Frederic Eman-Zadé

Frederic Emam-Zadé Gerardino was one of the first 18 world class graduates from Singularity University (NASA & Google) Inaugural 2009 Executive Program at NASA Ames Research Park in Silicon Valley. Later on, during the summer of 2010 he completed a course on Singularity Studies at Rutgers University at Camden. He is an Associate Member of Astronauts4Hire.

Frederic Emam-Zadé Gerardino is presently the Chief Economist of Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), a multidisciplinary Think Tank founded in October 2000 and Chaired by Dr. Leonel Fernández, who is presently the President of the Dominican Republic. Formerly, from August 2004 to August 2009, Mr. Emam-Zade was the Director General of FUNGLODE, where he incubated and founded iGlobal, a graduate studies program that operates within FUNGLODE as a pluralist school of government. At FUNGLODE he also created and managed several social networks and collaborated in the R&D of 3D visualization of economic and social data tools in virtual worlds, such as Linden Lab´s Second Life and similar virtual technologies. He is much involved with the use of web 2.0, web 3.0 and web 3D tools for NGOs and businesses.

He is a highly qualified professional economist, investment promoter and negotiator who has provided remarkable results for many businesses, governments and international organizations, during the last 25 years.

He worked in government twice, both times as Deputy Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs. Was his nation’s Chief Negotiator during 1996 - 2000 when he coordinated the Free Trade Area negotiations of the Dominican Republic with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Central America, providing the producers of goods and services of the Dominican Republic, with free market access to nineteen (19) countries that contain more than 50 million consumers.

He also helped design and promote many of DR´s economic policies and reforms during 1990 - 1996, while working for SRI international’s (formerly Stanford Research Institute) International Policy Center, directing international financial and technical assistance toward 32 of the most influential Dominican business associations, labor unions, universities, think tanks and other non governmental organizations involved in policy dialogue, reform promotion and public opinion formation.

Also, Mr. Emam-Zade incubated and founded the Dominican Republic's Securities Exchange and was a Member of its Board of Directors for many years. He has been on the Board of Directors of several universities, companies and some non-profit organizations, as well as in many Government Councils and Commissions.

He studied economics at the University of Chicago, with renown professors such as Arnold Harberger, Frederick Mishkin, George Stigler, Gary Becker and Robert Lucas; the last three Nobel Prize Laureates in Economics. Previously, he had graduated as an economist from Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña where he was professor of economics for many years.