France's leader Emmanuel Macron is ranked the top influential man under 40. The 39-year-old ex-banker gained a remarkable victory in the French presidential election and then his En Marche! party won the majority in the parliamentary elections. However, according to recent polls, his popularity in the country is rapidly declining.

Mark Zuckerberg, 33, is ranked second. According to the magazine, despite his young age, he has long been among the richest people in the world. Recently, there have been speculation that he could pursue a career in politics.

Co-founders of Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi, Chuxing Cheng Wei (35) and Jean Liu (39), were given the third place. Their company has presence in 400 Chinese cities with more than 400 million customers. Apple and Alibaba are among its investors.

Interestingly, 23-year-old Vitalik Buterin, Russia-born software developer from Canada holds tenth line in the list. He created the world's second-most valuable cryptocurrency network behind Bitcoin, which grown from $1 billion to $30 billion in just a year. Buterin shared the tenth place with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, 34. Coinbase became the first blockchain startup with the value of over $1 billion.

Another Russian expat, CrowdStrike's co-founder and CTO Dmitri Alperovitch, 35, was ranked 26th. His company is involved in cyber security. He concluded that Russia hacked the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).