ANGELA DUCKWORTH, PhD, is the bestselling author of Grit and the founder and CEO of Character Lab. A 2013 MacArthur Fellow, she is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. An expert in non-IQ competencies, she has advised the White House, the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs. Prior to her career in research, she was an award-winning math and science teacher, as well as the founder of a summer school for low-income children that won the Better Government Award from the State of Massachusetts. She completed her BA in neurobiology at Harvard, her MSc in neuroscience at Oxford and her PhD in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a regular on the Freakonomics podcast and co-hosts the No Stupid Questions podcast with Mike Maughan.
