Dan Gardner (author)

Gardner in 2011

Dan Gardner is a Canadian author and academic.

Education and career

Dan Gardner attended York University in Toronto, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws at the Osgoode Hall Law School followed by a Master of Arts 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 magazine from 2015 until 2016, ^[1] following which he became 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. ^[1]

Publications

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

References

1. [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. Hansen, Dana (June 2008). "Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear". Quill & Quire . Toronto: St. Joseph Media . Retrieved 22 October 2025.
4. Behr, Rafael (9 March 2008). "Don't hit the panic button". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 October 2025.
5. Schulz, Kathryn (25 March 2011). "Why Experts Get the Future Wrong". The New York Times . Retrieved 22 October 2025.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Good, Alex (October 2015). "Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction". Quill & Quire . Toronto: St. Joseph Media . Retrieved 22 October 2025.
10. "Best business books: Superforecasting". Financial Times . 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.

Further reading

• "Citizen drug series a finalist for major national award". Ottawa Citizen . 20 March 2001. p. 2. Retrieved 22 October 2025– via Newspapers.com.

External links

• Official website
• Works by Dan Gardner at Open Library