1. Xi Jinping
Net Worth:- $1.2 Billion
Age:- 69
Residence:- Beijing, China
Citizenship:- China
Marital Status:- Married
Children:- 1
Education:- Bachelors of Arts/Science, Tsinghua University; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Tsinghua University.
The leader of the world's most populated country and second-largest economy (GDP), Xi Jinping holds a firm grasp on China's only political party. In March, China's parliament amended its constitution, broadening Xi's power and scrapping term limits. After ascending to the presidency in 2012, Xi we quick to see the benefits of privatization-friendly reform. He is widely credited with the slogan Chinese Dream- a set of personal and national ideals for the advancement of Chinese society. He has a surprisingly assertive public profile, even allowing the state media to publish a day-in-the-life account of his workday.
2. Vladimir Putin
Net Worth:- $70 Billion
Age:- 69
Residence:- Moscow, Russia
Citizenship:- Russia
Marital Status:- Divorced
Children:- 2
Education:- Doctor of Jurisprudence Saint Petersburg State University
Voted the world's most powerful person four times between 2013 and 2016, Russia's president has exerted his country's influence around the world. An FBI investigation is underway to determine whether Trump's campaign had a relationship with high-ranking Russian officials during the elections. Trump and Putin have denied the allegations, though Facebook admitted that 126 million Americans saw political ads purchased by Russian organizations. Born in 1952 in Saint Petersburg, Putin served as Prime Minister for one year during Yeltsin's presidency and ascended to the highest office in 2000. Putin's international influence stems largely from Europe's dependence on Russian oil and gas, state-owned Gazprom is one of EU's largest suppliers.
3. Donald Trump
Net Worth:- 3 Billion
Age:- 76
Source of Wealth:- Real estate
Self-Made Score:- 4
Philanthropy Score:- 1
Residence:- Palm Beach, Florida
Citizenship:- United States
Marital Status:- Married
Children:- 5
Education:- Fordham University; Bachelor of Arts/ Science, University of Pennsylvania
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump and his business in September 2022, saying the Trump Organization had engaged in years of financial fraud by lying about the value of its assets to make itself look more creditworthy to financial institutions. While much of Trump's fortune remains tied up in New York City real estate, the former president got a $730 million boost from Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company to Twitter knockoff Truth Social. The former U.S president also owns golf courses and a winery, and he has licensed his name to companies around the world. In 2019 , he changed his official residence from Trump Tower in New York City to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL. Trump got his start working for his father, Fred, hi developed low-cost housing in Brooklyn and Queens.
4. Angela Merkel
Net Worth:- 11.5 Billion
Age:- 68
Residence:- Berlin, Germany
Citizenship:- Germany
Marital Status:- Married
Education:- Doctorate, Leipzig University; Master of Science, Leipzig University
Markel become the first female Chancellor of Germany in 2005 and is serving her fourth term. In November 2018, Merkel stepped down as leader of the Christian Democratic Union and announced she wouldn't seek another term as chancellor in 2021. Merkel remains the de facto leader of Europe, leading the region's largest economy after steering Germany through financial crisis and back to growth. Her leadership is marked by her steely reserve, from standing up to Donald Trump to allowing more than a million Syrian into Germany. For now, she leads a coalition government unpopular with voters, and growing anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe. The big question that the public is now asking is who and what will come after Merkel's time in office comes to an end.
5. Jeff Bezos
Net Worth:- 150 Billion
Age:- 58
Source of Wealth:- Amazon, Self Made
Self-Made-Score:- 8
Residence:- Medina, Washington
Citizenship:- Unites States
Marital Status:- In Relationship
Children:- 4
Education:- Bachelor of Arts/ Science, Princeton University
Jeff Bezos founded the e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. He stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in July 2021. H no owns a bit les than 10% of the company. He and his wife Mackenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and he transferred a quarter of his then,-16% Amazon stake to her. Bezos has donated more than $400 million worth of stock to nonprofits in 2022, through it's unclear which organizations received those shares. Bezos owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company developing rockets; he briefly flew to space in one in July 2021.
