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  • Daron Acemoglu

    Daron Acemoglu

    17 January 2012

    Daron Acemoglu is the Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. He received the John Bates Clark...


  • Johnny Acton

    Johnny Acton

    05 September 2011

    Johnny Acton is a writer who specialises in digging up obscure nuggets of information and making complex subjects accessible. He has written books on everything from pickling food (Preserved with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall) to the history...


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    Anjana Ahuja

    02 March 2011

    Anjana Ahuja is a feature writer with a weekly science column in The Times, and holds a PhD in space...


  • Marina-Aidova

    Marina Aidova

    17 January 2011

    Marina Aidova works as an English translator for international organisations including the...


  • Mohamed Althani

    Mohamed Althani

    11 June 2012

    Shaikh Mohamed A. J. Althani was born in Qatar in 1962 and took a degree in industrial management from Central Michigan University. He worked in the oil and gas industry from 1985 to 2002. From...


  • Sarah Anderson

    Sarah Anderson

    02 March 2011

    Dr Sarah Anderson trained as a doctor in Cambridge and London. She has a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene and has worked in Africa in hospitals and as a flying...


  • John Andrews

    John Andrews

    02 March 2011

    As a writer and journalist, British-born John Andrews has lived in Europe, the Arab world, Asia and America, witnessing events from the Lebanese civil war and the demonstrations of Tiananmen Square to the presidencies of...


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    Katherine Ashenburg

    02 March 2011

    Katherine Ashenburg has worked as an academic, a radio producer and Arts and Books editor of the Globe and Mail. She has written for the New York Times and her books include The Mourner’s Dance:...


  • David Astle

    David Astle

    10 September 2012

    David Astle is a Melbourne-based writer of non-fiction, fiction and drama. He co-hosts Letters and Numbers (the Australian version of Countdown) as the dictionary expert, and his crosswords appear in Australian papers The Age and...


  • Julian Baggini

    Julian Baggini

    02 March 2011

    Julian Baggini (www.julianbaggini.com) is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Philosophers’ Magazine. He is the author of several books, including Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind (Granta), Complaint (Profile) and, most recently, The...



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