TED Lecturers

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. The two annual TED conferences bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes or less). Our TED lecturers are highly-sought after experts in their fields, who speak as dynamically to small audiences as they do on a global platform.

Pauline Chen, M.D.

New York Times Columnist and Physician

Wade Davis

Ethnographer, Anthropologist, Field Scientist, Biologist, Author, Filmmaker and "The Voodoo Guy"

Charles Duhigg

Award winning journalist and media commentator

Chip Kidd

Graphic Designer Extraordinaire

Anne Kreamer

Journalist, Media Expert, and Author of It's Always Personal

Bjørn Lomborg

Professor, Statistician and Author of Cool It

Christopher McDougall

Author, journalist and innovator of the Barefoot-Running Movement

Shankar Vedantam

Prize-Winning Writer on the Link Between Science and Human Behavior

Abraham Verghese

Renowned Physician, Teacher and Author of Cutting for Stone