Jeremy Rifkin

Mr. Rifkin’s New York Times bestselling book, The Third Industrial Revolution, provided the blueprint for the economic transition to a post-carbon ecological society across the European Union. According to The European Energy Review, “perhaps no other author or thinker has had more influence on the EU’s ambitious climate and energy policy than the famous American ‘visionary’ Jeremy Rifkin.” In the words of Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister of Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, Jeremy Rifkin “is the economic and ecological worldwide ambassador of the energy transition… Rifkin presents a grand scenario for the future: a visionary approach unlike anyone has dared to put forward in the last fifty years that will boost our thinking and help with our orientation.”

Mr. Rifkin is also advising the leadership of the Peoples Republic of China on the build out and scale up of the Internet Plus Third Industrial Revolution infrastructure to usher in a sustainable low-carbon economy. The Huffington Post reported from Beijing on October 29th 2015 that “Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has not only read Jeremy Rifkin’s book, The Third Industrial Revolution, and taken it to heart. He and his colleagues have also made it the core of the country’s thirteenth Five-Year Plan…” The Huffington Post goes on to say that “this blueprint for China’s future signals the most momentous shift in direction since the death of Mao and the advent of Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening up in 1978.”

Mr. Rifkin and his global team served as a principle advisor to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer on the U.S. Infrastructure Plan to address climate change and retool the American economy. Click here for the link to the 242-page infrastructure report that TIR Consulting prepared for Senator Schumer. Many of the critical components of the Rifkin plan were integrated into the core infrastructure legislation passed by the US Congress and signed into law by President Biden.

Between 1995 and 2016, Rifkin lectured at the Wharton School’s Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania where he instructed CEOs and senior management on transitioning their business operations into resilient sustainable economies.

A partial list of Fortune 500 companies that Mr. Rifkin has provided keynote addresses and consulting:

• Daimler
• DOW Chemical
• Invesco
• Credit Agricole
• UBS
• American Express
• Samsung
• VINCI
• Deutsche Telekom
• SK Group
• Phillips
• Ernst and Young
• Berkshire Group
• Axa
• Wall Street Journal
• Oracle
• Zurich Group
• CB Richard Ellis
• Marriot
• DZ Bank
• Sumo Logic
• Citigroup
• Ford Motor Company
• Vattenfall
• Siemens
• IBM
• Hewlett Packard
• Nomura Research Institute
• BBC-British Broadcasting Corporation
• McKinsey
• Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions
• Sacmi
• Prudential
• Swiss Reinsurance
• ACNielsen
• Beijing EV
• Veolia
• Munich Reinsurance
• PBS-Public Broadcasting Services
• Allianz
• Petrobras
• WDR-Westdeuscher Rundfunk
• MBNA
• Deutsche Bank
• National Association of Broadcasters-U.S.
• Unisys
• Seoul Broadcasting System
• Pricewaterhouse Coopers

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