Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
My name's Emily Jackson.
I'm a professor in the law school
here at LSE and I'm incredibly honoured to introduce our exceptionally distinguished panel.
So on my far right is John Burr Murdoch.
He's a columnist and the chief data reporter for the Financial Times for which he writes the weekly data points column.
He's also a visiting senior fellow at the Data Science Institute at LSE.
I know many of us benefited hugely from his translation of scientific data into digestible charts during the pandemic.
But his work for the entity goes much, much further than that.
And his wonderful AI shift newsletter exploring how AI is transforming work recently won best newsletter in the world.
Next to him is Helen Pearson, who's been writing for In Editing Nature,
the world's leading science journal for more than 20 years, winning Editor of the Year Award for the Association
of British Science Writers and last year winning the European Science Journalist of the Year.
Her first book, The Life of Project, was Science Book of the Year for the Observer
and was longlisted to the Orwell Prize.
Helen's second book, Beyond Belief, how evidence shows what really works, has just been published
and is a story of movement to promote evidence-based thinking and policymaking.
Near East to me, David Shookman worked at the BBC for decades,
reporting on crucial moments in history, including the fall of the Berlin Wall.