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.

Jeffrey Immelt

• CEO, General Electric
• Age: 57
• Residence: Fairfield, CT
• Country of Citizenship: United States
• Education: Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• Marital Status: Married
• Children: 1

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As head of the fourth-largest company in the world, Immelt oversees one of the most diverse businesses on the planet: GE produces aircraft engines, lightbulbs, amusement parks, medical ­devices and much more.

Mark Zuckerberg

• Cofounder, Chairman and CEO, Facebook
• Age: 29
• Source of Wealth: Facebook, self-made
• Residence: Palo Alto, CA
• Country of Citizenship: United States
• Education: Drop Out, Harvard University
• Marital Status: Married

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 The hoodie-wearing CEO has over one billion "friends" but he's expanding his influence with lobbying group FWD.us, which advocates for immigration reform and technology education.

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

• Grand Ayatollah, Iran
• Age: 74
• Residence: Tehran, Iran
• Country of Citizenship: Iran

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Iran's Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution presides over the nation's civil and religious business. The America-hating, nuke-hungry country's top decision maker welcomed a new, supposedly more moderate president