TED Talks Daily Creators & Guests

Sahar Zand is a freelance journalist, television and radio presenter, and documentary maker. Zand has worked for the BBC, Channel 4, and other broadcasters covering both breaking news and in-depth investigations, and specializing in hostile environments. Her work has appeared in The Times, Financial Times, The Spectator, Huffington Post and NPR.

Steven Johnson is a popular science author and media theorist.

Chris Anderson is a British-American businessman who is the head of TED, a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he founded Future Publishing.

David Biello is an award-winning journalist who has been reporting on the environment and energy since 1999. David is currently the science curator for TED.

Elise Hu is journalist. She is currently working as a reporter for NPR.Hu began journalism as an intern at WFAA-TV in Dallas between high school and college. She was a founding journalist at the Texas Tribune and a reporter for KVUE-TV and WYFF-TV in Texas. She joined NPR as an international correspondent and Seoul bureau chief for NPR.In addition to reporting for NPR, Hu is also a guest co-anchor on Tech News Today on TWIT, an adjunct instructor for Georgetown University, and an adviser and blogger for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. She hosts a video series on NPR called "Elise Tries."Hu was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her B.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri.

Whitney Pennington Rodgers is a current affairs curator at TED.

Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and a Consulting Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, he is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing.

Yvonne Newbold is a writer, speaker and trainer.

Amy Baxter is the Chief Medical Officer, CEO, and founder at Pain Care Labs.

Alexandr Wang is the Founder & CEO at Scale AI.

Dr. Shane Campbell Staton is an evolutionary biologist.

Ramez Naam is a technologist and science fiction writer. He is best known as the author of the Nexus Trilogy. His other books include The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet and More than Human: Embracing the Promises of Biological Enhancement. He is currently co-chair for energy and the environment at Singularity University.

Dr. Marisa G. Franco is a psychologist and friendship expert.

Sam Hester is a graphic recorder, artist, and comics creator.

Nick Turner is the President of Vera Institute of Justice.

Dan Jørgensen is a politician.

Li-Huei Tsai is a neuroscientist and the director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hien Nghiem (aka Sister True Dedication) is a nun, editor, author, and former journalist.

Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he studies consciousness and its role in health and disease. He co-directs the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness.