Roanne van Voorst holds a PhD in anthropology (cum laude) and a professional background in futures thinking. She currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. She is the Principal Investigator in an international research project focused on the future of healthcare, which is funded by the European Research Committee, as well as the PI of a research project around intergenerational health and pregnant women in European refugee camps. Additionally, she serves as the president of Futures Reframed, an international foundation that aims to innovate science, and as the editor-in-chief of an academic journal around futures-thinking. Her research centers on anticipated changes within human society. Roanne seeks to understand what gains can be made for humanity in various future scenarios, what aspects must be preserved to safeguard what she refers to as ‘sustainable humanity,’ and what is at risk of being lost, as well as who stands to lose. Roanne has authored 8 books and tens of articles, which have been published internationally. She writes a monthly, digital letter to her community about her personal, academic and creative work, and produces The Emic – an audioplatform where anthropologists share their most beautiful stories from the field, as well as The Etic – Vreemd Gedrag Verklaard, a podcast in which she and colleagues anthropologically explain behaviour that seems, at first sight, disturbing or hard to understand. She can be found through

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