Kingpoleon’s 18 Most Powerful Rankings For 2018

[Kingpoleon]

1. Donald Trump
2. Vladimir Putin
3. Xi Jinping
4. Jeff Bezos
5. Pope Francis
6. Theresa May
7. Emmanuel Macron
8. Angela Merkel
8. Bill Gates
9. Jim Yong Kim
10. King Salman
11. Larry Page
12. Sergey Brin
13. Mark Carney
14. Chris Patten
15. Doug McMillon
16. Narendra Modi
17. Dmitry Medvedev
18. Jerome Powell

[Kingpoleon]

What role does Chris Patten currently have other than "old Tory guy who people bring in to talk about Hong Kong"

Chancellor of the most prestigious university on earth? Heavily influential in the BBC, though officially retired? An advisor to the Vatican?

Also who the hell is Jerome Holmes?

Maybe I'm being too kind, but does he mean Jerome Powell?

Though if he did, being below most of these people doesn't make sense...

Also why is the CEO of Walmart on here? I get it's a big multinational, but it's really quite ridiculous he's there and not Zuck or anyone from Big Oil. The order of the European leaders makes no sense also. Medvedev being on this list is dumb.

A generally confusing list all around.

Walmart is the biggest corporation on earth. Its revenue is more than three times that of Amazon; it employs four times as many people; so McMillon wields a great deal of power. Yes, I was confused about Saudi Arabia, but Crown Prince Mohammed is merely the face of the new Saudi Arabian campaign - he’s no puppet master.

[Kingpoleon]

What role does Chris Patten currently have other than "old Tory guy who people bring in to talk about Hong Kong"

Chancellor of the most prestigious university on earth?

weird, you seem to have him confused with Lawrence Bacow
"who's Lawrence Bacow?"
exactly.

Harold Macmillan, Roy Jenkins, Viscount Halifax, Sir Edward Gray, Prince Philip, Edgar Adrian, and Arthur Tedder would beg to differ. All these men were the most powerful politicians in their country at any given time, top military leaders, and Nobel Prize winners. They were also all Presidents of Oxford. In the United States, Larry Summers, Elena Kagan, and Condoleezza Rice came from the top class of university administrators.