Vaclav Smil author biography, plus links to books by Vaclav Smil.

Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. He is the author of Numbers Don't Lie, Size, and the New York Times bestselling How the World Really Works.

This biography was last updated on 03/04/2025.

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