Tim Harford is a British economist and broadcaster, best known for making complex economic ideas accessible to a wide audience.
Tim Harford is a renowned behavioural economist, bestselling author, BBC broadcaster and award-winning columnist for the Financial Times. An investigator of data and statistics, he is often described as “Britain’s Malcolm Gladwell” and has been praised by Gladwell himself as “a genius at telling stories that illuminate our world”, while The New Statesman has called him “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world”. Tim brings a distinctive mix of storytelling, humour, insight and intelligence to the subjects of risk, economics and statistics.
Tim is best known for his long-running BBC Radio 4 programme and podcast More or Less, which explores the truth behind the dubious statistics and manipulated figures that dominate news coverage, from political claims and business assertions to social media hype. His other acclaimed programmes include How to Vaccinate the World, produced during the Covid-19 pandemic, Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, which was accompanied by two bestselling books, and Cautionary Tales, a popular podcast exploring stories of human error and the lessons learned from mistakes both big and small, featuring guests such as Russell Tovey and Alan Cumming. On television, Tim fronted Channel 4’s Skint: The Truth Behind Britain’s Broken Economy, offering analysis of the UK’s financial challenges.
Keynote Topics:
- Data Detective/Making Sense of Numbers
- The Undercover Economist
- The Evolution of Economy
- And more…
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Keynote Topics:
- Data Detective/Making Sense of Numbers
- Adaptation & Managing Failure
- Innovation & "Messy" Thinking
- The Undercover Economist
- Cautionary Tales
- The Evolution of Economy
More About Tim Harford
Alongside his broadcasting work, Tim writes a highly influential weekly column for the Financial Times, where he applies economic thinking to the quirks of everyday life, often with wit and tongue-in-cheek solutions to readers’ dilemmas. Despite his approachable style, his background is firmly rooted in academic and institutional economics, with experience spanning Oxford University, Shell and the World Bank.
Tim’s debut book, The Undercover Economist, sold nearly two million copies worldwide and drew comparisons with Freakonomics for its ability to illuminate topics ranging from coffee shops and organised crime to development aid. Since then, he has cemented his reputation as one of the world’s most insightful and accessible writers on economics, making complex ideas understandable, engaging and relevant to a broad audience.
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