Contributors

Yuan Yang is the Labour Party's parliamentary candidate for Earley and Woodley constituency. She was the FT's Europe-China correspondent and the deputy chief of the FT's Beijing bureau. She is the founder of Rethinking Economics, a campaign which promotes a more relevant economics curriculum that reflects the real world in schools. Sam's story, and those of three other Chinese women, are the subject of Yuan Yang's forthcoming book, Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China.

John Wright is one of Great Britain's best-known naturalists and leading experts on fungi. His books include A Spotter's Guide to the Countryside, A Natural History of the Hedgerow and the bestselling The Forager's Calendar.

His contributions as part of the popular River Cottage Handbook series, include books on how to forage in hedgerows and seashores, on the delights and perils of gathering fungi and mushrooms, and how to make your own booze.

He lives in Dorset, near the glorious grassland of Hog Cliff, here he regularly leads forays into nature and goes on long walks across all terrains.

Christopher Wylie has been called "the millennials' first great whistleblower" and "a pink-haired, nose-ringed oracle sent from the future." He is known for his role in setting up – and then taking down – Cambridge Analytica. His revelations exposing the rampant misuse of data rocked Silicon Valley and led to some of the largest multinational investigations into data crime ever.

James Wyllie is an author, award-winning screenwriter and broadcaster. He is author of Goering and Goering: Hitler's Henchman and His Anti-Nazi Brother and The Codebreakers: The true story of the secret intelligence team that changed the course of the First World War. He has worked on numerous films for the BBC, Film4 and Talkback among others, and has written for a number of TV drama series, including The Bill, The Tribe, and Atlantis High.

Dimitris Xygalatas is an anthropologist and cognitive scientist. He runs the experimental anthropology lab at the University of Connecticut. This is his first trade book.

Laura Wyatt-Smith is a digital wellness educator, professional coach and qualified teacher with twenty years' experience in some of the UK's foremost youth organisations, including The Prince's Trust, the Sex Education Forum and The Scout Association. She is the host of Childhood Heroes, a podcast about the big issues affecting modern childhood.

Lindy Woodhead worked in international fashion for over twenty-five years. During the late 1980s she spent two years as the first woman on the board of directors of Harvey Nichols. Lindy retired from fashion in 2000 to concentrate on writing. She is the author of War Paint and Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge. She is a regular contributor to the Spectator and The Times Saturday Magazine.

Adrian Wooldridge is The Economist's management editor and author of the Schumpeter column. He was previously based in Washington, DC, as the Washington bureau chief where he also wrote the Lexington column, and also served as The Economist's West Coast correspondent, management correspondent and Britain correspondent. His books include: The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, God is Back and The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State.

Richard Wrangham has taught biological anthropology at Harvard University since 1989. His major interests are chimpanzee behavioral ecology, the evolution of violence and tolerance, human dietary adaptation, and the conservation of chimpanzees and other apes. He has studied chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, since 1987.

N Quentin Woolf is a writer and broadcaster, and runs a number of literary groups, including Writers' Mutual and The Writers' Lab. He is the founder of The Brick Lane Book Group, teaches at the Idler Academy and since 2012 has run a writers' retreat in France. Woolf's short fiction has been published and translated internationally, and performed at Sadler's Wells. He has featured in various guises on BBC Radio 4, runs The Wireless Reader podcast and presents a weekly talk-show for Londonist.com, which attracts around 13,000 visits per day and a loyal following on iTunes.

Tony Wolf, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who has worked with children and adolescents for over thirty years. He lives in Suffield, Connecticut.

Alison Wolf is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London and sits in the House of Lords as a crossbench peer (Baroness Wolf of Dulwich). She writes widely for the national press and for a number of think-tanks; directs a Masters degree in public policy and management; and is chair of governors for King's College London Mathematics School, a specialist state school which opened in 2014.