Anna Rosling Rönnlund is fighting widespread hopelessness and confusion about the future of the world. She is a visionary innovator and entrepreneur who has invented new educational solutions to understand the world with facts instead of fiction. She loves to create beautiful data visualizations and tell  data-driven stories to make the World easier to understand. 

 

Anna is a top-rated inspirational speaker. She has given hundreds of presentations to all kinds of audiences worldwide. Anna’s talks are always fun, interactive, relevant and thought-provoking.

Anna has written the internationally bestselling book Factfulness (2018) together with her husband Ola Rosling and her father-in-law Hans Rosling. Together, they also founded Gapminder: An independent educational non-profit, promoting a fact-based worldview. Gapminders tools and materials are used by millions of people every year. 

 

In 1998 Anna and Ola invented the bubble-chart software Trendalyzer that Google acquired in 2007. She worked as a a Senior User Experience Designer at Google’s headquarters for three years. She returned to Gapminder in 2010 to start a new project: Dollar Street - the World's biggest photo project to see how people really live on different income levels all over the World.