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TED Speaker Background Themes and Examples

Speaker Background Themes	Example	TED Talk
Entertainment	Painter	How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection
Business	Smart product inventor	My simple intervention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Education	Education innovator	An unexpected place of healing
Science (PhD)	Molecular Biologist	The science of cells that never get old
Author	Futurist, academic, author	What will humans look like it 100 years?
Healthcare	Palliative Care Physician	What we can do to die well
Other Professional	Lawyer	A new way to think about inheritance