JUAN ENRIQUEZ - Author, Life Science Expert
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Juan Enriquez bestselling author, businessman, academic. Currently Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy a company that is researching and funding startups that enable the genomic revolution. Author of global bestseller As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth. (Selected by Amazon’s editors as one of the best business books of the year.)He was the founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Science Project.

Over the past three years 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 recently 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 and most charismatic teachers at HBS and showcased his work in its first set of faculty products.

He is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences. The Harvard Business Review showcased his ideas as one of the breakthrough concepts in its first HBR List. Fortune profiled him as Mr. Gene and Time Magazine asked him to co-organize the life sciences summit commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of DNA. Seed picked his ideas as one of fifty that “shaped our identity, our culture, and the world as we know it.”

Juan serves on a variety of boards including Cabot Microelectronics, The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, The Harvard Medical School Genetics Advisory Council, The USDA Advisory Committee on Biotechnology Group, The Chairman’s International Council of the America’s Society, the Visiting Committee of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center, Tufts University's EPIIC, Harvard Business School's PAPSAC, the J. Craig Venter Foundation, and the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Family Association.

He is currently finishing two books: A Little Book About the Big Picture, which explains how the genome revolution is changing our daily life, and Flags, Borders, Anthems, and Other Myths, which explores why some countries are successful while others disappear.

Juan is also part of a world discovery voyage led by Craig Venter, who sequenced the human genome. The multi-stage sailing voyage will sample microbial genomes throughout the world’s oceans. This expedition involves a number of institutions and top scholars including The Institute for Genomic Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, The Explorers Club, and Prof. E.O. Wilson. It will likely lead to the discovery of an unprecedented number of new species.

He previously served as CEO of Mexico City’s Urban Development Corporation, Coordinator General of Economic Policy and Chief of Staff for Mexico's Secretary of State, and as a member of the Peace Commission that negotiated the cease-fire in Chiapas' Zapatista rebellion.

He can be reached at jenriquez@yahoo.com