Adam Davidson

Adam Davidson is an award-winning New Yorker writer and the author of The Passion Economy. A widely respected public voice with a unique talent for explaining the complicated interconnections between business, technology, and economics, he was previously an economics writer for the New York Times Magazine. Davidson co-founded and ran NPR’s Planet Money, served as NPR’s international business and economics correspondent, and has been a frequent contributor to This American Life, where he received a Peabody Award, a DuPont-Columbia Award, and a Polk Award for his work on “The Giant Pool of Money.” His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, GQ, and Rolling Stone, among other publications. He also served as a technical consultant to Adam McKay, the co-writer and director of the Academy Award-winning film The Big Short (and later, Davidson’s cohost on Gimlet Media podcast Surprisingly Awesome). He is currently launching a course on passion storytelling for business with the education startup Maven. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and lives in Charlotte, Vermont with his wife and son.