Li Ka-shing

• Chairman, Hutchison Whampoa
• Age: 85
• Source of Wealth: diversified, self-made
• Residence: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Country of Citizenship: Hong Kong
• Education: Drop Out, High School
• Marital Status: Widowed
• Children: 2

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Li Ka-shing was an early backer of Facebook and Spotify. He's invested in BitPay, provider of Bitcoin payment services, and Misfit Wearables, which makes motion tracker Shine and was co-founded by former Apple CEO John Sculley.

Michael Bloomberg

• Mayor, New York City, United States
• Age: 71
• Source of Wealth: Bloomberg LP, self-made
• Residence: New York, NY
• Country of Citizenship: United States
• Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Johns Hopkins University; Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• Marital Status: In Relationship
• Children: 2

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The world's richest mayor Michael Bloomberg relinquishes control of New York City in December, after 12 years shaping everything in the Big Apple. As he exits, Bloomberg has taken steps to extend his political influence into the national debate around gun control. That influence is better financed than ever, with his personal fortune up $6 billion since last year, thanks to the performance of Bloomberg LP, the financial data firm he founded in 1982.

Manmohan Singh

• Prime Minister, India
• Age: 81
• Residence: New Delhi, India
• Country of Citizenship: India
• Marital Status: Married
• Children: 3

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  Indian PM Singh is an Oxford- and Cambridge-educated economist credited with shaping India's economic and social welfare reforms. Singh's quiet intellectualism renders him a timid public figure.

Lloyd Blankfein

• CEO, Goldman Sachs Group
• Age: 59
• Residence: New York, NY
• Country of Citizenship: United States
• Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Harvard University; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Harvard University
• Marital Status: Married
• Children: 3

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Blankfein's indomitable investment bank, with $938 billion in assets, had some rough spots this past year, including an electronic trading error that flooded the U.S. options market with unintended orders.

Benjamin Netanyahu

• Prime Minister, Israel
• Age: 64
• Residence: Jerusalem, Israel
• Country of Citizenship: Israel
• Education: Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bachelor of Arts / Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Marital Status: Married
• Children: 3

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Though Netanyahu presides over just 8 million people, he leads one of the world's most religiously and geopolitically fraught nations. PM of Israel since 2009, with a lengthy political career prior to that, Netanyahu is a central player in nearly every Middle Eastern crisis.