Juan Enriquez
Author, Academic, Technologist, Investor
Juan Enriquez is a leading thinker on how advances in genomics, synthetic biology, and AI are transforming not just human evolution, but the ethical frameworks that govern what we consider right or possible. His work explores how technology is accelerating both biological change and moral change—forcing societies to confront new responsibilities as we gain the power to shape our own future and that of generations to come.
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Juan Enriquez is a leading authority on the economic impact of life sciences and brain research on business and society as well as an entrepreneur. He was the founding Director of the Harvard Business School's Life Sciences Project and was a research affiliate at MIT’s synthetic neurobiology lab. He then co-founded Excel Venture Management and helped build the world's first synthetic life form, programmable cells, RNA desktop printer, stapled peptides, and portable MRI reader. As a business leader and renowned speaker, Juan builds companies and works with the CEOs of a number of Fortune 50 companies, as well as various heads of state, on how to adapt to a world where the dominant language is shifting from the digital towards the language of life. Author and co-author of multiple bestsellers including As the Future Catches You: How Genomics Will Change Your Life, Work, Health, and Wealth (1999), The United States of America: Polarization, Fracturing and Our Future (2005), Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning Humanity One Gene at a Time (2015), and Right/ Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics (2020). He is a TED All-Star. Mr. Enriquez serves on multiple for-profit boards as well as a variety of non-profit boards including The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, WGBH, Questbridge, Cortico, and Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center, as well as strategic councils at the National Academies of Science and Medicine. He graduated from Harvard with a B.A. and an M.B.A., with honors.
