Mar 27 2008
Jeremy Rifkin
Founder and President, Foundation on Economic Trends
Jeremy Rifkin is a Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he lectures to CEOs and senior-management from around the world in the famed Advanced Management Program. Currently, Mr. Rifkin is advising the European Union and other governments as well as Fortune 500 companies, on actions that should be taken immediately to address the triple threat of the global financial crisis, energy crisis, and climate change. He also is an advisor to heads of state including Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Zapatero of Spain, Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece, and Prince Albert II of Monaco.
One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day
Mr. Rifkin is the Chairman of the Third Industrial Revolution Global CEO Business Roundtable, made up of 100 of the world’s leading corporations and trade associations that are creating the infrastructure for a new low-carbon energy era and accompanying economic paradigm. As the founder and president of The Foundation on Economic Trends he examines the economic, environmental, social and cultural impacts of new technologies introduced into the global economy.[/expand]
Mr. Rifkin remains one of the most highly sought-after and highest rated speakers on the topic of globalization, sustainability and shifting to a new energy era and low-carbon economy. Mr. Rifkin believes that it is imperative to begin pursuing a bold long-term Third Industrial Revolution economic game plan that can establish a new framework and architecture for remaking the globalization process along more sustainable lines. A master of speech, he addresses the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, workforce, society and the environment. Unprecedented consequences are emerging out of the shift from industrial to cultural production, and his informed insight on this is unparalleled. [/expand]
Highly engaging and fluid, his style is nonetheless very well punctuated allowing time to absorb his powerful messages.[/expand]
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Topics
– The Third Industrial Revolution
The European Dream
The Hydrogen Economy
The Age of Access
Genetic Commerce
The Biotech Century
Shaping Public Policy
Global Economic Trends
Climate Change
Publications
2010
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
2004
The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
2002
The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth
2000
The Age of Access
1998
The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
1995
The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labour Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era
1993
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture
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