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Forbes The 67 heads of state, criminals, financiers and philanthropists who really run the world. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies." After all, a head of state wields a very different sort of power than a religious figure. Can one really compare the influence of a journalist to that of a terrorist?
Lance Armstrong Picks the Seven Most Powerful People in Sports In compiling our first ranking of the World's Most Powerful People we wrestled with these questions -- and many more -- before deciding to define power in four dimensions. First, we asked, does the person have influence over lots of other people? Pope Benedict XVI, ranked 11th on our list, is the spiritual leader of more than a billion souls, or about one-sixth of the world's population, while Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke (No. Then we assessed the financial resources controlled by these individuals. For heads of state we used GDP, while for CEOs, we looked at a composite ranking of market capitalization, profits, assets and revenues as reflected on our annual ranking of the World's 2000 Largest Companies. In certain instances, like New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller (No. Next we determined if they are powerful in multiple spheres. There are only 67 slots on our list -- one for every 100 million people on the planet -- so being powerful in just one area is not enough to guarantee a spot. Take Italy's colorful prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi (No. Lastly, we insisted that our choices actively use their power. Ingvar Kamprad, the 83-year-old entrepreneur behind Ikea and the richest man in Europe, was an early candidate for this list, but was excluded because he doesn't exercise his power. To calculate the final rankings, five Forbes senior editors ranked all of our candidates in each of these four dimensions of power. Those individual rankings were averaged into a composite score, which determined who placed above (or below) whom. US President Barack Obama emerged, unanimously, as the world's most powerful person, and by a wide margin. Former President George W Bush didn't come close to making the final cut, while his predecessor in the Oval Office, Bill Clinton, ranks 31st, ahead of a number of sitting heads of government. Apple's Steve Jobs easily made the list, while Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star governor of California (alone, the world's fifth largest economy) did not. Let's count the ways: * Presides over world's largest, most innovative, most dynamic economy. JPG John Moore/Getty Images * Paramount political leader of more people than anyone else on the planet; JPG Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images * Prime Minister might as well be known as Czar, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russians. JPG AP Photo/Gerald Herbert * Former chairman of Princeton's economics department and noted Great Depression scholar now guiding world's largest economy through Great Recession; jpg AP Photo/Paul Sakuma * If knowledge is power, maybe information is too. Brainy duo met in Stanford computer science PhD program, now trying to put all the world's information at your fingertips. Brin: "Some say Google is God, others say Google is Satan."
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