Dr. Roanne van Voorst is a futures-anthropologist, writer, columnist and president of the Dutch Future Society. Recently, she joined Next Nature, where she investigates how we can get closer - not further - to nature. She’s currently affiliated with the University of Amsterdam as an assistant professor. Roanne has conducted research worldwide — from Inuit villages in Greenland to Jakarta's slums, refugee camps in Greece, and Austrian brothels. You might also know her from her book ‘Once upon a time we ate animals’. As an ‘anthropologist of the future’, her core research focuses on what she has coined ‘sustainable humanity’. In times of robotification, digitisation and big-data lead decision-making, she tries to answer the big question: What makes us human? And how does society remain humane?