The 2011 TIME 100 Poll

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes that you think are the most influential people in the world. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed (with Rain as the 2011 readers' choice), users can continue to vote for their favorites until the final list, selected by our editors, is revealed on Thursday, April 21st

TIME 100 Candidates

David Drummond

By TIME StaffMonday, Apr. 04, 2011
dek
Ryan Anson / AFP / Getty Images

Age: 48
Occupation: Chief legal officer of Google
Previous TIME 100 appearances: 0

Drummond has been called the world's luckiest lawyer, and with good reason. After playing football at California's Santa Clara University and attending Stanford Law School, Drummond became a partner at the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, which in the 1990s assigned him to work with Google's then young co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Drummond eventually joined the company and helped lead its IPO. Now he has a leading role in helping the company, and industry, navigate the increasingly hostile regulatory environments in Washington, Brussels and Asia, particularly in China.

Next Roger Ebert