Jane McGonigal

Researcher, Author, Game Designer

**Jane McGonigal**, Ph.D, is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Future and the author of \_The New York Times\_ bestseller \_Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.\_ Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wired and on MTV, CNN, and NPR. She has been called one of the top ten innovators to watch (BusinessWeek), one of the one hundred most creative people in business (Fast Company), and one of the fifty most important people in the gaming industry (Game Developers Magazine). Her [TED talks on games](https://www.ted.com/talks/jane\_mcgonigal\_gaming\_can\_make\_a\_better\_world?language=en "Ted Talk") have been viewed more than ten million times.