José Cordeiro
Futurist and lecturer, recognized for his vision on longevity and energy. He inspires to rethink the future with optimism, showing that science and innovation can open new opportunities for humanity.
Biography / Speaker Info
José Cordeiro is a Spanish-Venezuelan engineer, economist, futurist and transhumanist, recognized globally for his bold and often controversial views on the radical extension of life and the transformative impact of exponential technology on the future of humanity. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1962 to Spanish parents, his academic background and professional trajectory are markedly multidisciplinary, spanning engineering, economics, monetary policy and international development.
His knowledge base comes from world-class institutions. Cordeiro earned a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. He complemented his education with studies in international economics and comparative politics at Georgetown University and an MBA at INSEAD in France, specializing in finance and globalization. After working for the oil company Schlumberger and as a consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, he dedicated his career to futurology and scientific dissemination.
In the field of exponential technologies, Cordeiro is a Founding Professor and Energy Advisor at Singularity University (SU), a think tank located in Silicon Valley, and serves as director of the Venezuelan node of the Millennium Project, a UN-affiliated organization that analyzes futuristic trends. From these platforms, he actively promotes transhumanism, the philosophical and scientific current that advocates fundamentally improving human capabilities, including the eradication of aging.
His best-known theses, developed in his bestseller The Death of Death: The Scientific Possibility of Physical Immortality and Its Moral Defense (2018), predict that thanks to exponential advances in artificial intelligence, nanomedicine and gene therapies, aging will be reversible and death will become optional by 2045. Although his projections are debated in the scientific community, Cordeiro remains an influential voice and international speaker advocating for massive investment in science to achieve a more prosperous and long-lived society.
