He Lifeng, a Chinese Vice Premier and former head of the National Development and Reform Commission.
The engine calls him the 'infrastructural architect' of China's global build-out.
He drives the Belt and Road Initiative and China's big-picture economic planning, building the physical layer of a multipolar order, and has been a close ally of Xi since their days together in Fujian province.
He matters as the figure constructing the concrete infrastructure behind China's bid to reshape the world order.