Contributors

Noah Goldstein is a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he has won awards for both teaching and research. His most recent book is The small BIG. His previous book, Yes!, also co-authored with Martin and Cialdini, is a New York Times bestseller translated in over twenty-five languages. Goldstein has also served on the Scientific Advisory Boards of two Fortune Global 500 companies.

Chris Goodall is a world-leading expert on new and renewable energy technologies. He is the author of multiple books on the climate and future technologies, including What We Need To Do Now, The Switch, and Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate. As well as publishing Carbon Commentary, a website and newsletter on energy efficiency and renewables, he is an investor in new low-carbon technologies and a member of the Advisory Board for the Pictet Clean Energy fund in Geneva.

Paul Goodwin is a statistician, an emeritus professor at the University of Bath, and a former adviser to government departments. He has taught courses on statistics for trades union members, art curators, surgeons, actuaries, civil servants, CEOs and sixth formers, among many others. His most recent book is Forewarned: A Sceptic's Guide to Prediction.

Olivia Goldhill is an investigative journalist who has been reporting on psychedelics, pharma and mental health for more than a decade. Currently a features editor at New Scientist magazine, her writing has also appeared in publications such as the Guardian, Telegraph and The New York Times. Goldhill is a New America fellow, supported by Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, and her work has been recognised as a 2022 British Journalism Awards finalist, 2021 EPPY finalist, and a 2020 Livingston Award finalist.

Her first book, Empire of the Mind, explores the potential for psychedelics to transform both the existing mental health industry and our understanding of our own minds, while holding those controlling psychedelics to account. She is based in London.

The Boston Globe is one of the largest daily newspapers in America and in November 2001 they petitioned the Massachusetts Superior Court and forced the Boston Archdiocese to release secret documents – and won.

Casey Gerald grew up in Dallas, Texas, and went to Yale, where he majored in political science and played varsity football. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, he cofounded MBAs Across America. He has been featured on MSNBC, at TED and SXSW, on the cover of Fast Company, and in The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Guardian, among others.

Born and brought up in Cairo, Waguih Ghali spent much of his adult life in Europe. His stay in London and his suicide in 1969 were described by his friend Diana Athill in After a Funeral (Cape, 1986). Beer in the Snooker Club is his only novel.

Tania Glyde is a counsellor in private practice in London. She specialises in sex and relationships and gender/sexual diversities. She also has a strong interest in addiction.
She is the author of two novels and has been a journalist, copywriter, broadcaster and performer.