Michael Kaplan

Michael Kaplan is a writer and filmmaker interested in how we shape a world of random events into explanations that have meaning. He received his undergraduate and Master's degrees in History from Harvard University before doing graduate studies at the University of Oxford. He is the author, with his mother Ellen Kaplan, of Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err Is Human, and Chances Are... Adventures in Probability. He is managing partner of Prospero, a communications company with government and corporate clients in North America, Europe and Asia.