Richard Wilkinson (Author) Richard Wilkinson has played a formative role in international research and his work has been published in ten languages. He studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London.Kate Pickett (Author) Kate Pickett is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York where she leads the Public Health & Society group and is Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. She is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of the bestselling and award winning The Spirit Level (2009), chosen by the Guardian as one of the 100 most influential books of the century, and The Inner Level (2018). Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Nature, New York Times and the World Economic Forum Agenda. She has delivered more than 500 keynote speeches, including at the United Nations, the European Parliament and within UK government departments. @ProfKEPickett.