| 18.00 hr. |
Guests
arrival
Music (String Quartet) by the College
of Music, Mahidol University |
| 19.00 hr. |
Dinner (Western set) |
| 19.40 hr. |
Opening
speech
by Prof. Prawes Wasi, Chairman of
the Endowment Fund Committee
for the Pornchai Matangkasombut CHAIR
PROFESSORSHIP |
| 19.50 hr. |
Introduction
of Dr. Juan Enriquez
by Prof. Skorn Mongkolsuk, Dean, Faculty
of Science, Mahidol University |
| 20.00 hr. |
Honorary
Lecture on
"Science, Technology, and Business;
the Future of Countries"
by Prof. Juan Enriquez |
| 20.45 hr. |
Presentation
of a token of appreciation to Dr.
Juan Enriquez
by Prof. Prawes Wasi
Thank you speech by Prof. Pornchai
Matangkasombut |
| 21.00 hr. |
Closing |
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Prof.
Juan Enriquez
Managing Director Excel
Medical Ventures and CEO Biotechonomy
 Mr.
Enriquez is recognized as one of the world's
leading authorities on the economic and
political impacts of life sciences. He
is an active co-investor in multiple life
science start ups, helping manage and
invest hundreds of millions in dozens
of companies including Xcellerex, BioTrove,
Synthetic Genomics, Saladax, and ZipCar.
Before founding Biotechonomy and Excel, he was the founding director of the Harvard
Business School Life Sciences Project.
Author of global bestseller As
the Future Catches You: How Genomics &
Other Forces are Changing Your Life, Work,
Health & Wealth. (Selected
by Amazon's editors as one of the best
business books of the year.) He also published The Untied States of America:
Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future.
(Selected by the Boston Globe and the
Miami Herald as "one of the most
important books of the decade.")
He has also published many academic articles
and business school case studies including
"Transforming Life Transforming Business
the Life Science Revolution," co-authored
with Ray Goldberg, which received a McKinsey
Prize in 2000 (2nd place). He co-author
of the first map of global nucleotide
data flow (Selected by Rhem Koolhaas and
Wired as one of the iconic examples of
21st century design). His HBS working
papers include "Global Life Science
Data Flows and the IT industry",
"SARS, Smallpox, and Business Unusual,"
and "Technology, Gene Research and
National Competitiveness."
The Harvard Business Review showcased
his ideas as one of the world's breakthrough
concepts in its first HBR List. Harvard
Business School Interactive picked Juan
as one it's most charismatic teachers.
Fortune profiled him as Mr. Gene and Time
Magazine asked him to co-organize the
life sciences summit commemorating the
fiftieth anniversary of the discovery
of DNA. Seed picked his ideas as one of
fifty that "shaped our identity,
our culture, and the world as we know
it." Fast Company named him one of
"The Fast Fifty." Discovery
Magazine profiled him as a businessman-savant.
He serves on a variety of boards including
Cabot Corp., Synthetic Genomics, The J.
Craig Venter Foundation, The Harvard Medical
School Genetics Advisory Council, The
Chairman’s International Council of the
Americas Society, the Visiting Committee
of Harvard's David Rockefeller Center,
Tufts University's Institute for Global
Leadership, Harvard Business School's
PAPSAC, WGBH Public Television, and the
Boston Science Museum. He has advised
multiple heads of state and CEO’s of Fortune
Global 500 companies.
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