List of 50 most powerful people in the world

[Albert0373]

per Newsweek:

Published Dec 20, 2008

From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009

1: Barack Obama (U.S. President-Elect)
2: Hu Jintao (President of China)
3: Nicolas Sarkozy (President of France)
4-5-6: Economic Triumvirate (Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve; Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank; Masaaki Shirakawa of the Bank of Japan)
7: Gordon Brown (Prime Minister of U.K.)
8: Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany)
9: Vladimir Putin (Prime Minister of Russia)
10: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud (King of Saudi Arabia)
11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Supreme Leader of Iran)
12: Kim Jong Il (Dear Leader of North Korea)
13-14: The Clintons (Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and soon-to-be U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton)
15: Timothy Geithner (soon-to-be U.S. Treasury Secretary)
16: Gen. David Petraeus (U.S. Head of Central Command)
17: Sonia Gandhi (President of Congress Party, India)
18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (President of Brazil)
19: Warren Buffett (American investor, businessman, and billionaire)
20: Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (Pakistan Chief of Army Staff)
21: Nuri al-Maliki (Prime Minister of Iraq)
22-23: The Philanthropists (Bill and Melinda Gates, Gates Foundation)
24: Nancy Pelosi (U.S. Speaker of the House)
25: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (President of the United Arab Emirates)
26: Mike Duke (CEO-Designate of Wal-Mart Stores)
27: Rahm Emanuel (Obama’s soon-to be Chief of Staff)
28: Eric Schmidt (Chairman and CEO of Google)
29: Jamie Dimon (CEO of JPMorgan Chase)
30-31: Friends of Barack (David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisors to Obama)
32: Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Managing Director, International Monetary Fund)
33: Rex Tillerson (CEO of ExxonMobile)
34: Steve Jobs (Founder and CEO of Apple)
35: John Lasseter (Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Studios)
36: Michael Bloomberg (Mayor of New York City)
37: Pope Benedict XVI (Head of the Roman Catholic Church)
38: Katsuaki Watanabe (President and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation)
39: Rupert Murdoch (Chairman and CEO of NewsCorp)
40: Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon.com)
41: Shahrukh Khan (King of Bollywood)
42: Osama bin Laden (Global Terrorist)
43: Hassan Nasrallah (Lebanese Hizbullah leader)
44: Dr. Margaret Chan (Director General of the World Health Organization)
45: Carlos Slim Helú (Mexican Tycoon)
46: The Dalai Lama (Tibetan Leader)
47: Oprah Winfrey (Television Host, Media Mogul)
48: Amr Khaled (Egyptian televangelist)
49: E. A. Adeboye (Christian Pentecostal preacher from Nigeria)
50: Jim Rogers (CEO of Duke Energy)

[Stas1976]

I did not know that Jim Rogers is CEO of Duke energy. I though he is a commodity player.

[aiki14]

Originally Posted by Stas1976

I did not know that Jim Rogers is CEO of Duke energy. I though he is a commodity player.

The DUK guy is James E. Rogers if I am not mistaken, not the Jim Rogers you see on CNBC occasionally. The Jim Rogers you are thinking about is founder of the Quantum fund, and currently lives in Singapore.