Contributors

Simon Blackburn was the Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and remains a Fellow of Trinity College. He is known for his appearances in the British media such as BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze and his many publications which span popular and academic moral philosophy. His books include Spreading the Word (1984), The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (1994), Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning (1998), Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (2001), Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics (2002), Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins (2003), and Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love (2014).

Henry Blake is also the author of Horse Sense: How to Develop Your Horse's Intelligence and Thinking with Horses. He was an expert who spent more than 40 years working with horses and ran a riding holiday center in Wales.

Mindy Blake was the New Zealand pole vault champion (and its foremost gymnast) and was a Squadron Commander in the R.A.F. during the Battle of Britain. He retired from the R.A.F. in 1958 and later became the captain of Wentworth Golf Club.

Michael J. Bird (31 October 1928, in London – 11 May 2001, in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire) was an English writer.
In addition to several novels, he is best known for his television drama series for the BBC, usually set in the Mediterranean. The Lotus Eaters and Who Pays the Ferryman? were set in Crete, The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979) was set in Cyprus, and The Dark Side of the Sun took place on Rhodes. His final series for the BBC ended this practice, with Maelstrom, set in Norway.
Bird also wrote for the following series during his career: Danger Man, Special Branch, Quiller, The Onedin Line, Out of the Unknown, Arthur of the Britons, Secret Army and Warship.
Bird formed his own production company, named Gryphon Productions, and negotiated a number of co-productions with the BBC.
He was the author of The Town That Died: a Chronicle of the Halifax Disaster, published by Souvenir Press in 1962.

Carl Bistany is the president of the board of SABIS® Educational Systems, INC. and SABIS® Educational Services. These two independent corporations manage schools within the SABIS® Network, which currently serves 70,000 students enrolled in Pre-K/K-12 schools and a university. For 22 years, he has helped guide the family-owned education business that was set up in 1886 in a village in Lebanon. His efforts have led to the company's expansion, particularly through public-private-partnerships, so that today SABIS® Network schools operate in 16 countries on four continents, including Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America; 15 SABIS® Network schools with more than 9,000 students are public charter schools in the U.S.

Martin Bjergegaard worked for McKinsey & Co before becoming one of the co-founders of Rainmaking. Along with his co-founders he built a portfolio of 8 startups with a total of 50 million dollars in annual revenue, 100 employees, and offices in London, Copenhagen and Munich.
www.winningwithoutlosing.org

Thor Bjorgolfsson is a self-styled 'adventure capitalist' and was Iceland's first billionaire. Born in 1967, his earliest business deal was persuading his father to lend him $80 to buy vintage Marvel and X-Men comics, an investment that he still holds. He made his first $100 million in 2002, from the sale of his Russian Bravo brewery business to Heineken. At the age of 40, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $3.4 billion and featured him on its cover.

Rashad Bilal, a financial advisor, and Troy Millings, an educator

Joanna Biggs is a writer and editor at the London Review of Books, where she has reported on the student protest movement, the recession in Middlesbrough, Legal Aid cuts, censorship in China, and manufacturing. She was born in London and educated at Oxford, the Sorbonne and London.

Dr Marieke Bigg holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge. Her work focused on the role of biological models and biologists in public deliberations on biotechnology and reproductive medicine. She is a trainee psychotherapist and a peer support coordinator at the mental health charity, Mind.

Peter Betts was the Director of International Climate Change at Defra from 2008 to 2018 with overall responsibility for UK strategy on international climate policy and Lead Negotiator for the EU for six years, including at the Paris COP. After leaving the Civil Service in 2018 he was senior advisor to the Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency and advisor to the International Energy Agency. He was appointed CBE in 2010 and CB in 2020. Peter died of brain cancer in October 2023.