Johann Hari is the author of two New York Times best-selling books: Chasing the Scream: the First and Last Days of the War on Drugs and Lost Connections: Uncovering the Read Causes of Depression- and the Unexpected Solutions. His books are being developed for film and television, have been translated into 28  languages and have received praise from a very broad range of people including Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Tucker Carlson, Elton John Naomi Klein and Glenn Greenwald. Lost Connections  was described by the British Journal of General Practice as “one of the most important texts of recent years”, and shortlisted for an award by the British Medical Association.

Johann has had more than 44 millions views of his two TED talks  ‘Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong’ and ‘This Could Be Why You Are Depressed or Anxious’.

Johann is also an award-winning journalist and he has written over the past decade for some of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, the Spectator, Le Monde Diplomatique, the Melbourne Age, and Politico. He is a regular panellist on HBO’s Realtime With Bill Maher.

He lives in London.

His website is: https://2018.johannhari.com/.