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

Catherine Ashton

Catherine Ashton

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Age: 54
Occupation: High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Previous TIME 100 Appearances: 0

Last November behind-the-scenes disagreements among E.U. member states catapulted Ashton, a compromise choice, into a newly created and grandly titled job envisaged as a kind of foreign minister for Europe. She told TIME her priority would be "to lead the development of European foreign policy ideas," but amid continued sniping from critics within the E.U., her most urgent task remains the consolidation of her potentially substantial powers.

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