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Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Biography

Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling's son and daughter-in-law, were co-founders of the Gapminder Foundation, and Ola its director from 2005 to 2007 and from 2010 to the present day. After Google acquired the bubble-chart tool called Trendalyzer, invented and designed by Anna and Ola, Ola became head of Google's Public Data Team and Anna the team’s senior user experience (UX) designer. They have both received international awards for their work.

Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Books by Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World ― and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
written by Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund - Nonfiction, Social Sciences

When asked simple questions about global trends --- what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school --- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates and investment bankers. In FACTFULNESS, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the 10 instincts that distort our perspective --- from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).