Andres Roemer

Activist, Concerned citizen, Doctor, Idea generator, Lawyer, Policy maker, Writer/Editor

Free Thinker. Entrepreneur. Writer. Art Producer. Author of 18teen books, two plays and creator of “The Negotiation Game”. Producer, creator and anchorman of more than 1500 tv and radio programs. PhD. in Public Policy at UC Berkeley and MPA at Harvard, recipient of the Don K. Price Award at Harvard. Fulbright, Harvard, Ford, CONACYT, ITAM and SEP fellow. BS in Economics (ITAM) and BA in Law (UNAM) (both summa cum Laude). Undersecretary of Culture. Principal at Booz Allen & Hamilton. Consul General at SF. Knight by Rodas, Condecorations by Austria, France, Brasil and Israel. Co-founder and curator of Ciudad de Las Ideas. Co-Founder of Der House of Musik Vienna in Mexico. He has also won several national and international awards, with an emphasis on the prestigious Elise and Walter A. Haas from the University of California at Berkeley, obtained only by great personalities such as President of Ecuador, Galo Plaza; President of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; UN Commissioner, Sadako Ogata; Hans Hollein the Pritzker Architecture Prize., among others. Also Microsoft Corporation created the Microsoft Award "Andres Roemer" for distinction in service to the community of scholars (delivered since 2006 to date in 13 countries). He won the Promotion of Science Award in 2010 from the Nobel Prize Mario Molina and was awarded the National Theatre Award "Emilio Carballido" as best national author for his play “The Other Einstein” . He also was the recipient of the International Sephardic Leadership Award, granted by the American Sephardi Federation, in New York; the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award (granted by UN Watch, Switzerland). He is a Former Assistant Professor at Harvard, Lecturer Professor at UC Berkeley; Senior Visiting Scholar at Berkeley and Columbia. Member of the Advisory Board of Richard Dawkins as well as of the Eduard Punset Science and Reason Foundation. Among many other Associations. At the present he is Good Will Ambassador for UNESCO, Co-Founder and President of Ciudad de las Ideas, Journalist, Visiting Senior Scholar at Columbia, Adjunct Faculty at Singularity University. His next book: “How to Educate Our Parents?,” his next play: “IMBECILES”. The SF Chronicle described him as “A Renascence Man”. (You can watch his TEDx UC Berkeley talk: “To be or not to be a salmon”).

Being wrong, humans, future, introspection, complex minds, critical thinking, science, philosophy, self-deception, collective action, music, disruption, inclusive prosperity, emotional intelligence, discoveries, counter intuitive, serendipity, happiness, character, nature...my family, chocolates and wine.

Hamlet: “For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”.

Being pessimistic.