Expanded Layer BriefPeople — current power-watch categories
Track living office-holders, institutional executives, public financiers, intelligence leaders, media owners, contractors, scientists, judges, lobbyists, and public influence operators by official role and source lane.
Current Source LanePoliticians
Examples: Presidents, prime ministers, EU commissioners, national-security ministers, sanctions officials, migration ministers.
Source lane: Official government leadership pages
Update rule: Weekly, or immediately after elections, appointments, resignations, sanctions, or cabinet changes.
Current Source LaneFinanciers
Examples: Central-bank chairs, IMF and World Bank leadership, asset-management CEOs, sovereign wealth leadership, bank regulators.
Source lane: Official central-bank, IMF, World Bank, SEC, and company leadership pages
Update rule: Weekly; daily during financial-stability events.
Current Source LaneIntelligence figures
Examples: CIA, ODNI, MI6, GCHQ, NSA, defence-intelligence, oversight committee figures, declassification officials.
Source lane: Official agency leadership pages and hearing records
Update rule: Weekly; urgent after confirmation hearings or leadership changes.
Current Source LaneMedia owners
Examples: Media-company owners, chairmen, CEOs, controlling shareholders, platform executives, public editor leadership.
Source lane: Company leadership pages, filings, ownership disclosures
Update rule: Weekly; update after mergers, succession, or filing changes.
Current Source LaneContractors
Examples: Defence, surveillance, cyber, cloud, AI, logistics, border, health, and reconstruction contractors.
Source lane: Company leadership pages, USAspending, EU tenders, investor filings
Update rule: Weekly contract and leadership check.
Current Source LaneScientists and AI leaders
Examples: AI lab executives, research chiefs, standards advisers, biosecurity advisers, health-agency scientists.
Source lane: Company pages, government advisory rosters, NIST/WHO/OECD lanes
Update rule: Weekly; urgent after model, standard, or emergency guidance releases.
Current Source LaneJudges
Examples: Supreme court, constitutional court, international court, appellate, tribunal, and judge-panel figures.
Source lane: Court biography, docket, opinion, and hearing pages
Update rule: Weekly during active court terms.
Current Source LaneLobbyists
Examples: Registered lobbyists, lobbying firms, foreign agents, trade-association leadership, policy campaign operators.
Source lane: LDA, FARA, EU Transparency Register, company disclosures
Update rule: Weekly; quarterly reconciliation with filings.
Current Source LaneFixers and influence operators
Examples: Only public-record roles: registered agents, public intermediaries, consultants, crisis-communications firms, legal representatives, donor-network organizers.
Source lane: Court records, lobbying filings, FARA, public contracts, official disclosures
Update rule: Weekly and always evidence-labelled.
Public officeDonald J. Trump
U.S. President
Executive-power node for appointments, foreign policy, military command, sanctions, regulation, and national-security direction.
White House AdministrationPublic officeAntónio Guterres
United Nations Secretary-General
Global institution node for diplomacy, humanitarian response, migration, development, conflict statements, and UN reform debate.
United Nations Secretary-GeneralCorporate leadershipLarry Fink
Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
Finance node for asset management, market influence, stewardship policy, pension exposure, and institutional capital maps.
BlackRock LeadershipPublic officeJohn G. Roberts, Jr.
Chief Justice of the United States
Judicial-power node for constitutional rulings, agency power, election law, executive authority, and federal court administration.
Supreme Court Current MembersPublic officeUrsula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission
EU executive node for regulation, sanctions, defence policy, digital rules, industrial policy, funding, and health-policy oversight.
European Commission President