mandarin (n.)

• authority
• brainworker
• bureaucrat
• doctor
• egghead
• elder
• elitist
• functionary
• guru
• highbrow
• intellect
• intellectual
• literate
• mahatma
• master
• mastermind
• mentor
• office-bearer
• officeholder
• officer
• official
• oracle
• philosopher
• placeman
• prig
• rabbi
• sage
• savant
• scholar
• seer
• snob
• starets
• thinker