For immediate release | July 29, 2021
America 3.0 The Resilient Society
A Smart Third Industrial Revolution Infrastructure
and the Recovery of the American Economy
A Report Prepared for Senator Charles Schumer, U.S. Senate
By TIR Consulting Group, LLC
Jeremy Rifkin, President
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The Foundation on Economic Trends is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to examine emerging trends in science and technology, and their impacts on the environment, the economy, culture, and society.
Best Selling Author
Jeremy Rifkin is an American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist. Rifkin is the author of 21 bestselling books about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. The books have been translated into more than 35 languages. His most recent books include the international bestsellers, 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).
Lecturer
Jeremy Rifkin speaks frequently before business, government, labor and civil society forums around the world. He has lectured at many of the world’s leading Fortune 500 companies and at more than 300 universities in some 30 countries over the past four decades.
Advisor
Jeremy Rifkin has been an advisor to the leadership of the European Union since 2000. He has advised three past presidents of the European Commission — Romano Prodi, Jose Manuel Barroso, and Jean-Claude Juncker — and is advising the current European Commission under the presidency of Ursula von der Leyen, as well as the former president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli. Mr. Rifkin has also advised numerous EU heads of state over the past twenty years, including Germany’s Angela Merkel, on the ushering in of a smart green Third Industrial Revolution economy.
Teacher
Jeremy Rifkin has been a lecturer at the Wharton School’s Executive Education Program, at the University of Pennsylvania, since 1994. He instructs CEOs and senior corporate management from around the world on global trends in science, technology, and commerce, and their impacts on the economy, society and the environment.