Jeremy Myerson
Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design & Director at WORKTECH Academy
Jeremy Myerson is a design writer and academic. He is Director of WORKTECH Academy, a global knowledge network exploring the future of work and workplace, and holds the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design at the Royal College of Art. He is also a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Oxford Institute for Population Ageing, Oxford University. Jeremy Myerson worked extensively as a design journalist and founded Design Week magazine in 1986 before focusing on research. He co-founded the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, the RCA’s longest running centre for design research, in 1999, which he directed for 16 years. He sits on the advisory boards of design institutes in South Korea, Switzerland and Hong Kong, and is the author of more than 20 books in the field. In 2016 he received an Honorary Doctorate for the RCA for his work in design research.
