Jeremy Myerson has been a writer, academic and activist in design for the past 30 years. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, he has worked as a journalist and editor on titles including Design, Creative Review and World Architecture. In 1986 he was founding editor of Design Week and in 1999 he co-founded the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the RCA to advance a humanist agenda in design.

Today he is Director of the centre and holds the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design at the RCA, with a remit to improve quality of life. He is the author of more than a dozen books on design, technology, craft and architecture. His latest book, New Demographics New Workspace, was published in summer 2010 by Gower. He has curated a number of national exhibitions, including Doing A Dyson at the Design Museum and Rewind: Forty Years of Design and Advertising at the V&A. He sits on the advisory boards of design schools in Korea and Hong Kong, and he is currently a member of the international selection panel for the ICSID World Design Capital 2014.