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the world’s most Powerful PeoPle
ALL-STARS
Due to wealth, position or ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID
influence—or, in most cases, all A few notable nominees receive
three—22 power players have consideration almost every year but never
appeared on every edition of this make the list. Among them: Inditex founder
list, including Barack Obama, Bill Amancio Ortega (pictured above) and Ikea
Gates, Bernard Arnault, Michael founder Ingvar Kamprad. Despite their
Bloomberg and Vladimir Putin. vast personal wealth ($78.1 billion and $3.4
But only one woman has always billion, respectively), these retail moguls
made the cut: German Chancellor don’t exercise enough of their power and
Angela Merkel. influence to make the final cut.
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