About the Author
Hans Rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health, and
renowned public educator. He was an adviser to the World Health
Organization and UNICEF, and he cofounded Mdecins Sans Frontières in
Sweden and the Gapminder Foundation. His TED talks have been viewed
more than thirty-five million times, and he was listed as one of Time
magazine’s one hundred most influential people in the world. Hans died in
2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing this book.
Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rnnlund, Hans’s son and daughter-in-law,
are cofounders of the Gapminder Foundation, and Ola its director from 2005
to 2007 and from 2010 to the present day. After Google acquired
Trendalyzer, the bubblechart tool invented and designed by Anna and Ola,
Ola became head of Google’s Public Data Team and Anna became the team’s
senior user-experience (UX) designer. They have both received international
awards for their work.
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