Keith Mansfield

Keith Mansfield is a writer, publisher and futurist – and a lover of space, movies and music. Having read mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, his official career has seen him go from editing scientific encyclopedias for Robert Maxwell, to becoming the popular science editor at Penguin Press. In between he’s published computer science textbooks for Addison-Wesley, academic science for Oxford University Press and books on movies for the British Film Institute.

He's also written and developed primetime music and entertainment programmes for ITV, a major exhibition for London's Science Museum, and spent time working at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute.

Twice the recipient of an International Writing Fellowship from the Hawthornden Foundation, he has authored the "Johnny Mackintosh" series of children’s science fiction books, as well as non-fiction titles "The Future in Minutes" and "50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know", all published by Quercus/Hachette.

He applied to be the UK’s first European Space Agency astronaut, but was beaten by Tim Peake – but remains grateful to ESA for taking him on an Arctic space weather expedition. He lives in the wonderful City of London, the only downside of which is being unable to ever see the aurora.