Bloomberg’s Fifty Most Influential

By Bruce Firestone | Uncategorized

Sep 27

On Bloomberg’s list of 50 most influential (there are actually 51 names on this list–Ms Clinton and Mr Trump tied for 2nd spot), only 12 are business or tech titans. The rest are in banking, investment banking, finance, politics, government or academia.

Here’s my breakdown of their list; out of top 50–

Political/government/judiciary/academic/other:
16

Finance/banking/investment
banking: 22

Business/tech: 12

And here’s the Bloomberg list

50

 John
Oliver
 

49

 Larry
Summers
 

48

 Jim
Coulter
 

47

 Mary Barra 

46

 Blythe Masters 

45

 Ken Moelis 

44

 Raj Chetty 

43

 Wang Jianlin 

42

 Prince Mohammed bin Salman 

41

 Jorge Paulo Lemann 

40

 Travis Kalanick 

39

 Mark Zuckerberg 

38

 Ruth Porat 

37

 Margrethe
Vestager
 

36

 Robert
Gordon
 

35

 Marc
Benioff
 

34

 Lael Brainard 

33

 Michael Pettis 

32

 Paul Singer 

31

 Stephen Schwarzman 

30

 Vladimir Putin 

29

 Joseph Stiglitz 

28

 Mark
Carney
 

27

 Paul
Taubman
 

26

 Charles
Scharf
 

25

 Masayoshi
Son
 

24

 Mary
Erdoes
 

23

 John
Stumpf
 

22

 Jeffrey
Gundlach
 

21

 Sergio
Ermotti
 

20

 Carl Icahn 

19

 Loretta Lynch 

18

 Jay Y. Lee 

17

 Jack Ma 

16

 Larry Fink 

15

 Lloyd
Blankfein
 

14

 Zhou
Xiaochuan
 

13

 Jamie
Dimon
 

12

 Bill
McNabb
 

11

 Elon Musk 

10

 Sérgio
Moro
 

9

 Warren Buffett 

8

 Janet Yellen 

7

 Mario Draghi 

6

 Angela
Merkel
 

5

 Jeff Bezos 

4

 Xi Jinping 

2

 Hillary
Clinton
 

2

 Donald
Trump
 

1

 Theresa
May
 

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