The TEDxBonnSquare Interview

Alasdair Ross is an independent writer and researcher specialising in risk, strategy and global affairs. He joined The Economist Group in 2001 and became the founding editor of Risk Briefing, a new service dedicated to measuring and analysing business risk in major markets around the world. He took charge of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s digital division, subsequently leading the company’s product development and innovation function, adapting a long-established institution to a rapidly changing business environment.

An architecture graduate from Oxford Brookes University and currently studying MSc Urban Environmental Management at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, Fynn is an environmentalist, a designer, researcher and an avid reader. He has a keen interest in sustainability, the circular economy and the development of smarter cities.