Thompson

    Mark John Thompson is Director-General of the BBC of the BBC, a post he has held since 2004, and a former Chief executive officer of Channel 4....


United States of America
  1. George W. Bush
    George W. Bush

    George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
  2. Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and Politics of the United States, currently serving as the List of Governors of California Governor of California of the state of California....
  3. Ronald Sugar
    Ronald Sugar

    Ronald D. Sugar has been chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a global defense company, since 2003....
  4. Jeffrey Immelt
  5. James Dimon
  6. Robert Zoellick
    Robert Zoellick

    Robert Bruce Zoellick is the eleventh president of the World Bank Group, a position he has held since July 1, 2007. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs, United States United States Deputy Secretary of State and Office of the United States Trade Representative, from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005....
  7. Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Gail Winfrey is an United Statesn television presenter, Media proprietor and philanthropist. Her television syndication talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her multiple Emmy Awards and is the highest-rated talk show in the history of television....
  8. Indra Nooyi
    Indra Nooyi

    Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is the chairperson and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company. On August 14, 2006, Nooyi was named the successor to Steven Reinemund as chief executive officer of the company....
  9. Al Gore
    Al Gore

    Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. is an United States environmentalism activist who served as the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President of the United States Bill Clinton....
  10. Lee Scott
    Lee Scott

    H. Lee Scott, Jr. is an American businessman, who served as the third chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., from January 2000 to January 2009....
  11. Michael Mullen
    Michael Mullen

    Admiral Michael Glenn "Mike" Mullen, United States Navy , is the 17th and current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . Mullen previously served as the United States Navy 28th Chief of Naval Operations from July 22, 2005 to September 29, 2007....
  12. Mark Zuckerberg
    Mark Zuckerberg

    Mark Zuckerberg, is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard student, he created the online social website Facebook, a site popular among students worldwide, with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes ....
  13. Pierre Omidyar
    Pierre Omidyar

    Pierre M. Omidyar is a France-born Iranian-United States entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist, and the founder/chairman of the eBay auction site....
  14. Steve Case
    Steve Case

    Steve Case is a businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online . He reached his highest profile when he played an instrumental role in AOL's merger with Time Warner in 2000....
  15. Sumner Redstone
    Sumner Redstone

    Sumner Murray Redstone is majority owner and Chair of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, Sumner Redstone and his family are majority owners of CBS Corporation, Viacom, and MTV Networks, Black Entertainment Television, and movie production and distribution Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks movie studios, and...
  16. Michael Bloomberg
    Michael Bloomberg

    Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an United States businessman and philanthropist, and the current Mayor of New York City. He was listed as the eighth-richest American, with a net worth of US$30 Billion, in the Forbes 400 on Sept....
  17. Rex Tillerson
    Rex Tillerson

    Rex W. Tillerson has been Chairman#Corporate governance and chief executive officer of ExxonMobil since January 1, 2006....
  18. Ben Bernanke
    Ben Bernanke

    Ben Shalom Bernanke is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States Federal Reserve. Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan on February 1, 2006....
  19. Ken Lewis
    Ken Lewis (executive)

    Kenneth D. Lewis is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of Bank of America, the largest bank in the United States, positions he has held since the retirement of Hugh McColl in 2001....
  20. Stephen Green (banker)
    Stephen Green (banker)

    Stephen Green is Group Chairman of HSBC. Green was educated at Lancing College and Oxford University and received a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
  21. Jamie Dimon
    Jamie Dimon

    James "Jamie" L. Dimon is the current CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co....
  22. Lloyd Blankfein
    Lloyd Blankfein

    Lloyd Craig Blankfein is the current Chief Executive Officer and Chair of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. After the May 31, 2006 nomination of former CEO Hank Paulson as Secretary of the Treasury, Blankfein was announced as his replacement....
  23. Sergey Brin
    Sergey Brin

    Sergey Brin is co-founder of Google, Inc., the world?s largest internet company, based on its search engine and online advertising technology. He is ranked by Forbes as the 32nd richest person in the world....
  24. Larry Page
    Larry Page

    Larry Page, is an American computer scientist and co-founder of Google, Inc., the world?s largest internet company, based on its search engine and online advertising technology....
  25. Bill Gates
    Bill Gates

    William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an United States business magnate, philanthropist, author, the List of the 100 wealthiest people , and chairman of the board of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen....
  26. Warren Buffett
    Warren Buffett

    Warren Edward Buffett is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is one of the world's most successful investors and the largest shareholder and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway....
  27. Jerry Yang
  28. Henry "Hank" Paulson
    Henry Paulson

    Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson Jr. served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury and is a member of the International Monetary Fund Board of Governors....
  29. Joshua Bolten
  30. Robert Zoellick
    Robert Zoellick

    Robert Bruce Zoellick is the eleventh president of the World Bank Group, a position he has held since July 1, 2007. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs, United States United States Deputy Secretary of State and Office of the United States Trade Representative, from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005....


Vatican
  1. Pope Benedict XVI
    Pope Benedict XVI

    Pope Benedict XVI is the List of popes and reigning Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and, as such, monarch of the Vatican City....


Venezuela
  1. Lorenzo Mendoza Gimenez
    Lorenzo Mendoza

    Lorenzo Mendoza Gim?nez oversees one of Venezuela's largest private companies, $3 billion Empresas Polar. He is the son of Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Quintero and Leonor Gim?nez Pocaterra....
  2. Gustavo Cisneros
    Gustavo Cisneros

    Gustavo A. Cisneros Rendiles is a Venezuelan media mogul of Cubans descent. He is among the world's richest men according to Forbes magazine, which estimates his fortune at $6 billion....


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