Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Hans Rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health and renowned educator. He was an adviser to the World Health Organization
and UNICEF, co-founded Médecins sans Frontières in Sweden and was one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. Hans
died in 2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing this book.
Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans’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.
Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Read this excerpt from Hans Rosling's "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—And Why Things Are Better Than You Think,"
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