Sam Harris is the CEO of Waking Up and host of the Making Sense podcast. He is the author of five New York Times best sellers and has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), The Annals of Neurology, among others. Sam received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.