Prince Alwaleed's recognitions span over a decade and the most recent include his appearance in Elan magazine's 2009 list of Top Entrepreneurs of the Year; he topped Institutional Investor magazine's 2009 list of the 12 of the Middle East's Most Prominent and Influential Financiers as well as Arabian Business Magazine's 2009 50 Richest Arabs List and Arabian Business Magazine's 50 Richest Saudi List, 2009. He was included in the 2009 Forbes World's Powerful Billionaires list and was ranked one of the top 25 billionaires in the 2009 Forbes Billionaires list, in 2008. In 2008, Arabian Business ranked him number one in their list of 100 Most Powerful Arabs for the fourth year running and The Times newspaper ranked him number five on the “25 Shaping Tomorrow's World of Middle East Business” list. __