John Kay is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and a fellow of St. John's College, Oxford University. He writes a weekly column for the Financial Times and is the author of several books, including Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly. He lives in London.

Walter Dixon is a broadcast media veteran of more than twenty years' experience with a background in theater and performing arts and voice work for commercials. After a career in public radio, he is now a full-time narrator with more than fifty audiobooks recorded in genres ranging from religion and politics to children's stories.