|
Top 20: World's most powerful people (Full Details + Photos) |
Views: 7549
|
Thread Tools | Rating: |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
15. Jean-Claude Trichet Jean-Claude Trichet arrives at court for a second day of trial at the Palace of Justice January 7, 2003 in Paris. Oversees monetary policy for 16 countries constituting Eurozone -- now world's largest unified economy ($ 16.2 trillion GDP vs. $ 14.3 trillion for US). But Trichet's been hampered by ongoing problems with PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain). (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
14. Silvio Berlusconi Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrives at the Pamphili Villa July 23, 2001 in Rome, Italy before meeting United States President George Bush. Another year, another scandal for Italy's Prime Minister. This spring the media and banking billionaire will go to court on charges having *** with a minor and obstructing justice to secure her release from police custody.(Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
13. Rupert Murdoch Media magnate Rupert Murdoch arrives at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre February 27, 2011 in Hollywood, California. Murdoch's Fox News generated $ 700 million in operating profit in 2010, crushed the competition in ratings and may have put the Republicans over the top in the midterms. The Super Bowl, on Fox, kicked off with Bill O'Reilly interviewing the president and wound up as the most-watched TV broadcast ever. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
12. Dmitry Medvedev Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks to the media during a press conference on day two of the NATO summit at Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL) on November 20, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. Putin still pulls the puppet strings, but the junior member of Russia's ruling tandem is finally showing signs of independence: He sacked Moscow's powerful mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, in September after he implied Putin was a better president. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
11. Zhou Xiaochuan China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan answers a media question at a news conference during China's annual session of parliament at The Great Hall Of The People on March 6, 2010 in Beijing, China. All eyes now on governor of China's $ 3.7 trillion central bank to avert all-out currency war. Zhou, overseer of world's largest foreign-exchange reserves, won't kowtow to mounting Western pressure to revalue China's artificially low currency and change its exchange-rate regime. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images) |