From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Le Monde Person of the Year
Le Monde Person of the Year
In 2009 the French newspaper Le Monde initiated a Person developing world". Other candidates included US
of the Year designation for the man or woman of that President Barack Obama, Russian Prime Minister
year who had affected the world most significantly, ei- Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Mahmoud
ther positively or negatively.[1] To date only two men Ahmadinejad.
have been selected, who have been referred to Man of • : Julian Assange, Australian editor of Wikileaks.[2]
Year for their respective years (2009 and 2010).
• : President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of
Brazil. Lula "knew exactly how to be a democratic
References
figure and fight against poverty", and was described [1] Bloomberg newswire, 24 December 2009
as "a referent to emerging countries and also to the [2] The Moderate Voice, 28 December 2010
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