Johann Eduard Hari is a British writer and journalist, born in Glasgow, Scotland, on January 21, 1979. He moved to London as an infant and later attended the John Lyon School and Woodhouse College. Hari graduated from King's College, Cambridge, in 2001 with a double first in social and political sciences. His early career included winning The Times Student News Journalist of the Year award in 2000 and the Young Journalist of the Year at the 2003 Press Gazette Awards.