Licenciada en Ciencias Diplomáticas por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, dónde también cursó simultáneamente algunos años de la carrera de Derecho. Posteriormente se especializó en evaluación social de proyectos de inversión, comercio exterior, planeación y comercialización inmobiliaria, planeación estratégica,  estudios prospectivos y procuración de fondos.

Ha trabajado alternativamente en los sectores público y privado, en México y el extranjero, ocupando diversos cargos desde subjefe hasta directora general y presidenta. Habla español, inglés, francés e italiano. Actualmente es Presidenta del Nodo Mexicano, El Proyecto del Milenio, A.C., asociado a la ONU, Líder del Grupo de Futuros Globales del Consejo Mexicano para Asuntos Internacionales,  Mexican Chair del Millennium Project y  Vicepresidenta Mundial del Consejo Directivo del Millennium Project. 

Dentro de las principales instituciones en las que ha trabajado figuran: la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, el Consejo Nacional de Turismo, el Centro Nacional de Productividad, el Instituto del Trabajo, el Fideicomiso Bahía de Banderas, Consultores en Desarrollo Turístico, Servicios de Consultoría, Grupo Seconsa, Cie en Chile, en la Secretaria de la Reforma Agraria en el Fideicomiso Fondo Nacional de Fomento Ejidal, en la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público en: Servicios de Almacenamiento del Norte y en el Nodo Mexicano. El Proyecto del Milenio, A.C.

 Ha dictado más de 1000 conferencias en todo el mundo y ha realizado:

*  Estudios

Más de 200 estudios de: factibilidad técnico-económico y financieros, mercado, comercio exterior y comercialización estratégica  para promover inversiones en  todo México para el gobierno federal,  Estados de la República, confederaciones, cámaras, asociaciones,  empresas privadas y campesinos.

Creadora de La Bolsa de Tierra Social en México.

En materia prospectiva, creadora, directora y realizadora  de FUTUROS,  el primer Diccionario enciclopédico mundial sobre prospectiva,  más de 50 Rondas Delphi y coautora de Escenarios de  Latinoamérica 2030.

*  Comercialización

o    Inmobiliaria

Bahía de Banderas. Todos los inmuebles del FIFONAFE en la República Mexicana y  las grandes bodegas graneleras del país der SERANOR en Sonora y Sinaloa.

o    Productos

Importación, exportación,  representación y venta de diversos productos.

*  Actividades editoriales

Articulista, editora y comercializadora de revistas de negocios, coeditora  del Mundo de la Exportación y  FUTUROS.

*  Relaciones públicas y eventos especiales

Planeación, programación y organización de más de 300 eventos nacionales e internacionales en México y diversas partes del mundo.  Ha creado metodologías para la organización de eventos y el lanzamiento de la Bolsa Agropecuaria Mexicana.

*  ONG’s, Fundaciones  y ONU

Creación, registros, generación de proyectos,  operación y promoción nacional e internacional de organizaciones no gubernamentales y fundaciones en la Organización de las Naciones Unidas.

Creadora y promotora nacional y mundial  del  Premio del Milenio 2005-2009  y  del Premio del Milenio Mundial, Los Retos del futuro,  2006-2010 con cobertura mundial en 110 paises del mundo.

Ha sido la Procuradora Oficial de Fondos  para 2 Conferencias Mundiales de la ONU en 2009 y 2010 realizadas en México.

Ibon Zugasti, M.S. is Partner/Director at PROSPEKTIKER (www.prospektiker.es),General Manager at LKS Market Research (www.lks.es),Chairman of the Millennium Project Node in Spain (www.proyectomilenio.org),President of the European Regional Foresight College (www.foresight-college.eu) and National coordinator in Spain for the PREPARE Network (www.prepare-net.com).

Since 1999, Ibon has led several consultancy and research projects in fields like foresight, regional sustainable development, labour &training and energy for different Governments and Corporations (Repsol, Iberdrola, Guggenheim, MONDRAGON,...). He has also advised the Committee of the Regions of the EU for the launching of a European Platform on Territorial Foresight. Since 2010, he is the Chairman of the Millennium Project in Spain and President of the European Regional Foresight College.

He is coauthor of different publications such as Latin America 2030: Delphi Survey and Scenarios (The Millennium Project), An initial assessment of territorial forward planning/foresight projects in the European Union (Committee of the Regions of the EU), and The aging Basque population. Economic and social consequences (Basque Government). He also contributes to the yearly publication State of the Future by the Millennium Project.

Ibon earned his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Deusto, Spain and earned his Master’s in Strategic Management from Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA. He has been teaching strategic management at the University of Deusto and foresight in many seminars at the international level.

José Luis Cordeiro, MBA, Ph.D. is a world citizen in our small planet in a big unknown universe. He was born in Latin America, from European parents, was educated in Europe and North America, has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. He has studied, visited, and worked in over 130 countries in 5 continents.

 José studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA, where he earned his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) degrees in Mechanical Engineering, with a minor in Economics and Languages. His thesis consisted of a dynamic modeling for NASA’s Freedom Space Station (the International Space Station of today). He later studied International Economics and Comparative Politics at Georgetown University in Washington, USA, and then obtained his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at the InstitutEuropéen d’ Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France, where he majored in Finance and Globalization.

 During his studies, he worked with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna, Austria, and with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, USA. He started his doctoral work at MIT, which he continued later in Tokyo, Japan, and finally earned his Ph.D. at Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a lifetime member of the Sigma Xi (ΣΞ, Scientific Research) and Tau Beta Pi (ΤΒΠ, Engineering) Honor Societies in North America, is also a honorary member of the Venezuelan Engineers College (CIV), and his name has been included in the Marquis Edition of Who’s Who in the World.

