''The Superclass List'' is a creation of David Rothkopf which his book '' Superclass: The Global Power Elite and The World They Are Making'' (published March 2008) is based upon. There are four key elements of success that unite the members of the Superclass, and gives them unparalleled power over world affairs. These elements are: ''geography'', ''pedigree'', ''networking'' and ''luck''.

The verified list

In the book Rothkopf writes that his list from 2008 contains 6,000 individuals. The grouping is, however, only defined roughly and as a

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al reality. Rothkopf also writes that list (one in a million,

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), is always in flux. (Note, world population is now 6.9 – 7 billion. so, if published today, the list may contain 7,000 names.) Rothkopf states that his list is not to be shown in public as there will be so much discussion about who does or does not qualify to be on the list. In interviews he mentions individuals that are on the list. This list contain names that he argues he has verified.

Australia

# Rupert Murdoch

Belgium

# Albert Frère # Étienne Davignon # Maurice Lippens

Brazil

# Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Chile

# Andronico Luksic

China

Hu Jintao Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as the 16–17th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the 6th president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 2003 to 2013, an ...

Fu Chengyu Fu Chengyu () is the Chairman of China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec), the largest Asian refiner. He previously worked at the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), which foresaw a five-fold increase in its profits during his p ...

# Ding Lei # Lou Jiwei # Yang Huiyan # Zhou Xiaochuan # Richard Li Tzar Kai

Colombia

Luis Alberto Moreno Luis Alberto Moreno Mejía (born 3 May 1953) is a Colombian businessman and former diplomat who served as president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) from 2005 to 2020. He was Colombia's Ambassador to the United States under preside ...

# Shakira # Julio Mario Santo Domingo

Egypt

# Amr Khaled # Amr Moussa

Denmark

# Janus Friis

France

Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, he is of Hungarian, Greek Jewish, and French origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Se ...

# Pascal Lamy # Michèle Alliot-Marie #

Baudouin Prot Baudouin Prot (born 24 May 1951) is a French economist who was chairman of BNP Paribas' board of directors until December 2014. He is now a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group and Partners Group. Early life Prot was born 24 May 1951. He gra ...

# Jean-Claude Trichet

Germany

# Angela Merkel # Josef Ackermann # Josef Joffe # Rene Obermann # Reinhard Mohn

India

# Lakshmi Mittal #

Sonia Gandhi Sonia Gandhi ('' née'' Maino; born 9 December 1946) is an Indian politician. She is the longest serving president of the Indian National Congress, a social democratic political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independ ...

# Ratan Tata # Kalanidhi Maran # Rana Talwar # Kushal Pal Singh #

Mukesh Ambani Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India's most valuable company by market value. Acco ...

# Indra Nooyi # Tenzin Gyatso

Iran

Shah Reza Pahlavi , title = Shahanshah Aryamehr Bozorg Arteshtaran , image = File:Shah_fullsize.jpg , caption = Shah in 1973 , succession = Shah of Iran , reign = 16 September 1941 – 11 February 1979 , coronation = 26 October ...

Ireland

Bob Geldof Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof (; born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter, and political activist. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as lead singer of the Rock music in Ireland, Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved ...

Italy

# Silvio Berlusconi

Netherlands

# Jeroen van der Veer

Japan

# Hiroshi Mikitani # Osamu Suzuki #

Akira Mori is a Japanese property developer, and the chairman of Mori Trust, a real estate developer in Tokyo, Japan and an offshoot of Mori Building, the company his father Taikichiro Mori founded in 1959. As of July 2022, his net worth was estimated at U ...

Kenya

# Wangari Maathai

Kuwait

# Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Lebanon

# Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah

Liberia

# Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

South Africa

# Patrice Motsepe

Mexico

# Mario Molina # Genaro Larrea Mota Velasco # Guillermo Ortiz Martinez # Carlos Slim Helú # Joaquín Guzman

Nigeria

# Aliko Dangote # Odein Ajumogobia # Francis Arinze

North Korea

Kim Jong-Un Kim Jong-un (; , ; born 8 January 1982) is a North Korean politician who has been Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is a son of Kim Jong-il, who was North Korea's sec ...

