Jeremy Rifkin is the author of The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, published by Tarcher Penguin in January 2010. Mr. Rifkin has been an advisor to the European Union since 2002. He also is an advisor to heads of state including Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Zapatero of Spain, Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece, and Prince Albert II of Monaco. In that capacity, he is the principal architect of the Third Industrial Revolution long-term economic sustainability plan to address the triple challenge of the global economic crisis, energy security, and climate change. The Third Industrial Revolution was formally endorsed by the European Parliament in 2007 and is now being implemented by various agencies within the European Commission as well as in the 27 member-states.

Mr. Rifkin is also the founder and chairperson of the Third Industrial Revolution Global CEO Business Roundtable, comprised of 100 of the world's leading renewable energy companies, construction companies, architectural firms, real estate companies, IT companies, power and utility companies, and transport and logistics companies. Mr. Rifkin's global economic development team is the largest of its kind in the world and is working with cities, regions, and national governments to develop master plans to transition their economies into post- carbon Third Industrial Revolution infrastructures.

Mr. Rifkin is a senior lecturer at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania-the world's #1 ranked business school-where he instructs CEOs and senior management on transitioning their business operations into sustainable Third Industrial Revolution economies.

The Age Of Access
Jeremy Rifkin explores the vast changes occurring in our capitalist system as it makes the transition from geographic markets to e-commerce networks and from industrial to cultural production. This presentation is based on his best-selling book of the same name.

The Biotech Century
This presentation is based on Jeremy Rifkin's best seller, The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World, the most widely read book on the biotech revolution. He shows audiences the many opportunities and challenges accompanying the new era of genetic research.

The End Of Work
Jeremy Rifkin explores the social and economic ramifications of technology on the workforce. His best-selling book of the same name is widely credited with helping shape the current global debate on technology displacement, corporate downsizing and the future of jobs.

The European Dream
Jeremy Rifkin believes that now is the time to begin a soul-searching re-evaluation of the American Dream in light of the new realities that face us in the 21st century, although he has no illusions as to the difficulty of the task. The last thing most Americans want to hear is that the American Dream itself might need to be revisited. Is it possible that Europe has something to teach us?

The Hydrogen Economy
Jeremy Rifkin takes audiences on an eye-opening journey into the next great commercial era in history. In light of the critical watershed fast approaching for the fossil fuel era, and the potentially dire consequences for industrial civilization, Rifkin envisions the dawn of a new economy powered by hydrogen that will fundamentally change the nature of our market, political and social institutions, just as coal and steam power did at the beginning of the industrial age.

While the fossil fuel era is entering its sunset years, a new energy regime is being born that has the potential to remake civilization along radical new lines, according to Rifkin. Hydrogen is the most basic and ubiquitous element in the universe. It is the stuff of the stars and the sun and, when properly harnessed, it is the "forever fuel". It never runs out and produces no harmful CO2 emissions.

The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society and the potential to end the world's reliance on imported oil, and help defuse the dangerous geopolitical game.

Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization in the 21st Century

The Future of Work
Rethinking the nature of employment in an increasingly automated, borderless and highly mobile global economy.

The Hi-tech Revolutions of the 21st Century
Harnessing the scientific and technological fields of biotechnology, nanotechnology, advanced IT, and cognitive science in ways that advance the process of globalization.

Living in the Three Sector World
Creating new partnerships between the global business community, civil society, and governments to create a sustainable approach to globalization.

Deep Globalization
Deepeing and expanding the global economy by bringing the remaining 60% of the human race into the 21st century marketplace.

Educating Youth for a Global Era
Introducing service learning and experiential education into schools and colleges to prepare youth for working and living in a diverse, multicultural world.

Read Jeremy Rifkin's Huffington Post feature, The Empathic Civilization: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era

Read Jeremy Rifkin's BBC article, 'Distributed power' to save Earth

Read Jeremy Rifkin's European Energy Review article, Leading the Way to the Third Industrial Revolution