Juan Enriquez, director of the Harvard Business School Life Science Project, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 18, in the Mountainlair Ballrooms as part of West Virginia Universitys ongoing Festival of Ideas. His presentation is titled As the Future Catches You.

Enriquez is building an interdisciplinary center at Harvard, focusing on how business will change as a result of science, economics and public policy.

In his book, As the Future Catches You: How Genomics and Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Your Work, Your Investments, Your World, he presents to his readers a series of unprecedented political, ethical, economical and financial issues and demonstrates the cascading effect of the genetic, digital and knowledge revolutions on life.

Enriquez received the prestigious McKinsey Award for his article, Transforming Life, Transforming Business. This award, judged by an independent panel of leaders in the business world, recognizes the two best articles published each year in the Harvard Business Review. These award-winning articles are considered most likely to have a major influence on the actions of business managers worldwide.

Author of more than 12 Harvard Business School case studies, Enriquez has written articles for various publications, including Science, Foreign Policy, The New York Times and Trends in Biotechnology. He is a contributing editor of The Journal of Bio-law and Business and has written editorials for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Boston Globe.

He has held numerous positions at Harvard, including senior researcher at the Business School, a fellow of the Center for International Affairs and a researcher at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

He also has served on boards of various organizations, including the genetics advisory council of the Harvard Medical School and CEO of Mexico Citys Urban Development Corporation.

For Mexicos secretary of state, Enriquez served as both coordinator of economic policy and chief of staff. He also was a member of the Peace Commission that negotiated the cease-fire in Chiapas Zapatista rebellion.

All Festival of Ideas events are free, open to the public and produced by WVU students. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call (304) 293-SHOW or visit WVU Arts&Entertainment on the Web atwww.events.wvu.edu