John Stewart is an Australian evolutionary thinker who is a core member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Research Group of the Free University of Brussels.  He has worked as a labor union official, manager of Australia’s north eastern fisheries, and as a senior policy advisor to the Australian government on labor relations regulatory issues.  His main interest is in the development of an evolutionary worldview that reveals to us who we are, and what we should be doing with our lives.  His work on the directionality of evolution and its implications for humanity has been published in a number of key papers in international science journals.  These include papers on the potential for humans to enhance their psychological capacities through the future evolution of consciousness.  He is the author of the internationally acclaimed book ‘Evolution’s Arrow: the direction of evolution and the future of humanity’.  More recently he has finalized ‘The Evolutionary Manifesto’ which outlines an evolutionary worldview and explores its relevance to humanity.  The Manifesto demonstrates the potential of the worldview to provide meaning and purpose for human existence, and uses it to identify the actions that we need to take if humanity is to fulfill its potential to contribute positively to the future evolution of life in the universe.