Chris Anderson (TED)
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| Born | 1957 (age 60–61) Pakistan |
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| Alma mater | Oxford University | ||
| Occupation | Journalist, publisher | ||
| Known for | Curator of TED Talks | ||
| Spouse(s) | Jacqueline Novogratz | ||
| Children | 3 (one deceased) | ||
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Chris Anderson (born 1957) is the owner of TED, a nonprofit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he founded Future Publishing.
Anderson was born in a remote village in Pakistan in 1957. His parents were medical missionaries, and he spent most of his early life in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. He studied at in the Himalayan mountains of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India, before moving to Monkton Combe School, a boarding school in Bath, England.
At Oxford University, he studied physics, then changed to philosophy, politics and economics, to eventually graduate with a degree in philosophy in 1978.
Anderson began a career in journalism, working on local newspapers, then producing a world news service in the Seychelles.
Back in the UK in 1984, Anderson was captivated by the home-computer revolution and became an editor at two of the UK's early computer magazines, Personal Computer Games and Zzap!64. A year later he founded Future Publishing with a $25,000 bank loan. The new company initially focused on specialist computer publications but eventually expanded into other areas such as cycling, music, video games, technology and design, doubling in size every year for seven years. In 1994, Anderson moved to the United States where he built Imagine Media, publisher of Business 2.0 magazine and creator of the popular video game users website IGN. Anderson eventually merged Imagine and Future, taking the combined entity public in London in 1999, under the Future US name. At its peak, it published 150 magazines and websites and employed 2,000 people. This success allowed Anderson to create a private nonprofit organisation, the Sapling Foundation, with the hope of finding new ways to tackle tough global issues through media, technology, entrepreneurship and, most of all, ideas.
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