Haruhiko Kuroda

• Governor, Bank of Japan, Japan
• Age: 69
• Country of Citizenship: Japan
• Education: Master of Science, Oxford University

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 The chief banker of the world's third largest economy ($5.9 trillion GDP) was hired in March 2013 after serving as president of the Asian Development Bank for eight years.

Mukesh Ambani

• Chairman, Reliance Industries
• Age: 56
• Source of Wealth: petrochemicals, oil & gas, inherited and growing
• Residence: Mumbai, India
• Country of Citizenship: India
• Education: Drop Out, Stanford University; Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of Bombay
• Marital Status: Married
• Children: 3

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Ambani runs Reliance Industries, a $50 billion market value Indian petrochemicals conglomerate. He is also the country's richest man.

Enrique Pena Nieto

• President, Mexico
• Age: 47
• Residence: Mexico City, Mexico
• Country of Citizenship: Mexico
• Marital Status: Married
• Children: 4

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Pena Nieto became the No. 2 most powerful man in Mexico (behind the $73 billion man Carlos Slim Helu) in 2012, when he was elected president by a narrow victory (38% of the popular vote).

Xuedong Ding

• Chairman, China Investment Corp, China
• Age: 54
• Residence: Beijing, China
• Country of Citizenship: China

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Ding was appointed to lead one the world's largest sovereign wealth funds ($575.2 billion in assets) this July. Like his predecessor, Lou Jiwei, the new Minister of Finance, Ding is under pressure

Christine Lagarde

• Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
• Age: 58
• Residence: Washington, DC
• Country of Citizenship: France
• Education: Master of Arts, Institut d''etudes politiques d''Aix-en-Provence
• Marital Status: Single
• Children: 2

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The first woman to run the 188-country financial organization has spent much of her first two years on the job battling the debt crisis in Europe and calling for ailing global economies to accelerate steps for stable growth.