DARRELL BRICKER is chief executive officer of Ipsos Public Affairs, the world's leading social and opinion research firm. Prior to joining Ipsos, Bricker was director of public opinion research in the office of the prime minister of Canada. He holds a Ph. D. in political science from Carleton University. He is the co-author, with John Ibbitson, of Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline and The Big Shift: The Seismic Change In Canadian Politics, Business, and Culture and What It Means for Our Future.
JOHN IBBITSON is one of Canada's best known and most respected journalists and authors. He worked at the Globe and Mail--as Washington bureau chief, Ottawa bureau chief, chief political writer and, since 2015, writer-at-large--since 1999, and retired at the end of 2024.
He co-authored Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline and The Big Shift, both with Darrell Bricker. He is also the author of Stephen Harper, the bestselling and award-winning biography of Canada's 22nd prime minister and, most recently, The Duel, about John Diefenbaker and Lester B. Pearson.
His writing for fiction includes The Landing, which won the 2008 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature.
