Innovators -The Times
John Jumper
Being able to predict the shape of proteins using amino acid sequences could one day inform the development of new treatments for diseases, but learning the shape of even a single protein costs about $100,000 and takes a full year of a researcher's time. Thanks to this person, lead researcher for U.K-based company DeepMind's AlphaFold artificial-intelligence program, it's now possible to cut that year of work to a single day.
Li Jiaqi
Dubbed China's Lipstick King, this person has a livestreaming sales powerhouse who has melted hearts with his charismatic and candid beauty reviews.
Olugbenga Agboola
During Covid-19, Africa's small shops and restaurants, very few of which have an online presence, were particularly vulnerable. Enter Flutterwave, a tech startup based in San Francisco and Lagos, nigeria, that is known for helping companies process customers' online transactions during checkout. This person is the CEO of Flutterwave.
Rohan Pavuluri
The COVID-19 pandemic has put many Aemricans in financial distress. In 2018, this person founded Upsolve, a nonprofit that offers a free online tool to help users fill out bankruptcy forms on their own.
Telfar Clemens
This person has a namesake fashion line. He launched a program that directly intercepted overpriced resales with an unlimited preorder event.
Omar Tate
This person has sparked a revolution in African-American food. With his Honeysuckle dinner series and the pop-up takeout options he has offered in the wake of the pandemic, he committed himself to carrying on the culinary practices of the ancestors who nurtured his youth and gifted him a sense of purpose.
Dr. Ayesha Verrall
This person has spent her career seeking to stop the spread of infectious diseases, and in a moment of global crisis, she used her knowledge to advocate a science based approach to tackling COVID-19 and improving contact tracing that has helped save lives in New Zealand.
Jason Ballard
This person is a conservation biologist turned construction-technology pioneer, and his company's funding from NASA may put him on the path to be the first human to build a 3-D structure on the moon.
Jacinda Arden
This person is a prime minister of New Zealand
Bjarke Ingels
This person is the chief architect and founder of the Bjarke Ingels Group.
Kizzmekia Corbett
This person is the scientific lead of the Vaccine research center's coronavirus team at the U.S National Institutes of Health and is widely recognized in the immunology community as a rising star.
Sumayya Valley
This person launched her studio, Counterspace, in Johannesburg to develop a design language that acknowledges and celebrates the African continent.
Anthony Ramos
This person plays Philip Hamilton in the Hamilton Broadway Musical. Leslie Odom says he has a one-in-a-million singing voice and reminds her of John Leguizamo and Ritchie Valens.
Nse Ufot
This person was born in Nigeria and raised in Southwest Atlanta. Under Nse's creative and determined leadership, the New Georgia Project, a civic engagement nonprofit founded in 2013 by Stacey Abrams, has worked alongside fellow grassroots organizations in the state to register hundreds of thousands of Georgians to vote.
Sarah Al Amiri
This person was deemed most responsible for the UAE triumph as the project lead's scientist, heading a team that is 80% women.
Robin Carhart-Harris
This person's research is advancing a once fringe idea that psychedelics, such as LSD or psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, might be able to treat some mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety.
Sohla El-Waylly
This person, a talented chef and entrepreneur, spoke out about racism and pay discrimination at Bon Appetit last year.
