Contributors

Anne McBride is a senior lecturer at the University of Southampton. Her area of interest is human-animal interactions and animal behaviour. She has done extensive research on rabbits and lives with bunnies in Southampton, England.

Vimala McClure is the founder of the International Association of Infant Massage.

Mark McCormack was named by Sports Illustrated as 'the most powerful man in sports'. A college golfer, he worked at a Cleveland law firm when he began representing a young unknown named Arnold Palmer. A host of sports celebrities in golf, tennis and other areas followed and today the company WME/IMG represents a wide array of events and clients ranging from the Nobel Foundation to Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic to Colin Montgomerie.

Justin McCurry has lived in Tokyo since 1991 and reports on Japan and South East Asia for the Guardian

Sandra McDonald is an independent advisor and trainer on mental capacity issues. She was the Public Guardian for Scotland for 14 years, supervising those appointed to manage the affairs of individuals no longer able to do so personally. She holds qualifications in law, public sector management and nursing. She also operated as her father's Power of Attorney, so knows first-hand the challenges that attorneys face.

Christopher McDougall is author of the internationally bestselling Born to Run, which is being adapted into a TV series, Natural Born Heroes, and Running with Sherman. He lives in rural Pennsylvania and Hawaii.

Paul McMahon has authored reports on sustainable food systems as an advisor to The Prince of Wales's International Sustainability Unit and to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. He co-founded and now helps run SLM Partners, a business that invests in sustainable agriculture in Australia and across the world. Born in Ireland, he holds a PhD from Cambridge University.

James McManus is best known as a poker writer and player. He finished fifth in the 2000 World Series of Poker (winning almost $250,000) and used the experiences for his bestselling memoir Positively Fifth Street. He has also published novels, poetry and has been the poker columnist for the New York Times.

Sean McMeekin is Professor of History at Bard College, New York. For some years he taught at Bilkent University, Istanbul. His books include the highly successful The Berlin-Baghdad Express (Penguin), The Russian Origins of the First World War and July 1914.

Albert Memmi was born in 1920 in Tunisia, when it was a French protectorate. He grew up speaking Tunisia-Judeo-Arabic and French, and went on to be educated at the University of Algiers and the Sorbonne in Paris. During the Second World War, he was imprisoned in a forced labour camp which he later escaped from. A supporter of Tunisian independence in the post war, he left the country for France after independence citing increasing marginalisation due both to his French education and Jewish identity. He published several widely acclaimed novels as well as major works on racism and Judaism. He died in France in 2020.

Rupert Merson teaches new venture development and managing growth at London Business School. Formerly a partner of BDO he now runs his own consultancy advising firms on how to manage growth. His has written several books on management, including Rules are Not Enough.

Steve Martin is the co-author of the New York Times International bestseller Yes! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion. His work in the field of persuasion science has featured widely in the global media. His regular business columns for the British Airways in-flight magazine and the Harvard Business Review are read by over 2 million people each month. He is a guest lecturer at the London Business School and the University of Cambridge.

Antone Martinho-Truswell is a behavioural ecologist and Dean of Graduate House at St Paul's College, University of Sydney. He studied at Harvard University and at University College, Oxford. His work focuses on animal minds and learning and on human behaviour and interaction with the natural world, and has been covered in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Times and New Scientist. Antone writes about biology and animal behaviour for Aeon and the BBC and is the author of The Parrot in the Mirror: How Evolving to Be Like Birds Made Us Human (Oxford University Press, 2022). He lives with his wife and daughter in Sydney.

Paris Marx is a journalist who publishes in Wired, Time, and MIT Technology Review, among other publications. His award winning Tech Won't Save Us podcast has 25,000 listeners per episode, while his Disconnect newsletter has a reach of over 10,000 people who get his updates right in their inbox. Beyond that, he has over 50,000 followers on Twitter/X, and tens of thousands more on Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, and all the rest.