Forbes named the Russian President Vladimir Putin on top in its list of ‘the world’ most powerful persons’. American President Barack Obama, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Pope Francis and German Chancellor Angela Merkel followed in the second, third, fourth and fifth spots, respectively.
The list revealed on October 30, 2013 has ranked the Indian political giant Sonia Gandhi at 21 and noted her to be the third most powerful woman in the world after German Chancellor Angela Merkel (No. 5) and Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff (No. 20) in the first and second places respectively.
Forbes gave Putin an edge based on his role in getting Syria to surrender its chemical weapons and the diplomatic blow suffered by Obama when Russia offered asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
Philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke, Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi and Wal-Mart CEO Michael Duke rounded out the top 10.
The magazine measured the power players based on the number of people they had authority to oversee, financial resources under their control, influence on multiple populations and how they used this total clout in the past year.
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