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Number 90 on the 2025 list
Ismahane Elouafi is an executive managing director from Morocco, named to the AFN 100 in 2025 for making the TIME100 and launching CGIAR's new research plan to cut extreme hunger.
In April 2025 TIME named Moroccan scientist Ismahane Elouafi, head of the global farm research network CGIAR, to its list of the world's 100 most influential people. That month in Nairobi she led the launch of CGIAR's new research plan, costed at US$6 to 12 billion to 2030, which aims to cut extreme hunger by 26%. New African also named her one of the 100 most influential Africans of 2025.