Government

• Sheila Bair,

  Chairman, FDIC

• Ben Bernanke,

  Chairman, Federal Reserve

• Earl Devaney,

  Chairman, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board

• Doug Elmendorf,

  Director, Congressional Budget Office

• Kenneth Feinberg,

  Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation

• Timothy Geithner,

  Treasury Secretary

• Valerie Jarrett,

  White House Senior Adviser

• Peter Orszag,

  Director, Office of Management and Budget

• Elizabeth Warren,

  Chair, Congressional Oversight Panel

Finance & Wall Street

• Lloyd Blankfein,

  CEO, Goldman Sachs

• Warren Buffett,

  CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

• James Dimon,

  Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase

• Larry Fink,

  CEO, BlackRock

• Yi Gang,

  Administrator, State Administration of Foreign Exchange; Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China

• Bill Gross,

  Managing Director, PIMCO

• Nouriel Roubini,

  Economics Professor, New York University

• Mary Schapiro,

  Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission

Real Estate

• Rich Barton,

  CEO, Zillow

• Shaun Donovan,

  Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

• Richard Dugas,

  CEO, Pulte Homes

• Michael Fascitelli,

  CEO, Vornado Realty Trust

Industry

• Jeffery Boyd,

  CEO, Priceline.com

• Kenneth I. Chenault,

  CEO, American Express

• Sergio Marchionne,

  CEO, Fiat and Chrysler Group

• Alan Mulally,

  CEO, Ford Motor

• Frits van Paasschen,

  CEO, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

Health & Medicine

• The Blue Dog Democrats,

  U.S. House of Representatives

• Angela Braly,

  CEO, WellPoint

• Karen Ignagni,

  CEO, America's Health Insurance Plans

• Billy Tauzin,

  CEO, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

The 2009 SmartMoney Power 30

• The Government
• Finance and Wall Street
• Real Estate
• Industry
• Health and Medicine

• The List