Jeremy Myerson is a design writer and academic. He is the Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford, and Director of WORKTECH Academy, a global knowledge network on the future of work and workplace. 

With a background in journalism and design research, Myerson was founder-editor of Design Week magazine in 1986. He co-founded the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design – the Royal College of Art’s largest centre for design research – in 1999 and was its Director for 16 years, helping to pioneer the practice of inclusive design.

The author of more than 20 books in the field, his most recent titles include Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life (2014) and New Old: Design for Our Future Selves (2017). His Design Museum exhibition New Old is now touring internationally and opened in New York at the Pratt Institute in February 2020.