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.