Dan Gardner (author)

Dan Gardner is a Canadian author and academic.

Biography

Dan Gardner attended York University in Toronto, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School and a Master of Arts degree in history.[1] Before publishing his first book, he worked for the Ottawa Citizen as a columnist and feature writer. He was the editor of Policy Options, a magazine, from 2015 to 2016[1] and then served as a senior advisor in the office of the prime minister of Canada.[2] Gardner is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Graduate School of Public Policy and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario.[1]

In 2008, Gardner published Risk, a book about how humans respond to fear and how illogical fear is exploited by political and commercial institutions.[3] His next book, published in 2011, was Future Babble, a book about how so-called expert predictions of the future are often inaccurate and why people trust them despite their inaccuracies. The book was based primarily on research by Philip Tetlock.[4] Gardner coauthored with Tetlock a 2015 follow-up book called Superforecasting.[5] He also coauthored How Big Things Get Done, a 2023 book about megaprojects, with Bent Flyvbjerg,[6] as well as The Seven Rules of Trust, a 2025 book about building trust, with Jimmy Wales.[7]

Publications

  • Gardner, Dan (2008). Risk. London: Virgin. ISBN 978-1-9052-6415-5.[3][8]
  • — (2011). Future Babble. New York: Dutton. ISBN 978-0-5259-5205-3.[9][4][10]
  • —; Tetlock, Phillip E. (2015). Superforecasting. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-8041-3669-3.[11][5][12]
  • —; Flyvbjerg, Bent (2023). How Big Things Get Done. New York: Currency. ISBN 978-0-5932-3951-3.[13][6]
  • Wales, Jimmy; Gardner, Dan (2025). The Seven Rules of Trust. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-5937-2746-1.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c [UOttawa]. "Dan Gardner". University of Ottawa. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  2. ^ Siekierski, BJ (3 February 2016). "Author Dan Gardner joins PMO as senior advisor". iPolitics. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  3. ^ a b Hansen, Dana (June 2008). "Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear". Quill & Quire. Toronto: St. Joseph Media. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  4. ^ a b Good, Alex (November 2010). "Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe Them Anyway". Quill & Quire. Toronto: St. Joseph Media. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  5. ^ a b Good, Alex (October 2015). "Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction". Quill & Quire. Toronto: St. Joseph Media. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  6. ^ a b Mazhar, Mehek (2 March 2023). "Over budget, way behind: Why we're so bad at getting big things done". CBC Radio. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  7. ^ a b Jacobs, Emma; Raval, Anjli; Cremonezi, Leo; Hill, Andrew; Harris, Lee (24 October 2025). "Business books: What to read this month". Financial Times. Retrieved 25 October 2025.
  8. ^ Behr, Rafael (9 March 2008). "Don't hit the panic button". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  9. ^ Schulz, Kathryn (25 March 2011). "Why Experts Get the Future Wrong". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  10. ^ Spears, Tom (17 October 2010). "A babble of predictions: Why we believe the chattering experts – even though they're often wrong". Ottawa Citizen. p. 7. Retrieved 22 October 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Payne, Anna (29 October 2015). "Book review: 'Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction' by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner". The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  12. ^ "Best business books: Superforecasting". Financial Times. 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  13. ^ Philbin, Simon P. (11 July 2023). "Book Review: How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner". Engineering Management Journal. 36 (2): 164–165. doi:10.1080/10429247.2023.2231455.

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