About
Lauren Razavi is a technologist, political scientist, and global citizen focused on the future of work, global mobility, and digital nomadism.
As Executive Director of Plumia, she leads efforts to build a global standard for nomad visas and reimagine the infrastructure that enables cross-border living. Plumia’s work has been featured in TIME Magazine, and its Borderless newsletter reaches 80,000 global citizens weekly.
Joel Balsam
The child of a refugee, Lauren was an early adopter of remote work (2010) and digital nomadism (2013), living and working across borders before location independence became mainstream. Her work explores how policy and technology are transforming where and how people live, and what that means for the future of citizenship.
Previously, Lauren worked as Google’s managing editor for the future of work and as a tech policy fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. She holds degrees in international relations and creative writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.
She has written extensively on these themes in major publications, including Wired, The Guardian, BBC, and VICE, and delivered talks at global institutions and conferences, such as the United Nations, European Commission, The Next Web, and Skift Global Forum.
Her 2022 book, Global Natives, examines the past, present, and future of borderless life and work, and she continues to explore these ideas in her award-winning Substack newsletter of the same name.
Lauren’s work focuses on the intersection of technology, business, policy, and human behaviour, shaping a world where people are free to live, work, and belong anywhere.