Who Is the Superclass?
Africa (5 percent)
Aliko Dangote – Dangote Group (Nigeria)
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf – President (Liberia)
Amr Khaled – Muslim preacher (Egypt)
Cardinal Francis Arinze – Roman Catholic Church (Nigeria)
Patrice Motsepe – African Rainbow Minerals (South Africa)
Col. Muammar Kaddafi – Leader (Libya)
Nelson Mandela – Former president (South Africa)
Wangari Maathai – Nobel Prize winner (Kenya)
Amre Moussa – Secretary-General, League of Arab States (Egypt)
Odein Ajumogobia – Minister of State for Petroleum (Nigeria)
By Age…
45 and Younger
Janus Friis, 32 – Cofounder, Skype (Finland)
Hiroshi Mikitani, 43 – Founder, Rakuten (Japan)
Kalanidhi Maran, 44 – Chairman, Sun Network (India)
Andrey Likhachev, 43 – CEO, Lenenergo (Russia)
Mark Zuckerberg, 23 – CEO, Facebook (USA)
Yang Huiyan, 26 – Majority shareholder, Country Garden (China)
Oleg Deripaska, 40 – Chairman, RUSAL (Russia)
Richard Li, 42 – Chairman, PCCW Limited and Pacific Century Group (Hong Kong)
Pierre Omidyar, 39 – Founder, eBay (USA)
Lorenzo Mendoza Gimenez, 43 – CEO, Empresas Polar (Venezuela)
46-65
Mukesh Ambani, 50 – Chairman, Reliance Industries (India)
Zhou Xiaochuan, 60 – Governor, People's Bank of China (China)
Vladimir Popovkin, 51 – Commander, Russian military (Russia)
José Manuel Barroso, 52 – President, European Commission (Spain)
Kemal Dervis, 59 – Administrator, UNDP (Turkey)
Steve Case, 50 – Former chairman and CEO, AOL (USA)
Rene Obermann, 45 – CEO, Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Rana Talwar, 60 – Chairman, Sabre Capital Worldwide (India)
Guillermo Ortiz Martinez, 60 – Governor, Bank of Mexico (Mexico)
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, 51 – Chairman, Kingdom Holding (Saudi Arabia)
65 and Older
Osamu Suzuki, 78 – Chairman, Suzuki Motor Corp. (Japan)
Reinhard Mohn, 87 – Stakeholder, Bertelsmann (Germany)
Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 84 – SAB Miller (Colombia)
Bernard Ecclestone, 78 – President and CEO, Formula One (UK)
Sheikh Sabah IV Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79 – Emir, Kuwait (Kuwait)
Michael Bloomberg, 66 – Mayor, New York City (USA)
Carlos Slim Helú, 68 – Chairman and CEO, Telmex (Mexico)
Akira Mori, 71 – CEO, Mori Trust (Japan)
KP Singh, 76 – CEO, DLF Universal Limited (India)
Sumner Redstone, 84 – Owner, CBS Corporation and Viacom (USA)
By Sector…


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Member Comments
Posted By: cgw3431 @ 05/18/2008 7:16:42 AM
Comment: Not one mention about the Rockefeller clan or the Rothchilds. Mr. Rothkopf needs to do more research..
Posted By: jkurtz33 @ 04/25/2008 12:36:45 PM
Comment: José Manuel Barroso, 52 ??? President, European Commission (Spain)
He is Portuguese, not Spanish...
Is the rest accurate?...
Posted By: msoptomist @ 04/08/2008 8:42:57 PM
Comment: And what is the point of this article other than to sell someone's book? Sounds like some paranoid's conspiracy theory again..........