Reshma Kewalramani, the Indian-origin CEO of US-based biotechnology firm Vertex Prescription drugs, featured in Time journal’s 2025 record of the ‘100 Most Influential Individuals within the World’ on Wednesday. She is the one particular person of Indian-origin to function within the record.
After immigrating from India to the USA on the age of 11, she pursued a profession in drugs and scientific analysis. Born in Mumbai, Reshma went to United States in 1988 and studied medical science at Boston College. After pursuing a fellowship from Massachusetts Basic Hospital, she went on to pursue a level in Basic Administration from Harvard Enterprise College in 2015. She joined Vertex as chief medical officer in 2018 and was appointed CEO in 2020, as per her TIME profile.
Underneath her management, Vertex achieved a significant milestone with the FDA’s first-ever approval of a CRISPR-based remedy to deal with sickle cell illness. Kewalramani additionally serves on the board of Ginkgo Bioworks.
Who all are the in record?
This 12 months’s TIME100, curated in partnership with Rolex, spans 32 nations and options an eclectic mixture of visionaries—from political leaders and company CEOs to athletes, artists, and activists. Six members of the Trump Administration, together with the president himself, signify the most important contingent from a US political administration since 2009. The record additionally contains 16 CEOs.
Kewalramani additionally shares the popularity with cultural icons akin to Simone Biles, Scarlett Johansson, Snoop Dogg, and Kristen Bell seem alongside political leaders akin to Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, and British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Tech and enterprise titans embrace Mark Zuckerberg, Superior Micro Units (AMD) CEO Lisa Su, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, and Italian-American synthetic intelligence researcher and Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei.
This 12 months’s record contains six members of the Trump Administration—the most important presence from a US political administration since 2009—as properly 16 company CEOs. Additionally, represented are 9 people preventing for justice and democracy, and figures from 32 nations. The youngest honoree is 22-year-old French Olympic swimmer Léon Marchand; the oldest, 84-year-old Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate and interim chief of Bangladesh.
Donald Trump is on the record for the seventh time, greater than some other individual on the record this 12 months. Different repeats embrace, Tesla CEO Elon Musk (6), Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (5), tennis icon Serena Williams (3), Canadian-American tv author and movie producer Lorne Michaels (3), American gymnast Simone Biles (3), actor Kristen Wiig (2), singer Ed Sheeran (2), WHO director common Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (2), Nobel Laureate and Google DeepMind CEO and co-founder Demis Hassabis (2), actor Scarlett Johansson (2), journalist Megyn Kelly (2), actor Blake Full of life (2), Argentina’s president Javier Milei (2), Italian billionaire clothier Miuccia Prada (2), commentator and podcaster Joe Rogan (2), and Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos (2).
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In a notice accompanying the record, TIME’s Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs described the honorees as “people whose concepts and actions are pushing the world ahead.” He added, “What binds them isn’t fame or fortune, however affect—affect that lasts past a information cycle.”
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