5x15 presents: Yuval Noah Harari & Maria Ressa on The State of the World

Professor Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us, and Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. His books have sold 55million copies in 65 languages, and he is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals today.

Maria Ressa is CEO, co-founder and President of Rappler, the Philippines's top digital news site. She is the current Nobel Laureate and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021, the first Filipino in history to do so. Ressa won the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2021 and was TIME Person of the Year in 2018. She has received countless awards for her work, including the Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of News Publishers. Her latest book is The Fight Back: A Citizen's Guide to Standing Up to Dictators.

Carole Cadwalladr is a Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal with the Guardian and New York Times. She is now the co-founder of the Nerve, a new media start-up focussed on culture, politics and technology which she launched in September 2025 with four fellow journalists (all women) from the Observer following its takeover by Tortoise Media. Cadwalladr, who fought off a SLAPP lawsuit, is a press freedom advocate and campaigns on tech accountability with the Citizens, a tech justice non-profit she co-founded. Her personal newsletter, How to Survive the Broligarchy, has 124k subscribers, can be found on Substack.