6. Pope Francis
Net Worth:- 16 Million
Age:- 85
Residence:- Vatican City, Vatican City Sate
Citizenship:- Vatican City State
Pope Francis is the spiritual leader to more than one-sixth of the world's population 1.3 billion people. He has made it his personal mission to transform the longstanding conservative image of the Catholic Church. In November 2016 he gave priests the power to forgive woman who undergo abortions. He has continued to push for climate change reform, better treatment of refugees and greater attention to persecution of religious minorities. Still, Francis has kept some traditional aspects of the Church in place, including a ban a female clergy member.
7. Bill Gates
Net Worth:- 106 Billion
Age:- 66
Source of Wealth:- Microsoft, Self Made
Self-Made-Score:- 8
Philanthropy:- 5
Lifetime Giving:- $35.8 Billion
Giving as a percentage of net worth:- 25%
Residence:- Medina, Washington
Citizenship:- United States
Marital Status:- Divorced
Children:- 3
Education:- Drop Out, Harvard University
Bill Gates turned his fortune from software firm Microsoft into diversified holdings including investments in zero-carbon energy. In May 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates each announced on Twitter they were ending their marriage after 27 years. They still co-chair- the charitable Gates Foundation. Gates, ho confounded Microsoft with Paul Allen (d. 2018) in 1975, transferred at least $6 billion worth of shares in public companies to Melinda as part of the divorce settlement. As of March 2020, When Gates stepped down from the Microsoft board, he owned about 1.3% of the software and computing company's shares. He is invested in dozens of companies including Republic Services and Deere and CO., and is one of the largest owners of farmland in the U.S. To date, Gates has donated nearly $57 billion to the Gates Foundation, announced in July 2022. Most of his early donations were gifts of Microsoft stock.
8. Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud
Net Worth:- 8 Billion
Age:- 37
Citizenship:- Saudi Arabia
His Father remains king of Saudi Arabia, but the crown price has consolidated power beyond any doubt and taken control of the country. In November 2017, Al Saudi an anticorruption campaign's that caused many prominent Saudis to be arrested and forced to turn over their fortunes. As a result of the campaign, ten Saudi billionaires were dropped from Forb's annual list of the world's billionaires. The crown prince will be the fulcrum around which the Middle Eastern geopolitics moves for the next generation.
9. Narendra Modi
Net Worth:- 0.4 Million
Age:- 72
Residence:- New Delhi, India
Citizenship:- India
Marital Status:- Separated
Education:- Master of Arts, Gujarat University; Bachelor of Art/ Science, Delhi University
India's populist prime minister remains hugely popular in the second most populous country on earth with a population of 1.3 billon people. In November 2016 unexpectedly announced plans to eliminate India's two largest banknote's in bid to reduce money laundering and corruption. Modi has raised his profile as a global leader in recent years during official visits with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. He has also emerged as a key fingure in the international effort to tackle climate change, as warming affects millions of his country's rural citizens.
10. Larry Page
Net Worth:- 105 Billion
Age:- 49
Source of Wealth:- Google, Self Made
Self-made-score:- 8
Philanthropy:- 4
Residence:- Palo Alto, California
Citizenship:- Unites States
Marital Status:- Married
Children:- 1
Education:- Master of Science, Stanford University; Bachelors of Arts/ Science, University of Michigan
Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, the parent of google, in December 2019 but remains a board member and a controlling shareholder. He confounded Goggle in 1998 with fellow Stanford Ph. student Sergey Brin. With Brin, Page invented Google's PageRank algorithm, which powers the search engine. Page was CEO until 2001, when Eric Schmidt took, and then from 2011 until 2015, when he become CEO of Goggle's new parent company Alphabet. He is founding investor in Space exploration company Planetary Resources and is also funding "flying car" startups Kitty and Opener.
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