11. Rostam Ghasemi (Rank 32)
Age: 47 years
Rostam Ghasemi is the President of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Rostam Ghasemi is Iran’s Minister of Petroleum since 3 August 2011.
12. Lou Jiwei (Rank 33)
Age: 60 years
Lou Jiwei is the chairman and chief executive officer of CIC.
Previously, he served as executive deputy Minister of Finance, Deputy Governor of Guizhou Province, and Director General of the Macroeconomic Control Department of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic Systems.
13. Mukesh Ambani (Rank 35)
Age: 54 years
India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and managing director of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries.
14. Masaaki Shirakawa (Rank 36)
Age: 62 years
Masaaki Shirakawa is the Governor of Bank of Japan. He is also a director and vice-chairman of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Shirakawa joined the Bank of Japan in 1972.
15. Christine Lagarde (Rank 39)
Age: 55 years
Christine Madeleine Odette is a French lawyer and the managing director of the International Monetary Fund since 5 July 2011.
Earlier, she held various ministerial posts in the French government. Lagarde was the first woman ever to become minister of Economic Affairs of a G8 economy and is the first woman to ever head the IMF.
16. Jeff Bezos (Rank 40)
Age: 47 years
Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994. Amazon made him one of the most prominent dot-com entrepreneurs and a billionaire. In 2004, he founded a human spaceflight startup company called Blue Origin.
17. Jamie Dimon (Rank 41)
Age: 55 years
James Dimon is the CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Dimon was named to Time magazine’s 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2011 lists of the world’s 100 most influential people.
He was also named to Institutional Investor’s Best CEOs list in the All-America Executive Team Survey from 2008 through 2011.
18. Robin Li (Rank 42)
Age: 42 years
Robin Li is a Chinese entrepreneur and co-founder of China’s most popular search engine Baidu. In 2000, he founded Baidu with Eric Xu.
He has been the CEO of Baidu since January 2004, which was listed on Nasdaq in August 2005.
19. Lloyd Blankfein (Rank 43)
Age: 57 years
20. Li Ka-shing (Rank 44)
Age: 83 years
Chinese business tycoon, Li Ka-shing is also the chairman of Hutchison Whampoa.
He is the eleventh richest person in the world.
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