During the last three weeks of November 2015 I gave an elective course on strategic thinking in times of accelerated change at the IE in Madrid. The framework for the course was derived from the manuscript on the twilight of the Baconian age which I
At the invitation of Eduardo Martínez de la Fe, Director of the Tendencias21 group, I was interviewed in the Internet TV channel Tendencias21.TV. The interview covered a variety of issues related to the future, and to what is likely to happen in the coming decades.
At the beginning of November 2015, as part of the third Climate Change Week organized by the MINAM, I made a presentation on the prospects for South America for meeting the challenges of climate change. See the presentation (in Spanish) here.
At the end of October 2015 I gave the inaugural conference at the annual meeting of RedLAC, in which I examined the challenges and opportunities that the twilight of the Baconian age and climate change present to Latin America, and to conservation funds. The presentation
A journalist from the Lima magazine Caras interviewed me a few months ago. We covered a broad range of political issues, and particularly the electoral process that will culminate in April 2016. Even though the title of the interview does not reflect exactly what I
To celebrate its 60th anniversary, on August 18, 2015 the Diplomatic Academy organized a conference on “Training for diplomacy in the 21st century”. Together with Claudio Herzka, Diego de la Torre and Harry Belevan, I was invited to participate in a panel to cover the
On July 21, 2015 the daily Gestion published an article on the prospects for Cuba after the agreement to reestablish diplomatic relations with the US (see pdf and link), and on July 16, 2015 the weekly magazine Semana Económica published statements I made on tax
In 2014 Gonzalo Rivas y Sebastián Roviera edited a book on the Latin American experience with the creation of new institutions to promote innovation in the región. I contributed one of the chapter relating the experiencia of the Science and Technology Program at the Prime
CARETAS magazine published a series of articles on the future, which were prepared by members of the Global Strategic Foresight Community of the World Economic Forum. We chose ten of the thirty-five articles, which were translated and published during July-October 2015. See here an interview
Together with Marco Zileri, Director of CARETAS, the leading weekly magazine in Peru, we edited a special report on the future of international financial institutions. We had the participation of Rebeca Grynspan, José Antonio Ocampo, Nancy Birdsall, José Antonio Alonso, Roberto Dañino, Richard Webb and