1. Barack Obama [ President of the United States]
2. Vladimir Putin [Prime Minister of Russia]
3. Hu Jintao [President of the People's Republic of China]
4. Angela Merkel [Chancellor of Germany]
5. Bill Gates [Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founder and chairman of Microsoft]
6. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud [King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques]
7. Benedict XVI [265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church]
8. Ben Bernanke [14th Chair of the Federal Reserve]
9. Mark Zuckerberg [Founder of Facebook]
10. David Cameron [Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]
From : www.forbes.com