Yancey Strickler
Former CEO & Co-founder, Kickstarter; Bestselling Author of This Could Be Our Future
Celebrated on three continents as one of the world’s great journalists, Andrés Oppenheimer is also one of its most influential. His observations appear in newsprint, in books, and on the small screen. Oppenheimer’s insightful analysis of events throughout the Americas and around the globe have earned him a vast and loyal audience. Organizations with an interest in global affairs build successful events around Oppenheimer’s engaging, enlightening keynote addresses.
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Keynote speaker Andres Oppenheimer is an award-winning journalist and a prominent expert on Latin American and global affairs. As highly popular media speaker, Andres Oppenheimer draws trenchant insights and unforgettable stories from his celebrated career.
Andres Oppenheimer is a widely syndicated columnist, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, and Emmy-winning news anchor. His column, “The Oppenheimer Report” appears in more than 60 newspapers worldwide. A long-time writer for the Miami Herald, Oppenheimer won the Pulitzer Prize as a member of the team that uncovered the Iran-Contra scandal. He has also served as the Herald’s Mexico City bureau chief and as a business writer and foreign correspondent.
As a television personality, Oppenheimer anchors the Emmy-winning Oppenheimer Presenta, which appears in 20 countries. He also regularly contributes analysis on CNN en Español. The Forbes Media Guide has named him one of the most important journalists in the US. Poder magazine has recognized Oppenheimer as one of the 100 most powerful people in Latin America.
His bestselling books include ¡Crear o Morir!: La Esperanza de Latinoamérica y las Cinco Claves de la Innovación, Saving the Americas, and Bordering on Chaos: Mexico’s Roller-Coaster Journey to Prosperity.
Along with his Pulitzer, Oppenheimer has twice won the Inter-American Press Association Award. His other commendations include the 1993 Ortega y Gasset Award from Madrid’s El Pais, and the Overseas Press Club Award. He also won Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Award in 1998 and the King of Spain Award in 2001.
Based on his last bestseller with the same title, in this talk Andrés Oppenheimer will talk about the future of work in several different industries and professions like lawyers, doctors, accountants or even journalists; or will customize his talk to the event/sector needs. He will talk about how robotization and automatization will impact each different sector and profession, and what we can do to prepare for it.
In this talk Andrés Oppenheimer, the Pulitzer prize co-winner and prominent expert on Latin American and global affairs, will analyze the current socio-political and economic situation of Latin America and what we can expect for the next 5 years.
In this talk, based on his bestseller "Crear o Morir: Las 5 claves de la innovación en Latinoamérica", Andrés will talk about why Latin America has been struggling when it comes to innovation, and will provide 5 steps necessary to improving it.
In this talk, Andrés will analyze the world economy and political situation and provide his insightful views and forecast for the future.