A full member of the Club of Rome, President of the Copenhagen-based philosophical and educational lab Nordic Bildung, and co-founder of the Global Bildung Network.

Lene Rachel Andersen is an economist, author, futurist, philosopher, and Bildung activist. After studying business economics for three years, she worked as a substitute teacher before going on to study theology. During her studies, she wrote satire and entertainment for Danish television, eventually deciding to leave theology, become a full-time writer, and focus on technological development, big history, and the future of humanity.

Since 2005, Lene Rachel Andersen has authored more than 20 books and received two Danish democracy awards: the Ebbe Kløvedal-Reich Democracy Baton (2007) and Døssing Prisen, the Danish librarians’ democracy prize (2012).

Her books include The Nordic Secret (2017; new edition January 2024), Metamodernity (2019), relaunched in 2023 as Polymodernity, as well as Bildung (2020), What Is Bildung? (2021), and Libertism (2022).