Henry Paulson
AGE: 61
OCCUPATION: Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: Paulson stepped forward last year and surprised everybody by picking income inequality as an item for the shortlist of economic issues the U.S. must address—not the sort of thing one expects to hear from someone in a highly conservative Republican administration.
CON: Bush's tax cutting priorities may conflict with his goals.