Joël de Rosnay

Joël de Rosnay, Docteur ès Sciences and scientific writer, is presently President of Biotics International, a consulting company specialized in the impact of new technologies on industries, and Special Advisor to the Director General of the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie at La Villette of which he was Director of Forecasting and Assesment until June 2002. From 1975 to 1985 he was Director of Research Applications at l’Institut Pasteur (the Pasteur Institute in Paris).

Former research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the field of biology and computer graphics, he was successively Scientific Attaché to the French Embassy in the United States, and Scientific Director of European Enterprises Development Company (a venture capital group) from 1971 to 1975.

He is particularly interested in advanced technologies and the applications of system theory. On these subjects, he wrote between others : "Le Macroscope" (Seuil, 1975), "L’Homme Symbiotique, regards sur le 3eme millénaire" (Symbiotic Man, a look into the third millenium) (Seuil, 1995).