World's most powerful people

1: Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most powerful person in the world right now, according to the latest ranking from Forbes. REUTERS/Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti

2: Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel is second. REUTERS/Sebastien Pirlet

3. President Obama is third. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

4: Pope Francis. REUTERS/Max Rossi

5. China's President Xi Jinping. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

6. Microsoft founder Bill Gates. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

7. U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

8. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

9: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

10. Google CEO Larry Page. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

11. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi. REUTERS/Yves Herman

12. China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev

13. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

14: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

15. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

16. France's President Francois Hollande. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

17: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

18. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

19: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

20. JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

21: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. REUTERS/Sebastian Scheiner/Pool

22: Alibaba's Jack Ma. REUTERS/Stringer

23: IMF managing director Christine Lagarde. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

24: GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

25: ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

26: Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

27: Apple CEO Tim Cook. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

28: Toyota President Akio Toyoda. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

29: David and Charles Koch of Koch Industries. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

30: Google co-founder Sergey Brin. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

31: Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

32: Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

33: Samsung vice-chairman Jay Y. Lee. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

34: BlackRock Inc Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink. REUTERS/Jason Reed

35: Newscorp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

36: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade

37: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

38: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon

39: United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

40: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. REUTERS/Juan Medina