Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, and William Golding Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, at the University of Oxford.

He served as Director of the Refugee Studies Centre between 2014 and 2017. His research focuses mainly on refugee assistance, with a focus on Africa.

He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, was named by Foreign Policy magazine in the top 100 global thinkers of 2016, and his TED talks have been viewed by over 3 million people. He has previously worked for UNHCR and has served as a Councilor on the World Refugee Council. 

He currently leads the IKEA Foundation-funded Refugee Economies Programme. 

Ola Rosling is President & Co-Founder of Gapminder Foundation which he founded together with his wife, Anna, and his father, Hans.

Since 1999 Ola has been working on the development of trend analysis software which was eventually acquired by Google in 2007.

In 2011 Ola and Anna returned to Gapminder to develop free teaching materials for a fact-based worldview. In 2014 Ola coined the term Factfulness, which Gapminder is now promoting in order to make the education about Sustainable Development less ideological and more fact-based.