National Geographic grantee and Explorer-in-Residence Emeritus Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, The World Until Yesterday, and Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize as well as Britain's Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.
Jared is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award; research prizes and grants from the National Geographic Society, American Physiological Society, and Zoological Society of San Diego; and many teaching awards and endowed public lectureships. In addition, he has been elected a member of all three of the leading U.S. national scientific and academic honorary societies—the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is a founding member of the board of the Society of Conservation Biology and a member of the board of directors of World Wildlife Fund/USA and Conservation International.
Jared will join The Future of Everything: Exploring Global Innovation by Private Jet in Mongolia.