Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a true polymath. He has written over fifty books spanning energy, the environment, population, food production, technological innovation and public policy. His work has been translated into 35 languages, and his books for general readers include Numbers Don’t Lie, the New York Times bestseller How the World Really Works, Numbers Tell Stories, and Oil: A Short History. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he was named by Foreign Policy as one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2010. His new book on globalisation will be published by Viking/Penguin.