To help make sense of the shifting landscape of Wall Street, we introduce our first ranking of the 25 most powerful people in the world of investment banking.
Our list includes bank CEOs, star traders and high-priced rainmakers, and ranges from New York to London to Beijing. Subjective to be sure, our ranking nonetheless highlights some incontestable features about the industry during a time of historic transformation.
Click on the names below to read the executive profiles.
| | 1 | James Dimon | Chief Executive Officer, JPMorgan Chase & Co. | |
| | 2 | Lloyd Blankfein | Chief Executive Officer, Goldman Sachs Group | |
| | 3 | Josef Ackermann | Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank | |
| | 4 | Robert Diamond Jr. | President, Barclays | |
| | 5 | Brady Dougan | Chief Executive Officer, Credit Suisse | |
| | 6 | James Gorman | Chief Executive–designate, Morgan Stanley | |
| | 7 | Thomas Montag | President, Global Banking and Markets Bank of America Merrill Lynch | |
| | 8 | Anshu Jain | Head of Global Markets Deutsche Bank | |
| | 9 | Kenichi Watanabe | Chief Executive Officer, Nomura Holdings | |
| | 10 | Gary Cohn | President and COO, Goldman Sachs Group | |
| | 11 | Jes Staley | Chief Executive Officer, Investment Bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. | |
| | 12 | Wang Dongming | Chairman, Citic Securities Co. | |
| | 13 | John Havens | Chief Executive Officer, Institutional Clients Group Citigroup | |
| | 14 | Alex Wilmot-Sitwell | Co–Chief Executive Officer UBS Investment Bank | |
| | 15 | Stuart Gulliver | Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking and Markets HSBC Holdings | |
| | 16 | David Heller | Co-Head, Global Securities Division Goldman Sachs Group | |
| | 17 | H. Rodgin Cohen | Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell | |
| | 18 | Li Jiange | Chairman, China International Capital Corp. | |
| | 19 | Paul Taubman | Co-President–designate, Institutional Securities Morgan Stanley | |
| | 20 | André Esteves | Chief Executive Officer, BTG Pactual | |
| | 21 | Antonio Weiss | Head of Investment Banking Lazard | |
| | 22 | Andrea Orcel | Executive Chairman, Banking and Markets Bank of America Merrill Lynch | |
| | 23 | Richard Friedman | Head of Goldman Sachs Capital Partners Goldman Sachs Group | |
| | 24 | Kenneth Moelis | Chief Executive Officer, Moelis & Co. | |
| | 25 | Kenneth Griffin | Chief Executive Officer, Citadel Investment Group |
