Jacinda Ardern’s selection by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people of 2019 has two tangential connections to discussion on this page:

  1. Although the explicit raison d’être of this page is the exchange of information, I think an implicit objective of a multicultural forum such as this one should be the deepening of intercultural understanding and friendship. In this regard, I agree with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who recommended Prime Minister Ardern, that she has been truly inspirational.

  2. Last year, Ardern became “only the second world leader to give birth while in office, the first being Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto in 1990.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-prime-minister-birth-baby-girl The leadership she has shown since then demonstrates that women can successfully combine work and child rearing – a topic about which we have had numerous discussions on this page.

– Kirk

http://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567767/jacinda-ardern/