Daniel Goleman is an American psychologist, author, and science journalist who holds a PhD from Harvard University. For twelve years he covered brain and behavioural sciences for The New York Times. His 1995 bestseller Emotional Intelligence — which argued that emotional competence matters as much as IQ for success in work and life — remained on the New York Times bestseller list for a year and a half and has been published in forty languages worldwide. He has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was ranked by the Wall Street Journal among the ten most influential business thinkers.