Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of Time magazine's best non-fiction books of all time, Collapse, a No. 1 international bestseller, and The World Until Yesterday, among other books. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others. His latest book, Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings, asks a fundamental question: how much difference can a leader really make? Moving beyond the traditional “great man” theory of history, Diamond asks under what conditions leaders are able to shape events, and why.