Jon is the author of CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us and co-host of the How To Save Democracy podcast. He is a strategist, storyteller and connector whose work is devoted to opening the way to a “Citizen Future”: one rooted in the deep truth that all of us are smarter than any of us. Jon began his career with a decade in the advertising industry, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year, before making a dramatic change.

Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered three Masters degrees, exploring “Consumer-ism” and its alternatives from every angle. His resulting book CITIZENS was listed by McKinsey as one of its Top 5 Recommended Reads in its Summer Reading Guide 2022, described as "an underground hit" in the Financial Times, and selected by the World Economic Forum for its CEO Book Club.

Jon has recently been a Visiting Fellow on the Reimagining Democracy programme at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and also sits on the advisory councils of the Democracy and Culture Foundation and the Better Politics Foundation.

Links:

• Jon's website
• Citizen Future: Why We Need A New Story Of Self And Society via BBC Future