Jeremy Myerson is a design writer and academic, and Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art. After a career in journalism, during which he was the founder-editor of Design Week magazine in 1986, he moved into academia to focus on design research, publishing extensively in the field. He co-founded the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and was its Director for 16 years. He is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford, and Director of WORKTECH Academy, a global knowledge platform on the future of work.