About Tim

Tim Harford is a world-renowned behavioural economist, award-winning Financial Times columnist, data detective and BBC broadcaster. Described as ‘Britain’s Malcolm Gladwell’ (and as ‘a genius at telling stories that illuminate our world’ by Gladwell himself), and by the New Statesman as ‘perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world’, Tim brings storytelling, humour, and intelligence to the world of data and statistics.

His Radio 4 show More or Less looks at the truth behind dubious statistics and manipulated figures. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic he also hosted How To Vaccinate The World, examining the challenges and hopes that accompanied tackling the disease with guests including Bill Gates, Larry Brilliant and Anthony Fauci. He also hosts the BBC’s radio series and podcast Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy, as well as writing the accompanying books. Whilst he’s a ‘serious’ economist with a career spanning Oxford, Shell and the World Bank, Tim’s FT columns dwell on the economics of daily life and offer tongue-in-cheek solutions to readers’ problems. His first book The Undercover Economist, sold almost two million copies, and built on these themes. It was likened to Freakonomics in its explanation of everything from coffee shops to organised crime to development aid. He’s since gone on to be one of the foremost writers on economics.

Tim’s other titles include:The Logic of Life which applies economic theory to the world to explain how rational (or otherwise) our decisions are; Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure which shows how challenges of all types need to be tackled by learning to improvise and allowing for failure. Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World, considers why tidiness, organisation and predictability aren’t always the best environments to foster innovation and achievement; and How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers, equips readers with the tools to understand and question the numbers that dominate headlines, and sometimes seem to confirm our own biases. Tim’s podcast Cautionary Tales looks at fairy tales for grown-ups and features stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. It features Alan Cumming, Archie Panjabi Toby Stephens, Russell Tovey, and the acting debut of Malcolm Gladwell.

A regular TED speaker, Tim looks at why it’s so hard yet so important to learn from mistakes, how to deal with uncertainty, how forecasting works and what to do when it doesn’t, and why the wrong sort of innovation can be a distraction. Taking in everything from the military to game shows, aviation to ballet, he questions received wisdom, common sense, and statistical certainty. His accessible, easy style provides entertaining, thought-provoking insights relevant to every person and organisation.

Tim is a member of Nuffield College, Oxford, and the only journalist to be an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He’s a two-time winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism and has been named Science and Data Commentator of the Year, Economics Commentator of the Year, and has won the Society for Business Economists writing prize and the Royal Statistical Society prize for journalism.

About Claire

Claire is a product leader specialising in ML-powered products. Her experience spans social media, healthcare, entertainment, finance, and biometrics. Claire is a passionate advocate for responsible product development. Beyond implementing responsible ML practices in real-world products, she has also been published in the field of explainable and trustworthy AI. She has led diverse AI-powered teams, ranging from full-stack teams covering Design to Applied Science to commercial research labs. Previously at Twitter, Onfido, and Babylon Health, and currently at Mozilla.Social as Director of Product for ML.

About Randeep

Randeep is a Healthcare and AI specialist. He is a Chief Product Officer focused on creating healthcare for marginalised communities and has rolled out technology to the UK, USA, Nigeria, Rwanda and Egypt.
Randeep joined the NHS frontline in July 2020 as to build and run the NHS COVID-19 app, which was proven to have saved over 10,000 lives and halved the number of Covid cases in hospital, while pioneering specific research to include the needs of LGBTQ+, refugees and PoC communities.

He has previously supported and advised The Alan Turing Institute – the UK’s National Institute for AI – in removing AI bias across healthcare and policing. Randeep was a Product Director at Babylon Health, where he rolled out AI enabled healthcare to patients across developed and developing markets.

He is currently a board member at Terrence Higgins Trust – a sexual health and HIV charity, and LVNDR Health – an LGBTQ+ health care startup.

About Marc

Marc is an experienced product management leader, currently working as a Product Director at Backbase, a leading engagement banking platform. He has previously worked for a large number of successful digital organisations, including ASOS and Intercom and has written about his learnings in My Product Management Toolkit and Managing Product = Managing Tension. He also publishes on Medium and his own site!

Keji is Product Director for Professional at the Financial Times where they are working to bring the FT’s authoritative research, insight and analysis into the workflows and work-lives of professionals and organisations around the world. 

Keji has been honing her skills in product management for over a decade, with a strong focus on B2B/B2B2C, drawing experience from diverse industries like edTech, travel eCommerce, customer experience insights and video research insights.

In her approach to leadership and product management, Keji prioritises curiosity, customer focus and leading with empathy, openness, and transparency. Keji’s commitment to learning and self-development has naturally evolved into a passion for developing others, fostering talent and advocating for diverse and safe work environments.

Away from the job, Keji’s love for music and storytelling mean you can often find her deep in a book or frequenting gigs and jam nights whenever she can. If you’re lucky, you might catch her in conversation about anything from effective product strategy to the virtues of the boom-bap era of hip hop.

Randy is a product and leadership coach, community builder and consultant, working with clients to supercharge their products, people, teams and culture.

Prior to founding Out of Owls, Randy held a variety of roles at start-ups, scale-ups and enterprises, across many sectors – including utilities, the arts, online education, media, retail, and financial services. He draws on this experience to coach, train and consult with organisations of all sizes.

He’s held interim CPO and Leadership roles at scale-ups and SMEs, advised start-ups, and been Head of Product at HSBC and Sainsbury’s (where he also directed their 100+ person product community). Randy participated in Silicon Valley Product Group’s Coaching the Coaches forum, and speaks frequently at conferences and events.

Randy is the co-host & founder of The Product Experience podcast, runs the Product In the {A}ether and CPO Circles communities, and is the author of What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager’s Guide to Strategy in the Time of COVID-19. A recovering music journalist and editor, Randy also launched Amazon’s music stores in the US & UK.

Susana is a B2B product management leader with over 10 years of experience in scale-ups. Including 6 years at Onfido fighting identify fraud by launching multiple award-winning machine learning products, while also growing year on year revenue x10 multiple times.

During parental leave, Susana launched a product management coaching and startup advisory business. She has worked with over 30 clients across fintech, legaltech, opstech, media, logistics and the security industries. She currently coaches product managers, product leaders and founders on a part time basis.

Today she leads product and design at Abatable: a series A, B-Corp certified, startup in the climate space.

Susana is also a lapsed purple belt kickboxer, who is now into gardening and baking.

Nilan has headed up the product strategy at Wise for over a decade. Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage money around the world. Prior to Wise, Nilan was VP Growth at HouseTrip, in charge of scaling the company’s growth in the European market. He’s also worked as Chief Marketing Technology Officer at Holiday Extras, where he was responsible for all areas of technology, marketing and customer acquisition.

Nilan also advises a number of early stage startups on growth and getting to traction.

Jane Austin is a product leader with a background in design and customer experience.

She currently works as Chief Product Officer at Juniver.

Prior to this Jane has had a long and varied career, including being CXO at Digitas the connected marketing agency, director of product and design at Babylon Health, the company with the incredible mission of providing affordable and accessible health care to everyone in the world, director at MOO, the online print business that is passionate about great design and the difference it can make to its customers, Head of UX at Telegraph Media and at Government Digital Service (GDS).

Her biggest passion is creating products for humans that make people’s lives a little better. She loves building high performance teams and demonstrating the value that differentiating by a great experience and relentless focus on the customer can bring to an organisation.