Tim Harford

Tim Harford is a data detective and geek storyteller. A behavioural economist, BBC presenter and award-winning Financial Times columnist he offers a distinctive blend of humour, narrative and intelligence .

Tim’s books include The Undercover Economist, which has sold nearly 2 million copies, and the new Sunday Times number one business bestseller How to Make The World Add Up.

His BBC radio series include More or Less, which brought statistical journalism to prime-time radio, Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy, and How To Vaccinate The World, in which Harford interviewed experts such as Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates on the most important story of the age.

Tim also writes and hosts the chart-busting Cautionary Tales podcast, which with the help of leading actors such as Helena Bonham Carter and Jeffrey Wright, draws essential lessons from spellbinding stories of disaster.

Tim’s writing has won several prestigious awards, including the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism (2006 and 2016), Science and Data Commentator of the Year (2018), Economics Commentator of the Year (2014), Society for Business Economists writing prize (2014) and the Royal Statistical Society prize for journalism (2015). He was awarded an OBE “for services to improving economic understanding” in the 2019 New Year honours.

Tim is a member of Nuffield College, Oxford and the only journalist to be an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He has worked at Shell and the World Bank. Tim has given numerous invited lectures, including at Google, PopTech, the Sydney Opera House, and three times at TED. His TED talks alone have been viewed more than 10 million times.

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