Lauren Razavi is an award-winning writer, artist, and researcher exploring how to design political systems for the internet era. Her work examines power, technology, and culture, with an emphasis on human agency. Raised between the UK and the Persian diaspora, Lauren spent a decade living as a digital nomad and is now based in Amsterdam.

She currently serves as Executive Director of Plumia, a research initiative developing policy and public frameworks for emerging models of citizenship, community, and country. Her writing appears in Wired, The Guardian, New Statesman, and VICE, and her work has been covered by TIME Magazine, Le Monde, and El País. Earlier recognition includes Travel Writer of the Year at the Travel Media Awards and Freelancer of the Year at the IPSE Awards.

Lauren studied politics, philosophy, and creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where she won the 2019 Graduate Innovation and Impact Award for Norwich Sharing City, a placemaking project focused on the sharing economy. She is a Fellow of London’s Royal Society of Arts and has delivered guest lectures at the University of Cambridge, University College London, Norwich University of the Arts, and Sapporo University in Japan.