MR MICHAEL J. LEE
MPhil, MA, BTh (Hons), HGp (Ed)
Co-author of Chrysalis
Michael is a qualified futurist, artist and writer living in Cape Town. In 2015, he published Heartbeat, a documentary novel about the world’s first human heart transplant. His two works about understanding the social future through interdisciplinary causal analysis are Knowing our Future and Codebreaking our Future, both available on Amazon.com.
He has been married to Sannettha for 29 years and the couple have two daughters, Dr Michaela van den Honert, a food and cosmetic scientist, and Melissa, a linguist currently working in the field of the logic flow for artificial intelligence programmes driving chatbots.
Michael held his first solo art exhibition, called A Bridge of Light, at the Forum at the Victoria and Alfred Hotel, V&A Waterfront, from 19 to 22 March 2017, featuring 60 original oil paintings.
He enjoys reading, writing, painting, sketching, jogging and watching powerful movies, having built up a private collection of several hundred DVDs and Blu-ray films spanning the entire history of cinema to the present.