Qatar

# Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani

Russia

Alexei Miller Alexey Borisovich Miller (; born 31 January 1962) is a Russian businessman. Miller is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Chairman of the Management Committee (CEO) of Russian energy company Gazprom, Russia's largest company ...

# Vladimir Popovkin # Andrey Likhachev #

Oleg Deripaska Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska (russian: Олег Владимирович Дерипаска; born 2 January 1968) is a Russian billionaire and an industrialist. Deripaska enriched himself on previously state-owned assets that were privatized in ...

# SERgEY BABENKOV

Saudi Arabia

# Bandar bin Sultan # Al-Waleed bin Talal

Singapore

# Ho Ching

South Africa

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...

''(deceased 2013)'' # Patrice Motsepe Anton Rupert Nicky Oppenheimer Douw Steyn

South Korea

# David Yonggi Cho # Frankie Washing Board

Portugal

José Manuel Barroso José Manuel Durão Barroso (; born 23 March 1956) is a Portuguese politician and university teacher, currently serving as non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International. He previously served as the 11th president of the European Commi ...

Sweden

# Carl Bildt # Marcus Wallenberg # Ingvar Kamprad # Fredrik Reinfeldt # Carl-Henric Svanberg ''About 20–30 Swedes are on the list''.

Switzerland

# Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

Turkey

Kemal Derviş Kemal Derviş (; born 10 January 1949) is a Turkish economist and politician, and former head of the United Nations Development Programme. He was honored by the government of Japan for having "contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development as ...

United Arab Emirates

# Khalifa Mohammad Al-Kindi

United Kingdom

Mike Turner Michael Ray Turner (born January 11, 1960) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. Turner's district, numbered as the 3rd district from 2003 to 2013, is based in Dayto ...

Richard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Branson expressed ...

Bernie Ecclestone Bernard Charles Ecclestone (born 28 October 1930) is an English business magnate. He is the former chief executive of the Formula One Group, which manages Formula One motor racing and controls the commercial rights to the sport, and part-owns ...

# Lakshmi Mittal # John Silvester Varley #

Mark Thompson Mark Thompson may refer to: Sports * Mark Thompson (American football) (born 1994), American football player * Mark Thompson (baseball) (born 1971), baseball player * Mark Thompson (footballer) (born 1963), former Australian rules football premie ...

#Stacy Shannon

United States

http://www.newsweek.com/id/130932/output/print , title= Who Is the Superclass? , last= Rothkopf , first= David , author-link= David Rothkopf , date= 2008-04-07 , accessdate= 2008-09-24 # Robert Zoellick #

Oprah Winfrey Oprah Gail Winfrey (; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954), or simply Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', br ...

# Indra Nooyi #

Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic Part ...

# Lee Scott # Michael Mullen #

Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (; born ) is an American business magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), o ...

Pierre Omidyar Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 199 ...

Steve Case Stephen McConnell Case (born August 21, 1958) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as the former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). Case joined AOL's predecessor company, Quantum Computer ...

# Sumner Redstone #

Michael Bloomberg Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner, co-founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P. He was Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and was a ca ...

# Rex Tillerson #

Ben Bernanke Ben Shalom Bernanke ( ; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Fed, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. Durin ...

# Ken Lewis #

Stephen Green (banker) Stephen Keith Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint (born 7 November 1948), is a British politician, former Conservative Minister of State for Trade and Investment, former group chairman of HSBC Holdings plc, and Anglican priest. Early life and e ...

Lloyd Blankfein Lloyd Craig Blankfein (born September 20, 1954) is an American investment banker who has served as senior chairman of Goldman Sachs since 2019, and chairman and chief executive from 2006 until the end of 2018. Previous to leading Goldman Sachs, ...

# Sergey Brin # Larry Page # Bill Gates # Warren Buffett #

Jerry Yang Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (born November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. As of February 2022, Yang has a net worth ...

# Henry "Hank" Paulson # Joshua Bolten

Vatican

# Pope Benedict XVI

Venezuela

# Lorenzo Mendoza Gimenez # Gustavo Cisneros

References

External links

About the Superclass
'' Global Politician''.
Who is the Superclass?
'' Newsweek''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Superclass List Political science terminology Social classes Social groups