BiografÃa / Speaker Info
Manuel Maqueda is a Professor, lecturer and international innovator focused on restoring balance to living systems and reversing climate change.
Manuel Maqueda is a professor of applied circular economy and regenerative economics in the division of continuing education at Harvard University. He also created the online Circular Economy course at the University of California, Berkeley and the UCLA Extension Circular Economy program. He also teaches and lectures on circular and regenerative economics and innovation at other universities and international business schools.
Recognized as an expert on plastic pollution, Manuel Maqueda is co-founder of several organizations, including Plastic Pollution Coalition and SUPER (Single-Use Plastics Elimination or Reduction), a non-profit organization that enables companies to eliminate single-use plastics through a tiered certification program.
As a futurist thinker, Manuel is a member of the Circular Economy Alliance's Strategic Foresight Council and has been an advisor to well-known futurist organizations such as the Jeff-Bezos-funded Long Now Foundation, dedicated to fostering long-term thinking in the context of the next 10,000 years.
Manuel researches how artificial intelligence can partner with human ingenuity to enable a regenerative economy. He is co-founder of Viento.ai, an organization pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to design proactive responses to climate disasters.
As a speaker, Manuel Maqueda's clients include Google, Uber, Salesforce, Santander, LinkedIn, NASA, Institute for the Future, Dell, Foresight Institute, Green Festival, Circular City Week, New Plastics Economy Conference, Plastic-Free World and the Washington State Government, among many others.
