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The Nowhere 100

The Nowhere 100 is an opinionated, point-in-time ranking of the 100 most powerful people in the world, scoring each by the Metro Power score of the place or institution behind them and how much control they actually hold: heads of state, legislators, governors and mayors, judges, central bankers, alliance and multilateral chiefs, corporate, financial, media, sporting and cultural leaders, and billionaires.

Snapshot as of July 5, 2026. A point-in-time estimate, updated weekly.

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1
Donald Trump
Pres., United States
1574
2
Xi Jinping
Pres. (PRC), China
1390
3
Vladimir Putin
Pres., Russia
479
4
Christine Lagarde
ECB President
418
5
Narendra Modi
PM, India
403
6
Kevin Warsh
Chair of the Federal Reserve
403
7
Elon Musk
Billionaire (Technology)
356
8
👑 Mohammed bin Salman
Crown Prince & PM, Saudi Arabia
348
9
Keir Starmer
PM, United Kingdom
Resigning; Labour successor (Burnham) expected ~20 Jul 2026
341
10
Ursula von der Leyen
EU Commission President
339
11
Kristalina Georgieva
IMF Managing Director
279
12
Larry Fink
BlackRock (AUM)
278
13
Friedrich Merz
Federal Chanc., Germany
276
14
Pope Leo XIV
Pope, Catholic Church (~1.3B faithful)
260
15
Pan Gongsheng
Governor of the People's Bank of China
255
16
JD Vance
US Vice President
252
17
Emmanuel Macron
Pres., France
248
18
Salim Ramji
Vanguard (AUM)
240
19
António Guterres
UN Secretary-General
UN Secretary-General term ends 31 Dec 2026
238
20
Giorgia Meloni
PM, Italy
237
21
Jensen Huang
CEO, NVIDIA
233
22
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Pres., Brazil
Brazil general election, 4 Oct 2026
227
23
John Roberts
Chief Justice of the United States
227
24
Sanae Takaichi
PM, Japan
225
25
Ajay Banga
World Bank President
215
26
Tim Cook
CEO, Apple
Apple CEO succession expected
208
27
Claudia Sheinbaum
Pres., Mexico
205
28
Sundar Pichai
CEO, Alphabet (Google)
204
29
Mike Johnson
Speaker of the House
US midterms, 3 Nov 2026 (House control)
202
30
Pedro Sánchez
PM, Spain
194
31
Benjamin Netanyahu
PM, Israel
Israeli election due by Oct 2026
185
32
Mark Carney
PM, Canada
182
33
Kim Jong-un
Sup. Leader, North Korea
180
34
Gavin Newsom
Governor, California
Term-limited; leaves office Jan 2027 (California gubernatorial election, 3 Nov 2026)
179
35
John Thune
Senate Majority Leader
US midterms, 3 Nov 2026 (Senate control)
176
36
Josh D'Amaro
CEO, Disney
176
37
Gianni Infantino
President, FIFA
175
38
Cristiano Ronaldo
Athlete & global icon
168
39
Mojtaba Khamenei
Sup. Leader, Iran
158
40
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Pres., United Arab Emirates
156
41
Anthony Albanese
PM, Australia
154
42
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
WTO Director-General
152
43
Mark Rutte
NATO Secretary General
151
44
Kirsty Coventry
President, IOC
150
45
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Pres., Turkey
141
46
Larry Page
Billionaire (Technology)
140
47
Satya Nadella
CEO, Microsoft
139
48
Sergio Ermotti
UBS (invested assets)
138
49
Prabowo Subianto
Pres., Indonesia
137
50
Abigail Johnson
Fidelity (AUM)
136
51
👑 Charles III
King (15 realms) & Head of the Commonwealth
135
52
Lee Jae-myung
Pres., South Korea
134
53
Ted Sarandos
Co-CEO, Netflix
132
54
Zohran Mamdani
Mayor of New York
131
55
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London
130
56
Sergey Brin
Billionaire (Technology)
129
57
Xin Changxing
Party Secretary, Jiangsu
127
58
Volodymyr Zelensky
Pres., Ukraine
127
59
Jeff Bezos
Billionaire (Technology)
125
60
Andy Jassy
CEO, Amazon
125
61
MrBeast
Creator
120
62
Greg Abbott
Governor, Texas
Seeking a 4th term; Texas gubernatorial election, 3 Nov 2026
116
63
Ron O'Hanley
State Street (AUM)
114
64
C.C. Wei
CEO, TSMC
112
65
Brian Roberts
Chairman & CEO, Comcast
110
66
Lionel Messi
Athlete & global icon
108
67
Emmanuel Grégoire
Mayor of Paris
103
68
Larry Ellison
Billionaire (Technology)
102
69
Huang Kunming
Party Secretary, Guangdong
100
70
Roger Goodell
Commissioner, NFL
100
71
Aleksander Čeferin
President, UEFA
100
72
Lachlan Murdoch
Chair, News Corp & Fox
99
73
Taylor Swift
Musician
96
74
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Pres., Egypt
96
75
Yuriko Koike
Mayor of Tokyo
96
76
Mark Zuckerberg
Billionaire (Technology)
94
77
Ron DeSantis
Governor, Florida
Term-limited; leaves office Jan 2027 (Florida gubernatorial election, 3 Nov 2026)
94
78
Rob Jetten
PM, Netherlands
94
79
Kathy Hochul
Governor, New York
Seeking re-election; New York gubernatorial election, 3 Nov 2026
90
80
👑 Naruhito
Emperor of Japan
90
81
Daniel Lurie
Mayor of San Francisco
89
82
David Zaslav
CEO, Warner Bros
88
83
Ahmed el-Tayeb
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar (Sunni Islam)
88
84
Andrew Bailey
Governor of the Bank of England
87
85
Hock Tan
CEO, Broadcom
87
86
Amin H. Nasser
CEO, Saudi Aramco
84
87
Jamie Dimon
JPMorgan Chase (total assets)
84
88
Lin Wu
Party Secretary, Shandong
82
89
Anwar Ibrahim
PM, Malaysia
82
90
Yin Yong
Mayor of Beijing
81
91
Guy Parmelin
Pres. of the Swiss Confederation, Switzerland
80
92
Shehbaz Sharif
PM, Pakistan
80
93
Michael Dell
Billionaire (Technology)
80
94
Donald Tusk
PM, Poland
80
95
Karen Bass
Mayor of Los Angeles
In a runoff for re-election; LA mayoral election, 3 Nov 2026
78
96
Oh Se-hoon
Mayor of Seoul
78
97
Gong Zheng
Mayor of Shanghai
78
98
Valérie Pécresse
Regional President, Île-de-France
76
99
Wang Hao
Party Secretary, Zhejiang
74
100
Lee Jae-yong
CEO, Samsung
73