Jared Diamond

Dr. Jared Diamond is an eminent American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, and bestselling author. A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), his academic career spans diverse scientific disciplines, earning him a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Medal of Science.

He achieved global literary acclaim as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, which explored why Eurasian civilizations survived and conquered others. He followed this success with other monumental works, including Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and Upheaval.

Diamond’s sweeping interdisciplinary synthesis has fundamentally shaped how modern readers understand human history, environmental science, and anthropology. He remains a leading intellectual voice on global sustainability.