Business Daily Creators & Guests

Manuela Saragosa is a radio business journalist, most commonly found on the BBC World Service. She also co-hosts the show Business Daily.

Ed Butler is an award-winning BBC presenter, producer, and reporter of some 25 years' experience, who's covered business, arts, and news from around the world for both TV and radio. Most recently, he has hosted the BBC's World Service flagship business show, "Business Daily,".

Joe Tidy is a reporter for BBC News, specialising in Cybersecurity and Technology.

Mariana Mazzucato is a Professor at University College London in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value.

Jason Karaian is a financial journalist. Currently, he is Business News Director at The New York Times.Previously, Karaian was the global finance and economics editor at Quartz. Before that, he was at The Economist Group, first at the European edition of CFO magazine, and later, as financial services editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit. He also served as industries editor for The World In and wrote about everything from banks to bonds to basketball for The Economist. His first book, “The Chief Financial Officer: What CFOs Do, the influence They have, and Why it Matters,” was published in 2014.Karaian received his B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University.

Dr. Samantha Bradshaw is a scholar of new technology and democracy. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at American University and an Associated Faculty member at the Center for Security, Innovation and New Technology.Bradshaw received her B.A. in Political Science and Legal Studies and her M.A. in Global Governance and Global Security from the University of Waterloo, and her Ph.D. in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences from Oxford University.

Sally Herships is journalist.

Josh Dzieza is a technology and science reporter, currently working at The Verge.Dzieza's work has appeared in New York Magazine, Pacific Standard, and MIT Technology Review. His investigation into Foxconn’s failed Wisconsin project for The Verge received the Deadline Club Society of Professional Journalists award for reporting in digital media. His story about migratory beekeepers and the pollination industry for Pacific Standard received the 2016 Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers. His piece about sea level rise and the growing market for beach sand was a notable story in 2017’s Best American Science and Nature Writing.Dzieza received his B.A. in Philosophy from Pomona College.

Nico Erik Rosberg is a German-Finnish former racing driver. He won the 2016 Formula One World Championship for the Mercedes team.

Keith Broni is Editor in Chief of @emojipedia.

Mark Gevisser is an author and freelance journalist. He writes the review-essay column "The Monthly Review" for the South African Business Day.Gevisser's work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Granta, and the New York Review of Books, and in anthologies, on sexual politics, culture, art, literature and urbanism in South Africa. His first book, "Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa," was published in 1996.

Harry Theoharis is a politician, member of the Hellenic Parliament for New Democracy, and Minister for Tourism in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Caitlin H. Pierce is a freelance editor and audio producer. Previously, Pierce was a Senior Producer for Pitchfork, where she produced a weekly music show. Before that, she developed and produced the show "Hyper-Thetical" for Audible. She edited the New York Times podcast "The Argument" and The Barneys Podcast. She produced the series "What Were You Thinking?" and "Radio Rookies" for WNYC Radio.Pierce received her B.A. in Media Studies, Film/Video, and Sociocultural Anthropology, with a Minor in Spanish from Pitzer College.

Adrienne Murray is a journalist at BBC News.

David Gerard writes frequently about cryptocurrency and blockchain. He is the author of the 2017 book Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts and the 2020 book Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money.As well as being a crypto journalist, David also works as a Unix system administrator, where his job includes keeping track of exciting new technologies, and advising against the bad ones. He has also been an award-winning music journalist, and has blogged about music since 2001. He is a volunteer spokesman for Wikipedia, and for skeptical wiki RationalWiki. Originally from Australia, he lives in east London with his spouse Arkady Rose and their daughter.

Warren Hatch is CEO of Good Judgment Inc, a global network of superforecasters to help companies address complex problems, developed following research by Philip Tetlock and Barbara Mellers. Hatch holds a doctorate in politics, a masters in Russian and international policy studies, and a bachelor's in history.

Elizabeth Hotson is the Senior Broadcast Journalist and Presenter at BBC.

Dr. Daniel Selim Hamermesh is an economist who specializes in labor economics. Currently, he is a Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor.Previously, Hamermesh was a professor of economics at Royal Holloway, University of London and Michigan State University. He was a Distinguished Scholar at Barnard College.Hamermesh has published many academic articles. His first book, "Labor Demand," was published in 1993. He has published both textbooks and popular books.Hamermesh received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Yale University.

Julie Bindel is a long time feminist campaigner and journalist. She co-founded the law reform group Justice for Women.