Medici of the Middle East
His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, the UAE's premier power broker, fuses national security oversight with vast economic empires to anchor the Emirates' global influence.
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China's Engineer-in-Chief
Ding Xuexiang, Xi Jinping's former Chief of Staff and one of the top seven most powerful men in China wields supreme science and technological authority in Beijing.
The Robespierre of India
Amit Shah, Modi's indispensable strategist, wields ideology and state power as India's most feared political actor.
The Kremlin's Portable Man
Kirill Dmitriev and the Art of Ideological Flexibility In February 2025, a peculiar drama unfolded in a Riyadh conference room. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived for the first high-level US-Russia talks since the invasion of Ukraine to find three chairs on the Russian side instead of two. Upon