AGE: 47
OCCUPATION: Finance Minister of Norway
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: As manager and chief architect of Norway's powerful Sovereign Wealth Fund, the socialist Halvorsen exercised Norway's moral outrage by pulling investments out of Wal-Mart and other big companies, like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, for perceived ethical failings.
CON: Stateside critics have accused her of unfairly singling out American companies.