Jeremy Rifkin Profile Picture

Keynote SpeakerJeremy Rifkin

Economic and Environmental Though Leader

Jeremy Rifkin is the best-selling author of twenty-three books translated into thirty-five languages. His most recent book Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe (2024) is accompanied by his international bestsellers, The Age of Resilience (2022), The Green New Deal (2019), The Zero Marginal Cost Society (2014), The Third... Read more

Biography

Jeremy Rifkin is the best-selling author of twenty-three books translated into thirty-five languages. His most recent book Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe (2024) is accompanied by his international bestsellers, The Age of Resilience (2022), The Green New Deal (2019), The Zero Marginal Cost Society (2014), The Third Industrial Revolution (2011), The Empathic Civilization (2010), The European Dream (2004), The Hydrogen Economy (2002), The Age of Access (2000), The Biotech Century (1998), and The End of Work (1995).

He is a principal architect of the European Union’s and China’s economic plans for transitioning into a Third Industrial Revolution to address climate change, and he has served as an advisor to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer on the U.S. infrastructure plan. He is listed among the top ten most influential economic thinkers in The Huffington Post’s global survey of “The World’s Most Influential Voices.” According to EurActiv, “Jeremy Rifkin is an American economist and author whose best-selling Third Industrial Revolution arguably provided the blueprint for Germany’s transition to a low-carbon economy, and China’s strategic acceptance of climate policy.”

Jeremy Rifkin is the President of the TIR Consulting Group, LLC comprising many of the leading renewable energy companies, electricity transmission companies, engineering companies, construction companies, architectural firms, ICT and electronics companies, transport and logistics companies, advanced manufacturing companies, and economic modelers.

His global economic development team works with cities, regions, and national governments to develop the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure for a Collaborative Commons and a Third Industrial Revolution. The TIR Consulting Group LLC has worked with the regions of Hauts-de-France, the Metropolitan Region of Rotterdam and The Hague, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in the conceptualization, build out, and scale up of a smart Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure to transform their economies.

Popular Talks by Jeremy Rifkin

  • Sustainability
  • Cities
  • Future
  • Internet of Things
  • Renewable Energy