
Dangote Named Among 2016 World’s Most Influential Persons

The World’s Most Powerful People
Rank | Name | Organization | Age | |
#1 | Vladimir Putin | Russia | 64 | |
#2 | Donald Trump | United States | 70 | |
#3 | Angela Merkel | Germany | 62 | |
#4 | Xi Jinping | China | 63 | |
#5 | Pope Francis | Roman Catholic Church | 80 | |
#6 | Janet Yellen | United States | 70 | |
#7 | Bill Gates | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 61 | |
#8 | Larry Page | Alphabet | 43 | |
#9 | Narendra Modi | India | 66 | |
#10 | Mark Zuckerberg | 32 | ||
#11 | Mario Draghi | European Central Bank | 69 | |
#12 | Li Keqiang | China | 61 | |
#13 | Theresa May | United Kingdom | 51 | |
#14 | Jeff Bezos | Amazon.com | 52 | |
#15 | Warren Buffett | Berkshire Hathaway | 86 | |
#16 | Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | Saudi Arabia | 80 | |
#17 | Carlos Slim Helu | América Móvil | 76 | |
#18 | Ali Hoseini-Khamenei | Iran | 77 | |
#19 | Jamie Dimon | JPMorgan Chase | 60 | |
#20 | Benjamin Netanyahu | Israel | 67 | |
#21 | Elon Musk | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | 45 | |
#22 | Jeffrey Immelt | General Electric | 60 | |
#23 | Francois Hollande | France | 62 | |
#24 | Rex Tillerson | ExxonMobil | 64 | |
#25 | Christine Lagarde | International Monetary Fund | 60 | |
#26 | Lloyd Blankfein | Goldman Sachs Group | 62 | |
#27 | Doug McMillon | Wal-Mart Stores | 50 | |
#28 | Jack Ma | Alibaba Group | 52 | |
#29 | Akio Toyoda | Toyota Motor | 60 | |
#30 | Sergey Brin | Alphabet | 43 | |
#31 | Charles Koch | Koch Industries | 81 | |
#32 | Tim Cook | Apple | 56 | |
#33 | Li Ka-shing | CK Hutchison Holdings | 88 | |
#34 | Larry Fink | BlackRock | 64 | |
#35 | Rupert Murdoch | News Corp | 85 | |
#36 | Antonio Guterres | United Nations | 67 | |
#37 | Shinzo Abe | Japan | 62 | |
#38 | Mukesh Ambani | Reliance Industries | 59 | |
#39 | Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan | United Arab Emirates | 68 | |
#40 | Jay Y. Lee | Samsung Electronics | 48 | |
#41 | Ding Xuedong | China | 56 | |
#42 | Jim Yong Kim | World Bank | 57 | |
#43 | Kim Jong-un | North Korea | 33 | |
#44 | Abdel el-Sisi | Egypt | 62 | |
#45 | Ma Huateng | Tencent Holdings | 45 | |
#46 | Michael Dell | Dell | 51 | |
#47 | Haruhiko Kuroda | Japan | 72 | |
#48 | Barack Obama | United States | 55 | |
#49 | Khalid Al-Falih | Saudi Arabia | 56 | |
#50 | John Roberts | United States | 61 | |
#51 | Satya Nadella | Microsoft | 49 | |
#52 | Stephen Schwarzman | Blackstone Group | 69 | |
#53 | Masayoshi Son | Softbank | 59 | |
#54 | Enrique Pena Nieto | Mexico | 50 | |
#55 | Michael Bloomberg | Bloomberg | 74 | |
#56 | Recep Erdogan | Turkey | 62 | |
#57 | Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | Islamic State | 45 | |
#58 | Alisher Usmanov | Metalloinvest | 63 | |
#59 | Wang Jianlin | Dalian Wanda Group | 62 | |
#60 | Robin Li | Baidu | 48 | |
#61 | Ginni Rometty | IBM | 59 | |
#62 | Mary Barra | General Motors | 54 | |
#63 | Bashar al-Assad | Syria | 51 | |
#64 | Travis Kalanick | Uber Technologies Inc. | 40 | |
#65 | Carl Icahn | Icahn Capital Management | 80 | |
#66 | Justin Trudeau | Canada | 44 | |
#67 | Bob Iger | Walt Disney | 65 | |
#68 | Aliko Dangote | Dangote Group | 59 | |
#69 | Mike Pence | United States | 57 | |
#70 | Rodrigo Duterte | Philippines | 71 | |
#71 | Ayman al-Zawahiri | Al-Qaeda | 65 | |
#72 | Sheldon Adelson | Las Vegas Sands | 83 | |
#73 | Peter Thiel | Founders Fund | 49 | |
#74 | Chuck Schumer | United States | 66 |