Six years ago, when we launched the TIME100 Next , it marked our first step in growing the TIME100 from a single moment into a year-round project. As we’ve added new chapters to the TIME100 story, our mission has remained consistent: to use the TIME100—our list of the globe’s most influential people, first released 22 years ago—as a lens to better understand our world, and to guide TIME in our role as a key chronicler of leadership. To do that, we’ve taken a wider perspective on influence, and taken deep dives into the worlds of AI , Climate , Creators , Health , and Philanthropy .

TIME100 Next showed us what growth could be possible, and for many at TIME, yours truly included, it remains one of our favorite moments of the year. While we’ve made it our mission to cover peopl

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