THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL PERSONALITIES OF 2016

         Forbes Magazine announced the list of most powerful persons of the world. The list has seventy- four names, which rule the billions of population of the world. Top 10 persons of these 74 are named in the table below:


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            The profession, qualifications and other details of top 10 most powerful persons are as-

1. VLADIMIR PUTIN
            Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is the current President of Russia, joined this post on 7th of May in 2012. He was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000, President from 2000 to 2008, and again Prime Minister from 2008 to 2012. This 64 year old world’s most powerful person studied from Saint Petersburg State University and lives in Moscow. He is the top of the list of Forbes' most powerful person in the world for last four years.

2. DONALD TRUMP
            He is the first billionaire president in United States history. He is currently 71 years old and has a residence in Washington, DC. Eric and Donald Junior are two sons of him. Trump had promised to keep his business out of presidential work, but this doesn’t seem to be true.

3. ANGELA MARKEL
            This German lady is the most powerful woman of the world of 2016. She has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She is also the leader of Christian Democratic Union. She qualified Master of Science from Leipzig University and also Doctorate from the same university.

4. XI JINPING
            Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician and currently the General Secretary of Communist Party of China. He is also the chairman of the Central Military Commission and the President of People’s Republic of China. He has the degree of Bachelor in Arts and Bachelors in Science from Tsinghua University and also the Doctorate degree from there.

5. POPE FRANCIS
            The 5th most powerful person in the world is the spiritual leader of nearly one sixth of the world’s population, named as Pope Francis. He is the 266th bishop of Roman Catholic Church, Rome. He has a mission to change the long-lastic conservative image of the Catholic Church.

6. JANET YELLEN
            Janet Yellen is an American economist. She is a chair of the Federal Reserve System of United States after serving as the Vice Chairwoman from 2010 to 2014. This 70 year American economist ranks in the 3rd position of most powerful women of 2016 by Forbes. 
 
7. BILL GATES
            Bill Gates is a drop out student of Harvard University and the top of the list of Billionaires of 2017. He is the richest person for 18 years out of past 23 years.
He co-founded 'Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation' with his wife, which is the world’s largest private charitable foundation. This foundation works to save lives, improve global health and working with Rotary Internationals to eliminate polio. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen.

8. LARRY PAGE
            Lawrence Edward Page is the 12th richest person of 2017 on the planet, whose source of income is Google, which was co-founded by himself with Sergey Brin. He is currently the CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. He is personally funding two secretive flying car startups, Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk.

9. NARENDRA MODI
            The ninth name in the list is Narendra Damodardas Modi, current Prime Minister of India. He has improved his image as a global leader in recent years with official visits with Barack Obama, Xi Jinping and many other global leaders across the world. He unexpectedly announced the ban on 1000 rupees and old 500 rupees note in November of 2016 in order to reduce the money laundry and corruption.

10. MARK ZUCKERBERG
            A dropout student of Harvard University is now the 5th richest man of the world, named as Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, who is the co-founder, CEO and chairman of Facebook. He founded Facebook in 2004 at the age of 19. He is an American computer programmer. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are spending 3 Billion USD to end, cure or manage all the disease by 2100.

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