--- description: Find out why Javier Milei is one of the 100 most influential people of 2025. title: Javier Milei: The 100 Most Influential People of 2025 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3f948062b7e07a5/6998c5c09fbc7c7aead99fde/time100-2025-javier-milei.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 16, 2025 # Javier Milei by [Ian Bremmer](/author/ian-bremmer/) ## Ian Bremmer Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Javier Milei, Argentina's president, waves during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, US, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025\. The Conservative Political Action Conference launched in 1974 brings together conservative organizations, elected leaders, and activists. Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images Javier Milei, Argentina's president, waves during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, US, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025\. The Conservative Political Action Conference launched in 1974 brings together conservative organizations, elected leaders, and activists. Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesKent Nishimura—Bloomberg/Getty Images In 2023, candidate Javier Milei offered himself to voters as the antiestablishment, chainsaw-wielding bolt from the blue that Argentina needed to tame the country’s chronic inflation and government dysfunction. Twenty months later, the doubters—I was one of them—are in retreat. Since Milei entered the Casa Rosada as President, voters have punished elected leaders and ruling parties in India, South Africa, France, Britain, Japan, Germany, and the U.S.—in part because prices have risen. Milei is the G-20 leader taking the biggest risks to [turn his country around](https://time.com/6980600/javier-milei-argentina-interview/ "undefined") ... and they’re paying off. Annual inflation in Argentina fell from a jaw-­dropping 289% in April 2024 to 66.9% in February 2025\. Critics say Milei is taming inflation with austerity measures that weigh heavily on the poor, but they’ve been wrong on that front too: the national poverty rate fell from 52.9% in the first half of 2024 to 38.1% in the second half. Argentina’s political system has been badly broken for decades. Turned out they needed someone to actually fix it. _Bremmer is a TIME_ _editor-at-large and the_ _president of ­Eurasia_ _Group and GZERO Media_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273792/javier-milei/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273792/javier-milei/"},"headline":"Javier Milei","datePublished":"2025-04-16T10:30:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:28:57.832Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273792/javier-milei/","keywords":["TIME100","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","T100Leaders2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3f948062b7e07a5/6998c5c09fbc7c7aead99fde/time100-2025-javier-milei.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ian Bremmer","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/ian-bremmer/"}],"creator":"Ian Bremmer","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3f948062b7e07a5/6998c5c09fbc7c7aead99fde/time100-2025-javier-milei.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273792/javier-milei/","name":"Javier Milei"}}]}] ```