Jeremy Rifkin

President of the Foundation on Economic Trends

Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C.

Since 1994, Mr. Rifkin has been a fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program, where he lectures to CEOs on new trends in science and technology and their impacts on the global economy, society and the environment.

He is also an advisor to heads of state and government officials in a number of countries.

Mr. Rifkin’s most recently wrote, “The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream.”

He is an international social critic and the best-selling author of The End of Work, The Biotech Century, and The Age of Access, each of which has been translated into more than fifteen languages.