I was born in Newark, NJ, graduated from St. Lawrence University, and received my Ph.D. from Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy which is part of the University at Albany, the State University of New York. I have been married to Joan Schram since 1973. Our two sons are Ryan, a professor of anthropology at the University of Sydney, and Jack, a filmmaker who lives in New York City. Over the years, we have lived in the Adirondacks of Northern New York, Madison, Wisconsin, the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Hawaii Kai on Oahu, and in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where from 1997 until 2013 I taught social theory and policy in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College. I now teach political science and public policy at Hunter College in New York City, where my wife Joan and I reside.

Bent Flyvbjerg is the first BT Professor and inaugural Chair of Major Programme Management at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School and the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor and Chair at the IT University of Copenhagen. He is the most cited scholar in the world in project management. His books and articles have been translated into 21 languages. Flyvbjerg received a knighthood, two Fulbright Scholarships, the Project Management Institute Research Achievement Award (the "Nobel" of project management), and many other honors for his professional accomplishments. He is a frequent commentator in the news, including The New York Times, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the BBC, and CNN. He serves as an advisor to 10 Downing Street, the U.S. and Chinese governments, and Fortune 500 companies. He is co-author of How Big Things Get Done (Crown Penguin/Random), principal author of Megaprojects and Risk (Cambridge University Press) and editor of the print and online versions of The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management (Oxford University Press). See more at uk.linkedin.com/in/flyvbjerg

Dr Todd Landman is Professor of Political Sciences, Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Executive Director of the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham. He was formerly Professor of Government (2009-2013) and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (2013-2015) at the University of Essex. He has been Director of the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution (2010-2013), Director of the Centre for Democratic Governance (2007-2010), Co-Director (2003-2005) and Deputy Director (1999-2003) of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex.

He has a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1988), an MA in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University (1990), an MA in Political Science from the University of Colorado Boulder (1993) and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Essex (2000).

He has published 16 books, and over 100 articles, and chapters on the politics of development, democracy and human rights.

He has travelled to over 50 countries working on a variety of training and capacity building projects for national and international public and private organisations.

He appears regularly in the media, at public events, and as an entertainer. He combines his interest in philosophy, history, politics, science, magic and the unknown to provide a unique form of mystery entertainment.

He is Founder of the British Society of Mystery Entertainers, Associate Member of the Inner Magic Circle with Silver Star (AIMC), Member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and Visiting Professor of Performance Magic at the University of Huddersfield.