“We Have Colonised the Future”

Roman Krznaric / Public Philosopher, interview…

José Luis Fernández Casadevante 'Kois' / Nerea Morán

Roman Krznaric (Sydney, 1971) is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London and an advisor on empathy to organisations such as Oxfam and the United Nations. Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His latest book is The Good Ancestor. How to Think Long-Term in a Short-Term World (Captain Swing, 2022). After growing up in his hometown and Hong Kong, Krznaric studied at the universities of Oxford, London and Essex, where he received his PhD in Political Sociology. He is the founder of the world's first Museum of Empathy, a research fellow at the Long Now Foundation, and a member of the Club of Rome.

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