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. She currently serves as Executive Director of Plumia, a research initiative advancing new models of citizenship, community, and country.

Raised between the UK and the Persian diaspora, Lauren spent a decade living as a digital nomad in her twenties and is author of Global Natives (2023), an essay collection examining the past, practicalities, and potential of borderless work. Her writing also appears in Wired, The Guardian, New Statesman, and VICE, and her work has been featured in TIME Magazine, Le Monde, and El País.

Lauren studied politics, philosophy, and creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where she received the 2019 Graduate Innovation and Impact Award for Norwich Sharing City, a placemaking project centred on the sharing economy. Earlier in her career, she was recognised as Young Travel Writer of the Year at the Travel Media Awards and Young Freelancer of the Year at the IPSE Awards.

Lauren has delivered guest lectures at the University of Cambridge, University College London, Norwich University of the Arts, and Sapporo University in Japan, alongside keynotes and panels on the future of work, creativity, and democracy at festivals and conferences around the world. She has been a Fellow of London’s Royal Society of Arts since 2018.