Dangote Makes 2016 List of World's Most Powerful People

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Africa’s richest person and President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has made the 2016 list of World’s most powerful persons in the world. Dangote was ranked on the #68 spot along side 74 other most powerful people by Forbes Magazine.

Rank	Name	Organization	Age
#1	Vladimir Putin	Russia	64
#2	Donald Trump	United States	70
#3	Angela Merkel	Germany	62
#4	Xi Jinping	China	63
#5	Pope Francis	Roman Catholic Church	80
#6	Janet Yellen	United States	70
#7	Bill Gates	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	61
#8	Larry Page	Alphabet	43
#9	Narendra Modi	India	66
#10	Mark Zuckerberg	Facebook	32

#11	Mario Draghi	European Central Bank	69
#12	Li Keqiang	China	61
#13	Theresa May	United Kingdom	51
#14	Jeff Bezos	Amazon.com	52
#15	Warren Buffett	Berkshire Hathaway	86
#16	Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	Saudi Arabia	80
#17	Carlos Slim Helu	América Móvil	76
#18	Ali Hoseini-Khamenei	Iran	77
#19	Jamie Dimon	JPMorgan Chase	60
#20	Benjamin Netanyahu	Israel	67

#21	Elon Musk	Space Exploration Technologies Corp.	45
#22	Jeffrey Immelt	General Electric	60
#23	Francois Hollande	France	62
#24	Rex Tillerson	ExxonMobil	64
#25	Christine Lagarde	International Monetary Fund	60
#26	Lloyd Blankfein	Goldman Sachs Group	62
#27	Doug McMillon	Wal-Mart Stores	50
#28	Jack Ma	Alibaba Group	52
#29	Akio Toyoda	Toyota Motor	60
#30	Sergey Brin	Alphabet	43

#31	Charles Koch	Koch Industries	81
#32	Tim Cook	Apple	56
#33	Li Ka-shing	CK Hutchison Holdings	88
#34	Larry Fink	BlackRock	64
#35	Rupert Murdoch	News Corp	85
#36	Antonio Guterres	United Nations	67
#37	Shinzo Abe	Japan	62
#38	Mukesh Ambani	Reliance Industries	59
#39	Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan	United Arab Emirates	68
#40	Jay Y. Lee	Samsung Electronics	48

#41	Ding Xuedong	China	56
#42	Jim Yong Kim	World Bank	57
#43	Kim Jong-un	North Korea	33
#44	Abdel el-Sisi	Egypt	62
#45	Ma Huateng	Tencent Holdings	45
#46	Michael Dell	Dell	51
#47	Haruhiko Kuroda	Japan	72
#48	Barack Obama	United States	55
#49	Khalid Al-Falih	Saudi Arabia	56
#50	John Roberts	United States	61

#51	Satya Nadella	Microsoft	49
#52	Stephen Schwarzman	Blackstone Group	69
#53	Masayoshi Son	Softbank	59
#54	Enrique Pena Nieto	Mexico	50
#55	Michael Bloomberg	Bloomberg	74
#56	Recep Erdogan	Turkey	62
#57	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi	Islamic State	45
#58	Alisher Usmanov	Metalloinvest	63
#59	Wang Jianlin	Dalian Wanda Group	62
#60	Robin Li	Baidu	48

#61	Ginni Rometty	IBM	59
#62	Mary Barra	General Motors	54
#63	Bashar al-Assad	Syria	51
#64	Travis Kalanick	Uber Technologies Inc.	40
#65	Carl Icahn	Icahn Capital Management	80
#66	Justin Trudeau	Canada	44
#67	Bob Iger	Walt Disney	65
#68	Aliko Dangote	Dangote Group	59
#69	Mike Pence	United States	57
#70	Rodrigo Duterte	Philippines	71

#71	Ayman al-Zawahiri	Al-Qaeda	65
#72	Sheldon Adelson	Las Vegas Sands	83
#73	Peter Thiel	Founders Fund	49
#74	Chuck Schumer	United States	66