Massimiliano Mollona is a writer, filmmaker, and anthropologist with a multidisciplinary background in economics and anthropology. Mollona has been the director of the Athens Biennale (2015-2017), one of the artistic directors of the Bergen Assembly with the collective Freethought (2017); co-founder of the Laboratory for the Urban Commons (LUC) based in Athens and the initiator of the ongoing project Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI). He is currently a senior lecturer in anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.