Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D., Founding Professor, Florida International University

Jerry Brown is a futurist, energy expert, writer and business advisor. As an inspiring communicator and consultant, he has facilitated leading-edge innovations in companies and public interest organizations.

In the 1960s, he coordinated César Chávez’s grape boycott on behalf of California farm workers. In the 1980s, he worked with Business Executives for National Security, an organization of Fortune 1000 executives that lobbied to prevent nuclear war and end the Cold War. From 1998-2003, Dr. Brown served as a Research Associate with the Radiation and Public Health Project, a national research organization investigating the links between environmental radiation from nuclear power plants and America's cancer crisis.

Dr. Brown is co-author of Profiles in Power: The Antinuclear Movement and the Dawn of the Solar Age (1997), which predicted the emerging global shift to renewable energy, and of numerous articles on energy policy and social change. He is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and a Founding Professor at Florida International University in Miami, where he teaches courses on anthropology, energy policy, social movements, and the impact of technology on society.

Dr. Brown is president of Jerald Brown & Associates, Inc., an international business consulting company specializing in energy and environmental projects.

A researcher, award-winning teacher and outstanding public speaker for over 25 years, Dr. Brown received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Antioch College and his doctorate in anthropology from Cornell University.

On a personal note, Dr. Brown enjoys travel, hiking and songwriting.  He and his wife Julie have two sons and live in Miami Beach.