Profile - Juan Enriquez

If you have not seen a Juan Enriquez talk, you are missing out.  His skill at combining wit, humour and sarcasm with mind-blowing technological and historical data is impressive to say the least. He is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences. He is currently Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC, a life sciences research and investment firm.

Juan Enríquez was the founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School and a fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs. His work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, Science, and The New York Times. He is the author of As the Future Catches You and The Untied States of America. He works in business, science, and domestic/international politics.

He has published several key articles including, "Transforming Life, Transforming Business: the Life Science Revolution", co-authored with Ray Goldberg, which received a McKinsey Prize in 2000 (2nd place). He co-authored the first map of global nucleotide data flow as well as HBS working papers on "Life Sciences in Arabic Speaking Countries", "Global Life Science Data Flows and the IT industry", "SARS, Smallpox, and Business Unusual", and "Technology, Gene Research and National Competitiveness." Harvard Business School Interactive picked Juan as one of the best teachers at HBS and showcased his work in its first set of faculty products.

The Harvard Business Review showcased his ideas as one of the breakthrough concepts in its first HBR List. Fortune profiled him as "Mr. Gene". The Van Heyst Group asked him to co-organize the life sciences summit commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of DNA. The summit, "The Future of Life", was sponsored by Time. Seed picked his ideas as one of fifty that "shaped our identity, our culture, and the world as we know it".

Juan represents Excel Medical Ventures on the boards of Shape Up the Nation, Activate Networks, Fina Technologies, Catch.com, and Synthetic Genomics.

His most recent publication is an eBook, Homo Evolutis: A Short Tour of our New Species, which describes a world where humans increasingly shape their environment, themselves, and other species.

More Talks by Juan Enriquez

TEDMED, Octobrer 2011
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emtech MIT, October 2011
http://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/11/video/#!/watch/the-age-of-the-life-code/

TEDMED, October 2010
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Aspen Ideas Festival (2010)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-07/juan-enriquez-discusses-advances-in-synthetic-biology-video.html

Intel talks (2010)

http://ipip.intel.com/go/10371/juan-enriquez-why-life-code-matters-and-keeps-changing/

http://ipip.intel.com/go/10384/juan-enriquez-life-is-imperfectly-transmitted-code/
http://ipip.intel.com/go/10391/juan-enriquez-life-code-will-become-the-driver-of-the-global-economy/

Big Think Interview with Juan Enriquez, December 7, 2009
http://bigthink.com/juanenriquez/ideas

10 Commandments for the President-Elect to Save the U.S. Economy, Poptech, October 2008
http://vimeo.com/2089382?pg=embed&sec=2089382

Genomics and Our Future, TED talk, April 2007
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/juan_enriquez_on_genomics_and_our_future.htmlhttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/juan_enriquez_on_genomics_and_our_future.html

How To Grow Energy, TED talk, November 2007
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/juan_enriquez_wants_to_grow_energy.html

The Stars and Stripes Forever? Poptech, October 2006
 http://poptech.com/popcasts/popcasts.aspx?lang=&viewcastid=14

Mapping the Frontiers of Knowledge, Long Now Foundation, October 2007
http://fora.tv/2007/10/12/Juan_Enriquez_Mapping_the_Frontier_of_Knowledge

Washington Business Tonight, Business Effect of Stem Cell Research, March 9, 2009
http://www.washingtonbusinesstonight.com/video.cfm