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2. Salman Khan(32) Marco Rubio(40) Innovator Education pioneer Has created a library of online lectures on math, science, and other topics- -khanacademy.org which gives world class lessons to all students for free. Senator Bilingual and bicultural, he represents the second generation of Cuban immigrants. He is a voice for limited government, entrepreneurial capitalism and a robust foreign policy. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

3. Ali Ferzat(40) Anthony Kennedy(50) Syrian cartoonist Spent years drawing insightful cartoons—but confronted with the regime’s increasing brutality, he embraced democracy and turned on President Bashar Assad. He has been beat and has had his hands broke to stop him from making cartoons—but he has continued to draw in spite of the fear tactics. Supreme Court Associate Justice. Nearly 25 years since his appointment. His court routinely issues decisions affecting life, death, liberty, speech, religion, property, voting, war, treaties and terrorism. President Obama’s health care legislation may stand or fall based on Justice Kennedy’s vote in the case TIME 100Most Influential People in the World

4. Ben Rattray(52) Elinor Ostrom(64) The brain behind Change.org, a website that transforms the way people tell their stories and make change happen. He created the platform for Molly Katchpole to make specific demands for banks to change their debit-card fees. Has also been instrumental in the Trayvon Martin case. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009—for her analysis of economic governance, especially air, water and public spaces. Ostrom’s work sheds light on the direction society must follow to avoid misuse of shared resources “the tragedy of the commons” She has done field studies of the world’s fisheries and roamed with shepherds in Swiss pastures. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

5. Samira Ibrahim(64) Dulce Matuz(68) Marketing Manager After being detained and having “forced virginity tests” in Egypt, she sued the military—and the practice was ruled illegal as a result. The military tribunal has acquitted the doctor who performed the “virginity tests”, and Samira has sworn to pursue the case using international law Undocumented Latina, who put herself through college partly via scholarships, and has graduated with an electrical-engineering degree. President of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, Dulce promotes a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

6. Freeman Hrabowski(72) Maryam Durani(72) Hrabowski has spent 20 years as president of the University of Maryland where he has turned a commuter school into one of the nations leading sources of African- Americans who get PhDs in science and engineering. The college’s Meyerhoff Scholars program creates a highly structured and supportive experience for math and science students. He was jailed at age 12 for five days for participating in a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Ala. Owner and operator of a radio station that focuses on women’s issues and member of the Kandahar provincial council, Durani stands up for women’s rights. She is a target for the Taliban, and has survived several assassination attempts—who believe in a highly restricted role for women in Afghan society. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

7. Manal al-Sharif(74) Rached Ghannouchi(74) Divorced mother of two, decided to take on the issue of women who are barred from driving, by posting on YouTube a video of herself driving the Saudi streets. Jailed for nine days and publicly shamed, she inspired a movement—an underground civil-disobedience campaign encouraging women to drive to the grocery store, the doctor’s office or the kids’ school. In Saudi Arabia, women must rely on husbands, fathers and hired drivers to get around. Tunisian scholar-politician, is widely hailed as its voice of sanity. He returned home after a decades-long European exile last year after the Arab Spring toppled the Tunisian dictator, he came and offered a vision of moderate and inclusive politics rooted in the Muslim faith. When his party won, he endorsed a secular election as president. He created a template that is now being emulated TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

8. Barbara Van Dahlen(77) Donald Sadoway(77) Has attacked the epidemic of posttraumatic stress disorder, helping break through the stigma that prevents many from seeking help. Through her organization Give an Hour, she has mobilized thousands of mental health professionals to volunteer countless hours of counseling for those in need. MIT engineer, whose class is one of the largest in the history of the school Online TED talk of liquid metal batteries with his class—he is figuring out how to make grid-level batteries using molten salt and liquid metal. The batteries work. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

