Hello, I’m Max Rashbrooke.
I write about two of the biggest issues in the modern world – democratic renewal and economic inequality – and their potential to shape our societies for better or worse.
New Zealand based but globally engaged, I carry out original research and bring it to a wide audience through my books, my collaborations with artists and data visualisation experts, and public lectures including my TED.com talk on upgrading democracy, which has had 1.5m views.
My writing and commentary appears in outlets such as the Guardian and Prospect magazine, and I write a fortnightly column for The Post, one of New Zealand’s leading newspapers.
Threaded through everything I do is a profound belief that for societies to flourish, everyone needs their fair share of a country’s wealth and the opportunity to fully participate, as an equal, in the democratic process.
If you’d like to support my work, you can do so here. You can also subscribe to a regular free digest of my writing, the Rashbrooke Roundup, below.
