The 2010 TIME 100 Poll

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators and icons who you think are the most influential people in the world. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed, with Mir-Hossein Mousavi having won the honor, users can continue to vote for their favorites until the list is revealed on Thursday, April 29th

2010 Candidates

Jean-Max Bellerive

By TIME STAFFThursday, Apr. 01, 2010
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Age: 51
Occupation: Prime Minister of Haiti
Previous TIME 100 Appearances: 0

Bellerive was appointed to head Haiti's government just two months before a massive earthquake hit the western hemisphere's poorest country Jan. 12, killing more than 200,000 people. But many consider him a more effective leader in the quake's aftermath than Haiti's lame-duck head of state, President René Préval. "We don't want to rebuild what was destroyed," Bellerive told TIME. "We want to build the Haiti we're all dreaming of."

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