Lee Kun-Hee

• Chairman, Samsung Group
• Age: 72
• Source of Wealth: Samsung, inherited and growing
• Residence: Seoul, South Korea
• Country of Citizenship: South Korea
• Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Waseda University
• Marital Status: Married
• Children: 3

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Lee is chairman of the world's largest electronics manufacturing company (nearly $188 billion in revenue in 2012). He wields significant influence in Asia -- Samsung is arguably Asia's best known brand -- and Silicon Valley.

Ali Al-Naimi

• Oil Minister, Saudi Arabia
• Age: 79
• Residence: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• Country of Citizenship: Saudi Arabia
• Education: Master of Science, Stanford University

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Ali Al-Naimi presides over the Saudi Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and is chair of the state-owned Saudi Aramco, by far the biggest oil company in the world.

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).