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Michele Wucker is a global strategist, speaker, and commentator whose book The Gray Rhino has been hugely influential in the world of finance and government. She gives speeches on leadership, crisis management, the economy, and other issues. Earlier in her career she was a financial journalist, and she has held leadership roles at the World Policy Institute and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

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Vaclav Smil is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba, Canada. His interdisciplinary research encompasses many fields. He was once named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers. Smil is the author of more than 40 books.

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The Lonely Century (2021) explores the loneliness that characterizes the twenty-first century. Drawing on a decade of research, it reveals how neoliberal policies, new technologies, and mass migration to cities have contributed to us becoming so lonely – and what shifts need to occur for us to reconnect.

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Noreena Hertz is an English academic, economist, author, and host of the Sirius XM show MegaHerz: London Calling. Named by the Observer as “one of the world’s leading thinkers,” she has published opinion pieces in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Guardian. She has a PhD from Cambridge University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Professor Klaus Schwab is Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, an international nongovernmental organization based in Geneva. His previous books include The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Angrynomics (2020) examines the growing atmosphere of anger around the globe. Part political theory, part social science, this approachable text diagnoses the cause of the rising resentment and proposes a few popular solutions.

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Eric Lonergan is an economist and hedge-fund manager. His work on contemporary political issues has been published in Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, and the Economist.

Mark Blyth is director of the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at Brown University, where he teaches international political economy. He is also the author of the best-selling book Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea.

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The Next Great Migration (2020) reveals how humans have always moved across oceans and continents, just like any other migratory species on Earth. Sonia Shah upends the notion that we’ve ever been a stationary species. She also demonstrates how racist and xenophobic belief systems have led us to erect artificial borders and walls.

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Sonia Shah is a science journalist and prize-winning author. Her previous works include Pandemic, and a chronicle of the history of malaria, The Fever. Shah was born in 1969 in New York City to Indian immigrants.

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The Warmth of Other Suns (2010) tells the story of the Great Migration – the biggest inner-border mass migration in US history. From 1915 to 1970, millions of Black Americans left the Jim Crow South in search of a better life in Northern cities. Focusing on the lives of three of those migrants, these blinks paint a vivid picture of the fears, hopes, and dreams that shaped the movement.

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