Lene Rachel Andersen

Economist, author, futurist, philosopher and bildung activist. After studying business economy for three years, Lene worked as a substitute teacher before she studied theology. During her studies, she wrote entertainment for Danish television until she quit theology to become a fulltime writer focusing on technological development, big history and the future of humanity.

Since 2005, she has written 20 books and received two Danish democracy awards: Ebbe Kløvedal-Reich Democracy Baton (2007) and Døssing Prisen, the Danish librarians’ democracy prize (2012).

Among her books are The Nordic Secret (2017), edited by Tomas Björkman, Metamodernity (2019), Bildung (2020), What is Bildung? (2021), and Libertism (2022).

She is a full member of the Club of Rome, President of the Copenhagen based philosophical think tank Nordic Bildung and co-founder of the Global Bildung Network.