Ola Rosling is co-author of the internationally bestselling book Factfulness (2018), written together with his wife Anna Rosling Rönnlund and his father Hans Rosling. Together they also co-founded Gapminder: an independent educational non-profit, promoting a fact-based worldview.

Rosling is fighting widespread hopelessness and confusion about the future of the world. He is a innovator, entrepreneur and entertainer who has invented new educational solutions to understand the world with facts instead of fiction. He analyses widespread public misconceptions and tells engaging data driven stories to confront them, using beautiful visualisation tools. He has given hundreds of presentations to all kinds of audiences worldwide.

In 1998 he and Anna invented the bubble-chart software Trendalyzer which Google acquired in 2007. The couple then worked three years at Google’s headquarters where Rosling was product manager for Google Public Data. They returned to Gapminder in 2010 to start the Ignorance Project, which now is the world’s largest collection of public misconception surveys. The findings of the project are used to guide development of new free teaching materials.