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Rachel Botsman, author

Rachel Botsman is a leading expert and author on trust in the modern world

She has been recognised as one of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers and honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

She is the author of two books: What’s Mine is Yours predicted the rise of the ‘sharing economy’, while Who Can You Trust? is a profound exploration of how technology is revolutionising human trust.

Botsman is a trust fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School where she designed and teaches courses on trust and technology. She is also an advisor to boards, senior leaders and governments globally, helping organisations to build trustworthy cultures.

Her work has been widely published in The Guardian, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Wired and other publications.

She has been invited to speak to companies including Accenture, Goldman Sachs, Dorchester Collection, Microsoft and Salesforce, as well as at conferences such as the Drucker Forum, the World of Business Forum and the World Economic Forum. Her TED talks have been viewed more than four million times.

As the go-to voice on trust, Botsman has a strong media presence across channels, including the BBC, CNN, NPR, and ABC.