लेखक: Barbara Oakley

Guruprasad Madhavan (Editor) is a program officer at the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council—collectively known as the National Academies—in Washington, DC. Barbara Oakley (Editor) is an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and a former vice-president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. David Green (Editor) is a Mac Arthur Fellow, Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by the Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur. David Koon (Editor) represented the 135th district of the New York State Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2010. Penny Low (Editor) is a Member of Parliament of Singapore, and was the youngest elected female representative in 2001. Michael Spence (Foreword) is William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at New York University, and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Klaus Schwab (Editorial) is founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. Robert Rubin (Editorial) is Co-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the 70th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. George Whitesides (Editorial) is Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. M. S. Swaminathan (Afterword) is a Member of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and a World Food Prize Laureate.