About the Authors

Hans Rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health and renowned public educator. He was an advisor to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and co-founded Médecins sans Frontières in Sweden and Gapminder Foundation. His TED talks have been viewed more than 35 million times, and he was listed as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. Hans died in 2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing this memoir and to Factfulness, which was a reading list selection of Barack Obama and Bill Gates. It was a number one global bestseller and has sold more than three million copies worldwide. You can sign up for email updates here.

Fanny Härgestam is a journalist and author based in Stockholm and Paris.