- Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve, Washington, United States
- Age: 67
- Residence: Washington, D.C., DC
- Country of Citizenship: United States
- Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Brown University; Doctorate, Yale University
Showing posts with label Powerful People/Billionaires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Powerful People/Billionaires. Show all posts
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Mohammed Ibrahim
- Founder, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
- Age: 67
- Source of Wealth: communications, self-made
- Residence: London, United Kingdom
- Country of Citizenship: United Kingdom
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 2
Profile
Sudanese-British billionaire made his money on Celtel, one of the first mobile phone companies in Africa that serves 23 countries across the continent and in the Middle East.
Yngve Slyngstad
- CEO, Norges Bank Investment Management, Norway
- Age: 51
- Residence: Oslo, Norway
- Country of Citizenship: Norway
Profile
Runs the richest sovereign wealth fund in the world by far. Buoyed by taxes, ownership and stakes in the state oil and gas industry, it has reported assets worth about $785 billion.
Joseph Blatter
- President, FIFA
- Age: 77
- Residence: Zurich, Switzerland
- Country of Citizenship: Switzerland
Profile
Soccer patriarch Joseph Blatter heads up the governing body of the world's most popular sport and unofficial religion.
Jill Abramson
- Executive Editor, New York Times Co.
- Age: 59
- Residence: New York, NY
- Country of Citizenship: United States
- Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Harvard University
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 2
Profile
Now two years on the job as executive editor, Abramson sets the editorial agenda at the nation's newspaper of record.
Joaquin Guzman Loera
- Drug Trafficker, Sinaloa Cartel
- Age: 56
- Source of Wealth: drug trafficking, self-made
- Residence: Sinaloa State, Mexico
- Country of Citizenship: Mexico
Profile
CEO of the Sinaloa cartel, "El Chapo" is the world's most powerful drug trafficker. The cartel is responsible for an estimated 25% of all illegal drugs that enter the U.S. via Mexico.
John Boehner
- Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives, United States
- Age: 64
- Residence: West Chester Township, OH
- Country of Citizenship: United States
- Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Xavier University
Profile
The most conservative members of his party in the House were able shut down the U.S. government for 16 days In October in an effort to break Obamacare.
Reid Hoffman
- Partner, Greylock Partners
- Age: 46
- Source of Wealth: LinkedIn, self-made
- Residence: Palo Alto, CA
- Country of Citizenship: United States
- Education: Master of Science, Oxford University; Bachelor of Arts / Science, Stanford University
- Marital Status: Married
- Times on Midas: 3
Profile
The most connected man in Silicon Valley, Hoffman has been behind many of the world's most important tech companies, including Facebook and PayPal.
Aliko Dangote
- CEO, Dangote Group
- Age: 56
- Source of Wealth: cement, sugar, flour, self-made
- Residence: Lagos, Nigeria
- Country of Citizenship: Nigeria
- Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Al-Azhar University
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 3
Profile
Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, continues to expand his publicly traded Dangote Cement across the continent, announcing plans in recent months to build new plants in Kenya and Niger.
Alisher Usmanov
- Founder, Metalloinvest
- Age: 60
- Source of Wealth: steel, telecom, investments, self-made
- Residence: Moscow, Russia
- Country of Citizenship: Russia
- Education: Master, Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation; Master of Laws, Moscow Institute of International Relations
- Marital Status: Married
Profile
The richest man in Russia made his fortune in metals (iron and steel) and now has interests ranging from
John Roberts
- Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, United States
- Age: 59
- Country of Citizenship: United States
- Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Harvard University; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Harvard University
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 2
Profile
Now eight years into his lifelong tenure as the U.S. Supreme Court's top judge, he's successfully moved the court in a conservation direction.
Robin Li
- Founder and CEO, Baidu
- Age: 45
- Source of Wealth: Internet search, self-made
- Residence: Beijing, China
- Country of Citizenship: China
- Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Peking University; Master of Arts, University at Buffalo
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 4
Profile
One of China's richest men and CEO of the nation's top search engine. Before founding Baidu, Li worked in Silicon Valley for Infoseek, a search pioneer.
Igor Sechin
- Chairman, Rosneft
- Age: 53
- Residence: Moscow, Russia
- Country of Citizenship: Russia
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 1
Profile
Vladimir Putin's former deputy chief of staff had a great year since landing the top job at Russian oil major Rosneft in May 2012, inking a sweet deal for BP's near half of energy giant TNK-BP and then buying out the remaining shares.
Margaret Chan
- Director-General, World Health Organization
- Age: 66
- Residence: Geneva, Switzerland
- Country of Citizenship: China
- Education: Medical Doctor, University of Western Ontario; Bachelor of Arts / Science, Northcote College of Education; Masters of Public Health, National University of Singapore
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 1
Profile
Now in her second term as leader of the World Health Organization, Chan is the most powerful person in global public health and the only person with the authority to call a worldwide pandemic.
Larry Ellison
- CEO, Oracle
- Age: 69
- Source of Wealth: Oracle, self-made
- Residence: Woodside, CA
- Country of Citizenship: United States
- Education: Drop Out, University of Illinois at Urbana; Drop Out, University of Chicago
- Marital Status: Divorced
- Children: 2
Profile
Little gets in the way of Larry Ellison's ambition--or mouth. In an August TV ¬interview, the Oracle founder said that Apple's best days
Shinzo Abe
- Prime Minister, Japan
- Age: 59
- Residence: Tokyo, Japan
Profile
This is Shinzo Abe's second go as prime minister, begging the question whether or not he is destined to be another in a long line Japanese leaders who can't seem to hold on to their administration for longer than two years.
Virginia Rometty
- CEO, IBM
- Age: 56
- Residence: Armonk, NY
- Country of Citizenship: United States
- Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Northwestern University
- Marital Status: Married
Rometty heads up the biggest computer company by revenue -- yes, bigger even than Google, Tencent or Yahoo. Generating $104.5 billion annually, IBM saw a $16.6 billion profit last year.
Bill Gross
- Cofounder and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Pacific Investment Management Company LLC
- Age: 69
- Source of Wealth: investments, self-made
- Residence: Laguna Beach, CA
- Country of Citizenship: United States
- Education: Master of Business Administration, Anderson School of Management; Bachelor of Arts / Science, Duke University
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 3
The cofounder of PIMCO is the most powerful man in the bond market, heading up the industry's largest fund with $2 trillion under management.
Bernard Arnault & family
- Chairman and CEO, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton
- Age: 64
- Source of Wealth: LVMH, inherited and growing
- Residence: Paris, France
- Country of Citizenship: France
- Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 5
Arnault oversees a luxury empire whose brands include Dom Perignon, Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, Thomas Pink and De Beers.
Dmitry Medvedev
- Prime Minister, Russia
- Age: 48
- Residence: Moscow, Russia
- Country of Citizenship: Russia
- Education: Doctor of Jurisprudence, Saint Petersburg State University
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 1
Profile
The official No. 2 man in the Russian government and former one-term president (2008-2012) of the 143 million population country is now
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