Dr. Casagranda is a Professor of Government at Austin Community College, where he teaches political science. He also focuses on public engagement - giving dozens of news interviews and speeches and writing opinion pieces on US and Middle East politics and history. He also runs the Austin School Lecture Series, which has over 3.75 million YouTube.

David McCandless is a London-based author, data-journalist and information designer, working across print, advertising, TV and web. His blog and best-selling books Information Is Beautiful (2009), Knowledge is Beautiful (2014) and Beautiful News (2021) are dedicated to visualising ideas, issues, knowledge, data and novel patterns and stories.

Erik Anderson a global innovation leader, investor and philanthropist. He is Founder and CEO of WestRiver Group, a thematically driven investment platform that manages funds and builds companies in the global innovation economy.