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Discover why the numbers don’t always tell the truth — and how to spot when they’re misleading you.
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Uncover the surprising stories behind AI, risk, failure, innovation and everyday decision-making.
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Hear from the bestselling author and BBC broadcaster known for making complex ideas brilliantly entertaining.
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Challenge the way you think — with unexpected insights, fascinating stories and plenty of humour.
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About Tim Harford OBE
Download ProfileTim Harford is a renowned behavioural economist, Financial Times columnist, bestselling author, and BBC broadcaster. Often described as ‘Britain’s Malcolm Gladwell’, he is known for combining storytelling, humour, and insight to explore economics, statistics, risk, and everyday decision-making.
He presents the popular Radio 4 programme and podcast More or Less, which examines misleading statistics and questionable figures used by politicians, businesses, and the media. He has also created programmes including Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, Cautionary Tales, and How To Vaccinate The World, as well as presenting Channel 4’s Skint: The Truth Behind Britain’s Broken Economy.
Tim has worked with organisations including Oxford, Shell, and the World Bank. His bestselling debut book, The Undercover Economist, sold almost two million copies and established him as one of the leading accessible writers on economics. His other books include The Logic of Life, Adapt, Messy, and How to Make the World Add Up.
His work explores topics such as AI, uncertainty, forecasting, failure, innovation, and statistics, drawing examples from areas including aviation, the military, music, and game shows. Tim is a member of Nuffield College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He has received numerous awards, including the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism and the Royal Statistical Society prize for journalism.
Speech Topics
Download Topicshow to work with not against AI; the truth behind the scare stories.
How we prepare for and react to crises; what resilience in
organisations and individuals means; lessons from how the public and private sectors dealt with vaccination from the logistics to the misinformation.
How to manage intentional or inevitable failure.
What algorithms really do to data and how to understand it; why we can all be better at understanding statistics, and why we need to be; how to use data better.
Does AI help or hinder creativity and collaboration; why some ideas are dropped and some embraced; how we shape new ideas and how they shape us; how to create an innovative environment.
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