Contributors

Christopher Robbins is the author of five non-fiction books, including the award-winning The Empress of Ireland. He became intrigued by Kazakhstan sitting on an aeroplane next to an American from Arkansas on his way there to collect an Internet bride.

Jim Robbins is a frequent contributor to the science section of the New York Times. He has written for Vanity Fair,Sunday Times, Scientific American, Discover, Psychology Today and numerous other magazines. He lives in 20 acres of woods in Helena, Montana.

Professor of Marine Conservation at York University, Callum Roberts is one of the world's leading oceanographers. He was the Chief Scientific Advisor on Blue Planet 2 and writes regularly on marine issues for the Guardian. He is the author of two award-winning books, The Unnatural History of the Sea (Rachel Carson Award, 2007) and Ocean of Life (Mountbatten Award, 2013).

Richard Roberts is a Reader at the University of Sussex. He specialises in financial markets and centres, and is the author of numerous books and articles about international finance.

Dr Elizabeth Roberts is a State Registered Dietitian in the UK. She has worked in many different areas of practise in a career spanning over 20 years. Her first book, Sugar Counter for Health: The Smart Person's Guide to Hidden Sugars was published in 2016.

Dr Roberts works in the NHS, treating children and adolescents with an eating disorder, as well as in the independent sector.

Paul Roberts specialises and has worked extensively in the field of project, programme and change management with organisations such as British Airways, ComputaCenter, The Economist, HBOS, Ministry of Defence, Pfizer, Inland Revenue, Royal Mail, Somerfield and Wilco.

Adam Roberts spent five years as South Asia bureau chief for the Economist, based in Delhi. Previously he was Africa Correspondent for the same publication. He is now European Business Correspondent, based in Paris. He is the author of The Wonga Coup.

Lorna Robinson has a doctorate in Classics from University College London and is the director of the Iris Project, which promotes the study of Classics in state schools.

Born and educated in Ohio, Stearn Robinson worked as a journalist and later as a radio writer. While living in Los Angeles, at the height of the glamorous Hollywood era, she wrote and produced a daily thirty-minute radio program for a West Coast network, famous at the time.
She resigned as vice president of a New York advertising agency on marrying Sir Robert Robinson, a world-renowned scientist who won a Nobel Prize. Lady Robinson was intensely interested in scientific subjects, and that is what led her to create the first series of cartoons with a special theme for children.
Lady Robinson studied the technique of dream interpretation and, along with Tom Corbett, the famous British medium, wrote The Dreamer's Dictionary.

James A. Robinson is a political scientist and economist and the Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University, and a world-renowned expert on Latin America and Africa. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024 for his work on global inequality.

Denis Robert is a French journalist, novelist, essayist and film director, who is renowned for uncovering political and financial scandals and for his unconventional journalism. Happiness is his first novel.

Bethan Roberts was born in Abingdon. Her first novel The Pools was published in 2007 and won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Award. Her second, The Good Plain Cook, published in 2008, was serialized on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and was chosen as one of Time Out's books of the year. Two further novels, My Policeman and Mother Island, followed. Bethan has worked in television documentary, and has taught Creative Writing at Chichester University and Goldsmiths College, London. She lives in Brighton with her family.

Larry Robertson founded leadership and communication consultancy Robertson Burns in 1993. A Brit who settled in Australia after an early career as an Army officer and in advertising, he has been working with executives from some of the world's largest organisations, including Ashurst, AstraZeneca, BHP, Boston Consulting Group, Coutts & Co, Fujitsu, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, PwC, Qantas and The Royal Bank of Canada.

C. E. Riley is a writer and director of the literary festival, Primadonna, which is described as 'books, with a little bit of rock'n'roll' – a festival that showcases established and emerging voices that aren't heard enough in the mainstream. She lives in London, and has previously published two works of non-fiction. Is This Love? is her debut novel.