Harari is an Israeli historian who specializes in global human history. He is the best-selling author of numerous books for a general audience. His adult books include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2015), 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018), and Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI (2024). In 2022, he published his first book for children, Unstoppable Us, Volume 1.

A career academic, Harari holds a doctorate from Oxford University and is currently a lecturer in history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents Honorary Award (2021), an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels (2020), and the Wenjin Book Award for his first monograph, Sapiens.

Harari is the co-founder of Sapienship, a “social impact company” that reflects his work as a public intellectual. The company’s mission is “to clarify the global conversation, focus attention on the most important challenges and support the quest for solutions” (

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