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JOSÉ LUIS CORDEIRO, M.Sc., MBA
Arturo Uslar
Pietri, one of the most
prominent writers and intellectuals of 20th
century Venezuela,
described José Luis Cordeiro's book
El
Gran Tabu Venezolano, also available as
The Great Taboo,
"as
important to
Venezuela as the independence battle of Carabobo" and he described
José's book
La Segunda Muerte de Bolívar
as "an impressive work that describes the
grave economic
malady of Venezuela".
José Luis
Cordeiro, M.Sc., MBA was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1962.
He is an independent consultant, writer,
researcher, professor and traveler. He teaches as a Guest Professor at
the Institute for Higher Studies in Administration (IESA) and at the
Central University of Venezuela (UCV), where he created the first formal
courses of Futures Studies and of Austrian Economics
in Venezuela.
José is founder and president of the
Venezuela Chapter
of the World Future Society,
cofounder of the
Venezuelan Transhumanist
Association, chair of the Venezuelan Node of the
Millennium Project
of the American Council of the United Nations University (UNU), director of
the
World Transhumanist Association and of the
Extropy Institute, advisor
to the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology,
member of the Academic
Committee of the
Center for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge
(CEDICE), and former director of the Venezuela Chapter of the Club of
Rome, where
he was active in promoting classical liberal ideas.
While he was Director of the
Venezuelan Association of Exporters (AVEX), he
participated in the negotiation of the
Free Trade Area of the Americas
(FTAA),
the ongoing effort to unite the economies of the Americas into a single
free
trade area. He has been a consultant to various
companies and organizations, both Venezuelan and international, and has
been included in the Marquis Edition of Who's Who in the
World.
El Desafío Latinoamericano, his first book, is a
continental bestseller published by McGraw-Hill and is used in more than
100 universities in the hemisphere.
José has
written La Segunda Muerte de Sucre
about Ecuador,
¿Pesos o Dólares? about Mexico,
Benesuela vs.
Venezuela about Education, and Energía para el
Desarrollo de
América del Sur about Energy.
He has a regular opinion column in the largest and most
prestigious Venezuelan newspaper, El Universal, and has also written
and been interviewed in other prominent media, including CNN and The New
York Times.
He studied
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA,
where he received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees
in Mechanical Engineering, with a minor in Economics and Languages.
During his studies, he worked with the
United Nations
Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO) in Vienna, Austria. His
thesis consisted of a dynamic modeling for NASA's Freedom Space Station
(the International Space Station of today). He is a lifetime member of
the
Sigma Xi
(Scientific Research) and
Tau Beta Pi (Engineering) Honor
Societies in North America.
José completed studies on International Economics
and Comparative Politics at the Georgetown University in Washington, USA,
and then obtained a Masters of Business Administration from the
Institut Européen d’Administration
des Affaires (INSEAD) in France where he
majored in Finances and Globalization.
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