Lene Rachel Andersen is the President of the Copenhagen-based think tank Nordic Bildung and co-founder of the Global Bildung Network.
She is an economist, author, futurist, philosopher and bildung activist. After studying business economy for three years, she worked as a substitute teacher before she studied theology. During her studies, she wrote entertainment for Danish television until she decided to quit theology, become a full-time writer and focus 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; new edition January 2024), Metamodernity (2019), relaunched in 2023 as Polymodernity, Bildung (Report to the Club of Rome, 2020), What is Bildung? (2021), and Libertism (2022).
