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HONORARY VICE-CHAIRS
     
NATASHA VITA-MORE GREG BEAR

Founder and director of Tranhumanist Arts & Culture, Natasha Vita-More is the author of the Extropian Art Manifesto (1997), the Transhumanist Art Statement (1982) and CREATE/RECREATE: The 3rd Millenial Culture (2001).

More information:
http://www.natasha.cc

Author of more than 20 books, SF writer Greg Bear has received two Hugos and two Nebulas for his work. The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls Bear the "best working writer of hard science fiction."

More information:
http://www.gregbear.com

     
KEN MACLEOD   ANTERO COELHO NETO

Scottish science fiction writer Ken MacLeod is known for exploring transhumanist themes set in socialist and libertarian futures in novels such as The Star Fraction (1995), The Stone Canal (1996),
The Cassini Division (1998) and
The Sky Road (1999). Ken is a recipient of the 1998 Prometheus Award.
More information:
http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/

 

Antero Coelho Neto, M.D., is the director of the Quality of Life Institute, a non-profit organization for consulting programs in areas such as quality of life, preventive medicine and health promotion. He is also the author of more than 25 books and 400 articles on such topics as health, education, strategic planning and human resources.

More information:
http://www.secrel.com.br/
iqvida/ingles/

     
MAX MORE   ROBERT FREITAS J.R.

President of the Extropy Institute and co-founder of the Extropian movement, Max More, Ph.D, has written on Transhumanist and futurist philosophy for more than 20 years and is much in demand as a writer, speaker and consultant on the impact of advanced, emerging and future technologies.

More information:
http://www.maxmore.com

 

A research scientist with molecular nanotechnology company Zyvex, Robert Freitas Jr. has written more than 100 technical papers, book chapters and popular articles on a range of topics and most recently authored Nanomedicine, the first book on the potential medical applications of nanotechnology. In 2002, Freitas was a finalist for the Feynman prize in nanotechnology.

More information:
http://www.zyvex.com/
Corporate/Profiles/FreitasBio.html