9. Cami Anderson(90) Preet Bharara(92) Modern day freedom fighter. In New York’s district 79, Cami declared that whether a child had been incarcerated or pregnant or had to drop out, aged out or flunked out, she could still learn, develop, and graduate. She now works in Newark, NJ where she has taken on a system with little accountability and no expectations and in a short time created a model for the country, increasing student achievement, graduation numbers and GED completion rates. His Manhattan team has battled terrorism, convicted the Times Square bomber faisal Shahzad, crippled international criminal networks run by Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, Jamaican drug trafficker Christopher Coke and Colombian rebel group FARC; and in March secured a half-billion dollar forfeiture from a computer contractor SAIC in the biggest fraud ever against NYC. His 58-0 record for insider-trading cases bodes ill for the bankers whom his office has charged with reckless lending practices or inflating mortgage values. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

10. Robert Grant(92) Andrew Lo(95) A professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology. Through a landmark study in 2010, Grant and his team showed that gay, HIV-negative men could radically lower their risk of contracting HIV from their sexual partners by taking a combination antiretroviral drug already used to treat people with the virus—this technique could work to prevent HIV transmission among heterosexual men and women too. Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Lo is known for his multidisciplinary approach to finance, using everything from statistical analysis to neuroscience to better understand the markets. He believes markets are less like rule-based physics and more like messy biological systems. Lo helped set up the new Office of Financial Research, which aims to provide better data and insights about the economy TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

11. Sharmeen Obaid- Chinoy(95) Alexei Navalry(96) Her documentary Saving Face brought Pakistan’s acid violence problem to the world stage. Her film not only gave her subjects sympathy and understanding but, more importantly, gave them dignity. Saving Face depicts a Pakistan that is changing—one where ordinary people can stand up and make a difference and where marginalized communities can seek justice. He has built a network to reveal the curruption of the Putin regime, relentlessly documenting the kelptocracy case by case. He has worked hard for many years as an activist and organizer. Navalry has mastered the blogging and social networks that the opposition depends on. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

12. Sheryl Sandberg(108) Goodluck Jonathan(122) She understands intuitively the potential of social networking to create positive change on a grand scale. She’s helping people make the most of a more open, more transparent world, as Facebook creates dynamic new connections between individuals, organizations and causes. Her leadership includes flourishing and creating shared value in an era of unprecedented technological change and human advancement. President Jonathan has spearheaded the fight against corruption and turned Nigeria into an example of good governance. He has also made a significant impact on consolidating peace and security in West Africa TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

13. Xi Jinping(122) Fatou Bensoucla(122) Xi Jinping will lead China in the fall—in the coming years, its economy will probably not grow at the pace that Chinese have come to expect. Can he steer his nation to be less defensive abroad and less dependent on a creaking economic model at home? Xi is the modern Chinese establishment personified—the son of a colleague of Mao Zedong, and the husband of Peng Liyuan, one of China’s best known singers. Bensoucla will take office as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court(ICC) on June 16, as the court’s second prosecutor and the first African woman to assume the job. Her mission is to prosecute those responsible for the most serious crimes—genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity—when domestic courts and prosecutors fail. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

14. Christine Lagarde(124) Mario Draghi(126) She is the first woman ever to become managing director of the International Monetary Fund. She was France’s Finance Minister during the global financial crisis, she helped lead her country’s and the euro zone’s policy response. The third president of the European Central Bank(ECB) Before taking the job at the ECB, he held an impressive range of positions in academia, business and the public sector. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

15. U Thein Sein(126) Ayatulla Ali Khamenei((127) President of Burma has proved himself the architect of democratic transition. He is trying to perform the triple act of moving toward democratic government, overhauling one of the world’s most backward economies and negotiating an end to over a dozen long-standing ethnic conflicts. Whether Iran will make a deal with the international community or choose defiance—whether Iran will face an Israeli strike—will depend on the moods and wishes of Khamenei. He is the second man to run the Islamic Republic, after Ayatulla Ruhollah Khomeini. His authority derives from religion in a formal sense, but he is a saavy political player TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

