AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarCYRIL RAMAPHOSA By Vivienne WaltTIMESouth Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has perfected the art of patience. Raised in the township of Soweto, he honed his political skills helping his country navigate its way out of apartheid. Then, when he was sidelined for the presidency in the 1990s, he harnessed his cunning and gregariousness …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarRYAN MURPHY By Jessica LangeTIMEThe phone rang and the caller identified himself as Ryan Murphy. We had never met but I knew of him. Knew that he was considered an innovative force in television. He told me about an idea he was working on. Something that hadn’t been done before on television. He wanted to create a role for me. A …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarGRAINNE GRIFFIN, AILBHE SMYTH AND ORLA O'CONNOR By Ruth NeggaTIMEIreland is changing. Just three years ago, we voted to introduce marriage equality for same-sex couples. And in May 2018, Irish society voted to lift the near total ban on abortion that had been in place for 35 years. Society gave its overwhelming blessing to the fundamental rights of women and …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarHere's How We Chose the 2019 TIME 100TIME - Edward FelsenthalNear the end of Tara Westover’s breakout memoir, Educated, she pauses on a timeless question, “Who writes history?” Decades from now when we look back at this era, it’s a fair bet that the answer will be many of the people on this year’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Among them is …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarJEROME POWELL By Janet YellenTIMEJerome Powell—Jay to his friends—arrived at the Federal Reserve Board seven years ago with a sterling record of private-sector success and public service. He had served at the Treasury Department and as a scholar at a bipartisan think tank. Before becoming chair, he filled with great distinction …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarMARILLYN HEWSON By Penny PritzkerTIMEAs U.S. Secretary of Commerce, I saw Marillyn Hewson in action when she served as one of our nation’s finest commercial diplomats on vital international economic missions. Trained as an industrial engineer, and now, as CEO, in her 20th job at Lockheed Martin, she has doubled the company’s market …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarREN ZHENGFEI By Charlie CampbellTIMERen Zhengfei was no computer prodigy when he founded Huawei with a $5,600 investment in 1987. Yet his stewardship helped transform Huawei into the world’s biggest telecoms equipment firm, with $107 billion in revenue and customers in 170 countries and regions in 2018. Apart from cutting-edge …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarMUKESH AMBANI By Anand MahindraTIMEMukesh Ambani’s father Dhirubhai was a visionary in Indian business, whose Reliance Industries conglomerate pioneered ways of targeting global scale. But Ambani’s vision is now even more ambitious than that of the father whose blessings he unfailingly invokes at the launch of each initiative. The …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarVERA JOUROVA By Margrethe VestagerTIMEAfter spending more than a month in a Czech jail on false corruption charges in 2006, Vera Jourova decided to delve into European law to understand how such injustice could be committed. Now, as the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Jourova is a leading voice calling …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarALEX MORGAN By Mia HammTIMEWhen we watch Alex Morgan play the game she loves, it’s easy to see why she’s performing at such an extraordinary level. She’s fast, strong and fearless. Alex continues to add so much confidence and variety to her game. It should also excite us to know that she’s playing the best soccer of her …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarPAT MCGRATH By Beverly JohnsonTIMEWhen I started modeling, there were no black makeup artists. It was a challenge to look our best with makeup artists who didn’t really understand our skin color, photographers who had never photographed black models and film that didn’t register darker colors. At the end of the day, we were just …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarBOB IGER By Michael R. BloombergTIMEWalt Disney liked to say that success is built on “the four C’s”: curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy. Few CEOs better embody those qualities than the one running Disney today, and it’s why I invited Bob Iger to join the board of my foundation. Bob’s curiosity about new technology and …