Mashood A. Baderin is professor of law at SOAS, University of London. He specializes in Islamic law, human rights, international law, and law and development in Africa.

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Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist.

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Anthony J. Badger is the author of FDR: The First Hundred Days, The New Deal: The Depression Years, and Al Gore, Sr.: A Political Life, among other books. He is currently professor of American history at Northumbria University.

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Rafael Badziag is a global entrepreneur, bestselling author, top TED speaker, and angel investor. He is a valued expert in the psychology of entrepreneurship, specializing in self-made billionaires, and has been featured on NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX as well as in USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.

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Christina Baehr writes cozy gothic fantasy with intrepid Victorian heroines and only the most historical dragons. She has an immoderate number of children and lives on a hilltop in Tasmania also inhabited by venomous snakes. Christina is also a harpist, singer, and composer, and drinks a lot of tea.

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Jieun Baek is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at the University of Oxford. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Baek worked at Google, where, among other roles, she served as Google Ideas' North Korea expert.

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Richard Baer is the medical director of Medicare in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.

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Marianna Baer is the author of The Inconceivable Life of Quinn, which Publishers Weekly called "a delicate, complicated, and engrossing exploration of the collision between real life and the inexplicable" in a starred review. She earned her MFA in writing for children and young adults.

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Zak Bagans is the host, lead investigator, and an executive producer of Travel Channel's popular series Ghost Adventures. He travels to domestic and international locations rumored to be haunted in search of evidence proving the existence of the supernatural.

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Australian historian and researcher Raymond Bagdonas is the author of The Devil's General: The Life of Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz, "The Panzer Graf".

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Joe Bageant wrote an online column that made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives. Bageant's books include: Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir and Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant, a collection of essays published posthumously.

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Julian Baggini's books include the internationally bestselling How the World Thinks; How to Think Like a Philosopher; The Virtues of the Table; and The Pig That Wants to be Eaten. He is the academic director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and is a member of the Food Ethics Council. Visit him at julianbaggini.com.

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