Interesting list of the world’s top 500 most influential people

Is it possible to identify the 500 most powerful individuals on the planet — one in 14 million? That’s what we tried to do with the inaugural FP Power Map, our inventory of the people who control the commanding heights of the industries that run the world, from politics to high finance, media to energy, warfare to religion. Think of it as a list of all the most important other lists. Here’s how they stack up — and why (sorry, declinists!) Americans are still No. 1 in pretty much everything that matters. For now.

Mahmoud Abbas	President, Palestinian Authority	West Bank
Tony Abbott	Liberal Party leader	Australia
Shinzo Abe	Prime minister	Japan
Jill Abramson	New York Times executive editor	USA
Sheldon Adelson	Las Vegas Sands CEO and chair	USA
Aga Khan IV	Ismaili Muslim imam	Britain
Daniel Akerson	General Motors CEO and…