Juan Enriquez

Global Leaders Workshop in Athens, Greece  | June 23-25, 2023

Juan Enriquez

Mr. Enriquez is one of the world’s leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences. He is an active investor in diverse life science and tech startups including , BioTrove, ShapeUp, Synthetic Genomics, Welldoc, Xcellerex, Zipongo, Zonare, ZipCar. Before founding Biotechonomy and Excel, he was the founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project. Author of global bestsellers: 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.); Homo Evolutis: Please Meet the Next Human Species (with co-author Steve Gullans); The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future. (Selected by the Boston Globe and the Miami Herald as “one of the most important books of the decade.”) Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutations are Changing Life on Earth (with Steve Gullans, Penguin 2015) and RIGHT/WRONG: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics (MIT, 2020). He has also published many academic articles and business school case studies including “Transforming Life Transforming Business the Life Science Revolution,” co-authored with Ray Goldberg, which received a McKinsey Prize in 2000. He co-authored the first map of global nucleotide data flow (Selected by Rhem Koolhaas and Wired as one of the iconic examples of 21st century design). He is a regular contributor to the EDGE. His HBS working papers include “Global Life Science Data Flows and the IT industry”, “SARS, Smallpox, and Business Unusual,” and “Technology, Gene Research and National Competitiveness.”