A Global Audience.
A Network of Experts.

Introducing Britannica Knowledge Experts

Since 1768, Encyclopædia Britannica has worked with the world’s premier institutions and experts – from public servants, social leaders, and heads of state to professional athletes, pioneering artists, Nobel Prize winners, scholars and independent writers, and graduate students, as well as niche craftsmen, hobbyists, and specialists of all kinds.

These assorted experts have contributed to Britannica’s expanding knowledge footprint, all with the goal of helping the world’s curious-minded seek and find information with confidence.

We’re proud of our publishing partners and are thrilled to expand our program to introduce our new Britannica Knowledge Experts (BKE) network. BKE is integral to the mission of Britannica and to supporting the needs of our growing audience around the world.

We serve the curious

We serve readers whose passions drive them to seek new information they can trust, from an authority they can rely on.

We serve fact-seekers, answer-seekers, and critical thinkers who want to go beyond a first-page search listing.

We serve educators globally who teach the future generation of leaders and can do so through the tools and platform we provide them.

We work with powerful partners

American Chemical Society

A force for good

The world’s largest scientific society and one of the leading sources of authoritative scientific information.

We learn from leading voices

The eminent experts who contribute to Britannica products today extend the company’s long tradition, begun in 1768, of working with the world’s best and brightest. This stellar list of contributors includes more than a hundred Nobel laureates, five presidents of the United States, countless Pulitzer Prize winners, and many others of international renown.

Trailblazing

Groundbreaking

Impactful

Artful

Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa

Bill Clinton
Former U.S. president
Dayton Accords

Simon Baron Cohen of Cambridge University
Noted autism expert
The Autism Spectrum

Jody Williams
Nobel laureate and activist against landmines
Toward a Land Mine-Free World

Joseph Ellis
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner
Founding Fathers

Jimmy Carter
Former U.S. President
Camp David Accords

Betty Boyd Caroli
Historian and biographer of U.S. first ladies
First lady

Gunther Schuller
Noted musician and jazz historian
Jazz

Tony Hawk
Champion skateboarder
Skateboarding

Steven Chu
Former U.S. secretary of energy and Nobel laureate in physics
Spectroscopy

Lee Iacocca
Former Chrysler chairman
Walter P. Chrysler

Sean Wilentz
Columbia University historian
John McCain

Christina Romer
Economist and former head of the president’s council of economic advisors
Great Depression

Andrew Soltis
Chess grandmaster and writer
Chess

Karl Deisseroth
Revolutionary bioengineer
Optogenetics

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Hall of Fame basketball player and writer
New York Rens

Past contributors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Marie Curie, Leon Trotsky, Harry Houdini, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and many, many others.

And we're looking for new voices.

The world is an expansive place with limitless topics for us to tackle together. We know there’s more to explore, more to uncover, more of our exciting work yet to be imagined.

And that’s where you come in.

Get to know the editorial team spearheading the Britannica Knowledge Network and learn more about how you can get involved.

J.E. Luebering is executive director of the Core Editorial Group at Britannica. He has worked at Britannica since 2004 and holds degrees in literature from Kenyon College and the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago. Contact him at jluebering@eb.com

J.E Luebering

Ted is a 20-year veteran of Britannica who cultivates brand and business opportunities and contributes to the company’s public relations activities. Contact him at TPappas@eb.com

Theodore Pappas

A Global Audience. A Network of Experts.