Following his graduation, he worked as an engineer in petroleum exploration for the French company Schlumberger. For several years, he served as an advisor for many of the major oil companies in the world, including Agip, BP, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, PDVSA, Pemex, Petrobras, Repsol, Shell, and Total. Later, in Paris, he initiated his relation with the international consulting company Booz-Allen & Hamilton, where he specialized in the areas of strategy, finance and restructuring. In Latin America, he has served as an advisor for some of the most important regional corporations and has taken part in the transformation and privatization of a number of oil companies in the continent. His experience and studies in monetary policy, currency boards, dollarization and monetary unions have taken him to participate in several monetary changes in Latin America and Eastern Europe.

 José is chair of the Venezuelan Node of the Millennium Project, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE — JETRO) in Tokyo, Japan, and Teaching Fellow at Singularity University (SU) in Silicon Valley, USA. He is also an independent consultant, writer, researcher, professor and “tireless traveler”. He has lectured as an Invited Professor at several major institutions, from MIT in the USA and Sophia University (上智大学) in Japan to the Institute for Higher Studies in Administration (IESA) and the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), where he created the first formal courses of Futures Studies (“Prospectiva”) and Austrian School of Economics in Venezuela.

José is founder of the World Future Society (Venezuela Chapter), director of the Single Global Currency Association (SGCA) and the Lifeboat Foundation, cofounder of the Venezuelan Transhumanist Association and of the Internet Society (ISOC, Venezuela Chapter), board advisor to the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN), member of the Academic Committee of the Center for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge (CEDICE), the World Future Society (WFS) and the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), former director of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA, Humanity+), the Extropy Institute (ExI), the Club of Rome (Venezuela Chapter, where he was active promoting classical liberal ideas) and of the Association of Venezuelan Exporters (AVEX), where he participated in the original negotiations of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). He has also been advisor to the Venezuelan Business Association (AVE) and other companies and international organizations.

Thanks to his extensive work in technological foresight, futures studies, globalization, economic integration, long-term development, energy, education and monetary policy, he has authored and coauthored several books. El DesafíoLatinoamericano, his first book, is a continental bestseller originally published by McGraw-Hill and is used in more than 100 universities in the hemisphere (see introductory pages). Its second Spanish edition is now available completely free in electronic form by the author, who is also donating his book royalties.

Arturo UslarPietri, the most universal and respected Venezuelan of the 20th century, described other two books of José with the following words: “as important to Venezuela as the independence battle of Carabobo” (The Great Taboo) and “an impressive work that describes the grave economic malady … of Venezuela” (La SegundaMuerte de Bolívar).

José has authoredotherbooksabout Ecuador (La Segunda Muerte de Sucre) and Mexico (¿Pesos o Dólares?), and aboutspecialtopicslikeeducation (Benesuela vs. Venezuela), energy (Energía para el Desarrollo de América del Sur and Cenários Energéticos 2020, in Portuguese), and transhumanism (2020: Transhuman&Economy of theFuture, in Korean). He has written more than 10 books and co-written over 20 more in five languages, including sections of the State of the Future by the Millennium Project.

He has a fortnightly opinion column in the largest and most prestigious Venezuelan general newspaper (El Universal) and has also written and has been interviewed in major media (press, radio and TV) including ABC, BBC, CNN, ChosunIlbo (Korean Daily), El Comercio (Ecuador), El Comercio (Peru), El Tiempo (Colombia), El Universal (Mexico), El Universal (Venezuela), Los Andes (Argentina), O Estado de Sao Paulo (Brazil), Mainichi Shimbun (Japan Daily News), La Tribune (France), The New York Times, Univision, and The Washington Times (USA).

Philippe Destatte is the Director General of The Destree Institute (European think-tank and research centre in Wallonia, Belgium). He is an Associate Professor at the University of Mons (History of the society and institutions) and at Paris-Diderot University, where he is in charge of the Foresight course at the Faculty of Economics. He is also teaching Foresight applied to Sustainable Development at Reims University where he is organising a seminar in that field (Faculty of Management and Economics). He acquired skills in foresight both in Paris (mostly Futuribles of which he was a board member), in the United States (Certificated in Strategic Foresight, University of Houston), as well by working on the field, in European Regions and organisations.

Philippe Destatte combines twenty years of regional development strategic policy tools experience, with theoretical analysis in the fields of governance, evaluation, innovation systems and societal paradigm shifts analysis, as well as of foresight. He worked as an expert for the OECD, the World Bank, the European Commission, the Committe of European Regions and several governments. In 2003-2004, Philippe Destatte was involved in the Blueprints for Foresight Actions in the Regions High Level Expert Group (EC DG Research K2) as coach of the Transvision Blueprint. He chaired the European Regional Foresight College from 2004 to 2012, created at the initiative of the French Republic (DATAR-DIACT). Since 2003 he has also served as Chair of the Brussels Area Node of the Millennium Project (created by the American Council for United Nations University) and member of the Board of Directors of that institution and has organized, in 2005 in Louvain-la-Neuve, an important joint conference with DG Research K2 Unit untitled The Futures of Europeans in the Global Knowledge Society. Philippe Destatte was a member of the Experts Team of the DG Regio to prepare The Guidelines for Cohesion Policy (2007-2013). Member of the Board of the Mutual Learning Platform launched in 2005 by three DGs of the Commission (Research, Regional Policy and Enterprise) and the Committee of the Regions, he has coached the Foresight Activities in that framework. He co-authored, with Dr Günter Clar (SEZ-Stuttgart), the Regional Foresight report, Boosting Regional Potential (2006). In 2011 and 2012 he was involved in the EC DG Regional Policy project Cities of Tomorrow and in the launch of the Committee of the Region Foresight Unit. Since several years he particularly invested new foresight methods applied to companies and organizations, including public services, chambers of commerce and industry and civil society.