Juan
Enriquez, Senior Research Fellow and Director,
Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project
 Juan Enriquez is a senior
research fellow and director of the Harvard Business School
Life Sciences Project. He authored As the Future
Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces are Changing Your
Life, Work, Heath & Wealth and also wrote Flags, Borders,
Anthems and
Other Myths: The Impulse Towards Secession and the Americas,
a book which looks at the effect of globalization and
democracy on the Americas and its borders. During 2001 he
co-authored "Transforming Life, Transforming Business:
The Life Science Revolution" in The Digital Enterprise
(HBS Press) and wrote "Technology, Gene Research and
National Competitiveness" in Globalization and the
Rural Environment (DRCLAS/Harvard University Press). He
has authored over a dozen Harvard Business School case studies
as well as articles for various publications including Science,
Foreign Policy, The New York Times, and Trends in
Biotechnology. He is contributing editor of The Journal
of Biolaw and Business. In 2000, he received a McKinsey
Prize for co-authoring one of the best articles in the Harvard
Business Review. In 2001 his work was identified as one of the
breakthrough ideas in the first HBR List.
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 a member of the Peace Commission that
negotiated the cease-fire in Chiapas' Zapatista rebellion. He
lived and worked in the war zone for six months. He has held a
number of positions at Harvard, including fellow at the Center
for International Affairs and researcher at the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. He serves on a
series of boards including Cabot Microelectronics, The
Genetics Advisory Council of the Harvard Medical School, The
State Department Advisory Committee on Economic Policy
(Biotechnology Group), the Chairman's International Council of
the Americas Society, Tufts University EPIIC, and the Cabot
Family Shareholders Committee. |
