Nick Hudson and Shayne Krige

Nick Hudson is co-ordinator of PANDA (Pandemics Data and Analytics), a multidisciplinary group seeking to inform Covid policy, and a founding partner of private equity firm, SANA Partners. Hudson has extensive experience in the financial sector and is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. He spent a decade at RMB Ventures, four years at Stern Stewart & Co. in New York City, and six with the Swiss Re Group. Shayne Krige has over a decade of experience as a corporate lawyer in Europe and has spent the past nine years practising in South Africa. He is currently a director in the corporate law department of a top-tier law firm, and has worked on a diverse range of cases, including major corporate restructurings, saving butterflies from extinction, assisting victims of police torture and setting up a well-known online start-up. PANDA considers explanations that allow us to count the human costs of COVID-19 responses globally. PANDA is a collective of leading scientists, actuaries, economists, data scientists, statisticians, medical professionals, lawyers, engineers and businesspeople working as a collective to replace bad science with good science. PANDA members work voluntarily, offering their skillset to contribute to informed policy- and decision-making. PANDA is not aligned with any political entity and is funded by its members, income from speaking engagements, and the public.