Michael Monroe Lewis is an American author and financial journalist.

Edward Samuel Herman was an American economist, media scholar and social critic.

Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels.

Stephen Joseph Dubner is an American author, journalist, and podcast and radio host.

Simon Lehna Singh, is a British popular science author and theoretical and particle physicist.

Zindel V. Segal (born 1956 in Lutsk, Ukraine) is a cognitive psychologist, specialist on depression, and one of the founders of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). A professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, he co-authored works including *The Mindful Way Through Depression* (with Mark Williams, John Teasdale, and Jon Kabat-Zinn) and *Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome*.