Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli public intellectual, historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Published in 2014, Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind has become an international hit, with over 23 million copies sold. In 2016 Prof. Harari returned with Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, a critically acclaimed book that examines the big future projects facing humanity in the 21st century. Since its publication, over 10 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide.

After venturing deep into the past and then the future, Yuval Noah Harari published 21 Lessons for the 21st Century in 2018. Here he stopped to take the pulse of our current global climate, focusing on the biggest questions of the present moment: What is really happening right now? What are today’s greatest challenges and choices? What should we pay attention to? 6 Million copies of 21 Lessons have been sold worldwide.

Harari appeared at HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2022, debating firebrand philosopher Slavoj Žižek in the debate Nature: Friend or Foe? - you can watch the debate here.