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Contributors

Meet the storytellers

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D'Arcy Doran

D’Arcy Doran is the editor of Decisive Agents. He has worked as a correspondent for international news organisations including The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters covering news, business and technology.

Dhruti Shah

Dhruti Shah is an award-winning journalist, writer and producer, reporting for BBC News and writing for The Guardian, The Washington Post and The New Humanitarian. Dhruti harnesses the power of human-centred storytelling to create change.

Greg Funnell

Greg Funnell is a photographer with over two decades of experience across 70 countries. He has shot for The Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, and his portraits include Liv Tyler, Peter Serafinowicz and Professor Stephen Hawking.

Jessica Holland

Jessica has written for The Guardian, the Observer, BBC, Vice and Huck Magazine. She explores big ideas about technology, society and the natural world, and profiles people who are unafraid to test new paths.

Jamillah Knowles

Jamillah Knowles is a journalist, writer and broadcaster, best known as the producer and presenter of BBC Radio 5 Live's Outriders. With a background in art, design and computing, her work explores the social, cultural and creative impact of AI.

Jake Lourie

Jake Lourie is a research engineer at InstaDeep who specialises in reinforcement learning.

Karim Beguir

Karim Beguir is the CEO and Co-Founder of InstaDeep and author of 'Leapfrog: Building Africa's future in the AI era'

Maxime Mouysset

Maxime Mouysset is a French illustrator based in Lisbon whose clients include Wired, The New Yorker and Adidas. His expressive, graphic style draws on comics, architecture and everyday scenes, capturing a cinematic sprawl of action and light.

Marlene Okoth

Dr. Marlene Okoth is a general practitioner based at Kenya’s Nakuru Level 6 County Hospital, northwest of Nairobi. She shares her passion for science through her medical writing.

Olfa Chiboub

Olfa Chiboub is project manager in the BioAI department at InstaDeep. She holds a bio-engineering degree and a double PhD in biology. For her thesis research, she has been looking for new active compounds against tropical diseases in seaweed.

Sam Haddad

Sam Haddad is an award-winning freelance journalist specialising in extreme sports and the environment. She regularly contributes to Guardian Travel and Lonely Planet and her work has appeared in 1843 Magazine, The Independent and The Financial Times.

Sebastian Mallaby

Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books, including 'The Power Law' and the New York Times bestseller 'More Money Than God'. He is a former Financial Times contributing editor and a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Thomas Makkink

Thomas Makkink is a writer and BioAI research engineer at InstaDeep. He works on applying machine learning methods for the development of next generation personalised therapeutics.

Tim Harford

Aka ‘the undercover economist’, Tim Harford is a Financial Times columnist, BBC broadcaster and author of eight books, including How to Make the World Add Up