Chris Anderson is the Curator of the TED Conference, an influential annual gathering of remarkable people. Anderson, who is British, was born in Pakistan in 1957. His parents were medical missionaries and he spent most of his early life in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan before going to public school in England. In 1978 he graduated from Oxford University, with a 'First' in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. TED (short for Technlogy Entertainment Design) is an annual conference in Monterey, California founded by Richard Saul Wurman. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The Philosopher (detail), by Rembrandt Philosophy is a field of study that includes diverse subfields such as aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, in which people ask questions such as whether God exists, whether knowledge is possible, and what makes actions right or wrong. ... Politics, sometimes defined as the art and science of government[1], is a process by which collective decisions are made within groups. ... Buyers bargain for good prices while sellers put forth their best front in Chichicastenango Market, Guatemala. ...

A brief career in journalism followed, including working for a pirate radio station in the Seychelles. In 1985, with meager personal funding (15,000 UK pounds is the official story), he launched a publishing company devoted to hobbyist computer magazines. Future Publishing (based in Bath, UK) rapidly grew and in 1994 Anderson moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and continued to launch magazines including PC Gamer, MacAddict and Business 2.0, and websites such as the games portal IGN.com. Future grew to more than 130 magazines and more than 1500 employees. It floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1999 and at its peak had a market capitalization above $2 billion. Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... The term pirate radio lacks a specific universal interpretation. ... Computer magazines are about computers and related subjects, such as networking and the Internet. ... -1... For other uses, see Bath (disambiguation). ... USGS Satellite photo of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... PC Gamer US April 2005 cover PC Gamer is a computer games magazine founded in 1993. ... MacAddict magazine (January 2001) MacAddict is a U.S. magazine, known for its enthusiastic reader base and irreverent wit, published by Future Network USA. MacAddict was the first North American magazine focused on the Apple Macintosh to include a CD-ROM with every issue. ... cover Business 2. ... IGNs Editors Choice Award is given to only the top games IGN.com is a multimedia news website. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ... Market capitalization, often abbreviated to market cap, is a business term that refers to the aggregate value of a firms outstanding common shares. ...

In 2001 Anderson left Future to pursue innovation in the non-profit world. In 1995 he had started a private foundation, The Sapling Foundation, whose goals were to leverage the power of ideas, media, technology and markets to find new solutions to tough global problems, such as poverty and environmental issues. Anderson believed that the TED attendees, with their broad reach of talent and resources, were perfectly placed to advance these goals, and the foundation successfully acquired the conference at the end of 2001. A nonprofit organization (sometimes abbreviated to not-for-profit, non-profit, or NPO) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... World map showing percentage of people living under national poverty lines. ... Environmentalism is the support of or involvement with the environmental movement by environmentalists. ...

Anderson lives and works in downtown New York. Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Largest city Albany New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ...

External links

• Chris Anderson Blog