Jose Luis Cordeiro

International Longevity Alliance, Spain

Title: The Death of Death: The Scientific Possibility of Physical Immortality and Its Moral Defense

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Biography

José Cordeiro, PhD José is an international fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, vicechair of HumanityPlus, director of The Millennium Project, founding faculty at Singularity University in NASA Research Park, Silicon Valley, and former director of the Club of Rome (Venezuela Chapter). He has also been invited faculty at the Institute of Developing Economies IDE – JETRO in Tokyo, Japan, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Russia. José studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, economics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, management at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has published more than 10 books in 15 languages and appeared in programs with the BBC, CNN, Discovery Channel and History Channel. He is a member of the Sigma Xi (??) and Tau Beta Pi (???) honor societies, and has received several prizes, including the Spanish Health Award by Instituto Europeo for promoting research on longevity and life extension. He has been Spanish candidate to the European Parliament in 2019, when he proposed the creation of the European Anti-Aging Agency. 

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