Dhaka, April 15 -- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has been named in TIME magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

The 2026 list, published on Wednesday, includes 24 politicians and state leaders.

Among them are Pope Leo, US President Donald Trump, China President Xi Jinping, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah.

The profile on Tarique was written by TIME Editor-at-large and geopolitics expert Charlie Campbell.

It says that just months ago, Tarique was living "a carefree life of exile in leafy southwest London".

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