Alberto Cairo is a visualisation designer, art director, consultant, educator, and professor. He has led information design, news graphics, and data visualisation teams across Spain, Brazil, and the United States. He has authored several books about infographics and data visualisation, including The Functional Art (2013), The Truthful Art (2016), How Charts Lie (2019), and The Art of Insight (2023). He has taught in more than 30 countries and also functioned as a consultant and data visualisation instructor working for organisations and companies such as Google, Microsoft, McMaster-Carr, the European Union, Eurostat, the World Bank, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Army National Guard, and many others.