Oliver Burkeman (born 1975)[1] is a British author and journalist, formerly writing the weekly column This Column Will Change Your Life for the newspaper The Guardian.

[4][5][6] In 2021, he published Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a self-help book on the philosophy and psychology of time management and happiness.

[7] Burkeman was educated at Huntington School, York,[2] and the University of Cambridge.

[12] He won The Foreign Press Association London's (FPA-London's) young journalist of the year award.[when?

][13] In 2015 he won FPA-London's science story of the year for a piece on the mystery of consciousness.