Anna Rosling Rönnlund

Who Is Anna Rosling Rönnlund?

Anna Rosling Rönnlund is the co-founder of The Gapminder Foundation, alongside her father-in-law Hans Rosling and husband Ola Rosling. Gapminder’s mission is to counter “devastating ignorance” about the world through accessible, fact-based insights everyone can understand. Globally recognized for reshaping social and economic paradigms, Anna helps people grasp the true state of the world and the global challenges we face.

What is her Background?

Currently, Anna is the Vice President, Head of Design, and User Experience at Gapminder, and also serves on its board of directors. In 2016, she founded Dollar Street, a unique visual database that uses photos as data points to show how people live at different income levels worldwide, moving beyond national and cultural stereotypes.

Anna’s contributions at Gapminder include the development of free educational materials and the design of pioneering educational tools. She created the user interface for Trendalyzer, an animated graphing tool that visualizes global development data, widely used by students and educators. Google acquired Trendalyzer, leading Anna to join Google as a Senior Usability Designer from 2007 to 2010, where she worked on improving access to public data and visual data exploration tools, including enhanced charting options in Google Spreadsheets.