Forbes list of World’s Most Powerful People-2015

Question:  In Recently released Forbes list of World’s most powerful people who has been named as the World’s Most Powerful Person?

(a) Pope Francis
(b) Vladimir Putin
(c) Barack Obama
(d) Angela Merkel

Ans (b)

Related facts:

  • The Forbes list of the World’s Most Powerful People 2015 was released on 4 November 2015.
  • The list provided the annual ranking of the World’s 73 Most Powerful People.
  • It was started in 2009 by Forbes magazine since then annually published, this is Forbes’ seventh annual ranking of World’s Most Powerful People.
  • For the consecutive 3rd year, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been named as the world’s most powerful person in the list.
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel ranked second, overtaking US President Barack Obama.
  • President Barack Obama ranked third, 266th Pope of Roman Catholic Church Pope Francis is ranked fourth and Chinese President Xi Jinping ranked fifth.
  • India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ranked as the world’s ninth most powerful person.
  • In 2014, Modi was placed at 15th position.
  • Other Indian in the list includes Mukesh Ambani ranked 36th.
  • In the list of steel king Lakshmi Mittal in placed at 55th position and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is placed at 61st

Reference:
http://www.forbes.com/powerful-people/list/#tab:overall

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2015/11/04/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2015/