Yuval Harari

Born in Israel in 1976, Yuval Noah Harari received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us, and Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. His books have sold over 45 Million copies in 65 languages.

Professor Harari’s writings have received several accolades. Most recently in 2021 he was presented with a US Association of Foreign Press Correspondents Honorary Award. In 2020, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from VUB (the Free University of Brussels) and received the CITIC Author of the Year prize in China, for Sapiens: A Graphic History. 21 Lessons was honoured as ‘Knowledge Book of the Year’ in 2019 by the German magazine Bild der Wissenschaft. Homo Deus was recognised as the ’Wise Book of the Year’ by Krakow’s Jagiellonian University, and Sapiens won the 2019 ‘Academic Book of the Year’ prize as part of the UK’s Academic Book Trade Awards.

Professor Harari has given keynote speeches on the future of humanity in Davos 2020 and 2018, on the World Economic Forum’s main Congress Hall stage. He regularly discusses global issues with heads of state, and has had public conversations with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Professor Harari has also met with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Argentine President Mauricio Macri, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Shanghai’s Mayor Ying Yong.

Professor Harari lectures around the world on the topics explored in his books and articles, and has written for publications such as The Guardian, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist and Nature magazine. He also offers his knowledge and time to various organisations and audiences on a voluntary basis.