16. Mitt Romney(128) Juan Manuel Santos(131) First managing partner of Bain Capital. Former CEO of 20o2 Salt Lake City Olympics. Former governor of Massachusetts. Presidential Candidate Colombia President He aims to double the number of children under 5 who receive early education, from 600,000 to 1.2 million. “…improving education in our country is the best way to mitigate poverty, inequality and violence.” -Shakira TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

17. Cardinal Timothy Dolan(133) Mario Monti(137) The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York. He put himself and his church back in the center of the national political conversation, a public square long dominated by Protestant evagelicals. In leading the opposition to a proposed Obama Administration rule that would have required Catholic organizations like hospitals to pay for contraceptive services for female employees, Dolan successfully argued that such a policy violated the nation’s principles of religious liberty. If he can continue to institute meaningful reform, Europe will successfully weather a debt crisis. If he cannot, the vision of a unified Europe will unravel. He has taken painful steps to cut spending, raise taxes and reduce Italy’s budget deficit. As a result, the nation’s bond yields have tightened significantly, and imminent fears about the monetary union’s collapse have subsided. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

18. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster(137) Ron Paul(143) The new CEO of Brazil’s Petrobras and the first woman to run a major oil-and-gas company. She spent her early childhood in a working-class favela on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and collected recyclable cans and paper to help pay for school. A chemical engineer by training, she joined Petrobras and stayed for more than 30 years. Paul draws a distinction between libertarian conservatives and the corporatist conservatives in which Big Business merges with Big Government. That is why he is against bailouts. His defense of privacy and civil liberties and his opposition to the war on drugs endear him to people beyond his libertarian base— including progressives who cannot abide by his views against health, safety and economic regulations or his denunciation of the Federal Reserve’s fiat money and social welfare programs like Medicare. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

19. Benjamin Netanyahu(144) Dilma Rousseff(144) Two-time Prime Minister of Israel. Has served as a soldier, diplomat, and economic reformer who took on the difficult task of challenging the status quo in Israel. He has provided a compelling and reasoned exposition of one of the gravest threats facing the world today. He has drawn attention to the threat Iran poses to Israel, to America, to the region, to its own people, and to the free world. President of Brazil She has drive that originates from her immigrant heritage, youthful activism and militancy and the challenges faced by women as they try to grow in a space dominated by men. She believes that social inequality is the greatest problem facing Brazil. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

20. Kim Jong Un(148) Mullah Mohammed Omar(148) Supreme Leader of North Korea. Communist Dynasty Gulags, famine and privation, nuclear arms and military adventurism. Swiss-educated Fugitive leader of the Taliban. Spiritual leader of the Taliban. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

21. Sheik Moktar Ali Zubeyr(148) Bashar Assad(148) The purported emir of al- Shabab, an Islamic militia that has germinated in the rot of Somalia. Sheik feud’s with local warlords to make his strategic country more unstable. He has re-emerged as a player in Afghanistan a decade after the U.S. invasion. Reformist Autocrat. The Arab Spring inspired many of his people to protest. He responded by playing into the fears of the ruling Alawite minority, businessmen and Syrian Christians to persuade them to stand by his secular ideology against the Sunni Muslim uprising. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World

22. Angela Merkel(154) Hillary Clinton(156) Chancellor of Germany. Germany plays a dominant role in the 17-nation euro-zone that nothing can happen without a nod from Merkel. To optimists, she has become the fearless general, guiding Europe out of the debt debacle toward the goal of democratic integration. For pessimists, her persistent reluctance to pursue rapid and broad reform of the monetary union has put its future at serious risk. U.Ss Secretary of State. She has made a singular contribution to strengthening this country’s relationships with allies, partners and friends; rallying other countries to join the U.S. in dealing with challenges to the global order, from Libya and Iran to the South China Sea. She has developed long-range, comprehensive strategies for diplomacy and development that will strengthen the critical civilian contribution to America’s national security. TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World