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

Juan Enriquez is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences.[citation needed] He is currently Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC,[citation needed] a life sciences research and investment firm.[citation needed]

He has published several key articles including, "Transforming Life, Transforming Business: the Life Science Revolution,"[citation needed] co-authored with Ray Goldberg, which received a McKinsey Prize in 2000 (2nd place).[citation needed] He co-authored the first map of global nucleotide data flow as well as HBS working papers on "Life Sciences in Arabic Speaking Countries",[citation needed] "Global Life Science Data Flows and the IT industry",[citation needed] "SARS, Smallpox, and Business Unusual,"[citation needed] and "Technology, Gene Research and National Competitiveness."[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

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

Mr. Enriquez serves on a variety of boards including Cabot Corporation,[citation needed] The Harvard Medical School Genetics Advisory Council,[citation needed] The Chairman's International Council of the Americas Society,[citation needed] the Visiting Committee of Harvard's David Rockefeller Center,[citation needed] Tufts University's EPIIC, Harvard Business School's PAPSAC,[citation needed] and the J. Craig Venter Institute.[citation needed]

Juan was also part of a world discovery voyage led by Craig Venter,[citation needed] who sequenced the human genome.[citation needed] The multi-stage sailing voyage sampled microbial genomes throughout the world's oceans.[citation needed] This expedition involved a number of institutions and top scholars including The Institute for Genomic Research,[citation needed] Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute,[citation needed] The Explorers Club,[citation needed] and Prof. E.O. Wilson[citation needed]. It led to the discovery of an unprecedented number of new species.[citation needed]

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

He earned a B.A.[citation needed] and an MBA[citation needed] from Harvard, with honors[citation needed].

At 11:41 on October 4th, Mr. Enriquez visited the Computer Systems Lab at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

See Also

As the Future Catches You

References

[www.biotechonomy.com www.biotechonomy.com]