The TED Interview Creators & Guests

Chris Anderson is a British-American businessman who is the head of TED, a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he founded Future Publishing.

Steven Johnson is a popular science author and media theorist.

Sherell Dorsey is the founder and CEO of The Plug.

Lacy Roberts is a podcast editor and producer based in Missoula, Montana. Most recently, she was the managing producer at Brooklyn-based and Peabody-nominated podcast production company Transmitter Media, where she developed and produced original shows for clients like TED, The New York Times, CNN, and more. Prior to Transmitter Media, she worked with Al Jazeera’s podcast arm on the award-winning podcast Closer Than They Appear and developed an international news show called The Take. Her freelance work has also been seen and heard in the New York Times, The Atlantic, PBS Newshour, and NPR affiliates around the country.

Kim Nederveen Pieterse is a producer for The TED Interview Podcast.

Kristalina Georgieva is an economist and CEO at the World Bank.

Paul Bloom is a psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University.

Samuel Altman is an entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator.

Jacqueline Novogratz is an entrepreneur, author, and Founder & CEO at Acumen.

Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur, and co-founder of DeepMind.

Fareed Zakaria is a journalist, political scientist, author, host of CNN, writer, columnist for Newsweek, and editor of Newsweek International.

Linda Villarosa is an author and journalist.

Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks is an Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, author, and politician, he also served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth.

Dr. Susan David is a founder & co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School and an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard University.

Parag Khanna is a specialist in international relations, managing partner of FutureMap, former managing partner of Hybrid Reality, and co-founder & CEO of Factotum.

Malala Yousafzai is an activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.

Anthony D. Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he studies consciousness and its role in health and disease. He co-directs the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness.

Jennifer Doudna is a biochemist and Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology at the University of California.