From US president Donald Trump to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Time Journal’s 100 Most Influential Individuals of 2025 checklist included a few of the most outstanding names from all over the world. Nonetheless, no Indian featured on the Time Journal’s checklist this 12 months, a shocking miss contemplating previous appearances.
In 2024, Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt and Olympian wrestler Sakshi Malik had been among the many few Indians that featured on the checklist.
The journal’s annual checklist is split into a number of classes like ‘Leaders’, ‘Icons’ and ‘Titans’, amongst others.
The ‘Leaders’ checklist nonetheless does embrace Reshma Kewalramani this 12 months, the Indian-Origin CEO of Vertex Prescription drugs. She immigrated from India at age 11 and went on to change into the primary girl CEO of a big, public US biotechnology firm.
Time’s profile of Reshma Kewalramani , written by creator Jason Kelly, stated, “Reshma sat on my board at Ginkgo Bioworks, and her insights proved invaluable: she is aware of how you can successfully push the bounds of science whereas navigating the drug-approval course of. She instructed us that when you’re doing one thing modern, if it sounds loopy or inconceivable, that is OK—it is solely as a result of nobody has accomplished it earlier than.”
“Beneath her management, Vertex secured the first-ever FDA approval for a CRISPR-based remedy, which treats sickle cell illness by correcting sufferers’ personal DNA mutations. Our our bodies converse the language of DNA. Our greatest medicine sooner or later will use DNA to speak instantly again to our our bodies, resulting in many extra cures. Reshma is the sort of chief who can ship that extraordinary future—it solely appears loopy as a result of nobody’s accomplished it earlier than,” Jason Kelly additional wrote.
Different outstanding personalities within the ‘Leaders’ checklist this 12 months included UK PM Keir Starmer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus and US vp JD Vance amongst others.
