Ellen Klaver studied Philosophy of Culture and Governance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Global Business and Sustainability at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is a researcher at the Èthos Centre (VU) and at Socires, a Dutch thinktank on societal issues, where she works on the programme Structures of Meaning, researching meaningful (co)existence in a post-secular society. She co-authored Zin in de Samenleving (2024).