Dan Gardner is a Canadian author and academic.
Dan Gardner is a Canadian author and academic.
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]
