VIKTOR MAYER-SCHONBERGER is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University. The co-author of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We, Live, Work, and Think, he has published over a hundred articles and eight other books, including "Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age". He is on the advisory boards of corporations and organizations around the world, including Microsoft and the World Economic Forum.
Leon David Dunn was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. After studying philosophy at university, he left North America for an 11 -year, around-the-world adventure which allowed him to call home places as varied as England, Scotland, Italy, Australia, and Japan. In 2002 he spent seven months in India and Nepal. Starting as a volunteer, he then moved north to trek the Annapurna Circuit with his then Australian girlfriend during the height of the Maoist People's War. He currently lives in Vancouver, B.C Canada.