Time features Tarique on its list of 100 most influential people

New York-based Time magazine has featured Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on its list of 100 most influential people of the world for 2026, according to a feature published on the magazine’s website on Wednesday.

Along with the BNP chairman, the magazine includes prominent leaders such as US President Donald Trump, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Pope Leo XIV, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, among others.

“Rewind just a few months, and Tarique Rahman was living a carefree life of exile in leafy southwest London. But the 2024 ousting of Bangladesh’s autocratic Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina propelled the 57-year-old scion from opposition agitator to national leader in waiting—a destiny he fulfilled in February by winning an electoral landslide after 17 years estranged from his homeland,” Time wrote in his profile.