Contributors

Kaouther Adimi is a young Algerian novelist living in France. A Bookshop in Algiers is her third novel and was published in France in 2017, where it got the trifecta of major French award nominations (the Goncourt, Renaudot & Médicis prizes) and sold over 50,000 copies.

Alina is the Founder of Adaptaa, a trailblazing Executive Coaching and Leadership Development company. She is an accredited Emotional Intelligence coach with over 20 years of business and leadership experience. She is also a qualified chartered accountant, and was previously an Investment Banker with Rothschild, latterly as a Managing Director and Head of Trading. She is on the board of several charities, and remotely manages a hotel that she built in Transylvania in 2004.

Kamal Ahmed is an entrepreneur, author and journalist. He was formerly the editorial director of BBC News, and its economics editor until 2018. He has been the political editor of the Observer and the business editor of the Telegraph. He is the co-founder of The News Movement, a growing digital media organisation. The Trillionaires is his second book

Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT, Faculty Co-Director of MIT's Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, and a Research Affiliate at MIT's newly established Blueprint Labs.

He has been awarded several prizes for this work, including the John Bates Clark Medal, the Nemmers Prize, the BBVA Frontiers Award, and the Global Economy Prize. Most recently, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024.

Acemoglu's work and writing has been featured in leading publications, including, among others, the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Prospect, TIME, and WIRED magazines.

Acemoglu is the author of six books, including Why Nations Fail with James A. Robinson, for which they were jointly awarded the 2024 Nobel Economics Prize.

Johnny 'Lord' Acton is a writer who specialises in digging up obscure nuggets of information and making complex subjects accessible. He has written books on everything from food (Preserved with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall) to the history of balloons (The Man who touched the Sky).

The company behind AQA is IssueBits Ltd. which was set up by Colly Myers, former CEO of Symbian and MD of Psion PLC, together with Bill Batchelor and Paul Cockerton. They are assisted by more than 600 researchers who answer the question texted to AQA

Kathy Abernethy works as part of an award winning menopause team in London and at a private clinic in South West London. She holds a Masters degree in reproductive women's health and speaks and writes regularly on the topic of menopause. She has authored a book for nurses on Menopause and HRT as well as numerous articles for women themselves, which have appeared in Woman's Weekly, Now, Essentials, Saga and Yours magazines. Kathy raises awareness of the impact of menopause at work by delivering workplace sessions to staff and managers of various organistions throughout the UK and in 2017, was elected as chair of the British Menopause Society, the lead professional organisation for those working in menopause, having been an active member since its inception in 1989.

Jean-Francois Abgrall was an adjutant in the Rennes homicide squad when he started investigating the murder of Aline Perez. By the time it was over he was famous throughout France. His book, Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer, was made into a successful drama by French television, with the actor Thierry Fremont winning an Emmy for best international actor. After leaving the police force, Abgrall he set up as one of the only French private detectives licensed to investigate serious crime. He has worked on other celebrated cases since the Heaulmes affair – including tracking down another serial killer in the South of France – and also lectures on criminal psychology at the University of Rennes.

David Abram is a photographer and the author of the Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain. He has talked at Glastonbury and the Chalke Valley History Festival, and his work has appeared in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Telegraph and on BBC Country File. He lives on the border of Wiltshire and Somerset.