Lene Rachel Andersen is an economist, author, futurist, philosopher and bildung activist. She studied business economics for three years before working as a substitute teacher and later pursuing theology.
During her theology studies, she wrote entertainment for Danish television, but eventually chose to leave academia to become a full-time writer, focusing on technological development, big history and the future of humanity.
Since 2005, Andersen has published 22 books and received two Danish democracy awards: the Ebbe Kløvedal-Reich Democracy Baton (2007) and the Døssing Prize, the Danish librarians’ democracy award (2012). Her works include The Nordic Secret (2017 & 2024), Polymodernity (2019 & 2023), Bildung (2020), What Is Bildung? (2021), and Libertism (2022).
Lene is President of the Copenhagen-based think tank Nordic Bildung and co-founder of the Global Bildung Network and Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT University, Australia.
