“Protecting the Asset” at the Young Global Leaders Annual Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 12, 2012

I am excit­ed to par­tic­i­pate over the next few days in the Forum of Young Glob­al Lead­ers in Nue­vo Val­lar­ta, Mex­i­co, orga­nized by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum (WEF) in con­junc­tion with the WEF on Latin Amer­i­ca. Will make sure to syn­the­size main impres­sions next week. The agen­da, inter­est­ing­ly enough, devotes time to “Pro­tect the Asset.”

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Transcript: Online Q&A on the Future of Brain Health with Alvaro Fernandez

By SharpBrains | March 16, 2012

Below you can find the full tran­script of our engag­ing Q&A ses­sion today, Fri­day March 16th, on brain sus­tain­abil­i­ty, retool­ing brain health, and applied neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, with Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Sharp­Brains’ Co-Founder who’s just been named a Young Glob­al Leader by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum. You can learn more about the top­ic by read­ing this 2011 Sharp­Brains Summit…

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Global Population Ageing: Peril or Promise? (New WEF eBook)

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 3, 2012

This is an excel­lent (and free) “big pic­ture” eBook pub­lished by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum to con­tex­tu­al­ize why, and how, our soci­eties, poli­cies and sys­tems will need updat­ing in order to bet­ter man­age glob­al pop­u­la­tion age­ing. EBook descrip­tion: Glob­al age­ing, in devel­oped and devel­op­ing coun­tries alike, will dra­mat­i­cal­ly alter the way that soci­eties and economies…

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February Update: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century

By SharpBrains | February 28, 2011

Wel­come to the Feb­ru­ary edi­tion of Sharp­Brains month­ly eNewslet­ter: First Report of the Coun­cil on the Age­ing Soci­ety: Glob­al Pol­i­cy jour­nal pub­lish­es the full Pol­i­cy Prin­ci­ples and call to action out­lined by the Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cil on the Age­ing Soci­ety, an ini­tia­tive run by the World Eco­nomic Forum which our CEO Alvaro Fer­nan­dez was hon­ored to…

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