Futurist Jose Cordeiro Joins Speakers Connect

Jose is a world citizen in our small planet in a big unknown universe. He was born in Latin America from European parents, was educated in Europe and North America, and has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. He is chair of the Venezuelan Node of the Millennium Project, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE – JETRO) in Tokyo, and Founding Faculty and Energy Advisor at Singularity University (SU) in NASA Ames Research Park, Silicon Valley, California. He has lectured as an Invited Professor at several major institutions, from MIT in the USA and Sophia University in Japan to the Institute for Higher Studies in Administration (IESA) and the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), where he created the first formal courses of Futures Studies (“Prospectiva”) and the Austrian School of Economics in Venezuela.

Jose has spoken at Talks@Google, Singularity Summit, World Future Society, The Economist, HumanityPlus, many TEDx presentations in 6 countries and in 3 languages, and many other major international events.  He is also constantly being invited to speak at organisations in the finance, energy, technology, medical / chemical sectors.

Jose has published over 10 books as an author and 20 as a co-author including:

• El Desafío Latinoamericano – continental bestseller, used in more than 100 universities in the hemisphere
• The Great Taboo
• La Segunda Muerte de Bolívar
• La Segunda Muerte de Sucre  
• ¿Pesos o Dólares?
• Benesuela vs. Venezuela
• Energía para el Desarrollo de América del Sur andCenários Energéticos 2020
• 2020: Transhuman & Economy of the Future
• Latinoamérica 2030 with the Millennium Project and Crisis 危機: (Financial) Danger and (Monetary) Opportunity (with) Spanish economist Ramón Tamames

Jose‘s keynotes are: