Carlos Alvarez Pereira

Alvarez Pereira, Carlos

Alvarez Pereira, Carlos

Founder and Chair, Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute; Founder and CEO, Telenium; Member, Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome (CECoR)

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Founder and Chair, Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute; Founder and CEO, Telenium; Member, Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome (CECoR)

Carlos Alvarez Pereira is the Founder and Chair of Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute, which promotes interdisciplinary work on large-scale socio-technical systems based on networks, from the perspective of complexity theory.

He holds an Aerospace Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and has a long entrepreneurial experience in the sector of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). He is the Founder and CEO of the consulting firm Telenium, and is Chairman of the Franco-German strategic advice firm CXP and of the start-up Skybus, which specializes in advanced software developments for sustainable urban mobility systems.

He has been an Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics at the UPM (1985-1996), and a senior consultant and manager in several firms. He is currently Vice-President of the Spanish Fulbright Alumni Association, and is also Member of Foro de Empresas Innovadoras (FEI) and the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome (CECoR).

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

Towards a Society of Living: Provocations on Economy and Economics by a Layman and Entrepreneur*
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract This contribution explores the shortcomings of our current understanding of economy and economics, and how the incumbent framework of interpretation relates to structural failures which are all too obvious since the crisis of 2008. It proposes a reformulation to frame the economy as part of a larger, complex system of systems which is the planetary society at large. It points as well to social blind spots which have driven us into the accelerated gridlocks in which...
The Greatest Adventure on Earth
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract A paradigm shift of unprecedented scale in human civilizations is considered both as necessary and possible, towards a new form of “sustainable happiness”, as a way out of the entanglement of multiple dilemmas we face today. For all the amount of cultural, social and technical inventions produced by the evolution of humanity, it has not solved the basic contradictions of life, in itself a source of permanent conflict between creation and destruction. On the...